Competitive and high-risk environments require complex high technology systems, which need to be supported and maintained over their respective life cycles. These systems often have a significant consequence of failure, and require complex management systems to achieve their operational...

Agent-based modelling has become an increasingly important tool for scholars studying social and social-ecological systems, but there are no community standards on describing, implementing, testing and teaching these tools. This paper reports on the establishment of the Open Agent-Based...

The paper presents on the beginning the main general criteria and also the main specific criteria used for an appropriate understanding of small or medium sized organizations’ life cycle. After that, we develop with a lot of important details the eight phases of the small or medium sized...