Dynamics of Complex Systems by Yaneer Bar-Yam

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Complexity is a dead concept.

Marko A. Rodriguez
T-13: Complex Systems Group
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Phone [phone]
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~okram


On Jul 21, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

> Frankly, I'm disappointed.
>
> The FRIAM list has been through several very philosophical
> conversations over 3-4 weeks, all purporting to be "complex".  Yet
> when I ask for a formal treatment, I get no answer.
>
> Does this mean, for complexity, there's no There There?
>
> Surely there is some interesting formalism we can use for
> complexity.  Robert Holmes suggested a great book to us a while back
> which I had forgotten in my initial email:
>    David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning  
> Algorithms
>    http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/
>
> Do we all talk about complexity yet have no basis for it?
>
>      -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore
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>
> On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>
>> I've been looking at/for complexity books that are textbooks or
>> similarly technical/mathematical.  The recent Newman, Barabasi &
>> Watts collection The Structure and Dynamics of Networks is pretty
>> good but I would like something broader, covering the "Complex
>> Systems" world.
>>
>> Bar Yam's original book:
>> http://tinyurl.com/mmxwp
>>    or
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813341213/sr=1-1/qid=1153334623/
>> ref=sr_1_1/104-7070581-5619133?ie=UTF8
>> is the best I know of.  Anyone know of another?
>>
>>      -- Owen
>>
>> Owen Densmore
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