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> One problem with the seminal papers on complexity is that they don't
> connect. Take the foundational works of H.T. Odum, the systems
> ecologist(1) or the cybernetic systems thinkers Ross Ashby (2) or
> Norbert Wiener(3). It's hard to link them to other branches of complex
> systems study like Prigigene's 'Exploring Complexity' or Wolfram's 'New
> kind of Science' or Barabasi's 'Linked' (leaving out numerous important
> others). As a consequence few people are aware of the general timeline
> of complexity as a subject(4), and any timeline of the field is bound to
> be missing major contributions.
>
> The problem seems is partly that the study of complex systems is
> interdisciplinary, because systems are, and what happens is each
> discipline goes off on its own tangent and acts like it is trying to
> take over the subject as a whole, each vying to erase each other rather
> than connect with each other. My work seems to be an example of an
> attempt to link approaches, a new form of physics intended expressly for
> use by any discipline, and incorporating unique useful pieces of what's
> been developed from all the disciplines I've been exposed to. My work
> may be 'odd' in more ways than that, but it's partly because I'm trying
> to write in a common language that makes it look 'foreign' to every
> discipline, so no one'll publish it... Catch 22! :-)
>
> (1) Odum: 1994 'Ecological and General Systems' (see
>
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Odum,_Howard_T.)
> (2) Ross Ashby's 1947 'Ecological and General Systems' or his 1956
> "Introduction to Cybernetics" (& see
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Ross_Ashby)
> (3) Weiner 1948 'Control and Communication in the Animal and the
> Machine'
> (3) complex systems thinking timeline from the cybernetics soc.
> (
http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/foundations/timeline.htm),
>
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com
>> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
>> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 7:38 PM
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>> Subject: [FRIAM] Seminal Papers in Complexity
>>
>>
>> Several of us have been attending the SFI Summer School this year.
>> One thing that has stood out for me is that there are very few
>> appropriate texts on the detailed, seminal ideas within complexity.
>> Either the books are "popular" or they are technical/formal enough,
>> but without broad view of complexity itself. Indeed, they may be
>> *too* advanced in their speciality for the broad use complexity
>> wishes to make.
>>
>> One example today was the intersection of computational theory and
>> statistical mechanics given by Cris Moore:
>> A Tale of Two Cultures: Phase Transitions in
>> Physics and Computer Science
>> Here are the slides:
http://www.santafe.edu/~moore/Oxford.pdf>> You'd be unlikely to find a book bridging algorithms, computational
>> complexity, and statistical mechanics.
>>
>> This leads me to believe that seminal papers are likely to be a good
>> solution for bridging the various cultures, hopefully with some that
>> *do* bridge gaps between specialties.
>>
>> Sooo -- gentle reader -- this brings me to a request: I'd like to
>> start a collection of seminal papers who's goal is to bridge the gap
>> between popular books and over-specialized texts, which are formal
>> enough to be useful for multi-discipline complexity work. This may
>> be daft, but I think not.
>>
>> As an example, I'd say Shannon's 1948 paper A Mathematical Theory of
>> Communication would be good.
>>
>> -- Owen
>>
>>
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