Complexity: Metaphors, Models & Reality

by George A. Cowan, David Pines, David Meltzer, et al.

The terms complexity, complex adaptive systems, and sciences of complexity are found often in recent scientific literature, reflecting the remarkable growth in collaborative academic research focused on complexity from the origin and dynamics of organisms to the largest social and political organizations. One of the great challenges in this field of research is to discover which features are essential and shared by all of the seemingly disparate systems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738202320
• ISBN13: 9780738202327
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Westview Press
• Length: 750 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"