This book addresses recent technological progress that has led to an
increased complexity in many natural and artificial systems. The
resulting complexity research due to the emergence of new properties and
spatio-temporal interactions among a large number of system elements -
and between the system and its environment - is the primary focus of
this text.
This volume is divided into three parts: Part one focuses on societal
and ecological systems, Part two deals with approaches for
understanding, modeling, predicting and mastering socio-technical
systems, and Part three includes real-life examples.
Each chapter has its own special features; it is a self-contained
contribution of distinguished experts working on different fields of
science and technology relevant to the study of complex systems.
Advances in Complex Systems of Contemporary Reality: Societal,
Environmental and Engineered Systems will provide postgraduate
students, researchers and managers with qualitative and quantitative
methods for handling the many features of complex contemporary
reality.