Yaneer Bar-Yam

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Wikipedia:Yaneer Bar-Yam is an American physicist, Wikipedia:systems scientist and founding president of the Wikipedia:New England Complex Systems Institute. He studies the unified properties of Wikipedia:complex systems as a systematic strategy for answering basic questions about the world. His research is focused both on formalizing complex systems concepts and relating them to everyday problems. In particular, he studies the relationship between observations at different scales, formal properties of descriptions of systems, the relationship of structure and function, the representation of information as a physical quantity, and quantitative properties of the complexity of real systems. Applications have been to physical, Wikipedia:biological and Wikipedia:social systems. Bar-Yam has made further contributions to: the theory of the structural and electronic dynamics of materials; the theory of polymer dynamics and protein folding; the theory of neural networks and structure-function relationships; the theory of quantitative multiscale complexity, the theory of evolution, ethnicviolence (see press release on an important article in Science).

Overviews, networks, multiscale representations, negotiation.