Bossomaier T.R.J., Green D.G. Complex Systems

Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 417 Pages
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.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