Complexity : a guided tour
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, ©2009.Description: xvi, 349 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780199472130
- 501 MIT-C
- Q175.32.C65 M58 2009
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | IIITD Reference | Science | CB 501 MIT-C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | DBT Project Grant | 007374 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-336) and index.
Background and history. What is complexity? ; dynamics, chaos, and prediction ; Information ; Computation ; Evolution ; Genetics, simplified ; Defining and measuring complexity -- Life and evolution in computers. Self-reproducing computer programs ; Genetic algorithms -- Computation writ large. Cellular automata, life, and the universe ; Computing with particles ; Information processing in living systems ; How to make analogies (if you are a computer) ; Prospects of computer modeling -- Network thinking. The science of networks ; Applying network science to real-world networks ; The mystery of scaling ; Evolution, complexified -- Conclusion. The past and future of the sciences of complexity.
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