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James Odell (http://www.jamesodell.com/) has a brief overview of CAs and some complexity issues they illuminate in the Journal of Object Technology - with some thoughts on how software agents and businesses might deal with such complexity.

http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2003_11/column4

Nature has moments both of order and chaos. Interestingly
enough, those forms that are considered most fit actually reside
someplace in between. In fact many consider this in-between state a necessary property of emergence for nature. Such a phenomenon applies to business and software agents, as well.

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