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	"Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems" (PDF file) Author: Kathleen M. Carley Abstract Computational analysis is significantly impacting the way groups, teams, organizations, markets, institutions and societies are managed and the way individual, organizational, market, and policy decisions are made and evaluated. Computational analysis is dramatically re-shaping the way we think and reason about organizational design and strategy, commerce, organizational learning, new organizational forms, information technology product development, innovation and diffusion, and adaptation at all levels. Computational models, often in the form of virtual worlds, are used in social, technological and engineering policy domains to address via what-if analysis, how different technologies, decisions and organizational and government policies influence the performance, effectiveness, flexibility, adaptiveness and survivability of complex social and organizational systems.