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Some Reference Books
Links towards highly interesting sites

Thematic list of scientific books and connections with INRIA French Research Projects
(Click on this link to see the pdf file)
Mapping of Research Themes and Institutes
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Some excellent reference documents for an introduction to Complex Systems and Emergence Research and its applications to many areas:

• The Quark and the Jaguar, Adventures in the Simple and the Complex,
  by Murray Gell-Mann (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1969, Member of the Santa Fe Institute)
• Chaos, by James Gleick, Viking Press
• See the thematic list of scientific books, section 1.3, p.7 "Non Linear Dynamic Systems..."
• See also the mapping "Projects and Research Labs", section 3.1.5, p.28 "Chaos, Non Linear Dynamic Systems..."

Links towards Complex Systems Research Groups :

• (French) Complex Systems Research Network: RNSC - Réseau National des Systèmes Complexes :
• RNSC On-Line Lectures,

• Institutes and Societies dedicated to Complex Systems Research in many fields of application:
• Santa Fe Institute : Research in Complex, Auto-Adaptive Systems ("Plectics")
• Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences
• Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics (CND) in Physiology and Medicine, McGill University of Montreal
• CND's links towards other Research Institutes in Complex Systems
• MCX European Programme: "Modeling of CompleXity" - Society for Complex Thinking

• French Research Groups studying complex phenomena in Physics, Biophysics, Irregularity (morphogenesis, fractal growth, etc.) :
• Irregularities Research Group of the Condensed Matter Physics Lab (CMP) of the French Polytechnique School
• Biophysics Research Group of the Physics Institute of Rennes, Brittany.

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