Core readings in complex systems

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SFI list of foundational papers in complexity

Contents 1 Complexity Science Viewpoint/Perspectives articles 2 Positivistic Science Perspectives 3 Exystence network 4 Santa Fe Institute 4.1 Urbanism, growth economy, and innovation 4.2 Biology and ecology 5 Brain, behavior, and visualization 6 Map of knowledge 7 Physicists try to predict the economy

[edit] Complexity Science Viewpoint/Perspectives articles

• W. Brian Arthur 1999. Complexity and the Economy Science 284:107-109.

News and Views

• May, Robert M., Simon A. Levin, George Sugihara. 2008. Complex systems: Ecology for bankers. Nature 451: 893-895 (21 February 2008).
• Frank Schweitzer, Didier Sornette, A. Vespignani, Giorgio Fagiolo, F. Vega-Redondo, D. R. White. 2009. (Perspectives:) Economic Networks: Structure and Dynamical Instability. paper draft. See Economic networks for links to references.

[edit] Positivistic Science Perspectives

(More methodological or more programmatic rather than theoretical)

David Lazer et al. 2009. Computational Social Science Science 323 6 February

Stephen P. Borgatti et al. 2009. Network Analysis in the Social Sciences Science 323 13 February no. 5916:892-895.

[edit] Exystence network

M. Marsili, F. Vega-Redondo, and F. Slanina. The rise and fall of a networked society: A formal model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(6):1439–1442, 2004.

[edit] Santa Fe Institute

[edit] Urbanism, growth economy, and innovation

Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo, Dirk Helbing, Christian Kühnert, and Geoffrey B. West. 2007. Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities PNAS April 16, 10.1073/pnas.0610172104

[edit] Biology and ecology

Geoffrey B. West, Woodruff, W.H., and J.H. Brown. 2002. Allometric scaling of metabolism from molecules and mitochondria to cells and mammals. PNAS 99:2473-2478. http://biology.unm.edu/jhbrown/Published/AlloScalingMetabolicRateMolecules.pdf also see: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?rendertype=abstract&artid=128563

[edit] Brain, behavior, and visualization

J. A. Scott Kelso. Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior.

Zenon Pylyshyn. 2004. Seeing and Visualizing: It's not what you think MIT Press (Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards competition)

[edit] Map of knowledge

Luis Bettencourt NYTimes March 9, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html?_r=4&emc=eta1

[edit] Physicists try to predict the economy

http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/portfolio/2009/03/18/Physicists-Try-to-Predict-Economy (e.g. Dirk Helbing, Didier Sornette)