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020			_a9780199724574 (electronic bk.)
020			_a0199724571 (electronic bk.)
020			_z9780195124415 (cloth)
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050		4	_aQ175.32.C65 _bM58 2009eb
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100	1		_aMitchell, Melanie _c(Computer scientist)
245	1	0	_aComplexity _h[recurso electrónico] : _ba guided tour / _cMelanie Mitchell.
260			_aOxford [England] ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2009.
300			_a1 online resource (xvi, 349 p.) : _bill., map.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [326]-336) and index.
505	0		_aBackground 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.
520			_a"What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures like the immune system, the World Wide Web, the global economy, and the human genome? These are just a few of the fascinating and elusive questions that the science of complexity seeks to answer. In this remarkably accessible and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate, detailed tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. Comprehending such systems requires a wholly new approach, one that goes beyond traditional scientific reductionism and that re-maps long-standing disciplinary boundaries. Based on her work at the Santa Fe Institute and drawing on its interdisciplinary strategies, Mitchell brings clarity to the workings of complexity across a broad range of biological, technological, and social phenomena, seeking out the general principles or laws that apply to all of them. She explores as well the relationship between complexity and evolution, artificial intelligence, computation, genetics, information processing, and many other fields"--Provided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aComplexity (Philosophy)
650		7	_aSCIENCE _xPhilosophy & Social Aspects. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aComplexity (Philosophy) _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00871602
655		4	_aElectronic books.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aMitchell, Melanie. _tComplexity. _dOxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 _z9780195124415 _z0195124413 _w(DLC) 2008023794 _w(OCoLC)216938473
856	4	0	_zLibro electrónico _uhttp://148.231.10.114:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&an=288569
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