Product Description: The systems movement is made up of many systems societies as well as of disciplinary researchers and researches, explicitly or implicitly focusing on the subject of systemics, officially introduced in the scientific community fifty years ago...read more

Product Description: This book is based on the outcome of the “2012 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems” held at the island of Kos.  The book consists of 12 selected papers of the symposium starting with a comprehensive overview and classification of complexity problems, continuing by chapters about complexity, its observation, modeling and its applications to solving various problems including real-life applications...read more

Product Description: This volume features the proceedings of the 14th ISPE Conference on Concurrent Engineering, held in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, on the 16th – 20th of July 2007. It highlights the application of concurrent engineering to the development of complex systems.

Product Description: This pre-proceedings contains the all the papers submitted for the two-day Complexity and Philosophy workshop held 22nd-23rd February 2007, in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The event was co-hosted by Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), ISCE Events, and the Cathedra for the Study of Complexity (Instituto de Filosofia de La Habana)...read more

Product Description: Brings together a range of perspectives from internationally-renowned scholars. This book surveys conceptual approaches to understanding complexity as a key subject in evolutionary and political economy.

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SETTING THE SCENE The Simple and the Complex (Murray Gell-Mann) America in the World Today (Zbigniew Brzezinski) COMPLEXITY THEORY and NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY Complex Systems: The Role of Interactions (Robert Jervis) Many Damn Things Simultaneously: Complexity Theory and World Affairs (James N. Rosenau) Complexity, Chaos, and National Security Policy: Metaphors or Tools? (Alvin M. Saperstein) The Reaction to Chaos (Steven R. Mann) COMPLEXITY THEORY, STRATEGY, and OPERATIONS Clausewitz, Nonlinearity, and the Importance of Imagery (Alan D. Beyerchen) Complexity and Organization Management. (Robert R. Maxfield) Command and (Out of) Control: The Military Implications of Complexity Theory (John F. Schmitt) Complexity Theory and Air Power (Steven M. Rinaldi) Chaos Theory and U. S. Military Strategy: A "Leapfrog" Strategy for U.S. Defense Policy (Michael J. Mazarr)

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Product Description: Many mesoscopic systems display `adaptive' behaviour - changes in some physical property that results from a small change in an internal or external driving force. There is a kind of progression in adaptive phenomena, from quantum mesoscopics to complex, evolved cooperative systems and large scale events like turbulence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A new approach to science has recently developed. It is called the complexity approach. A number of researchers, such as Brian Arthur and Buz Brock, have used this approach to consider issues in economics. This volume considers the complexity approach to economics from a history of thought and methodological perspectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Evolution of Complexity is addressed to a broad audience of academics and researchers from different disciplines, who are interested in the picture of our world emerging from the new sciences of complexity. This book reviews the new concepts proposed by the diverse theories of evolution, self-organisation, general systems, cybernetics, and the `complex adaptive systems' approach pioneered by the Santa Fe institute...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)