RE: Books on Complexity

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2005 Santa Fe Institute Summer Internship/Mentorship Program: Proposed
Reading List

Topics    

1.  Introduction to Complex Systems  

2.  Cognitive Neuroscience  

3.  Physical and Biological Systems  

4.  Economic and Social Interactions  

5.  Evolutionary Dynamics  

6.  Network Dynamics  

7.  Robustness  

References  

(4) Robert Axelrod, The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models
of Competition and Cooperation, Princeton University Press, 1997,

(1,6). Alberto-Lazlo Barabasi, Linked: The New Science of Networks,
Perseus, 2002.

(1,3) Per Bak, How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized
Criticality, Springer-Verlag, 1996.

(1,3) Philip Ball, Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another,
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2004.

(1, 3, 5) Philip Ball, The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in
Nature, Oxford University Press, 1998.

(1) Yaneer Bar-Yam, Dynamics of Complex Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1997.  

(3, 5) Scott Camazine, et al. (eds.) Self Organization in Biological
Systems, Princeton University Press, 2001.

(3, 4, 6) Joshua Epstein and Robert Axtell, Growing Artificial
Societies, MIT Press, 1996.

(4) Joshua Epstein, et al., Modeling Civil Violence: An Agent Based
Computation Approach, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics, Working
Paper No. 20, January 2001

(3, 5, 6) Gary Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer
Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation, The
MIT Press, July 1998.

(3, 5) John Holland, Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity,
Perseus, 1995.

(1) Steven Johnson, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains,
Cities and Software, Scribner, 2001.

(3, 5) Stuart Kaufman, Investigations, Oxford University Press, 2000.  

(3, 5) Christopher Langton, ed., Artificial Life, Volume 6, SFI
Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Addison-Wesley, 1989.

(3, 7) Simon Levin, Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons,
Perseus, 1999.

(4) Jonathan Rauch, Seeing Around Corners, The Atlantic Monthly, April 2002.  

(1) Mitchell Resnick, Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams, The MIT
Press, 1997.

(4) John Scott, Social Network Analysis: A Handbook, SAGE, 2000.  

(4) Thomas Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior (Fels Lectures on
Public Policy Analysis), W. W. Norton, 1978.

(1) Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity, Touchstone, 1992.  

(4, 6) Duncan J. Watts, Six Degrees: The Science of the Connected Age,
W.W. Norton, 2003.

(3) Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media. 2002.