A report on the order that lies at the heart of even the most complex systems--from the origins of life to the working of giant corporations to the rise and fall of great civilizations. In Kauffman's view, we are now discovering that the range of spontaneous order is much greater than we had supposed--that self-organization is the great ...
"Leadership and the New Science" is the bestselling, most acclaimed, and most influential guide to applying the new science (the recent discoveries in science that change our understanding of how the world works) to organisations, and our lives. As a new edition to this classic text, Wheatley shows how examples of non-linear networks and ...
In EMERGENCE, Steven Johnson, editor-in-chief of Feed, speaks lucidly about the organizational gravity of emergence theory, historic and natural examples of complex communities like those of ants, and how interconnectivity is reflected on the Web. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
Strogatz, a professor of mathematics at Cornell University, offers a glimpse into the new science of synchrony, which examines the ways in which various elements of the natural world work in conjunction and harmony with each other. SYNC uses topical anecdotes, including the cult "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" diversion, to illustrate the ...
our understanding of the universe is being radically altered by the "new science" - the revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and molecular biology that are overturning the models of science that have dominated for centuries. Now Margaret Wheatley shows how the new science provides equally powerful insights for transforming ...
This monograph extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics. The book drives to the heart of the debate on the origins of life and the maintenance of order in complex biological systems. It focuses on the concept of self-organization ...
A discussion of how the "new science" provides powerful insights into the design, leadership and management of organizations. This edition has been expanded and revised, and has an epilogue, in which Mary Wheatley chronicles her experiences since the first edition.
The best-selling "Evil Genius" format provides hobbyists with a fun and inexpensive way to learn bionics via 25 complete projects. Once the focus of popular 70's TV, bionics (integrating mechanical and electronic materials with living matter) are being used more than ever to replace or repair physiological or anatomical functions or disorders.
For the past 20 years Scott Kelso's research has focused on extending the physical concepts of self-organization and the mathematical tools of non-linear dynamics to understand how human beings (and human brains) perceive, intend, learn, control and co-ordinate complex behaviours. In this book Kelso proposes a general framework within which to ...
New approaches to artificial intelligence spring from the idea that intelligence emerges as much from cells, bodies, and societies as it does from evolution, development, and learning. Traditionally, artificial intelligence has been concerned with reproducing the abilities of human brains; newer approaches take inspiration from a wider range of ...
Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? In this powerful intervention into current biological thinking, Brian Goodwin argues that such genetic reductionism has important limits. Drawing on the sciences of complexity, the author shows how an ...
Speech is the principal supporting medium of language. In this book Pierre-Yves Oudeyer considers how spoken language first emerged. He presents an original and integrated view of the interactions between self-organization and natural selection, reformulates questions about the origins of speech, and puts forward what at first sight appears to be ...
A fundamental and frequently cited book in two very exciting fields: pattern formation and synchronization of oscillators. Provides asymptotic methods that can be applied to the dynamics of self-oscillating fields of the reaction-diffusion type and of some related systems. Graduate level. 40 figures.
A compelling vision of the corporation of the future from the worlds foremost shareholder activist.. In The Emperors Nightingale, Robert Monks, the worlds foremosst shareholder activist, weaves together parables, case studies, and insights from complexity thinking to reveal the true character of the corporation, as it struggles to reconcile the ...
Journeying into the mysteries of creation, physicist Paul Davies rejects the idea of a universe at the mercy of random forces, advancing an argument for the existence of a predestined universal plan--an essential, progressively unfolding, order. Line drawings.
In the last twenty to thirty years, a new way to understand complex systems has emerged in the natural sciences - an approach often called non-linear dynamics, dynamical systems theory, or chaos theory. This perspective has allowed scientists to trace the emergence of order from disorder and complex, higher-order forms from interactions among ...
Self-organisation, self-regulation, self-repair, and self-maintenance are promising conceptual approaches to deal with the ever increasing complexity of distributed interacting software and information handling systems. Self-organising applications are able to dynamically change their functionality and structure without direct user intervention to ...
We are surrounded by order that-until now-physics has been unable to explain. The spread of veins in the back of our hands mirrors the spread of branches on a tree; fern fronds bear a resemblance to the outline of fjords; the best-loved classical music echoes the patterns of our heartbeats. The theory of Universality is using fractal patterns to ...
Unlike monographs on nonlinear optics, this work concentrates on problems of self-organization in various important contexts. The reader learns how patterns in non-linear optical systems are created and what theoretical methods can be applied to describe them. Next, various aspects of pattern formation such as associative memory, information ...
The synchronized flashing of fireflies at night. The spiraling patterns of an aggregating slime mold. The anastomosing network of army-ant trails. The coordinated movements of a school of fish. Researchers are finding in such patterns - phenomena that have fascinated naturalists for centuries - a fertile new approach to understanding biological ...
Novel system performance through nanostructuring has been recognized in many branches of science in the last decades. The requirement for inventing a new technology paradigm has created research opportunities for scientists in very wide range of disciplines. In order to fully realize the tremendous potential of nanostructure science and technology ...
This monograph consists of two parts and gives an approach to the physics of open nonequilibrium systems. Part I derives the phenomena of dissipative structures on the basis of reduced evolution equations and includes Benard convection and Belousov-Zhabotinskii chemical reactions. Part II discusses the physics and structures of chaos. While ...
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