Simply Complexity · A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory by Johnson, Neil -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface

PART 1: What exactly is Complexity Science?

Chapter 1: Two’s Company, Three is Complexity

1.1 A definition, of sorts 1.2 Complexity in action 1.3 Why is my own life so complex? 1.4 The key components of Complexity 1.5 Complexity: the Science of all Sciences

Chapter 2: Disorder rules, OK?

2.1 Another day at the office 2.2 If things can get worse, they probably will 2.3 We need feedback 2.4 Life is just a pocket of order 2.5 Our Universe’s bleak future 2.6 Air, air everywhere – we hope 2.7 Our biased world

Chapter 3: Chaos and all that jazz

3.1 Dealing with office dynamics 3.2 Systematic interns, and careless ones 3.3 Don’t worry, it’s just chaos 3.4 If I remember correctly, I am living on the edge 3.5 There’s music, and then there’s everything else 3.6 What happens when I’m not looking?

Chapter 4: Mob mentality

4.1 I’m a person, not a particle 4.2 Thank God it’s Friday 4.3 Knowing what it means to win 4.4 To bar, or not to bar? 4.5 Crowds and Anticrowds 4.6 Another frustrating experience 4.7 Evolution management: Engineering the future

Chapter 5: Getting connected

5.1 Knowing me, knowing you 5.2 Small worlds, large worlds and in-between worlds 5.3 The importance of networking 5.4 How things grow: Is it really all in the genes? 5.5 Looking at money on trees 5.6 Globalization: Fairness vs. efficiency 5.7 The story so far

PART 2: What can Complexity Science do for me ?

Chapter 6: Forecasting financial markets

6.1 What goes up, must come down: But when? 6.2 The problem with finance theory as it stands – or walks 6.3 A complex walk along Wall Street 6.4 Going from the bar to the market 6.5 Look out, we’re going to crash 6.6 Predicting the future 6.7 News, rumors and terrorism

Chapter 7: Tackling traffic networks and climbing the corporate ladder

7.1 Going back to our routes 7.2 Time is money 7.3 Creative congestion charging 7.4 Different shape, same function 7.5 Should I stay at my own level?

Chapter 8: Looking for Mr./Ms. Right

8.1 The perfect pair 8.2 Virtual dating 8.3 Radioactive relationships 8.4 Here comes your super-date 8.5 A more sophisticated dating scene 8.6 Wolves, dogs and sheep

Chapter 9: Coping with conflict: Next-generation wars and global terrorism

9.1 War and Complexity 9.2 The Law of War 9.3 The universal pattern underlying modern wars and terrorism 9.4 A Complex Systems model of modern warfare 9.5 The timing of attacks

Chapter 10: Catching a cold, avoiding super-flu and curing cancer

10.1 Natural-born killers 10.2 From communities to classes 10.3 Kids, colds and contagion 10.4 Cancer: how to starve a tumor? 10.5 Showdown: Superbugs vs. the immune system

Chapter 11: The Mother of all Complexities: Our nanoscale quantum world

11.1 Einstein’s spookiness 11.2 Three is a crowd, but so is two 11.3 The secret nanoscale life of plants, bacteria and brains 11.4 Quantum gaming 11.5 Many wrongs can make a right

Chapter 12: To infinity and beyond

12.1 The inadequate infinity of physicists 12.2 The future is bright, the future is Complex

A. Complexity, Complex Systems and centers of study B. Downloadable research papers

Appendix: Further Information Index