Baggio: Complex systems, information technologies and tourism: a network point of view

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2006

sources to get

Amaral & Ottino: 2004: 147 complex v complicated

complex networks

Bar-Yam 1997
dynamics of complex systems

Buhalis 2000 IT for tourism important because of tourism's info intensive nature
tourism and information technologies

Farrel & Twining-Ward 2004 complexity & tourism

reconceptualizing tourism

Pavard and Dugdale 2000: definition of a complex system

contribution of complexity theory

Poon 1993: importance of information for tourism 154

tourism, technology competitive strategies

Stacey: 1996 pg 10 defines how parts in CAS operate

complexity & creativity in orgs

Werthner & Klein 1999 IT for tourism important because of tourism's info intensive nature
information technology and tourism challenging relationship

complex vs complicated
complicated: a number of elements whose results is the sum of the individual ones—can be broken
down into constituent parts
complex: can only be understand by seeing it as a whole

Bar-Yam 1997 notes complex systems mesoscopic: composed of number of elements not too low or
high

special class of complex systems: complex adaptive system

--influences & is influenced by external environment and interactions among elements are dynamic

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traits of a CAS
non-determinism
presence of feedback cycles
distributed nature
emergence & self-org
limited decomposability
self-similarity

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a central property of CAS is emergence of previously unssen properties/structures—self-orgnization

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importance of information gathering for tourism

hypertext bib of measures of complexity

bruce.edmonds.name/combib/ only up to 1997

“Complexity can therefore be seen as a measure of how difficult it is to describe the regularities of a
structure in complete detail” (Baggio).

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term data smog

Amaral & Ottino 2004

3 main tools to describe complex systems that physicsts & math dudes have:
nonlinear dynamics; statistical physica; network theory

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network theory discussion

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web a complex system

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bow tie model of the web

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paper has first attempt to define what concerns the field of tourism and the role of IT in the framework
of the science of complexity (near quote)