Generally spontaneous pattern formation phenomena are random and repetitive wh...Generally spontaneous pattern formation phenomena are random and repetitive whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design. Yet biological organisms and collective insect constructions are exceptional examples of complex...more
Generally spontaneous pattern formation phenomena are random and repetitive wh...Generally spontaneous pattern formation phenomena are random and repetitive whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design. Yet biological organisms and collective insect constructions are exceptional examples of complex...more
This book serves three basic purposes: (1) a tutorial-type reference for compl...This book serves three basic purposes: (1) a tutorial-type reference for complex systems engineering (CSE) concepts and associated terminology (2) a recommendation of a proposed methodology showing how the evolving practice of CSE can lead to a more...more
This book focuses on systemsengineeringsystems thinking and how that thinkin...This book focuses on systems engineering systems thinking and how that thinking can be learned in practice. It describes a novel analytical framework based on activity theory for understanding how systems thinking evolves and how it can be improved...more
UnderstandingComplex Urban Systems takes as its point of departure the insigh...Understanding Complex Urban Systems takes as its point of departure the insight that the challenges of global urbanization and the complexity of urban systems cannot be understood - let alone managed - by sectoral and disciplinary approaches alone....more
The study of complexsystems has attracted a broad range of researchers from m...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...more
Statistical Laws in ComplexSystems: Combining Mechanistic Models and Data Ana...Statistical Laws in Complex Systems: Combining Mechanistic Models and Data Analysismore
Through the development of an exact path integral for use in transferring info...Through the development of an exact path integral for use in transferring information from observations to a model of the observed system the author provides a general framework for the discussion of model building and evaluation across disciplines....more
Theconcernofthisbookistheuseofemergentcomputingandself-organization modellingw...Theconcernofthisbookistheuseofemergentcomputingandself-organization modellingwithinvariousapplicationsofcomplexsystems. Wefocusouratt- tion both on the innovative concepts and implementations in order to model self-organizations but also on the...more
Deeply rooted in fundamental research in Mathematics and Computer Science Cell...Deeply rooted in fundamental research in Mathematics and Computer Science Cellular Automata (CA) are recognized as an intuitive modeling paradigm for Complex Systems. Already very basic CA with extremely simple micro dynamics such as the Game of...more
Nonlinear dynamics has become an important field of research in recent years i...Nonlinear dynamics has become an important field of research in recent years in many areas of the natural sciences. In particular it has potential applications in biology and medicine; nonlinear data analysis has helped to detect the progress of...more
This book is about improving human decision making and performance in complex ...This book is about improving human decision making and performance in complex tasks. Utilizing systems thinking approach this book presents innovative and insightful solutions to various managerial issues in various domains including agriculture...more
This proceedings volume contains talks and poster presentations from the Inter...This proceedings volume contains talks and poster presentations from the International Symposium Self-Organization in Complex Systems: The Past Present and Future of Synergetics which took place at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg an Institute of Advanced...more
Model integration - the process by which different modelling efforts can be br...Model integration - the process by which different modelling efforts can be brought together to simulate the target system - is a core technology in the field of Systems Biology. In the work presented here model integration was addressed directly...more