Complexity: A Guided Tour - Melanie Mitchell (2009)
Part I. Background and History
Chapter 1. What Is Complexity?
Chapter 2. Dynamics, Chaos, and Prediction
Chapter 6. Genetics, Simplified
Chapter 7. Defining and Measuring Complexity
Part II. Life and Evolution in Computers
Chapter 8. Self-Reproducing Computer Programs
Part III. Computation Writ Large
Chapter 10. Cellular Automata, Life, and the Universe
Chapter 11. Computation Writ Large
Chapter 12. Information Processing in Living Systems
Chapter 13. How to Make Analogies (if You Are a Computer)
Chapter 14. Prospects of Computer Modeling
Part IV. Network Thinking
Chapter 15. The Science of Networks
Chapter 16. Applying Network Science to Real-World Networks
Chapter 17. The Mystery of Scaling
Chapter 18. Evolution, Complexified
Part V. Conclusion
Chapter 19. The Past and Future of the Sciences of Complexity