The essays and lectures collected in this book center around knowledge transfer from the complex-system sciences to applications in business, industry and society, as viewed from a broad perspective. The contributions aim to raise awareness across the spectrum to meet the increasing need to integrate lessons from complexity research into everyday planning, decision making, logistics or optimization procedures and forecasting. The writing has been largely kept non-technical.

Editorial.- Managing Complexity: An Introduction.- Market Segmentation - The Network Approach.- Managing Autonomy and Control in Economic Systems.- Complexity and the Enterprise: The Illusion of Control.- Benefits and Drawbacks of Simple Models for Complex Production Systems.- Logistics Networks - Coping With Nonlinearity and Complexity.- Repeated Auction Games and Learning Dynamics in Electronic Logistics Marketplaces.- Decentralized Approaches to Adaptive Traffic Control.- Critical Infrastructures Vulnerability: The Highway Networks.- Trade Credit Networks and Systemic Risk.- A Complex System''s View of Critical Infrastructures.- Bootstrapping the Long Tail in Peer to Peer Systems.- Coping With Information Overload Through Trust-Based Networks.- Complexity in Human Conflict.- Fostering Consensus in Multidimensional Continuous Opinion Dynamics Under Bounded Confidence.- Multi-Stakeholder Governance- Emergence and Transformational Potential of a New Political Paradigm.- Evolutionary Engineering of Complex Functional Networks.- Path Length Scaling and Discrete Effects in Complex Networks.- Index.