Websites
- Currently this page consists of two sections: links to some of the
larger and more thoroughly organized sites which deal with the general
topic of complexity theories and a new category of web pages which focus
on the educational implications of these theories.
This is not a comprehensive list. Many of these links lead to sites
with extensive link pages and for those wishing to make an exhaustive search
this set of links will make a fair start. Nor does this page attempt to
track specialized work done in various disciplines which have a relationship
to chaos and complexity theories. (Though that may be in its future; espcecially
for those disciplines that bear directly on education.)
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Broad Overview and Link Pages
- Internet Resources
related to Principia Cybernetica
- An extensive, lightly annotated bibliography of web sites related to
cybernetics and system theory. Topics include: Evolution, Philosophy, Alife,
Cognitive Science, Complexity, Self-organization.
- Welcome to the Principia
Cybernetica Web
- A conceptually sprawling website which contains a fair amount of strangeness
as well as real gems. The organizers are attempting to build a comprehensive
alternative to standard epistemological systems. Concious of the historical
roots of complexity.
- Complexity
on Science Friday NPR
- An interesting discussion of Complexity on Science Friday, a national
public radio show. Includes an examination of the field by major players
and a central critic. Requires a free real
audio player.
- dynamics
of multiagent systems
- A Xerox Parc working group archive. The page remarks: "Multiagent
systems arise in human societies, biological ecosystems, the immune system
and distributed computation."
- The Institute for Nonlinear Science
- A division UCSD, includes link pages and a paper archive.
- Complex
Systems
- A large site which includes tutorials and software. Interests in artificial
life, biocomplexity, cellular automata, chaos, criticality, fractals, learning
systems, neural networks, non-linear dynamics, parallel computation, percolation,
self-organization.
- Yahoo - Science:Complex
Systems
- The hierarchical Yahoo page for Complex Systems.
- Santa Fe Institute
- The famous complexity center in New Mexico.
- COMPLEXITY
- The online access point for the journal "Complexity" published
by Wiley. Includes a comprehensive table of contents and submission guidelines.
- Center for Complex Systems Research
- The University of Illinois complexity site. Some of the links appear
to have died. A research group of the Beckman institute.
- Beckman Institute
for Advanced Science and Technology
- The Beckman institute focuses on issues involving complexity across
sevral disciplines. A site for the technically proficient. The Beckman
institute supports a wide array of working groups; something for every
interest.
- Chaos bibliography
database
- An impressive front end to a bibliographic database centered on chaos
theory.
Education & Complexity
Theories
- Clemson Research
Institute for the Study of Complex Social Systems (CRISCSO) [as of
4/11/97 this site was down, it should reappear according to its webmeister]
- A group at Clemson who are delving into the compexity and social systems
realm with an emphasis on education.
- Connectionism
(as a theory with relevance to Instructional Technology)
- A series of links to connectionist papers (emphasizing representation
and the contrast with more standard learning theories) and other connectionist
link pages. This page is part of a larger, very nicely organized instructional technology
web. Its wide-ranging approach makes it useful beyond the bounds of
IT.
- Brenda Fiala Stewart
- Brenda Fiala Stewart has posted two papers with a direct connection
to Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems--Discourse:
Patterns of Complex Adaptation and Leadership
as a Moral Dilemma in a Chaordic Framework
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Missing your favorite web location? Mail: stjulien@uiuc.edu
rev. 4/11/97 JSTJ