References

Books, papers and articles in complexity and applications to urban systems

Complexity

 

  • Miller, J. and Page, S. (2008). Complex Adaptive Systems. Princeton University Press.

 

  • Simon, H. (1996). The Sciences of the Artificial. The MIT Press, Cambridge. 

 

  • Hübler, A. (2005). Predicting Complex Systems with a Holistic Approach: The “Throughput” Criterion. Complexity, 10(3), 11-16.

 

Modeling Complexity

 

  • Axelrod, R. (1997). Advancing the Art of Simulation in the Social Sciences. In Conte, R., Hegselmann, R. and Terna, P. (Eds.), Simulating Social Phenomena (21-40). Berlin: Springer.

 

  • Barabási, A. and Albert, R. (1999). Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks. Science, 286 (5439), 509-512.

 

  • Evans, A., Heppenstall, A. and Birkin, M. (2013). Understanding Simulation Results. In Edmonds, B. and Meyer, R. (Eds.), Simulating Social Complexity: A Handbook (173-195). Berlin: Springer.

  

  • Meadows, D. (2008). Thinking in Systems: A Primer. Earthscan.

 

  • Nikolai, C. and Madey, G. (2009). Tools of the Trade: A Survey of Various Agent Based Modeling Platforms. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 12(2), 2.

 

  • Nowak, A., Rychwalska, A. and Borkowski, W. (2013). Why Simulate? To Develop a Mental Model. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 16(3), 12.

  

  • Taber, C. and Timpone, R. (1996). Introduction. In Taber, C. and Timpone, R., Computational Modeling (1-17). Sage Publications.

 

  • Thiele, J., Kurth, W. and Grimm, V. (2012). Agent-Based Modelling: Tools for Linking NetLogo and R. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 15(3), 8.

 

  • Zacharias, G., Macmillan, J. and Van Hemel, S. (Eds.). (2008). Behavioral Modeling and Simulation. Washington D.C.: The National Academies Press.

 

Complexity and Urban Systems

 

  • Batty, M. (2010). Cities as Complex Systems: Scaling, Interactions, Networks, Dynamics and Urban Morphologies, In Meyers, R. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (pp.1041-1071), Springer, Berlin. LINK

 

  • Batty, M. (2013). The New Science of Cities. MIT Press.

 

  • Colander, D. (2014). Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up. Princeton University Press.

 

  • Albeverio, S., Andrey, D., Giordano, P. and Vancheri, A. (2008). The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Physica-Verlag.