Complexity [[electronic resource] ] : a guided tour / / Melanie Mitchell
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| Autore: |
Mitchell Melanie
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| Titolo: |
Complexity [[electronic resource] ] : a guided tour / / Melanie Mitchell
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | xvi, 349 p. : ill., map |
| Disciplina: | 501 |
| Soggetto topico: | Complexity (Philosophy) |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-336) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Background and history. What is complexity? ; dynamics, chaos, and prediction ; Information ; Computation ; Evolution ; Genetics, simplified ; Defining and measuring complexity -- Life and evolution in computers. Self-reproducing computer programs ; Genetic algorithms -- Computation writ large. Cellular automata, life, and the universe ; Computing with particles ; Information processing in living systems ; How to make analogies (if you are a computer) ; Prospects of computer modeling -- Network thinking. The science of networks ; Applying network science to real-world networks ; The mystery of scaling ; Evolution, complexified -- Conclusion. The past and future of the sciences of complexity. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Complexity |
| ISBN: | 0-19-770060-8 |
| 0-19-972457-1 | |
| 1-282-32823-9 | |
| 9786612328237 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807921303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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