TY - BOOK AU - Mitchell,Melanie ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Complexity: a guided tour AV - Q175.32.C65 M58 2009 U1 - 501 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford [England], New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Complexity (Philosophy) KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=472328 ER -