Complex adaptive system : A way of modelling a Complex Adaptive System. A system with high <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/adaptive_capacity" class="extiw" title="w:adaptive capacity">adaptive capacity</a> exerts complex adaptive behavior in a changing environment.
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<p>Own work by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Acadac" title="User:Acadac">Acadac</a> : Taken from en.wikipedia.org, where <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Acadac" title="User:Acadac">Acadac</a> was inspired to create this graphic after reading:
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<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Lewin" class="extiw" title="w:Roger Lewin">Roger Lewin</a> (1992) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226476553/qid=1115395497/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/002-6685263-4256868">Complexity: Life and the Edge of Chaos</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Johnson_(author)" class="extiw" title="w:Steven Johnson (author)">Steven Johnson</a> (2001) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684868768/qid=1115395924/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-6685263-4256868">Emergence:  The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software</a></li></ul><p>This image has previously been published in: 
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<ul><li>Andrus, D. Calvin, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=755904">The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community. Studies in Intelligence</a>, Vol 49, No 3, September 2005. Available at SSRN: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=755904">http://ssrn.com/abstract=755904</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol49no3/html_files/Wik_and_%20Blog_7.htm">Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community: The Wiki and the Blog</a> D. Calvin Andrus (Central Intelligence Agency). on <i>cia.gov</i></li>
<li>See also: "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://acadac.net/wiki/index.php?title=Galileo2004">The Wiki and The Blog</a>". D. Calvin Andrus, Ph.D. at <i>acadac.net</i></li></ul>