Melanie Mitchell is a professor of computer science at Portland State University. She has worked at the Santa Fe Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her major work has been in the areas of analogical reasoning, complex systems, genetic algorithms and cellular automata, and her publications in those fields are frequently cited
As science probes the nature of life, society, and technology ever more closely, what it finds there is complexity. The sophisticated group behavior of social insects, the unexpected intricacies of the genome, the dynamics of population growth, and the self-organized structure of the World Wide Web - these are just a few examples of complex systems that still elude scientific understanding. Comprehending such systems seems to require a wholly new approach, one that goes beyond traditional scientific reductionism and that re-maps long-standing disciplinary boundaries. This remarkably accessible and companionable book, written by a leading complex systems scientist, provides an intimate, detailed tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. In this richly illustrated work, Melanie Mitchell describes in equal parts the history of ideas underlying complex systems science, the current research at the forefront of this field, and the prospects for the field's contribution to solving some of the most important scientific questions of our current century.
作为一个研究复杂系统行为的人,我读此书时格外认真。自从在北京三联书店时光咖啡馆邂逅这本书,屈指算来,大概断断续续读了有一个月。 当我们说我们研究系统,通常并不是指非常简单的系统。因为那样的系统很容易理解,很容易模拟。因此本书书名很恰当--复杂。复杂系统普遍有...
评分复杂,是这个世界的本质,也是人类的本质。 世界是复杂的 物理学家霍金曾被问过这样一个问题:“有人说,20世纪是物理学的世纪,而我们正在进入生命科学的世纪,您怎么看?” 霍金回答说:“我认为,下一个世纪将是“复杂性”的世纪。” 复杂,是这个世界的本质,也是人类的本...
评分 评分WoW~
评分很久没有读到这种‘想要一口气读完‘的书
评分很久没有读到这种‘想要一口气读完‘的书
评分很赞的一本书,绝对开拓眼界
评分虽然不算a novel scientific worldview,全面细致的内容让人view things from a higher level.
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