Defining conceptual artefacts to manage and design simplicities in complex adaptive systems
The concept of Simplexity has emerged several times in many discourses within different scientific domains: it somehow refers to the intertwined nature of Simplicity and Complexity. To the eye of the scientist beholder, any of these contributions renders different facets. None of those is negligible...
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| author | Andrea Falegnami Andrea Tomassi Chiara Gunella Stefano Amalfitano Giuseppe Corbelli Karolina Armonaite Claudio Fornaro Luigi Giorgi Alessandro Pollini Alessandro Caforio Elpidio Romano |
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| description | The concept of Simplexity has emerged several times in many discourses within different scientific domains: it somehow refers to the intertwined nature of Simplicity and Complexity. To the eye of the scientist beholder, any of these contributions renders different facets. None of those is negligible nor seems to be superior. Starting from this consideration, this paper uses a recent Design Science Research based method to develop a conceptual artefact allowing the entire realm of Complexity Sciences to unravel the Complexity of Simplexity. By moving through an in-depth systematic literature review, this research mined the nuances of Simplexity's meaning from several different research domains throughout seventy years, and then distilled those nuances. The resulting conceptual artefacts are possibly useful any time there is the need for dealing with Complexity – from the design of cyber-socio-technical systems to the analysis of protein networks – paving the way for a shared language for Psychologists, Neuro-linguists, Designers, Resilience Engineers, Biologists, and other Complexity Scientists. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-39168bb0a9de4cdf8b2fdb449389a3372025-08-20T02:52:27ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402024-12-011024e4103310.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e41033Defining conceptual artefacts to manage and design simplicities in complex adaptive systemsAndrea Falegnami0Andrea Tomassi1Chiara Gunella2Stefano Amalfitano3Giuseppe Corbelli4Karolina Armonaite5Claudio Fornaro6Luigi Giorgi7Alessandro Pollini8Alessandro Caforio9Elpidio Romano10International Telematic University UniNettuno, Rome, Italy; Corresponding author.International Telematic University UniNettuno, Rome, ItalyUniversità Autonoma de Barcelona, SpainNational Resarch Council - Water Research Institute (CNR-IRSA), Rome, Italy; NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, ItalyInternational Telematic University UniNettuno, Rome, ItalyInternational Telematic University UniNettuno, Rome, ItalyInternational Telematic University UniNettuno, Rome, ItalyLuiss University, Rome, ItalyInternational Telematic University UniNettuno, Rome, ItalyInternational Telematic University UniNettuno, Rome, ItalyInternational Telematic University UniNettuno, Rome, ItalyThe concept of Simplexity has emerged several times in many discourses within different scientific domains: it somehow refers to the intertwined nature of Simplicity and Complexity. To the eye of the scientist beholder, any of these contributions renders different facets. None of those is negligible nor seems to be superior. Starting from this consideration, this paper uses a recent Design Science Research based method to develop a conceptual artefact allowing the entire realm of Complexity Sciences to unravel the Complexity of Simplexity. By moving through an in-depth systematic literature review, this research mined the nuances of Simplexity's meaning from several different research domains throughout seventy years, and then distilled those nuances. The resulting conceptual artefacts are possibly useful any time there is the need for dealing with Complexity – from the design of cyber-socio-technical systems to the analysis of protein networks – paving the way for a shared language for Psychologists, Neuro-linguists, Designers, Resilience Engineers, Biologists, and other Complexity Scientists.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024170648DSRGrounded theoryCASSimplexitySocio-technical systems |
| spellingShingle | Andrea Falegnami Andrea Tomassi Chiara Gunella Stefano Amalfitano Giuseppe Corbelli Karolina Armonaite Claudio Fornaro Luigi Giorgi Alessandro Pollini Alessandro Caforio Elpidio Romano Defining conceptual artefacts to manage and design simplicities in complex adaptive systems Heliyon DSR Grounded theory CAS Simplexity Socio-technical systems |
| title | Defining conceptual artefacts to manage and design simplicities in complex adaptive systems |
| title_full | Defining conceptual artefacts to manage and design simplicities in complex adaptive systems |
| title_fullStr | Defining conceptual artefacts to manage and design simplicities in complex adaptive systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Defining conceptual artefacts to manage and design simplicities in complex adaptive systems |
| title_short | Defining conceptual artefacts to manage and design simplicities in complex adaptive systems |
| title_sort | defining conceptual artefacts to manage and design simplicities in complex adaptive systems |
| topic | DSR Grounded theory CAS Simplexity Socio-technical systems |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024170648 |
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