TY - BOOK AU - Mitchell,Melanie TI - Complexity: a guided tour SN - 9780195124415 AV - Q 175.32.C65 M58.2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford [England], New York PB - Oxford University KW - Complexity (Philosophy) KW - Complejidad (FilosofĂ­a) N1 - Background 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 ER -