ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Transcripts
part II|581 pages
Papers
chapter 11|10 pages
Theories in (inter)action
A complex dynamic system for theory evaluation in Science Studies
chapter 22|14 pages
Socioeconomic systems as complex self-organizing adaptive holarchies
The dynamic exergy budget
chapter 23|16 pages
Socioeconomic systems as nested dissipative adaptive systems (holarchies) and their dynamic energy budget
Validation of the approach
chapter 27|10 pages
Biological design principles that guide self-organization, emergence, and hierarchical assembly
From complexity to tensegrity
chapter 33|14 pages
Towards the global
Complexity, topology and chaos in modelling, simulation and computation
chapter 37|12 pages
A dual processing theory of brain and mind
Where is the limited processing capacity coming from?
chapter 43|16 pages
Spatial correlations in the contact process
A step toward better ecological models
chapter 54|12 pages
Self-organisation and information-carrying capacity of collectively autocatalytic sets of polymers
Ligation systems
