Belding Consulting, Inc.

Consulting firm specializing in genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, agent-based modeling, swarm intelligence, and complex systems analysis: "Managing and leveraging complexity." Complexity is commonplace in both natural and human-made systems, ranging over a wide variety of domains: • From organisms to ecosystems. • From earthquakes to climate. • From people to societies. • From corporations to economies. • From factory floors to computer operating systems. Instead of sweeping this complexity under the rug, complex non-linear systems should be recognized and analyzed for what they are. This empowers us not only to cope with the complexity, but also to manage and leverage it. Belding Consulting, Inc. has extensive expertise in such areas as: • Design and engineering optimization over massive search spaces. • Using the power of evolution to solve problems in scheduling, routing, search, data mining, and machine learning. • Using the intelligence of ant and bee colonies to solve decentralized search and routing problems. • Using agent-based modeling to simulate and analyze complex systems in business, technology, policy, planning, and health care. Contact us for a free consultation, to see how we can help your organization manage and leverage the complexity it faces. More information: • Economist article on agent-based modeling: http://economist.com/node/16636121 • National Geographic article on swarm intelligence: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/07/swarms/miller-text • Scientific American article on complex systems: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=complexitys-business-mode • Popular Science article on genetic algorithms: http://books.google.com/books?id=T0la7o3hnA4C&pg=PA70