Complex systems
The importance of studies into complex systems cannot be underestimated. The following book on this topic comes highly regarded by a number of reviewers.
Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems
Kagan Tumer and David WolpertSpringer (visit springeronline.com)2004ISBN 0-387-40165-2 (hardcover)321 pp.US$69.95
From the cybernetics point of view complex systems embrace a great number of disciplines. They include physics, economics biology, computer science. Many other disciplines are needed to explain the phenomena and also to use the dynamics of observed phenomena to solve problems within their own domains. We are told by one reviewer that “one of the aspects of studying complex systems is understanding the behaviour and activities of multiple, distributed,adaptive, self-motivated computational entities, acting together or individually to accomplish certain objectives”. It has to be understood that this text is concerned with a computer-science viewpoint and addresses issues in the design of complex systems. It is presented as a collection of chapters which although independent make up a readable whole. The book is highly recommended by several writers and reviewers.
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C.J.H. MannBook reviews and reports editor
