Re: Good Books on Complexity Theory??

[Theodore C. Belding]

Over the past year at Michigan we've been discussing what the current
"canonical readings" in complex systems are; I compiled an (incomplete)
list of my own candidates, which you can find at:

HTML:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~streak/papers/complexity-syllabus-19990505/
BibTeX:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~streak/papers/complexity-syllabus-19990505.bib

Waldrop's "Complexity" is probably still the best general introduction,
though it's a bit dated and has its biases. I haven't seen any good
general technical textbooks yet. What we need even more, though, are some
good critiques of the complexity movement.
-Ted

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Ted Belding                              address@hidden 
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Darren Schreiber wrote:

> 
> I ran across Foundations of Complex-System Theories : In Economics,
> Evolutionary
> Biology, and Statistical Physics by Sunny A. Auyang in a bookstore
> recently.  I'm tempted to get it, since on first perusal it looked pretty
> interesting.  However, I thought it would be more prudent to find out what
> my fellow modelers have read and thought was worthwhile.  In particular, I
> am doing some work on applying evolutionary models/theory to social science
> and mulit-agent models.  But, I am also looking for some general must reads
> in complexity and agent-based modeling.
> 
> In the interest of bandwidth, feel free to email me directly.  I will
> compile the results.
> 
>       Darren
> 
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