Complexity Primer

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• Our Course of Study (2003) reviewing the scientific literature in Complexity Science. Readings are listed by session and topic.

• Foundational Books:

Complexity
Exploring Complexity: An Introduction by Gregoire Nicolis and Ilya Prigogine (1989)	Self-Organized Criticality: Emergent Complex Behavior in Physical and Biological Systems by Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen (1998)
Modeling Complex Systems
Modeling Complex Systems by Nino Boccara (2010)	Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering by Steven H. Strogatz (2001)	Dynamics of Complex Systems, Yaneer Bar-yam (1997)
Complex Adaptive Systems
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life by John H. Miller and Scott E. Page (2007)	Understanding Complexity by Scott E. Page, DVD ROM from Great Courses
Systems of Systems
System of Systems Engineering (Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management) by Mohammad Jamshidi (2008)
Applications
Managing Business Complexity: Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation by Michael J. North and Charles M. Macal (2007)	Making Things Work: Solving Complex Problems in a Complex World by Yaneer Bar-yam (2004)

• Wikipedia: Complex Adaptive Systems

• Visual, organizational map of complex systems broken into seven sub-groups,
  created by Hiroki Sayama, D.Sc., Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems (CoCo) Research Group

• Map: A History of Complexity Science, created by Brian Castellani, Kent State University