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Self-Organizing Systems: A Tutorial in Complexity

May 29, 2004 By Chris Uncategorized 3 Comments

I’m going to bring a little more focus in form to this weblog, mixing short posts in a more traditional weblog format with longer essays divided up into parts so you don’t get big long chunks of text to wade through.

And we begin with a paper called Self Organizing Systems: a tutorial in Complexity

This is a tutorial on the processes and patterns of organization in complex natural systems. No technical details are included in describing the models or theories used. Instead, I focus on the concepts of self-organization, complexity, complex adaptive systems, criticality, the edge of chaos and evolution as they pertain to the formation of coherent pattern and structure in nature.

The paper looks at mechanisms of self-organization (thermodynamically open, many parts with local interaction, nonlinear dynamics, and emergence) and then moves into complexity, chaos and evolution. It’s a great introduction to complex adaptive systems and a rich source for metaphors.

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3 Comments

  1. Chuck Raney says:
    April 8, 2006 at 12:54 pm

    Do you by chance have a copy of the paper. The link no longer exists.

  2. mona says:
    February 9, 2008 at 5:26 am

    Could you pls send me a copy of the paper, have not found it anywhere duringmy relentless web searches.
    Much thanks, mona

  3. Chris Corrigan says:
    February 10, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    Seems the link is rotten…I don’t have a copy of the paper.

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