Overview
Complexity challenges people in so many spheres of human endeavour. Whether you are a manager using business processes to coordinate the work of your employees, a medical scientist trying to see patterns in a collection of scientific investigations on a disease, an intelligence officer looking for links between individuals and groups, a lawyer framing or assessing a business contract, a commander staging a military exercise or a systems engineer designing a complex software-intensive system - you are likely be confronted by complexity and detail on a scale that can be overwhelming and threaten or undermine the whole venture being undertaken.
Research strategy
In every case where complexity challenges people there are strategies, and tools that people have invented to cope. What we are claiming here is that in all the above cases, and many, many more, the underlying problem is essentially the same and importantly there may be benefit in understanding and then applying a general solution. To do this we need to apply a problem solving process and a representation that in combination allows us to amplify our capacity to cope with complexity. For this purpose we suggest a promising strategy is to apply a representation called Behaviour Trees and an organizing principle called genetic integration.