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Drat- too much complexity

I thought I would sneak in the back door of model analysis by pretending that my model was just another complex system and then search for ways to analyse complex systems. But what did I find? Lots of suggestions to analyse complex systems using…. computer models. Doh! Now there’s a good idea- create a complex system to analysis your complex system and then analysis your new complex system by…. uhoh. I did come across this cool looking course that at least lists some relevant topics. I also started having more luck with the search ‘analysis complex systems’. I found The center for the study of complex systems, which notes: “The mathematical techniques of the complex system approach include: nonlinear dynamics, especially differential equations, difference equations and cellular automata, game theory, Markov processes, genetic algorithms, graph theory and time series analysis.” I guess that’s a start.

posted at 19:55 on Wed, 11 Jan, 2006 | path: /school



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