Distributed Context Switching in Complex Adaptive Systems

This paper aims to contribute to the tactical and operational decision making process of manufacturing and logistics operations by providing distributed context switching into modeling and simulation, based on complex adaptive systems (CAS). The research approach is theoretically based on CAS with agent-based modeling (ABM) as the implementation method. A case study is presented where an agent-based model has contributed to distributed context switching to increased understanding and precision in decision making by an agent in distributed environment.