Subject: Complexity

Q28: What is complexity?

A28: Emerging paradigms of thought encompassing fractals, chaos, nonlinear science, dynamic systems, self-organization, artificial life, neural networks, and similar systems comprise the science of complexity. Several helpful online resources on complexity are:

Institute for Research on Complexity
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~stepp/vri/irc/irc.html

The site life.csu.edu.au has a collection of fractal programs, papers, information related to complex systems, and gopher and World Wide Web connections.

LIFE via WWW
http://life.csu.edu.au/complex/
Center for Complex Systems Research (UIUC)
http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu/
Complexity International Journal
http://www.csu.edu.au/ci/ci.html
Nonlinear Science Preprints
http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/nlin-sys
Nonlinear Science Preprints via email:

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