Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Essay
Nature 427, 399 (29 January 2004) | doi:10.1038/427399a
nature jobs
Forest Insect Ecologists
- Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service (CFS)
- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Scientist for Adrenal Research
- University of Dresden, Dept. of Medicine, Director: Prof. S. Bornstein
- Dresden 01307 Germany
Concept Engineering complex systems
J. M. Ottino1
- J. M. Ottino is at the R. R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
Complex systems can be identified by what they do (display organization without a central organizing authority — emergence), and also by how they may or may not be analysed (as decomposing the system and analysing sub-parts do not necessarily give a clue as to the behaviour of the whole). Systems that fall within the scope of complex systems include metabolic pathways, ecosystems, the web, the US power grid and the propagation of HIV infections.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
|
MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS These links to content published by NPG are automatically generated NEWS AND VIEWS |
