The abaci Library - Free Resources

This page is provided by abaci, as a free resource available to anyone, to assist readers to become informed about putting insights from complexity science to work in practical situations, in relation to harnessing dynamic change purposefully and effectively. If you have difficulty downloading any of these items, or if you need them in a different format, please contact us by email.

• Title: A Complexity Science-based Approach to Conflict Analysis and Influence
• Paper (PDF File) 210KB
• Presentation (PPT File) 3.7MB
• Date: Apr 2012 at 5th IMA International Conference on Influence and Conflict, UK.

• Title: The Defence Enterprise is More Than Just a Supermarket Chain
• Paper (PDF File) 330KB
• Date: Mar 2012 in RUSI Defence Systems Journal.

• Title: Outcomes from the workshop ‘Putting Complexity to Work – Supporting the Practitioners’: Implications for Health Care
• Paper (PDF File) 440KB
• Date: Dec 2011 in Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.

• Title: Making Complexity Work in Practice
• Paper (PDF File) 1.7MB
• Date: Feb 2011 at a Workshop: Understanding And Influencing Causality of Change in Socio-Technical Systems. February 16-18, Gold Coast, Australia .

• Title: Complexity Demystified - A Guide for Practitioners (Outline)
• Summary Paper (PDF File) 220KB
• Date: Dec 2010.

• Title: Outcomes from the Workshop: 'Putting Complexity to Work - Supporting the Practitioners'
• Paper (PDF File) 740KB
• Date: Dec 2009 from ECCS'09 - European Conference on Complex Systems, 2009, Warwick, UK.

• Title: Is Agent-based Modelling 'Real-world-ready'? - A Systematic Analysis
• Presentation (PDF File) 4.4MB
• Date: 25 Nov 2009 at UCL Global System Dynamics (GSD) Workshop.

• Title: Putting Complexity and Causality to Work - A Practical Analysis
• Presentation (PDF File) 5.7MB
• Date: Nov 2009 at S4C - Causality in Complex Systems, Workshop, Paris.

• Title: Putting Complexity to Work - achieving effective Human-machine Teaming
• Paper (PDF File) 227k
• Date: Sep 2009 at ECCS'09 - the European Conference on Complex Systems, 2009, Warwick, UK.

• Title: Complex Multi-modal Multi-level Influence Networks - Affordable Housing Case Study
• Paper (PDF File) 128k
• Date: Feb 2009 presented at the "Complex 09" conference in Shanghai, China.

• Title: Complex Phenomena in Orchestras - Metaphors for Leadership and Enterprise
• Paper (PDF File) 58k
• Date: Feb 2009 presented at the "Complex 09" conference in Shanghai, China.

• Title: Complex Systems Engineering with the DART Framework.
• Presentation (Zip File) 658k
• Date: Jul 2007 At Complex 07, Brisbane, Australia

• Title: Value as a Driving Factor in Complex Human Enterprises.
• Presentation (Zip File) 1.2MB
• Date: Jul 2007 At Complex 07, Brisbane, Australia

• Title: Value-driven Reasoning Software Agents - Challenges and Issues
• Presentation (PDF File) 550KB
• Date: Mar 2007 to a Staff Seminar at the Insitute of Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), University of West Florida (UWF), USA.

• Title: Run-time Science as a Route to Exploiting Emergent Phenomena
• Presentation (Zip File) 1.17MB
• Date: Jun 2006 At 1st International Workshop on Engineering Emergence for Autonomic Systems, Dublin, Ireland

• Title: Agile and Adaptive Coalition Operations - Leveraging the Power of Complex Environments.
• Paper (Word 97) 152k
• Date: Apr 2006 At CCRTS, San Diego, USA

• Title: Controlling Edge Organisations - Exploiting Emergence.
• Paper (Word 97) 328k
• Presentation (PPT) 1.49MB
• Date: May 2005 At 10th ICCRTS, Virginia, USA

• Title: The Coalition Agents Experiment: A Prototype for Network-Enabled Coalition Capabilities.
• Paper (Acrobat PDF) 158k
• Paper (Zip File) 146k
• Date: Jul 2004 (Published by RUSI, in "Defence Systems Journal" )

• Title: Making Agents Acceptable to People. Bradshaw et al.
• Paper (Acrobat PDF) 2430k
• Date: May 2004

• Title: Network-Centric Security - Approaches to Collective Run-Time Adaptation
• Paper (Zip File) 111k
• Presentation (Zip File) 3730k
• Date: 23 Nov 2003 (at the Adaptive and Resilient Security workshop held at the Santa Fe Institute, SFI, New Mexico, USa).

• Title: Distributed Cognition: Toward a New Foundation for Human-Computer Interaction Research. James Hollan
• Paper (Acrobat PDF) 174k
• Date: June 2001

• Title: Software Agents as Facilitators of Coalition Operations
• Paper (Word 97) 1038k
• Presentation (Zip File) 1412k
• Date: 19 June 2001

• Title: Exploiting the Phenomena of Emergence
• Paper (Word 97) 906k
• Date: 8 May 2001

• Title: Battlespace Digitisation - Coping with Uncertainty in the Command Process
• Abstract 6.3k
• Paper (Word 6) 394k
• Presentation (Powerpoint 4.0) 480k
• Date: 1 July 1999

• Title: Cost-effective Simulation of Enemy Forces through 'Effects-based' Wargaming *Award-winning Paper at I/ITSEC 98*
• Paper (Word 6, Zipped) 362k
• Presentation (Powerpoint 4.0, Zipped) 1.14M
• Date: December 1st, 1998

• Title: Effective Selection and Use of Conflict Simulations (wargames) for Operational Training or Campaign Analysis
• Abstract 12.5k
• Paper (Word 6) 100k
• Presentation (Powerpoint 4.0) 99.5k
• Date: November 30th, 1994

• Title: Neural Network Theories and their Simulation (MSc Thesis)
• Paper (Word 2) 99k
• Date: August 1984

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