

Melanie Mitchell is a professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
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A Guided Tour
Samenvatting
Wat stelt eenvoudige insecten zoals mieren in staat om met zo'n precisie op te treden als groep? Hoe produceren biljoenen neuronen iets dat zo buitengewoon complex is als het bewustzijn? In dit opmerkelijk heldere boek biedt wetenschapper Melanie Mitchell een intieme tournee rond de complexiteit van de wetenschap. Met 'Complexity' won zij Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science van 2010.
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Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgments
Part I Background and History
1 What is Complexity?
2 Dynamics, Chaos, and Prediction
3 Information
4 Computation
5 Evolution
6 Genetics, Simplified
7 Defining and Measuring Complexity
Part II Life and Evolution in Computers
8 Self-Reproducing Programs
9 Genetic Algorithms
Part III Computation Writ Large
10 Cellular Automata, Life, and the Universe
11 Computing with Particles
12 Information Processing in Living Systems
13 How to Make Analogies (If You Are A Computer)
14 Prospects of Computer Modeling
Part IV Network Thinking
15 The Science of Networks
16 Applying Network Science to Real-World Networks
17 The Mystery of Scaling
18 Evolution, Complexified
Part V Conclusion
19 The Past and Future of the Sciences of Complexity
Notes
Bibliography
Index