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Dynamics Of Complex Systems (Studies in Nonlinearity) (Hardcover)

by Yaneer Bar-yam (Author) "The study of complex systems in a unified framework has become recognized in recent years as a new scientific discipline, the ultimate of interdisciplinary fields..." (more)
Key Phrases: bonding neighborhood, subdivided network, subdivided architecture, Monte Carlo, Conway's Game of Life, Library of Congress (more...)

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Describes the modern unified study of complex systems. Develops models and modeling techniques that are useful when applied to all complex systems. Discusses complex systems in the context of neural networks, protein folding, living organisms. DLC: Biomathematics.

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Yaneer Bar-Yam is President and founder of the New England Complex Systems Institute and Associate in the department of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University. He is the author of the textbook, Dynamics n Complex Systems.

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Hardcover: 864 pages
Publisher: Westview Press; First Edition edition (September 10, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201557487
ISBN-13: 978-0201557480
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.7 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds

Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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bonding neighborhood, subdivided network, subdivided architecture, human superorganism, imprinted states, unstable neurons, substring model, subnetwork states, trait divergence, heteropolymer collapse, subconscious network, macroscopic complexity, imprinted pattern, decoupled model, genomic space, pairwise bonding, iterative map, frozen information, root mean square estimate, fitness bias, complexity profile, microscopic complexity, polymer contour, frozen variables, attractor network

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Monte Carlo, Conway's Game of Life, Library of Congress, Soviet Union, Big Bob, Kind John, Tall Susan, Big John, Big Susan, Credit Question, Inserting the Hebbian, Kind Bob, Kind Susan, Star Trek, Tall Bob, Tall John

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Dynamics Of Complex Systems (Studies in Nonlinearity) by Yaneer Bar-yam in Front Matter, and page 1
An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical Systems, 2nd Edition by Robert Devaney in Front Matter, and Back Matter
A First Course In Chaotic Dynamical Systems: Theory And Experiment (Studies in Nonlinearity) by Robert L. Devaney in Front Matter, and Back Matter
On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin in Back Matter
Classics On Fractals (Studies in Nonlinearity) by Gerald A. Edgar in Front Matter

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2.0 out of 5 stars What happened with recent complexity?, June 26, 1999

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This book is a big disappointment. In a 800- hundred pages volume one would expect to find the main ideas of the hot area of complexity. Most of the recent results obtained over the last 10 years are not there. Not a single word on criticality and scaling, modelling of random networks, the implications of critical phenomena to complexity, or the recent approaches to evolutionary dynamics. Even those problems already presented in other monographs (as pattern formation in biology) do not receive an adequate attention to those interested in complexity issues. Save your money.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent overview of the study of complex systems, July 22, 1999

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This text provides an excellent introduction to the numerous and diverse techniques used in the study of complex systems. The field of complex systems emerged from a union of ideas from many seemingly disparate areas of research. Where many texts on complex systems speak to this union of ideas, Bar-Yam's text focuses on both the ideas and their implementation in the form of techniques and methods used in the study of these systems. These methodologies originate from many fields of research and several texts could be written about any single one; however I feel that the author has done an excellent job in choosing an important set of problems to present and the detail in which they are presented. This book is appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. I highly recommended it to my students in my course on complex systems, and if your interests coincide with the topics covered in this book, I highly recommend it to you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How complicated are we?, April 3, 2005

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This book is designed as a text to introduce graduate students in science to the concepts and methods in the ``science of complexity'' which comprises studies in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, sociology, psychology, economics, anthropology, and philosophy. Written from the perspectives of a physicist, definitions are informal; thus a concise definition of a complex system is not given. The concept of a complex system is introduced through examples, and informally described as having ``a large number of interacting parts'' although ``even a few interacting objects can behave in complex ways.'' More precisely, complexity is defined as ``the amount of information necessary to describe a system.'' Another key concept is the phenomenon of emergence which arises when ``the collective behavior [of a complex system] is not readily understood from the behavior of its parts.''

Dynamics of Complex Systems opens with a long chapter (278 pages) of ``introduction and preliminaries'' which surveys iterative maps; thermodynamics and statistical mechanics; activated processes (glasses); cellular automata; statistical fields; computer simulations; information theory; computation; and fractals, scaling and renormalization. It is suggested that this chapter can serve as the basis for a one-semester course. This introductory chapter is followed by eight chapters devoted two each to four different subjects: neural networks, protein folding, biological evolution, and human civilization. In each of these pairs of chapters, the first is more detailed and the second more general. Thus the first of the two chapters on neural networks describes neural network models (Hopfield's attactor models) whereas the second discusses the phenomenon of sleep and models of mind, with similar divisions of labor in the pairs of chapters on protein folding and on biological evolution. In the final chapter, it is noted that ``human civilization is more complex than we are as individuals.''

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