Deconstructing Complexity - Icosystem's Bonabeau featured in COMPUTERWORLD
Icosystem Corporation Press Release
Cambridge, MA - 02 October 2006

Deconstructing Complexity

A family of related concepts may help companies make sense of the murky.

Gary Anthes - COMPUTERWORLD

Eric Bonabeau, CEO of Icosystem Corp. in Cambridge, Mass., has devoted his career to the unraveling of complex systems. Bonabeau, who holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Paris-Sud University in France and was once a research fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, recently has been working with companies on applying complexity science to business problems. Complexity science holds that systems that appear impossibly complicated when viewed top-down can often be readily understood by examining the simple rules employed by their low-level elements and by watching how those elements adapt to changing conditions, thus causing the behavior of the system as a whole to evolve. Applications have traditionally included logistics, factory scheduling, military operations and telecommunications. But Bonabeau recently told Computerworld’s Gary Anthes why much broader applications are at hand.

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About Icosystem Corporation

Icosystem Corporation, a strategy consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has emerged as a leader in the development of business applications for network theory and complexity science. Using the tools of complexity science and advanced computational techniques, Icosystem provides a highly flexible and cost-effective technology platform for exploring business problems and discovering or designing strategies that have significant impact. Icosystem's approach uses realistic models of complex business environments and evolutionary and distributed computational techniques to validate new business ventures or improve the performance of existing enterprises.