ABSTRACT

The Santa Fe Institute was founded to assist at the birth of new sciences. Those involved in this activity are proceeding under the conviction that there is a common set of principles shared by the disparate complex systems under study, that the time is ripe to understand those principles, and that it is essential to develop them and the associated

chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|15 pages

Definitions

chapter 3|10 pages

Cellular Automata

chapter 4|12 pages

Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata

chapter 5|14 pages

The Hopfield Model

chapter 6|17 pages

Beyond the Hopfield Model

chapter 7|14 pages

Hidden Units

chapter 8|19 pages

Statistical Physics

chapter 9|16 pages

Simulated Annealing

chapter 10|25 pages

Random Boolean Networks

chapter 11|18 pages

Genotypes and Phenotypes

chapter 12|18 pages

Conclusions