From System Complexity to Emergent Properties

• Concepts for Complexity Modelling.- Models and Simulations in the Historical Emergence of the Science of Complexity.- About the Predictability and Complexity of Complex Systems.- What Makes a System Complex? - An Approach to Self Organization and Emergence.- A formalism for multi-level emergent behaviours in designed component-based systems and agent-based simulations.- Emergence of Chaos and Complexity During System Growth.- Geographical Complex Systems Modelling.- Theory of Reaction-Diffusion and Emergence of the Geographical Forms.- Spatial risks and complex systems : methodological perspectives.- A new classification of catastrophes based on “Complexity Criteria”.- Community Swarm Optimization.- Dynamical Artificial or Natural Complex Networks.- Emergence of Growth and Structural Tendencies During Adaptive Evolution of System.- Complex emergent properties in synchronized neuronal oscillations.- Validation Of A Distributed ‘SmartSpace’ Architecture Through Simulation.- Transport and Traffic Flow.- A Decentralised Approach for the Transportation On Demand Problem.- Modelling Complex Intermodal Freight Flows.- Decision Support Systems.- Modelling the Complexity of Inventory Management Systems for Intermittent Demand using a Simulation-optimisation Approach.- Cooperative Medical Diagnosis Elaboration by Physicians and Artificial Agents.- AgentTime: A Distributed Multi-agent Software System for University’s Timetabling.- Emotion: appraisal-coping model for the “Cascades” problem.

From the reviews: "This book contains a variety of perspectives on simulation models of complexity and emergence. It aims to give the reader new ways for studying emergence by using 'complexity modeling'. ... Overall, it is a useful set of chapters for the JASSS audience that is looking for new approaches and promising developments. ... The advice for modeling and dealing with complexity ... is very useful and can be helpful for many modelers." (Emile Chappin, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 13 (1), 2010)