The term of "can be summarized as a phrase, two company, three's a crowd. Complexity science can be considered as the study of phenomena that arise from the collection of interacting objects - and the crowd is a perfect example of such a phenomenon. Everyday examples include the collection of the crowd of passengers, financial-market traders, human cells or the rebels - and connected with the crowd, as the phenomena that occur cork market falls, cancer and extreme weather conditions. In each example, the exact nature of the crowd, as a phenomenon that occurs will depend on how individual objects interact with each other and how they are. In the end, the author shows the role of complexity in making connections between previously unrelated phenomena, taken from different disciplines is very important. "Hide
by Neil Johnson Source: Rotman School of Management, 5 pages. Publication Date: September 1, 2010. Prod. #: ROT118-PDF-ENG
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