Unifying Themes In Complex Systems, Volume 1

Download or read book Unifying Themes In Complex Systems, Volume 1 written by Yaneer Bar-yam and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of complex systems has attracted a broad range of researchers from many disciplines spanning both the hard and soft sciences. In the Autumn of 1997, 300 of these researchers came together for the First International Conference on Complex Systems. The proceedings of this conference is the first book in the New England Complex Systems Institute Series on Complexity and includes more than 100 presentations and papers on topics like evolution, emergence, complexity, self-organization, scaling, informatics, time series, emergence of mind, and engineering of complex systems.