awesome-complexity

A curated list of amazingly awesome Complexity Science resources, courses and shiny things
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Articles and Papers
- Self organization and emergence
  - The Economy as an Evolving Complex System - Wesley, Redwood City CA, 1988
  - Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-in by Historical Events - 131.
  - Positive Feedbacks in the Economy - 99.
  - Bounded Rationality and Inductive Behavior - 411, 1994.
  - The Evolution of Cooperation
  - Self-Organized Criticality - 53.
  - Dissipation, Information, Computational Complexity and the Definition of Organization - Wesley, Redwood City CA, 1985, pp. 215-233.
  - The origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
  - The selfish gene
  - The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as a Unit of Selection
  - The Blind Watchmaker
  - Steps Toward Life: a perspective on evolution
  - The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
  - Industrial Dynamics
  - World Dynamics - Allen Press, Cambridge, MA, 1973.
  - The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
  - Punctuated equilibria: the tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered - 151.
  - Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology - Control and Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
  - Hidden Order : How Adaptation Builds Complexity - Wesley 1996.
  - Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning and - Discovery
  - The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution - Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1979.
  - Antichaos and Adaptation - 84
  - The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
  - At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
  - Computation at the Edge of Chaos: phase transitions and emergent computation - 3, pp. 12-37, 1990.
  - Artificial Life: The Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems - Wesley, Redwood City CA, 1989.
  - Artificial Life: An Overview, MIT Press
  - The Second Cybernetics: Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes - 179.
  - The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Understanding
  - Chance and Necessity
  - Self-Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems
  - Exploring Complexity
  - Order Out of Chaos
  - From Being to Becoming: Time and complexity in the physical sciences
  - The Mathematical Theory of Communication
  - The Sciences of the Artificial
  - Structural Stability and Morphogenesis
  - On Growth and Form
  - "On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem." - 265.
  - General Systems Theory
  - Cybernetics of Cybernetics
  - Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
  - Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
  - Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected Papers - Wesley, Reading MA, 1994.
  - Autopoiesis: A Theory of Living Organization
  - The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
  - On Growth and Form
  - Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
  - Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-in by Historical Events - 131.
  - Self-Organized Criticality - 53.
  - Dissipation, Information, Computational Complexity and the Definition of Organization - Wesley, Redwood City CA, 1985, pp. 215-233.
  - The origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
  - The selfish gene
  - The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as a Unit of Selection
  - The Blind Watchmaker
  - Steps Toward Life: a perspective on evolution
  - The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
  - Industrial Dynamics
  - World Dynamics - Allen Press, Cambridge, MA, 1973.
  - The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
  - Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology - Control and Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
  - Hidden Order : How Adaptation Builds Complexity - Wesley 1996.
  - Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning and - Discovery
  - The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution - Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1979.
  - Antichaos and Adaptation - 84
  - At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
  - Artificial Life: The Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems - Wesley, Redwood City CA, 1989.
  - Artificial Life: An Overview, MIT Press
  - The Second Cybernetics: Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes - 179.
  - The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Understanding
  - Chance and Necessity
  - Self-Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems
  - Exploring Complexity
  - Order Out of Chaos
  - From Being to Becoming: Time and complexity in the physical sciences
  - The Sciences of the Artificial
  - Structural Stability and Morphogenesis
  - Principles of Biological Autonomy
  - General Systems Theory
  - Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
  - Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected Papers - Wesley, Reading MA, 1994.
  - Autopoiesis: A Theory of Living Organization
  - The origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life
  - The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as a Unit of Selection
  - The Blind Watchmaker
  - The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
  - The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
  - Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology - Control and Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
  - At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
  - Artificial Life: The Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems - Wesley, Redwood City CA, 1989.
  - The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Understanding
  - The selfish gene
  - Industrial Dynamics
  - Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning and - Discovery
  - The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution - Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1979.
  - The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
  - Chance and Necessity
  - From Being to Becoming: Time and complexity in the physical sciences
  - Structural Stability and Morphogenesis
  - Principles of Biological Autonomy
  - General Systems Theory
  - Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected Papers - Wesley, Reading MA, 1994.
  - Steps Toward Life: a perspective on evolution
  - Hidden Order : How Adaptation Builds Complexity - Wesley 1996.
  - Self-Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems
  - Order Out of Chaos
  - The Sciences of the Artificial
  - Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
  - World Dynamics - Allen Press, Cambridge, MA, 1973.
  - The Economy as an Evolving Complex System - Wesley, Redwood City CA, 1988
  - Positive Feedbacks in the Economy - 99.
  - Self-Organized Criticality - 53.
  - Punctuated equilibria: the tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered - 151.
  - Artificial Life: An Overview, MIT Press
  - Exploring Complexity
  - On Growth and Form
  - On self-organising systems and their environments - Organising Systems, M.C. Yovits and S. Cameron (Eds.), Pergamon Press, London, 1960, pp. 30-50.
  - Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
  - Autopoiesis: A Theory of Living Organization
Books
- Agent modeling and Artificial Life
  - **Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction** - This book gives the skills to design, implement, and analyze agent-based models.
  - **Agent-Based Models (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)** - IegAYAAAAJ&hl=ca&oi=ao) - This book reviews a range of examples of agent-based modeling, describes how to design and build your own models, and considers practical issues such as verification, validation, planning a modeling project, and how to structure a scholarly article reporting the results of agent-based modeling.
  - **An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling: Modeling Natural, Social, and Engineered Complex Systems with NetLogo** - A comprehensive description of the core concepts, methods, and applications of ABM.
  - **Agent-Based Models in Economics: A Toolkit** - The book discuss the methodological bases of agent-based approaches and demonstrate step-by-step how to build, simulate and analyse ABMs and how to validate their outputs empirically using the data.
  - **The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration** - Introductory text on complexity theory and computer modeling in the social sciences.
  - **Introduction to Artificial Life** - Theoretical groundwork for understanding the dynamics of systems of self-replicating information, as well as the results of initial experiments carried out with artificial living systems based on this paradigm.
  - **Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction** - This book gives the skills to design, implement, and analyze agent-based models.
  - **Agent-Based Models (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)** - IegAYAAAAJ&hl=ca&oi=ao) - This book reviews a range of examples of agent-based modeling, describes how to design and build your own models, and considers practical issues such as verification, validation, planning a modeling project, and how to structure a scholarly article reporting the results of agent-based modeling.
  - **An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling: Modeling Natural, Social, and Engineered Complex Systems with NetLogo** - A comprehensive description of the core concepts, methods, and applications of ABM.
  - **Agent-Based Models in Economics: A Toolkit** - The book discuss the methodological bases of agent-based approaches and demonstrate step-by-step how to build, simulate and analyse ABMs and how to validate their outputs empirically using the data.
  - **The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration** - Introductory text on complexity theory and computer modeling in the social sciences.
  - **Introduction to Artificial Life** - Theoretical groundwork for understanding the dynamics of systems of self-replicating information, as well as the results of initial experiments carried out with artificial living systems based on this paradigm.
  - **The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration** - Introductory text on complexity theory and computer modeling in the social sciences.
  - **Agent-Based Models (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)** - IegAYAAAAJ&hl=ca&oi=ao) - This book reviews a range of examples of agent-based modeling, describes how to design and build your own models, and considers practical issues such as verification, validation, planning a modeling project, and how to structure a scholarly article reporting the results of agent-based modeling.
  - **Agent-Based Models in Economics: A Toolkit** - The book discuss the methodological bases of agent-based approaches and demonstrate step-by-step how to build, simulate and analyse ABMs and how to validate their outputs empirically using the data.
  - **Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction** - This book gives the skills to design, implement, and analyze agent-based models.
  - **An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling: Modeling Natural, Social, and Engineered Complex Systems with NetLogo** - A comprehensive description of the core concepts, methods, and applications of ABM.
  - **Introduction to Artificial Life** - Theoretical groundwork for understanding the dynamics of systems of self-replicating information, as well as the results of initial experiments carried out with artificial living systems based on this paradigm.
- Applied Complexity
  - **Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy (Economics, Cognition, And Society)** - Pioneering work on an important new approach to economics.
  - **Cybernetic Laws of Social Progress: Toward a Critical Social Philosophy of Marxism (Systems science and world order library)**
  - **Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge** - Fundamental ideas of evolutionary epistemology.
  - **An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences** - Multidisciplinary introduction to model building in the social sciences.
  - **Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World**
  - **Complex Human Dynamics: From Mind to Societies** - Nowak and David Brée - Research topics in these fields into the language of nonlinear, dynamic and complex systems.
  - **From Matter to Life: Information and Causality** - This book addresses the role of information in life, and how it can make a difference to what we know about the world.
  - **Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up**
  - **Introduction to Econophysics: Correlations and Complexity in Finance** - Statistical physics concepts such as stochastic dynamics, short- and long-range correlations, self-similarity and scaling, permit an understanding of the global behavior of economic systems.
  - **Modeling Complex Systems for Public Policies** - This book describes the theory and practice of modeling the spatial dynamics of urban growth and transformation.
  - **Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology** - This book is an entirely new approach to understanding living systems and will help set the agenda for biology in the coming century.
  - **The Theory of Evolution and Dynamical Systems: Mathematical Aspects of Selection** - Introduction to dynamical systems and its applications to evolutionary game theory, mathematical ecology, and population genetics.
  - **Complex Human Dynamics: From Mind to Societies** - Nowak and David Brée - Research topics in these fields into the language of nonlinear, dynamic and complex systems.
  - **Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy (Economics, Cognition, And Society)** - Pioneering work on an important new approach to economics.
  - **Cybernetic Laws of Social Progress: Toward a Critical Social Philosophy of Marxism (Systems science and world order library)**
  - **Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge** - Fundamental ideas of evolutionary epistemology.
  - **An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences** - Multidisciplinary introduction to model building in the social sciences.
  - **Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World**
  - **From Matter to Life: Information and Causality** - This book addresses the role of information in life, and how it can make a difference to what we know about the world.
  - **Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up**
  - **Introduction to Econophysics: Correlations and Complexity in Finance** - Statistical physics concepts such as stochastic dynamics, short- and long-range correlations, self-similarity and scaling, permit an understanding of the global behavior of economic systems.
  - **Modeling Complex Systems for Public Policies** - This book describes the theory and practice of modeling the spatial dynamics of urban growth and transformation.
  - **Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology** - This book is an entirely new approach to understanding living systems and will help set the agenda for biology in the coming century.
  - **The Theory of Evolution and Dynamical Systems: Mathematical Aspects of Selection** - Introduction to dynamical systems and its applications to evolutionary game theory, mathematical ecology, and population genetics.
  - **Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World**
  - **Complex Human Dynamics: From Mind to Societies** - Nowak and David Brée - Research topics in these fields into the language of nonlinear, dynamic and complex systems.
  - **Introduction to Econophysics: Correlations and Complexity in Finance** - Statistical physics concepts such as stochastic dynamics, short- and long-range correlations, self-similarity and scaling, permit an understanding of the global behavior of economic systems.
  - **Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology** - This book is an entirely new approach to understanding living systems and will help set the agenda for biology in the coming century.
  - **The Theory of Evolution and Dynamical Systems: Mathematical Aspects of Selection** - Introduction to dynamical systems and its applications to evolutionary game theory, mathematical ecology, and population genetics.
  - **Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy (Economics, Cognition, And Society)** - Pioneering work on an important new approach to economics.
  - **Cybernetic Laws of Social Progress: Toward a Critical Social Philosophy of Marxism (Systems science and world order library)**
  - **From Matter to Life: Information and Causality** - This book addresses the role of information in life, and how it can make a difference to what we know about the world.
  - **Modeling Complex Systems for Public Policies** - This book describes the theory and practice of modeling the spatial dynamics of urban growth and transformation.
  - **Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up**
  - **Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge** - Fundamental ideas of evolutionary epistemology.
  - **An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences** - Multidisciplinary introduction to model building in the social sciences.
- Chaos and Fractals
  - **Chaos: Making a New Science** - Describes the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and Lorenz attractors without using complicated mathematics. It portrays the efforts of dozens of scientists whose separate work contributed to the developing field. The text remains in print and is widely used as an introduction to the topic for the mathematical layperson.
  - **The Fractal Geometry of Nature** - Definitive overview of the origins of fractal ideas and their new applications.
  - **Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science** - This book covers the central ideas and concepts of chaos and fractals as well as many related topics.
  - **Chaos and Fractals: An Elementary Introduction** - Elementary introduction to chaos and fractals.
  - **Chaos and Time-series Analysis** - An introduction to developments in chaos and related topics in nonlinear dynamics.
  - **Critical phenomena in natural sciences: Chaos, fractals, self-organization, and disorder**
  - **Fractals and Chaos Simplified for the Life Sciences** - Explains the concepts of fractals and chaos and illustrates their uses with examples from biomedical research.
  - **Visual Group Theory** - This text approaches the learning of group theory visually.
  - **Visual Group Theory** - This text approaches the learning of group theory visually.
  - **Chaos: Making a New Science** - Describes the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and Lorenz attractors without using complicated mathematics. It portrays the efforts of dozens of scientists whose separate work contributed to the developing field. The text remains in print and is widely used as an introduction to the topic for the mathematical layperson.
  - **The Fractal Geometry of Nature** - Definitive overview of the origins of fractal ideas and their new applications.
  - **Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science** - This book covers the central ideas and concepts of chaos and fractals as well as many related topics.
  - **Chaos and Fractals: An Elementary Introduction** - Elementary introduction to chaos and fractals.
  - **Chaos and Time-series Analysis** - An introduction to developments in chaos and related topics in nonlinear dynamics.
  - **Critical phenomena in natural sciences: Chaos, fractals, self-organization, and disorder**
  - **Fractals and Chaos Simplified for the Life Sciences** - Explains the concepts of fractals and chaos and illustrates their uses with examples from biomedical research.
  - **Chaos: Making a New Science** - Describes the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and Lorenz attractors without using complicated mathematics. It portrays the efforts of dozens of scientists whose separate work contributed to the developing field. The text remains in print and is widely used as an introduction to the topic for the mathematical layperson.
  - **Chaos and Time-series Analysis** - An introduction to developments in chaos and related topics in nonlinear dynamics.
  - **Critical phenomena in natural sciences: Chaos, fractals, self-organization, and disorder**
  - **Fractals and Chaos Simplified for the Life Sciences** - Explains the concepts of fractals and chaos and illustrates their uses with examples from biomedical research.
  - **Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science** - This book covers the central ideas and concepts of chaos and fractals as well as many related topics.
  - **Chaos and Fractals: An Elementary Introduction** - Elementary introduction to chaos and fractals.
  - **The Fractal Geometry of Nature** - Definitive overview of the origins of fractal ideas and their new applications.
  - **Visual Group Theory** - This text approaches the learning of group theory visually.
- Cybernetics and Computing
  - **Cybernetics: Second Edition: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine** - This book contains the first public usage of the term "cybernetics" to refer to self-regulating mechanisms.
  - **An Introduction to Cybernetics** - Another introduction to Cybernetics from 1956.
  - **An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms** - Introduction that describes some of the most interesting research in the field and also enables readers to implement and experiment with genetic algorithms on their own.

Categories

Books 221 Articles and Papers 119 Concepts 28 Courses and tutorials 18 Other 10

Sub Categories

Self organization and emergence 169 Introduction 37 Applied Complexity 36 Dynamical Systems and Math 27 Cybernetics and Computing 27 Chaos and Fractals 24 Simple Glossary 23 Agent modeling and Artificial Life 18 Networks 18 Information Theory 12 Definitions 5