Exploring Complexity in Science and Technology from a Santa Fe Institute Perspective - Readings 2012

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Background Readings (optional)

General Complex Systems: Mitchell, M. Complexity: A Guided Tour (this book will be provided to all participants).

Melanie Mitchell's lectures:

Chapter 2 of Complexity: A Guided Tour

Steve Frank, The common patterns of nature

Duncan Watts, Too complex to exit

Stephanie Forrest's lectures:

Deborah Gordon's lecture:

Prabhakar, B., Dektar, K.N., and D.M. Gordon. The Regulation of Ant Colony Foraging Activity without Spatial Information. PLoS Computational Biology 8(8):e1002670.,

D. M. Gordon, Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior

Aaron Clauset's lectures:

Duncan Watts, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

A. L. Barabasi, Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means

Mark Newman, Networks: An Introduction

Mark Newman, Structure and function of complex networks

Ken Arrow's lectures:

Luis Bettencourt's lectures:

Other Reading: TBA

Classic readings on Complex Systems Science can be found on the Complex Systems Summer School Background Readings page.