What does CAS stand for?

Argonne's software tools will aid the state in energy sector planning and infrastructure analysis as well as economic modeling and environmental assessments, and will include: Energy and Power Evaluation Program (ENPEP) provides state-of-the-art capabilities for evaluating the entire energy system and its environmental implications, from energy policy decisions to assessing energy-efficient and renewable-energy resource potential Electricity Market Complex Adaptive System software (EMCAS) simulates how electricity markets may evolve and how participants may react to changing physical, financial and regulatory environments Generation and Transmission Maximization model (GTMax) simulates complex electricity market and operation issues for both competitive and regulated environments.

In their article, Terry Capuano and colleagues discuss the use of a complex adaptive system approach to effect a 60-day reduction in length of stay, a primary source of one hospital's financial problem.

complex adaptive systems, social network, agency theory, etc.

At the heart of the functioning of a complex adaptive system is the number and nature of the interactions between network nodes, which produce novel and ever changing properties as the layers of complexity increase.

However, "chaos makes war a complex adaptive system, rather than a closed or equilibrium-based system," which makes predicting, and then assessing, how physical actions cause behavioral effects a significant challenge.

One way of modeling complex behaviour examines regularity that emerges from the interaction of individuals connected together in a Complex Adaptive System (CAS).

Here practitioners and academics join forces to provide general theories on core functions and modeling, and important concepts such as modularity in complex adaptive systems and the concept and definition of complexity.

Some of the concepts of lateral thinking parallel the complexity theory, (5) which states that complex adaptive systems, composed of a network of agents, have significant interaction among its various building blocks.