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Must Read
(1) John Casti, 1994: Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise
(2) Murrary Gell-Mann, 1994a: The Quark and the Jaguar; 1994b: Complex adaptive systems.
(3) George A. Cowan, David Pines, David Meltzer eds. Complexity: Metaphors, Models and Reality: Addison-Wesley.
(4) At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity, Stuart Kauffman.
(5) Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, Mitchell Waldrop.
Recommended
(1) Gleick, 1987: Chaos Making a New Science.
Optional
(1) Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences, David Byr.
(2) Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World, Peter Coveney.
(3) Order to Deep Simplicity: Bringing Chaos and Complexity, John Gribbin.
(4) Emergence: From Chaos to Order, John Holland.
(5) Exploring Complexity: An Introduction, Gregoire Nicolis.
(6) Allison and Kelly, 1999: Written for managers. This book provides an overview of major themes in complexity theory and discusses practical applications rooted in experiences at firms such as Citicorp.
(7) Bar-Yam, 1997. A very comprehensive introduction for mathematically sophisticated readers, the book discusses the major computational techniques used to analyze complex systems, including spin-glass models, cellular automata, simulation methodologies, and fractal analysis. Models are developed to describe neural networks, protein folding, developmental biology, and the evolution of human civilization.
(8) Introduction to Complex System, Available at http://www.calresco.org/intro.htm, this webs ite provides a comprehensive introduction and set of links that introduce many different aspects of complexity theory. It is a good, free, and relatively nontechnical starting place for exploring the topic.
(9) Cowan, Pines, and Meltzer, 1994 Complexity: Metaphors, Models and Reality. This is a collection of papers presented at the Santa Fe Institute's Fall 1991 workshop on integrative themes of the sciences of complexity. Although no single chapter provides a comprehensive overview, taken together, the chapters thoroughly cover the predominant themes developed by scholars of complex systems. Six chapters introduce fundamental concepts; the rest provide a number of examples of complex adaptive systems (principally, but not exclusively, biological), while four explore cellular automata, self-organized criticality and the "edge of chaos," and the concept of emergence.
(10) Mainzer, 1994: Thinking in Complexity: The Complex Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind. Written at a high level but without extensive use of mathematics, this is a comprehensive overview of complex systems theory. Chapters describe different models in the context of the evolution of matter, the evolution of life, the evolution of the brain, the evolution of artificially intelligent computational systems, and the evolution of human society.
(11) Waldrop, 1992: Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order & Chaos. Written for laymen, this book is a popular yet sophisticated introduction to complexity theory. It is the most readable introduction to the field for nonspecialists. In tracing the founding and early years of the Santa Fe Institute, Waldrop touches on applications of complexity theory to economic systems, Boolean networks and the NK model, genetic algorithms and classifier systems, self-organization and artificial life, and evolution to the edge of chaos.
(12) Weisbuch, 1991: Complex Systems Dynamics: An Introduction to Automata Networks. This is a methodological book, which introduces analytical techniques at the introductory graduate- school level. Topics include cellular automata, neural networks, simulated annealing, Boolean networks, and evolutionary population dynamics.
弗洛林•迪亚库、菲利普•霍尔姆斯,《天遇——混沌与稳定性的起源》,上海科技教育出版社,2001年
宋华岭,《企业系统管理复杂性评价》,经济管理出版社,2004年
要想了解学术界不求甚解的现状,那么该书倒是值得一看。如果你想练习一下如何挑错,这本书也确实有用。在某一页中,你可以划出多处不当之处。比如在复杂性系统的论述之中,书中可以将“元素”、“单元”、“组分”、“子系统”、“要素”、“主体”、“个体”等概念混用。书中提出了“众多”的“新”概念,“熵”的概念多达几十种,在一个不可证伪的概念基础之上提出的理论体系,我实在看不出有什么具体意义。
书中明显的错误可能来自于审稿的校对。在论述企业系统时出现了明显的“矿井”字样的系统错误,是校对不严的问题。
约翰•布里格斯、F•戴维•皮特,《混沌七鉴—来自易学的永恒智慧》,上海科技教育出版社
如果作为一本混沌理论的入门科普读物,本书的缺点是看完后并不能给你提供一个框架性的混沌学感受;如果该书作为一本有混沌学基础的人的升级读物,又显得有些肤浅。但书中大量的图片和简明扼要的叙述不失可以作为对混沌理论进行了解而又不那么乏味的书籍。
本人总体的感受是,书的广度不错,深度欠佳。
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M•盖尔曼,《夸克与美洲豹——简单性和复杂性的奇遇》,湖南科学技术出版社,1997年
弗里德里希•克拉默,《混沌与秩序——生物系统的复杂结构》,上海科技教育出版社,2000年
玛格丽特•魏特利,《领导是什么——如何在一个混沌的世界驾驭他人》,中国发展出版社,2004年
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大卫•吕埃勒,《机遇与混沌》,刘式达等译,上海科技教育出版社,2001年
司马贺,《人工科学——复杂性面面观》,武夷山译,上海科技教育出版社,2004年
许国志主编,《系统科学》,上海科技教育出版社,2000年
侯世达,《哥德尔、巴赫、埃舍尔——集异壁之大成》,郭维德等译,商务印书馆,1996年
约翰•H•霍兰,《涌现——从混沌到有序》,上海科学技术出版社,陈禹等译,方美琪校,2001年
欧阳莹之,《复杂系统理论基础》,田宝国、周亚、樊瑛译,姜璐校,上海科技教育出版社,2002年
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