This book is a further contribution to the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. It is an ambitious attempt to explain the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing to link philosophy of mind to more general issues about the re…
"Complexity theory holds that at the root of all complex systems, from the behavior of molecules to the actions of nation-states to the balance of nature, lies a set of rules that when identified will yield a grand unification of the life sciences"--Back cover.
Investigates the set of rules that lie at the root of all complex systems.
"Shows how to recognize NP-complete problems and offers proactical suggestions for dealing with them effectively. The book covers the basic theory of NP-completeness, provides an overview of alternative directions for further research, and contains and extensive list of NP-compl…
Commerce, Complexity, and Evolution is a significant contribution to the paradigm - straddling economics, finance, marketing, and management - which acknowledges that commercial systems are evolutionary, and must therefore be analysed using evolutionary tools. Evolutionary syste…
