About the Book
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:
Introduction , “Significant points” in the study of complex systems , International Conference on Complex Systems: Organization and Program , Transcripts , Can there be a science of complex systems? , Evolution , Psychology and corporations: A complex systems perspective , Genome complexity (Session introduction: Emergence) , Emergent properties and behavior of the atmosphere , Systems properties of metabolic networks , A hypothesis about hierarchies , Session introduction , Whole genome bioinformatics , Session introduction , Papers , Theories in (inter)action , Modeling fractal patterns with Genetic Algorithm solutions to a variant of the inverse problem for Iterated Function Systems (IFS) , An artificial life model for investigating the evolution of modularity , From inductive inference to the fundamental equation of measurement , Controlling chaos in systems of coupled maps with long-range interactions , Assessing software organizations from a complex systems perspective , Hazards, self-organization, and risk compensation , Structure formation by Active Brownian particles with nonlinear friction , Systems properties of metabolic networks , Complex dynamics of molecular evolutionary processes , Genetic network inference , Socioeconomic systems as complex self-organizing adaptive holarchies , Socioeconomic systems as nested dissipative adaptive systems (holarchies) and their dynamic energy budget , Psychology and corporations , Symmetry breaking and the origin of life , Complexity and functionality , Biological design principles that guide self-organization, emergence, and hierarchical assembly , Information transfer between solitary waves in the saturable Schrodinger equation , An integrated theory of nervous system functioning embracing nativism and constructivism , Toward the physics of “death” , Ragnar Frisch at the edge of chaos , Programming complex systems , Towards the global , An effect of scale in a non-additive genetic model , Parallel computational complexity in statistical physics , Statistical models of mass extinction , A dual processing theory of brain and mind , Evolutionary strategies of optimization and the complexity of fitness landscapes , Conformational switching as assembly instructions in self-assembling mechanical systems , Aggregation and the emergence of social behavior in rat pups modeled by simple rules of individual behavior , The role of information in simulated evolution , Emergence of complex ecologies in ECHO , Spatial correlations in the contact process , Many to one mappings as a basis for life , Generic mechanisms for hierarchies , Emergence in earthquakes , Chemical oscillation in symbolic chemical system and its behavioral pattern , Extinction dynamics in a large ecological system with random interspecies interactions , Functional differentiation in developmental systems , Tuning complexity on randomly occupied lattices , Socioeconomic organization on directional resource landscapes , “Continuous time” in Feigenbaum’s model , Ordering chaos in a neural network with linear feedback , Self-organisation and information-carrying capacity of collectively autocatalytic sets of polymers , Self-dissimilarity , Complexity and order in chemical and biological systems
