Complexity : a guided tour / / Melanie Mitchell.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 349 p. :; ill., map. |
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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.