"Complex Systems" being a somewhat fuzzy concept, this is hard/easy to answer.
Any physical system comprised of large numbers of similar or identical elements which interact and yield non-linear collective behaviour seems like a good enough definition for your purposes. Sand dune formation and (breaking) waves and cloud formation/dissipation all seem like pretty good candidates, not to mention the aforementioned weather in general. Earthquake/Rift/Mountain formain seems like a good fit as well as wind/rain erosion of soil in general.
On 5/24/17 8:56 PM, cody dooderson wrote:
Is a vortex like a funnel cloud or the Saturn's hexagon considered a complex system?
Cody Smith
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Marcus Daniels <[hidden email]> wrote:
High speed trading comes close to not involving people. Other examples that come to mind involve some autonomous (biological) agent creating demand. For example, energy or data or transportation networks are responding to a logistical demand created by people. Netflix (vs. adaptive routing) is a demand created by people.
As companies like Google begin to build agents that build models and satisfy constraints the requests they initiate will become more adaptive.
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Subject: [FRIAM] Any non-biological complex systems?
Are there any good examples of a complex system that doesn't involve biological organisms (including human beings)?
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