Complexity : a guided tour

• Main Author: Mitchell, Melanie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Subjects: komplexita; systémová analýza; systémové vědy; teorie systémů; complexity (philosophy); system analysis; system sciences; system theory; příručky; handbooks, manuals, etc
• ISBN: 9780195124415
• Physical Description: xvi, 349 s. : il., portréty ; 25 cm

Table of Contents:

• Background and history. What is complexity? ; dynamics, chaos, and prediction ; Information ; Computation ; Evolution ; Genetics, simplified ; Defining and measuring complexity
• Life and evolution in computers. Self-reproducing computer programs ; Genetic algorithms
• Computation writ large. Cellular automata, life, and the universe ; Computing with particles ; Information processing in living systems ; How to make analogies (if you are a computer) ; Prospects of computer modeling
• Network thinking. The science of networks ; Applying network science to real-world networks ; The mystery of scaling ; Evolution, complexified
• Conclusion. The past and future of the sciences of complexity