Publications on complex, evolving systems: A citation-based survey

A list of the most relevant publications on complex, evolving systems is produced by counting the number of times each publication is cited in a collection of texts on the domain. The importance of these books and papers is summarized by noting the main contribution to the field of their authors, categorized by the research tradition they originated from. These include biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, cybernetics, systems theory, economy and complex adaptive systems.

[1]  David H. Helman,et al.  Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge , 1989 .

[2]  W. Arthur.  Positive feedbacks in the economy , 1990 .

[3]  F. Ayala,et al.  Studies in the Philosophy of Biology , 1974 .

[4]  Magoroh Maruyama,et al.  THE SECOND CYBERNETICS Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes , 1963 .

[5]  Niles Eldredge,et al.  Punctuated equilibrium at the third stage , 1986 .

[6]  John N. Warfield,et al.  World dynamics , 1973 .

[7]  Noshir Contractor,et al.  Complexity: The emerging science at the edge of order and chaos: Journal of Communication , 1994 .

[8]  G. Ferro-Luzzi.  On Evolutionary Epistemology , 1982, Current Anthropology.

[9]  D. Campbell.  ‘Downward Causation’ in Hierarchically Organised Biological Systems , 1974 .

[10]  S. Gould,et al.  Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism , 1972 .

[11]  M. Mitchell Waldrop,et al.  Complexity : the emerging science and the edge of order and chaos , 1992 .

[12]  A. Y Aulin,et al.  Cybernetic Laws of Social Progress , 1982 .

[13]  N. Eldredge,et al.  Punctuated equilibrium comes of age , 1993, Nature.

[14]  Clive Richards,et al.  The Blind Watchmaker , 1987, Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal.

[15]  Viktor Mikhaĭlovich Glushkov,et al.  An Introduction to Cybernetics , 1957, The Mathematical Gazette.

[16]  G. Mann.  The Quark and the Jaguar: adventures in the simple and the complex , 1994 .

[17]  M. Eigen,et al.  Steps Towards Life: A Perspective on Evolution , 1992 .

[18]  I. Prigogine,et al.  From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences , 1982 .

[19]  M. Eigen,et al.  The Hypercycle: A principle of natural self-organization , 2009 .

[20]  John R. Koza,et al.  Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity. , 1995, Artificial Life.

[21]  Christopher G. Langton,et al.  Computation at the edge of chaos: Phase transitions and emergent computation , 1990 .

[22]  John L. Casti,et al.  Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise , 1994 .

[23]  John H. Holland,et al.  Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery , 1987, IEEE Expert.

[24]  A. Bennett.  The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection; or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life , 1872, Nature.

[25]  Thomas S. Ray,et al.  An Approach to the Synthesis of Life , 1991 .

[26]  D'arcy W. Thompson,et al.  On Growth and Form , 1917, Nature.

[27]  W. Arthur,et al.  Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy , 1996 .

[28]  S. Gould,et al.  Punctuated equilibria: the tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered , 1977, Paleobiology.

[29]  D. Turcotte,et al.  Self-organized criticality , 1999 .

[30]  D. North.  Competing Technologies , Increasing Returns , and Lock-In by Historical Events , 1994 .

[31]  R. Punnett,et al.  The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection , 1930, Nature.

[32]  W. Arthur,et al.  The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II , 1988 .

[33]  J. Forrester.  Industrial Dynamics , 1997 .

[34]  F. Roush.  Autopoiesis: A theory of living organization : M. Zeleny, New York: North-Holland, 1981 , 1984 .

[35]  Herbert A. Simon,et al.  The Sciences of the Artificial , 1970 .