Melanie Mitchell (Professor of Compu Professor of Computer Science

Complexity

A Guided Tour

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating look at the exciting new sciences of complexity and what they reveal about everything from ant colonies to the World Wide Web, now available in paperback

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780199798100
• ISBN-10: 0199798109
• Artikelnr.: 33372498

Autorenporträt

Melanie Mitchell is Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Background and History
Chapter 1: What is Complexity?
Chapter 2: Dynamics, Chaos, and Prediction
Chapter 3: Information
Chapter 4: Computation
Chapter 5: Evolution
Chapter 6: Genetics, Simplified
Chapter 7: Defining and Measuring Complexity
Part II: Life and Evolution in Computers
Chapter 8: Self-Reproducing Programs
Chapter 9: Genetic Algorithms
Part III: Computation Writ Large
Chapter 10: Cellular Automata, Life, and the Universe
Chapter 11: Computing with Particles
Chapter 12: Information Processing in Living Systems
Chapter 13: How to Make Analogies (If You Are A Computer)
Chapter 14: Prospects of Computer Modeling
Part IV: Network Thinking
Chapter 15: The Science of Networks
Chapter 16: Applying Network Science to Real-World Networks
Chapter 17: The Mystery of Scaling
Chapter 18: Evolution, Complexified
Part V: Conclusion
Chapter 19: The Past and Future of the Sciences of Complexity
Notes
Bibliography
Index