Complexity : a guided tour
2011
Book
" ... provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. Examining the workings of complexity across a broad range of biological, technological, and social phenomena, Complexity: A Guided Tour offers an overview of the current research at the forefront of this field and discusses prospects for its contribution to solving some of the most important scientific questions of our time"--Cover verso.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780199798100
- 9780195124415
- 0199798109
- 0195124413
Description: xvi, 349 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Notes:
- Originally published: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-336) and index.
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Background and History
- ch. One What Is Complexity?
- ch. Two Dynamics, Chaos, and Prediction
- ch. Three Information
- ch. Four Computation
- ch. Five Evolution
- ch. Six Genetics, Simplified
- ch. Seven Defining and Measuring Complexity
- pt. TWO Life and Evolution in Computers
- ch. Eight Self-Reproducing Computer Programs
- ch. Nine Genetic Algorithms
- pt. THREE Computation Writ Large
- ch. Ten Cellular Automata, Life, and the Universe
- ch. Eleven Computing with Particles
- ch. Twelve Information Processing in Living Systems
- ch. Thirteen How to Make Analogies (if You Are a Computer)
- ch. Fourteen Prospects of Computer Modeling
- pt. FOUR Network Thinking
- ch. Fifteen The Science of Networks
- ch. Sixteen Applying Network Science to Real-World Networks
- ch. Seventeen The Mystery of Scaling
- ch. Eighteen Evolution, Complexified
- pt. FIVE Conclusion
- Contents note continued: ch. Nineteen The Past and Future of the Sciences of Complexity.
Control Number: 1880499
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.Subjects: Complexity (Philosophy)