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Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity) by John H. Miller, Scott E. Page, 2007-03-05 Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems: A Primer (Springer: Complexity) by Claudius Gros, 2010-09-27 Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World by John D. Sterman, 2000-12-01 Coherent Dynamics of Complex Quantum Systems (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) by Vladimir M. Akulin, 2009-12-15 Complex Systems & Archaeology (Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry) Chaos: From Simple Models to Complex Systems (Series on Advances in Statistical Mechanics) by Massimo Cencini, Fabio Cecconi, et all 2009-09-01 Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems by Paul Cilliers, 1998-03-10 Investigating Human Error: Incidents, Accidents, and Complex Systems by Barry Strauch, 2004-01 Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems by Salomon Levy, 1999-08-02 Complex Systems: Operational Approaches in Neurobiology, Physics and Computers (Springer Series in Synergetics, Vol 31) Science Matters: Humanities As Complex Systems by Maria Burguete, 2008-11-26 Human Factors in Simple and Complex Systems, Second Edition by Robert W. Proctor, Trisha Van Zandt, 2008-04-22 Managing Complex Governance Systems (Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management) Social Emergence: Societies As Complex Systems by R. Keith Sawyer, 2005-11-28

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1. Complex System - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   A complex system is a system composed of interconnected parts that as a whole exhibit one or more properties (behavior among the possible properties) not  
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system
   
   Extractions: Jump to: navigation search A complex system is a system composed of interconnected parts that as a whole exhibit one or more properties (behavior among the possible properties) not obvious from the properties of the individual parts. A system’s complexity may be of one of two forms: disorganized complexity and organized complexity In essence, disorganized complexity is a matter of a very large number of parts, and organized complexity is a matter of the subject system (quite possibly with only a limited number of parts) exhibiting emergent properties. Examples of complex systems include ant colonies ants themselves, human economies climate nervous systems ... cells and living things, including human beings, as well as modern energy or telecommunication infrastructures. Indeed, many systems of interest to humans are complex systems. Complex systems are studied by many areas of natural science mathematics , and social science . Fields that specialize in the interdisciplinary study of complex systems include systems theory complexity theory systems ecology , and cybernetics A complex system is any system featuring a large number of interacting components, whose aggregate activity is nonlinear and typically exhibits hierarchical self-organization under selective pressures.

2. New England Complex Systems Institute Welcome Page
   New England complex systems Institute.  
   http://necsi.org/
   
   Extractions: a non-profit research and education institute developing new scientific methods, and applying them to the challenges of society. EDUCATION advanced training postdoc opportunities executive education international conference (ICCS) SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS overview health care multiscale method ethnic violence ... negotiation NEWS COMMUNITY media about NECSI contact us complex systems resources

3. University Of Michigan, Center For The Study Of Complex Systems
   The Center for the Study of complex systems at the University of Michigan is one of the leading research institutions for the interdisciplinary field of  
   http://www.cscs.umich.edu/

4. Complex Systems Modeling
   A complex system is any system featuring a large number of interacting components (agents, processes, etc.) whose aggregate activity is nonlinear (not  
   http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/complex/csm.html
   
   Extractions: Based on Rocha, Luis M. [1999]. BITS: Computer and Communications News . Computing, Information, and Communications Division. Los Alamos National Laboratory. November 1999. "A system comprised of a (usually large) number of (usually strongly) interacting entities, processes, or agents, the understanding of which requires the development, or the use of, new scientific tools, nonlinear models, out-of equilibrium descriptions and computer simulations ." [Advances in Complex Systems Journal] "A system that can be analyzed into many components having relatively many relations among them, so that the behavior of each component depends on the behavior of others. [Herbert Simon]" "A system that involves numerous interacting agents whose aggregate behaviors are to be understood. Such aggregate activity is nonlinear, hence it cannot simply be derived from summation of individual components behavior." [Jerome Singer] A complex system is any system featuring a large number of interacting components (agents, processes, etc.) whose aggregate activity is nonlinear (not derivable from the summations of the activity of individual components) and typically exhibits hierarchical self-organization under selective pressures. This definition applies to systems from a wide array of scientific disciplines. Indeed, the sciences of complexity are necessarily based on interdisplinary research. Not surprisingly, the heart of this research area is the

5. JSMF - Studying Complex Systems
   Read about the 21st Century Science Initiative, view funded grants, and learn how to apply for a grant in one of the three program areas.  
   http://www.jsmf.org/programs/cs/
   
   Extractions: Home 21st Century Science Initiative Studying Complex Systems The Complex Systems program supports scholarship and research directed toward the development of theoretical and mathematical tools that can be applied to the study of complex, adaptive, nonlinear systems. It is anticipated that research funded in this program will address issues in fields such as biology, biodiversity, climate, demography, epidemiology, technological change, economic development, governance, or computation. While the program's emphasis is on the development and application of theoretical models used in these research fields and not on particular fields per se, JSMF is particularly interested in projects attempting to apply complex systems approaches to meaningful problems. Proposals attempting to apply complex system tools and models to problems where such approaches are not yet considered usual or mainstream (for example, differentiating normal physiology from disease) are encouraged.

6. Complex Systems Group | IU Department Of Informatics | Main / HomePage Browse
   Also related is a similar MIT Press volume coedited by several members of the complex systems Group containing the proceedings of the Artificial Life X  
   http://cx.informatics.indiana.edu/
   
   Extractions: Department of Informatics Home About People Research ... Contact News New book with the latest advances in Artificial Life. This book, co-edited by Prof. Luis M. Rocha , constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 2007. The 125 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on conceptual articles, morphogenesis and development, robotics and autonomous agents, evolutionary computation and theory, cellular automata, models of biological systems and their applications, ant colony and swarm systems, evolution of communication, simulation of social interactions, self-replication, artificial chemistry, and posters. More information from the publisher's site .Also related is a similar MIT Press volume co-edited by several members of the Complex Systems Group containing the proceedings of the Artificial Life X conference An Indiana University School of Informatics-led team of researchers have developed a mathematical model that can predict the spread and severity of a worldwide flu outbreak, giving health and public safety officials a leg up on where to dedicate their resources. Their report, published in the journal

7. The Complex System: Sales Lead Management, Software Automation, Business Strateg
   Leads360 CEO and young entrepreneur, Jeff Solomon’s Blog Speaking out on building a company from the ground up and on all things related to Corporate  
   http://www.thecomplexsystem.com/
   
   Extractions: Leads360 CEO and young entrepreneur, Jeff Solomon’s Blog: Speaking out on building a company from the ground up and on all things related to Corporate Strategy, On-Demand Solutions, Sales Force Management and Lead Tracking Best Practices. Subscribe to RSS Feed (XML) Subscribe by Email: First and foremost, get the mission, vision and values right. This has been somewhat of a chore for me over the years. I think I've done three or four revisions, maybe more; but even as I tune the mission and vision, our core values and core purpose have not changed dramatically. I think that

8. CALResCo's Introduction To Complex Systems
   Computer Programming approaches used for demonstrating, simulating, and analyzing these characteristics of complex systems  
   http://www.calresco.org/intro.htm
   
   Extractions: Introduction to Complex Systems by David Kirshbaum Outline of Contents III. Computer Programming approaches used for demonstrating, simulating, and analyzing these characteristics of Complex Systems: Artificial Life Genetic Algorithms Neural Networks Cellular Automata ... Boolean Networks A Complex System is any system which involves a number of elements, arranged in structure(s) which can exist on many scales. These go through processes of change that are not describable by a single rule nor are reducible to only one level of explanation, these levels often include features whose emergence cannot be predicted from their current specifications. Complex Systems Theory also includes the study of the interactions of the many parts of the system. Previously, when studying a subject, researchers tended to use a reductionist approach which attempted to summarize the dynamics, processes, and change that occurred in terms of lowest common denominators and the simplest, yet most widely provable and applicable elegant explanations.

9. Syllabus Of Readings For Complex Adaptive Systems And Agent-Based Computational
   A system is typically defined to be a complex system if it exhibits the following two properties (see, e.g., Gary Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature,  
   http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/sylalife.htm

10. Complex System Of Pipes
    It’s one of many examples of the sick Naqba industrial complex that Naomi Klein revealed in one of the year’s most important articles  
    http://complexsystemofpipes.wordpress.com/
    
    Extractions: @import url( http://s.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/k2/style.css?m=1203372041 ); var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); More than meets the eye. More than the eye wants to meet Published March 13, 2008 abortion activism civil rights class war ... Comments legitimising racism or agitating for war. The IWD website an assault on abortion rights the likes of which my generation has never seen a disagreement between two lovers as to whether there was consent on one particular occasion. She may well have been glad of the attention. ... resentful frugality by the powers that be. It was against real life constraints like these that women struggled in of the early twentieth century: language rapists -ism s is to deny them, to transcend them. Black and White Unite against the racists; so too must men and women stand together against sexist oppression. Reclaim The Night Emmeline Pankhurst gives everyone a paycut in the name of equality . For all that she was an awesome campaigner, by the time she became a Tory MP working class women would have had far more in common with working class men than with the esteemed Mrs Pankhurst (now

11. The 5th International Workshop On Complex Systems
    We are planning to have the 5th International Workshop on complex systems for 2528 September, 2007. The Workshop will be held in Sendai, Japan,  
    http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/tokuyama-lab/IWCS2007/

12. Center For Complex Systems Studies @ Kalamazoo College
    Homepage for the Center for complex systems Studies @ Kalamazoo College.  
    http://www.kzoo.edu/physics/ccss/

13. CBofN - Glossary - C
    complex system A collection of many simple nonlinear units that operate in parallel and interact locally with each other so as to produce emergent behavior.  
    http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnhtml/glossary-C.html
    
    Extractions: A B C D ... Z Cantor Set A simple fractal set composed of an uncountable infinity of dust-like points, but that also has measure (meaning that the sum width of all points is 0). The Cantor set is constructed by removing the middle third of a unit line segment, and then recursively removing the middle third of any remaining line segments, for an infinite number of steps. Cellular Automaton (CA) A discrete dynamical system that is composed of an array of cells, each of which behaves like a finite-state automaton . All interactions are local, with the next state of a cell being a function of the current state of itself and its neighbors. Conway's Game of Life is a CA.

14. Santa Fe Institute Research Topics - Physics Of Complex Systems
    Future directions in the physics of complex systems include universality in dissipative systems, quantum simulation and the feedback control of decoherence,  
    http://www.santafe.edu/research/topics-physics-complex-systems.php
    
    Extractions: Quick Links... Bulletin Library People Summer Schools Working Papers Visiting SFI Physics of Complex Systems click here SFI Visiting Scientist Ole Peters and collaborators have argued that rainfall is an SOC phenomenon. Using satellite data from NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, they present evidence that tropical convection and precipitation place the atmosphere near the critical point of a non-equilibrium phase transition between dry quiescence and strong deep convection with precipitation. Knowledge of the critical properties of this transition can help inform climate modeling by providing more realistic convective closure schemes, based on energy constraints and relations between atmospheric observables such as column-integrated water vapor and precipitation rate. As part of a larger project to understand how self-organized chemical states can be driven into existence by non-equilibrium energetic boundary conditions, SFI Professor Eric Smith has developed ensemble descriptions and entropy methods for driven quantum ensembles.  In particular, he has shown that maximization of the true entropy of a driven ensemble can lead to the spontaneous formation of stable currents, and that the entropy production principles of Onsager arise as context-dependent approximations if the equilibrium-form entropy instead of the exact entropy is used. Smith has also shown that the onset of order in thermodynamically

15. Complex Systems Research Lab
    While our main emphasis is aerospace systems and applications, our research results are applicable to complex systems in such domains as transportation,  
    http://sunnyday.mit.edu/csrl.html
    
    Extractions: The limits of what we can successfully build are changing from structural integrity and the physical limits of materials to the intellectual limits of those designing, operating, interacting with, and maintaining our engineered systems. New technology, particularly digital technology, is creating the potential for higher levels of integrated, multi-loop control in systems containing large numbers of dynamically interacting components (including humans). The result is that we are attempting to build systems where interactions among components cannot be thoroughly planned, understood, anticipated, or guarded against. The result has been " system accidents" and large-scale system failures, such as the recent Shuttle Columbia tragedy and the failure of the northeast power grid in August 2003. Increasing complexity and coupling as well as the introduction of new digital technology are making it difficult for designers to consider all potential system states and for operators to handle all normal and abnormal situations and disturbances safely and effectively. In CSRL we are designing system modeling, analysis, and visualization theory and tools to assist in the design and operation of safer systems with greater capability. To accomplish these goals, we apply a system's approach to engineering that includes building technical foundations and knowledge and integrating these with the organizational, political, and cultural aspects of system construction and operation.

16. Is The Complement System Irreducibly Complex?
    An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced gradually by slight, successive modifications of a precursor system, since any precursor to an irreducibly  
    http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/behe/icsic.html
    
    Extractions: by Mike Coon [Last Update: April 4, 2002] "By irreducible complexity I mean a single system which is composed of several interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, and where the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning. An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced gradually by slight, successive modifications of a precursor system, since any precursor to an irreducibly complex system is by definition nonfunctional." Michael Behe his essay is intended to back up some elements of Keith Robison's excellent FAQ detailing the shortcomings of Behe's arguments ( http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/behe/review.html ). Another excellent rebuttal by H. Allen Orr can be found at http://bostonreview.net/br21.6/orr.html . See also http://bostonreview.net/evolution.html for several articles on intelligent design and irreducible complexity by Orr, Russell F. Doolittle, Douglas J. Futuyma, Richard Dawkins, Michael Behe, Phillip Johnson and David Berlinski among others. Many people on Talk.Origins (T.O.) and elsewhere have outlined the conceptual reasons why Darwinian evolution can produce irreducibly complex (IC) systems. I try here to present some evidence to back up these concepts. In Robison's

17. MITRE - Our Work - Technical Papers - 2004 Technical Papers - Engineering Comple
    complex systems are alive and constantly changing. The methods for the engineering of complex systems are based on a view of complex systems as having  
    http://www.mitre.org/work/tech_papers/tech_papers_04/norman_engineering/
    
    Extractions: Michael L. Kuras, The MITRE Corporation ABSTRACT This chapter motivates the need for, and introduces a formal set of processes that constitute the practice of, "Complex Systems Engineering" (CSE). Our experiences and observations strongly suggest Enterprise Engineering is best approached using CSE to engineer and manage the enterprise. The chapter is structured in four major sections: We all must come to grips with the non-deterministic nature of enterprises. We hope to extend the concepts and methods of Systems Engineering to complex systems, and to open up the professional dialog so as to codify the engineering and management of complex systems and enterprises. Additional Search Keywords N/A Page last updated: March 18, 2004

18. Complex System -- From Wolfram MathWorld
    Pages Linking Here. REFERENCES. Goles, E. and Martínez, S. (Eds.). Cellular Automata and complex systems. Amsterdam, Netherlands Kluwer, 1999.  
    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ComplexSystem.html

19. SourceForge.net: Complex Systems Scilab Toolbox
    complex systems is a toolbox for SCILAB software. This toolbox measures some parameters for graphs representing complex systems degree distribution,  
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/complex-sys-sci/
    
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20. ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online
    A Framework for complex system Development develops a generalized process that distinguishes between time and logical domainshow I/O evolves over time  
    http://www.engnetbase.com/ejournals/books/book_summary/summary.asp?id=591

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