Complexity : a guided tour / Melanie Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Melanie (Computer scientist), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Complexity (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xvi, 349 p. : ill., map.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This text provides an intimate, highly readable tour of the sciences of complexity, which seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behaviour can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-770060-8

0-19-972457-1

1-282-32823-9

9786612328237

OCLC:

459793917