Webpages, Videos and Applets

Chapter 2: Model Building and the Scientific Method

1. Introduction to the Scientific Method

2. Scientific method (Wik)

3. The Scientific Method (YTube)

4. Blind experiments (Wik)

5. Placebo effect

6. Experimentation

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Chapter 3: Self-organization

1. Self-organisation (Wik)

2. Slime Molds (Ytube)

3. Adaptability of an Ant Colony (Ytube)

4. BZ chemical clock (Ytube)

   1. BZ  waves (Ytube)  

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Chapter 4: Agent-Based Models and Emergence

1. Game of Life -- Description and Applet

2. Termites piling woodchips

3. Boids

4. V-formation of migratory birds

5. Emergence (Wik)

6. Second Law of Thermodynamics (wik)

7. Some A-Life simulations

8. Netlogo homepage

Chapter 5: Networks

1. Complex Networks (wik)

2. Network Science (wik)

Chapter 6: Societies

1. Sugarscape Model

2. Pareto Principle (wik)

3. Kirman's ant colony model

4. Any colony optimization

Chapter 7: Dynamical Systems

1. A phase plane plotter

2. Download plotter

3. Logistic function

4. Arms Race

5. Lotka-Volterra equations

6. SIR model

Chapter 8: Fractals

1. Fractals

2. Diffusion Limited Aggregation

3. Images

4. Fractal generators

5. Menger Sponge

6. Sierpinski Carpet

Chapter 9 : Chaos

1. Chaos (Wik)

2. Lorenz attractor

3. Rosller attractor

4. Double Pendulum

5. Double Pendulum Simulation

6. Stability of the Solar System

Chapter 10: Measures of Complexity 

1. Computational Complexity

2. Kolmogorov Complexity

3. Entropy (Information Theory)

4. Complexity Measures