The Internet as a Large-Scale Complex System

Book Overview

The Internet may be viewed as a "complex system" with diverse features and many components that can give rise to unexpected emergent phenomena, revealing much about its own engineering. This book brings together chapter contributions from a workshop held at the Santa Fe Institute in March 2001. This volume captures a snapshot of some features of the Internet that may be fruitfully approached using a complex systems perspective, meaning using interdisciplinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195157214
• ISBN13: 9780195157215
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"