Another page to check is this page of introductory Complex Systems readings assembled for a workshop related to sustainable mobility.
Also see this page of readings about agent-based modeling.
The Complexity of Cooperation
Axelrod, Robert
Princeton Univ Press, 1997.
Harnessing Complexity.
Axelrod, Robert and Cohen, Michael.
Free Press, 2000.
Complex Adaptive Systems.
An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life.
John H. Miller and Scott E. Page
Princeton Univ. Press. 2007.
Dynamics of Complex Systems
Bar-Yam, Yaneer.
Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1997.
online version!
Adaptive Individuals in Evolving Populations.
R. K. Belew and M. Mitchell (eds).
Vol XXVI of the SFI Studies in the Science of Complexity Series,
Addison-Wesley, 1996.
How Nature Works: the science of self-organized criticality.
Bak, Per.
Springer-Verlag. 1996.
The Computational Beauty of Nature.
Gary W. Flake. (1999 ?)
Foundations of Complex System Theories
in Economics, Evolutionary Biology, and Statistical Physics.
Auyang, Sunny Y.
Cambridge Univ Press, 1998.
Papers based on parts of the book.
SYNTHETIC ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS I - THEORIES by S. Auyang.
Reality Rules: picturing the world in mathematics.
Casti, J. L.
New York : J. Wiley, c1992.
Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation is Changing the Frontiers of Science.
Casti, John.
Wiley, NY. 1997.
Abbrev: WBW
Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up.
Epstein, Joshua M and Axtell, Robert.
The MIT Press. 1996.
Abbrev: GAS
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity.
Holland, John H.
The MIT Press, 1995.
Emergence: From Chaos to Order.
Holland, John H.
Addison Wesley, Reading MA. 1998.
At Home in the Universe.
Kauffman, Stuart.
Oxford Univ. Press, NY, 1995.
The Origins of Order.
Kauffman, Stuart.
Oxford Univ Press, NY, 1993.
Out of Control
Kelly, Kevin.
Addison Wesley. 1996.
Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development
with Models, Metaphors, and Machines.
Evelyn Fox Keller.
Harvard Univ. Press, 2002.
The Difference. How the Power of Diversity Creates
Better Groups, Firms, Schools and Societies.
Scott E. Page. Princeton Univ. Press. 2007.
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains,
Cities and Software.
Steven Johnson. 2001.
The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex.
Harold J. Morowitz.
Oxford Univ. Press, 2002.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell.
Little Brown, 2000.
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
Duncan J. Watts.
W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.
Linked: The New Science of Networks.
Albert-Laslo Barabasi
Perseus Pub (2002).
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science
of Networks/Small World: Uncovering Nature's Hidden Networks
Mark Buchanan
W.W.Norton 2002
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Stephen Strogatz
Hyperion Books, 2003.
Turtles, Termites and Traffice Jams.
Mitchell Resnick
MIT Press, 1997.
Choas Theory in the Social Sciecnes
Kiel, L. Douglas and Elliott, Euel (eds).
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995.
Exploring Complexity: An Introduction.
Nicolis, Gregoire and Prigongine, Ilya,
W.H.Freeman and Co, NY, 1989.
Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World.
John D. Sterman.
McGraw-Hill.
Simulating Social Phenomena
R. Conte, R. Hegselmann and P. Terna (eds).
Springer-Verlag, 1997.
Economic Simulations in Swarm:
Agent-Based Modelling and Object Oriented Programming
Benedikt Stefannson and Franceso Luna
Kluwer: 2000
Individual-based Modeling and Ecology
Volker Grimm and Steven F. Railsback.
Princeton Series in Theoretical and Computational Ecology.
2005.
The Plausibility of Life
Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart.
Yale Univ. Press, 2005.
Managing Business Complexity
Discovering Strategic Solutions with ABM and SImulation
Michael J. North, Charles M. Macal. Oxford Univ Press. 2007.
Cities and Complexity.
Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals.
Michael Batty. MIT Press. 2005.
Agent-Based Methods in Economics and Finance: Simulations in Swarm
edited by Francesco Luna and Alessandro Perrone
In : Advances in Computational Economics : Volume 17
Simulation for the Social Scientist (online!)
N. Gilbert and K.G.Troitzsch
Open University Press, 1999.
Liebrand, Wim B. G., Nowak, Andrzej, and Hegselmann, Rainer (eds).
Computer Modeling of Social Processes. 1998
Nowak, Andrzej and Vallacher, Robin R.
Dynamical Social Psychology. 1998
Gimblett, H. Randy (ed.)
Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Modeling
Techniques for Simulating Social and Ecological Processes.
Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2002)
Chaos, Complexity, and Sociology
Myths, Models, and Theories
R.A. Eve, S. Horsfall, M.E. Lee (eds)
Sage Publications (1997)
Frontiers of Complexity
Roger Highfield and Peter Coveny.
Fawcett, 1996.
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the
Edge of Order and Chaos.
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Touchstone Books. 1993.
Simulating Societies. A Mathematica Tookkit for
Modeling Socioeconomic Behavior.
Richard J. Gaylord and Louis J. D'Andria.
Springer-Verlog, NY. 1998.
Ferber, Jacques.
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence.
Harlow (UK): Addison-Wesley. 1999.
Interesting papers
John Harte
Toward a Synthesis of the Newtonian and Darwinian Worldviews
Physics Today, October 2002.
(On ecologists and physicists approaches to sustainability.)
For more specific readings, see CSCS 530 Course Readings or CSCS 501 Course Readings.