Unifying Themes In Complex Systems, Volume 2 - Yaneer Bar-yam - Bog

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Complex Systems. The sessions ranged from the opening talk by Nobel laureate Philip Anderson on emergence and the relevance of complex systems to physics to the final panel that included many of the great management gurus of this generation. The plenary session topics included emergence, description and modeling, self-organization, networks, time series, agents in action, and complexity and management. The conference presentations dealt with issues of significant public interest, including individual psychology, dynamics of social and economic change, the human genome, and ecology.