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TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems
AU - McClintock, Peter V. E.
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Contemporary Physics on 26/09/2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00107514.2019.1663936
PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - Complex systems are all around us including, for example, biological cells, bee colonies, the brain, climate, telecommunication infrastructures, the stock market, and the economy. Typically, they consist of many distinct but interacting elements, and they may be characterised by states of the elements. But the states change as a result of the interactions, and the interactions themselves change corresponding to the states of the system. It is this chicken-and-egg situation that gives rise to the complex behaviour and the well-known difficulties in understanding it, let alone predicting it. In particular, it gives rise to features such as emergent behaviour that could not have been anticipated from a knowledge of the elements, however detailed.
AB - Complex systems are all around us including, for example, biological cells, bee colonies, the brain, climate, telecommunication infrastructures, the stock market, and the economy. Typically, they consist of many distinct but interacting elements, and they may be characterised by states of the elements. But the states change as a result of the interactions, and the interactions themselves change corresponding to the states of the system. It is this chicken-and-egg situation that gives rise to the complex behaviour and the well-known difficulties in understanding it, let alone predicting it. In particular, it gives rise to features such as emergent behaviour that could not have been anticipated from a knowledge of the elements, however detailed.
U2 - 10.1080/00107514.2019.1663936
DO - 10.1080/00107514.2019.1663936
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
VL - 60
SP - 318
EP - 319
JO - Contemporary Physics
JF - Contemporary Physics
SN - 0010-7514
IS - 4
ER -