Further Reading

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`Simplicity in Complexity', by R. Parwani

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Chapter 3 : Self-organization

1. Self-made Tapestry by P. Ball

2. Designing the Molecular World by P. Ball

3. Web of Life by F. Capra

4. How Nature Works by P. Bak

5. Signs of Life by R. Sole and B. Goodwin

6. Sync by S. Strogatz

7. Self-organized short-cuts in the Argentine ant, by S. Goss et. al

8. Swarm Smarts by E. Bonabeau and G. Theraulaz

9. Turing model for patterns of lady beetles by S. Liaw et. al

Chapter 4: Agent-Based Models and Emergence

1. Emergence by S. Johnson

2. Turtles, termites and Traffic Jams by M. Resnick

3. The Computational Beauty of Nature by G. Flake

Chapter 5: Networks

1. Linked by A. Barabasi

2. Exploring Complex Networks, by S. Strogatz

3. The Structure and Function of Complex networks by M. Newman

4. Collective dynamics of small-world networks, by D. Watts and S. Strogatz

Chapter 6: Societies

• 1. Seeing around corners by J. Rauch 

1. Micromotives and Macrobehaviour, by T. Schelling

   1. Growing Artificial Societies by J. Epstein and R. Axtell

2. Ants at Work, by D. Gordon

3. Swarm Smarts by E. Bonabeau and G. Theraulaz

Chapter 7: Dynamical systems

1. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by S. Strogatz

   1. Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers by R. Enns and G. McGuire

   2. The Computational Beauty of Nature by G. Flake

2. Real World Mathematics

Chapter 8: Fractals

1. Fractal Geometry of Nature by B. Mandelbrot

2. Fractals and Chaos by P. Addison

3. The Computational Beauty of Nature by G. Flake

4. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by S. Strogatz

Chapter 9: Chaos

• 1. Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers by R. Enns and G. McGuire

1. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by S. Strogatz