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Author:   Francis Heylighen ,  Johan Bollen ,  Alexander Riegler
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1999 ed.
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.620kg
ISBN:  

9780792357643

ISBN 10:   0792357647
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   31 August 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

What is Complexity? - The philosophy of complexity per se with application to some examples in evolution; B. Edmonds. The Growth of Structural and Functional Complexity during Evolution; F. Heylighen. Involution: On the Structure and Process of Existence; D.M. Keirsey. The Nature, Development, and Destiny of Organization in the Universe; A. Mansueto. Physical Models of Biological Evolution; N. Vandewalle, M. Ausloos. A Simple Mathematical Theory of Evolution Showing that Taxonomic Complexity is a Logistic Variable; R.L. Coren. Diversity and Complexity: Two Sides of the Same Coin; J.B.C. Garcia, et al. Chaos in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science: Similarities and Dissimilarities; B. Codenotti, L. Margara. Metacomputation of Language Hierarchies; R. Glueck, A. Klimov. Eigenmechanism - An Explanatory Principle and an Artful Exemplar; J. Hu. Forgetting in Self-Organising Systems; B.C.E. Scott. Invertibility and the Evolution of Complex Systems; G. Nagarjuna. Lest We Forget Our Inheritance; A.J. Hirst. Mind as Evolution and Evolution as Such; R. Pallbo. The Evolution of Complexity in the Evolution of Language: grammaticalization, pidgin languages, and language acquisition; K.C. Diller. Memetics: On a conceptual framework for cultural evolution; H.C. Speel. Parasite Ecology and the Evolution of Religion; B. Cullen. Innovation, Increasing Complexity and the Need for a New Paradigm in Economics; B.H. Martens. Use of Complex Adaptive Systems in Organizational Studies; E.A. Garcia. Responsive Accounting: a grounding of the informational domain in the operational domain of an organisation; R. Espejo, A. Reyes. Application of Complexity Theories to Evolutionary System Development; G.S. Percivall. Cognitive Complexity vs. Connectivity: efficiency analysis of hypertext networks; J. Bollen. Index.

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