Selected Readings on Complexity

There is a growing field of literature dedicated to understanding Complexty Science. The list below is necessarily incomplete, although we will continue to add to it. 

 Axelrod, R. M. (1984). The evolution of cooperation. New York, Basic Books.

 Axelrod, R. M. (1997). The complexity of cooperation : agent-based models of competition and collaboration. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press.

 Axelrod, R. M. and M. D. Cohen (1999). Harnessing complexity : organizational implications of a scientific frontier. New York, Free Press.

 Barabâasi, A.-L. (2002). Linked : the new science of networks. Cambridge, Mass., Perseus Pub.

 Bonabeau, E., M. Dorigo, et al. (1999). Swarm intelligence : from natural to artificial isystems. New York, Oxford University Press.

 Builder, C. H. and S. C. Bankes (1991). Artificial societies : a concept for basic research on the societal impacts of information technology. Santa Monica, CA (1700 Main St., Santa Monica 90407-2138), Rand.

 Chambers, L. (2001). The practical handbook of genetic algorithms : applications. Boca Raton, Fla., Chapman & Hall/CRC.

 Conte, R. and C. Dellarocas (2001). Social order in multiagent systems. Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 Conte, R. and M. Paolucci (2002). Reputation in artificial societies : social beliefs for social order. Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 Dautenhahn, K. (2002). Socially intelligent agents : creating relationships with computers and robots. Boston, Mass., Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 Epstein, J. M., R. Axtell, et al. (1996). Growing artificial societies : social science from the bottom up. Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Press.

 Gilbert, G. N. and R. Conte (1995). Artificial societies : the computer simulation of social life. London, UCL Press.

 Glaser, N. (2002). Conceptual modelling of multi-agent systems : the CoMoMAS engineering environment. Boston, Mass., Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 Guare, J. (1990). Six degrees of separation : a play. New York, Random House.

 Hexmoor, H., C. Castelfranchi, et al. (2003). Agent autonomy. Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 Holland, J. H. (1992). Adaptation in natural and artificial systems : an introductory analysis with applications to biology, control, and artificial intelligence. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.

 Holland, J. H. (1995). Hidden order : how adaptation builds complexity. Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley.

 Holland, J. H. (1999). Emergence : from chaos to order. Reading, MA, Perseus Books.

 Johnson, S. (2001). Emergence : the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software. New York, Scribner.

 Kauffman, S. A. (1995). At home in the universe : the search for laws of self-organization and complexity. New York, Oxford University Press.

 Kennedy, J. F., R. C. Eberhart, et al. (2001). Swarm intelligence. San Francisco, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

 Levy, S. (1993). Artificial life : a report from the frontier where computers meet biology. New York, Vintage Books.

 Padget, J. A. (1999). Collaboration between human and artificial societies : coordination and agent-based distributed computing. Berlin ; New York, Springer.

 Parsons, S., P. J. Gmytrasiewicz, et al. (2002). Game theory and decision theory in agent-based systems. Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 Resnick, M. (1994). Turtles, termites, and traffic jams : explorations in massively parallel microworlds. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.

 Schelling, T. C. (1969). Models of segregation. Santa Monica, Calif.,, Rand Corp.

 Schelling, T. C. (1978). Micromotives and macrobehavior. New York, Norton.

 Tessier, C., L. Chaudron, et al. (2001). Conflicting agents : conflict management in multi-agent systems. Boston, Kluwer Academic.

 Waldrop, M. M. (1992). Complexity: the emerging science at the edge of order and chaos. New York, Simon & Schuster.

 Watts, D. J. (2003). Six degrees : the science of a connected age. New York, Norton.

 Wolfram, S. (2002). A new kind of science. Champaign, IL, Wolfram Media.

 Ye, Y. and E. F. Churchill (2003). Agent supported collaborative work / edited by Yiming Ye, Elizabeth Churchill. Boston, Mass., Kluwer Academic Publishers.