Damn, you beat me. I had 1968 for William Buckley's "Society as a Complex Adaptive System*" http://tinyurl.com/yfrbaqm*
It's an interesting read - and the depressing thing is that it shows how little the theory has progressed in 41 years (41! count them!). -- R P.S. Anyone who tried Wikipedia will have been given the incorrect info that the term was invented sometime after 1984 at SFI. On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]>wrote: > 1960. > > An integrated project for the design and appraisal of mechanized > decision-making control … <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3007180> > KD Tocher - OR, 1960 - jstor.org > *...* will be established on simulation models, but there is a theoretical > interest in > the necessary conditions for such a *complex* *adaptive* *system* as > illustrated in *...* > > --Doug > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Robert Holmes <[email protected]>wrote: > >> My wife is doing her PhD in Human & Organizational Learning and I have >> been flicking through the papers she has to read for an upcoming complexity >> class. I came across a surprisingly impressive review paper that has (I'm >> guessing) one of the earliest (if not the earliest) uses of the phrase >> "complex adaptive system". Anyone care to guess when the paper was authored? >> -- Robert >> >> P.S. For those interested, I'll post the paper in the next day or two. >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > > -- > Doug Roberts > [email protected] > [email protected] > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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