Books in the Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity series

Food webs are one of the most useful and challenging objects of study in ecology. This book treats the ecology of predator-prey interactions, food web theory, structure, and dynamics. It explores the boundaries of the relationship between structure and dynamics in ecological networks.

Statistical paleontology is an approach to the examination pattern of the evolution and extinction in the fossil record. It looks at large-scale patterns in the record and attempts to understand and model their average statistical features, rather than their detailed structure. This book comments critically on the various modeling approaches.

This title consists of 17 papers on the contributions of John Holland by a group of scholars from a wide range of fields, including the Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow and Herbert Simon, and also Douglas Hofstadter, Brian Arthur, Robert Axelrod, and Melanie Mitchell.

Presents a combination of biology and computer science (including artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, information display, and computer graphics), modelling the mechanisms underlying collective behaviour in social insects. This work talks about swarm intelligence, a subfield of artificial intelligence.

For those addressing ecological and natural resource management problems, this volume presents a set of perspectives on incorporating the spatial representation and analytical power of GIS with agent-based modelling of evolutionary and non-linear processes and phenomena.

In modern times, a good deal of study has been devoted to a nonextensive generalization of entropy and of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics and standard laws. This book addresses the interdisciplinary applications of these ideas, and also on various phenomena that could possibly be quantitatively describable in terms of these ideas.

Robust Design brings together 16 chapters by an eminent group of authors in a wide range of fields presenting aspects of robustness in biological, ecological, and computational systems. The volme is the first to address robustness in biological, ecological, and computational systems. It is an outgrowth of a new research program on robustness at the Sante Fe Institute founded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. For those interested in complexity or interdisciplinary science, robustness is seen as currently among the most intellectually active and promising research areas with important applications in all fields of science, business, and economics.

Computer science and physics have been closely linked since the birth of modern computing. This book serves as a standard reference and pedagogical aid to statistical physics methods in computer science, with a particular focus on phase transitions in combinatorial problems. It is useful for students and researchers.

Brings together 16 chapters by an eminent group of authors in a range of fields presenting aspects of robustness in biological, ecological, and computational systems. This volume also address robustness in biological, ecological, and computational systems.

Scaling relationships are a persistent theme in biology. This book, based on a conference at the Santa Fe Institute, brings together many of the prominent workers in the area to assess our understanding of scaling relationships at the physiological, biomechanical, and ecological levels.

As part of the SFI series, this book presents the most up-to-date research in the study of human and primate societies, including recent advances in software and algorithms for modelling societies, and it is ideal for professionals in archaeology, cultural anthropology, primatology, or computer science.

This text details a variety of advances in software algorithms for incorporating geographic data in modelling social and ecological behaviours, as well as the success in applying such algorithms. It also provides information on applications for the research community.

Derived from the 2001 Santa Fe Institute Conference, this volume represents scholarship from the leading figures in the area of economics and complexity. The chapters address issues in the fields of economics and complexity, accessing eclectic techniques from many disciplines. This volume is dedicated to Kenneth Arrow on his 80th birthday.

Brings together chapter contributions from a workshop held at the Santa Fe Institute in March 2001. This volume aims to capture a snapshot of some features of the Internet that may be fruitfully approached using a complex systems perspective, which means using interdisciplinary tools and methods to tackle the subject area.