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Here we have the readings for the class...
- Class 1 - 19 Jan 2004 (Spiro's
slides)
- Casti, J. L. (1994). Complexification :
explaining a paradoxical world through the science of
surprise (1st ed.). New York, NY: HarperCollins.
(chapters 1 and 7)
- Kelly, Kevin. Out of Control: The New Biology of
Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World.
Reading, MA: Perseus Press, 1995. (chapters 1 and 2)
(read it online)
- Waldrop, M. M. (1992). Complexity: the emerging
science at the edge of order and chaos. New York:
Simon & Schuster. (chapter 1)
- Class 2 - 26 Jan 2004
- Playing by the rules in Artifical Life.
- Mathematical Games by Martin Gardner.
- Roetzheim, W. H. (1994). Enter the Complexity Lab:
SAMS. (chapter 4)
- Cowan, G. A., Pines, D., Meltzer, D., & Santa Fe
Institute (Sante Fe N.M.). (1994). Complexity :
metaphors, models, and reality. Reading, Mass.:
Addison-Wesley. (some abstracts and discussion)
- Wolfram, S. (2002). A new kind of science. Champaign,
IL: Wolfram Media. (chapters 2 and 3)
- Class 3 - 2 Feb 2004
- Watts, D. J. (2003). Six degrees :
the science of a connected age (1st ed.). New York:
W.W. Norton.
- Class 4 - 09 Feb 2004
- Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. Linked: How Everything Is
Connected to Everything Else and What It Means.
- Class 5 - 16 Feb 2004
- Epstein, Joshua and Axtell, Robert. Growing Artificial
Societies. MIT Press, 1996.
(see link)
- Download the Endnote library with the readings
- Suggested and additional readings
- Social Sciences
- Arthur, W. Brian. Positive Feedbacks in the Economy.
Scientific
American, February 1990, Vol. 262, Issue 2, p. 92.
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