Complex Systems

by Edited by Terry R. J. Bossomaier , David G. Green

• ISBN13: 9780521043717
• ISBN10: 0521043719
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book explores the exciting new field of complexity. It features in-depth coverage of important theoretical areas, including fractals, chaos, nonlinear dynamics, artificial life, and self organization. It also provides overviews of complexity in several applied areas, including parallel computation, control systems, neural systems, and ecosystems. Contributors examine some of the properties that best characterize complex systems, including algorithmic richness, nonlinearity, and abundant interactions between components. In this way the book draws themes, especially the ideas of connectivity and natural computation, that reveal deep, underlying similarities among phenomena that have formerly been treated as completely distinct. Researchers in a wide array of fields, including ecology, neuroscience, computer science, and mathematics, will find this volume to be a fascinating collection of ideas.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Self-organisation in complex systems

Network evolution and the emergence of structure

Artificial life: growing complex systems

Deterministic and random fractals

Non-linear dynamics

Non-linear control systems

Parallel computers and complex systems

Are ecosystems complex systems?

Complexity and neural networks

Index

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