Courses in SD
World-systems theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Systems thinking – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Systems theory in political science – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ross Ashby Memorial Lectures | IFSR – International Federation for Systems Research
UK Systems Society
Home | Open University – Systems
SPMC
Systems Albany
BBC Systems Practice – Resources
I.S.S. – Italian Systems Society
UK Systems Society
International Society for the Systems Sciences
The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive
Vienna Circle – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ackoff Center Weblog
Basic Lesson 2 – Online Telekinesis School – Psychokinesis Psi Balls Telepathy Psionics.
System Dynamics Resource Page
SD papers
SysPhilos.html
Philosophy of Organism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jay Forrester summarized writings
systemtheoory personality
Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web
System Theory Journals and Resources
ISSS JOURNALS
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS
InterJournal
NECSI | International Conference on Complex Systems
Systems thinking and practice – OpenLearn – The Open University
NECSI | Dynamics of Complex Systems
NECSI | Overview of Complex Systems
40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From a Ruthless Nonconformist | Raptitude.com

Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web
The Macroscope-intro
Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic Game Theory Blog
Concept Walk – Nice Systems Blog
Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach – A System Foundation for Thermodynamics | blog.rudnyi.ru
Lean Manufacturing Blog, Kaizen Articles and Advice | Gemba Panta Rei
General Systems Theory
Creative Systems Theory
Complex systems + science Blog | Nature Publishing Group
SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT OPEN UNI
BBC Systems Practice – Managing Complexity
Research support for Postgraduate Computing courses at the UK Open University
Wilfried Elmenreich – News
Hector Zenil Homepage system blog
Bas Reus’ quest on self-organization and online collaborative spaces
The Complexity and Artificial Life Research Concept for Self-Organizing Systems
Carnival of Evolution #27 | 360 Degree Skeptic
Complexes
ComplexityBlog.com – Science, Engineering, and Philosophy of Complexity & Adaptive Systems
Complexity Digest – Networking the Complexity Community
Economplex : a platform to discuss economics and complexity.
Evolving Stuff
Self-organizing signals would reduce traffic jams, pollution, & fuel use | Santa Fe Institute
University of Michigan, Center for the Complex Study of Systems
Systems intelligence research groupBlogs on Systems
http://www.fritjofcapra.net/
Sociology and Complexity Science blog: Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems
Self-Organizing Networked Systems
Home – Developmental Systems Theory
Cybernetics and Systems Thinkers
List of systems scientists – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SysSciWG
Systems Community of Inquiry | Groups | Systemicists | Home
Coevolving Innovations| … in Business Organizations and Information Technologies
In brief. David Ing.
Systemic Business Community » A salon discussing research into systemics and businesshttp://nks.tribe.net/
http://self-org.tribe.net/
http://self-organizing.tribe.net/
http://complexitytheory.tribe.net/Courses
http://clexchange.org/curriculum/roadmaps.asp
* A Skeptic’s Guide to Computer Models
* The Global Citizen A Column by Donella Meadows
* MIT System Dynamics in Education Project
Home of Road Maps and a Guided Study Program, among other things
* Creative Learning Exchange
Mission … facilitate communication among teachers and schools and to create a network of schools using systems education.
System Dynamics Society
Modeling and Simulation
An extensive site on systems, by Gene Bellinger
System Dynamics Mailing List Info
Spanish SD Discussion list
System Dynamics Resource Page
Course materials etc. by Craig Kirkwood – ASU
Systems Theory Site
systems theory, solution-focused problem solving, self-organizing processes, dissipative structures, knowledge construction, chaos theory, paradigm shift, and related change concepts and practices
Peter Brecke: Global Modeling Research
Briefs on the early and recent history of global modeling, including World2 and World3
Other Simulation Resources

CAMASE – Guidelines for modelling
NECSI – New England Complex Systems Institute
INFORMS
IIASA Home Page
Santa Fe Institute
The Society For Computer Simulation International
UMich Program for the Study of Complex Systems
Winter Simulation Conference Home Page
Welcome to the Principia Cybernetica Web
Yahoo! – Science_Complex Systems

Software

High Performance Systems, Inc. – ithink and STELLA
Powersim Home Page
Vensim Homepage
Vensim® Personal Learning Edition
Full-featured SD software, free for personal and educational use

Related & Complementary Software

Berkeley Madonna
StarLogo
Very cool mix of cellular automata and dynamics. Recently updated.
ModelKinetix – ModelManager and ModelMaker – Modeling Software
Lumina Decision Systems, Inc.
Analytica – a graphical language organized around stochastic features and heirarchical maps
M Integrated Modelling and Visualization
Wolfram Research, Inc.
Mathematica
GAMS Home Page
Powerful but horrible to work with.
SAAM Institute, Inc. __ SAAM II Software System
Medical compartmental models – design and analysis of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic and metabolic kinetic experiments
Spatial Modeling Environment
Advanced PROcess Simulator_Advanced Paper Mill Simulator

OLAP

The OLAP Report_ What is OLAP_
Hyperion – Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server
Oracle Express OLAP Technology_ Delivering Business Intelligence to the Enterprise
i3 OLAP extension
Intelligent, Interactive Inspection of Cubes

Complexity Digest - recent papers and news
Complexity in Human Systems - IAIR Group
Complexity International - all aspects
Dynamic Psychology - complex mental processes
HyperPSYCOLOQUY - connectionist psychology+other areas
InterJournal - self-organizing systems
International Journal of Futures Studies - complexity in the real world
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation - University of Surrey
Journal of Social Issues - complexity special issue
Noetica - cognitive psychology
Santa Fe Institute Bulletin - complexity research updates
The Interscience Review - physics & consciousness
U.K. Non-Linear News - quarterly online paper
Update Newsletter - The Center for Systems Science
Virtual Physics - some complexity related articles

Subscriber and Offline Journals

These can require payment for online access (where available) and/or for printed copies.Adaptive Behaviour - abstracts online
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science - nonlinear science, free postscript
Complex Systems - abstracts only
Complexity - some online software
Cybernetics and Human Knowing - self-organizing processes
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society - pdf is online
Emergence: Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management - limited online
European Journal of Economic and Social Systems (EJESS) - some pdf availability
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - pdf available
International Journal of Chaos Theory and Applications - abstracts online
NII-REO Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - abstracts
Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory - pdf available
Regular and Chaotic Dynamics - free postscript online for 1999
Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics - postscript available

Agent & Robot Resources

Agent Resources - NRC-CNRC
AgentLink - news and information on agent technology
AI Lab Zurich - robotics links
AIRG Multi-Agent Systems Webliography - links
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Project - AI&R Laboratory
Beam Robotics Web Ring - Brian O. Bush
Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab - ATR
Complex Agent-Based Dynamic Networks - University of Oxford
Cormas - multi-agent systems
Embodied Evolution - Richard A. Watson & Sevan G. Ficici
Emotional Agents - fuzzy based
Evolutionary Robotics - Hornby
Evolutionary Robotics Links - Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Intelligent Autonomous Machines - AI at Essex
Internet Ecologies - Xerox Palo Alto
Jeff’s Robotic Links - real robots
Metabolizing Agents - Peter Zvirinsky
Multi-Agent Systems - AAAI
Multiagent Systems Research Group - Washington University
Nepros: obstacle avoiding robots - Wolfgang Wagner
Neugents: Software That Can Think - Computer Associates
Popbugs - COGS Sussex
Project Mentifex - artificial minds for evolving mobile robots
Robot Information Central - comprehensive links
Robot Kitten - Genobyte
Robotics Home Page - Mark Dalton
Robotics in Japan - comprehensive list
Robotics, Learning, Chaos, Complexity, Systems - robots mostly
SNeRG - The SNePS Research Group
Subsumption Architecture - Rodney Brooks
Swarm Development Group - swarm simulation system & user community
Swarm Intelligence Resources - distributed problem solving
The GOLEM Project - automatic design and manufacture of robotic lifeforms
The Multi-Agent Systems Lab - UMASS
The Web Robots Pages - Martijn Koster
Trio Project - design and prototyping of agent systems
Visualbots - visual programming for agent-based simulation

ALife Resources

ALife Central - Scott Robert Ladd
ALife Database - Ariel Dolan
Art & Aesthetics of Artificial Life - UCLA exhibition
Artificial Life - Jean-Philippe Rennard
Artificial Life & Complex Systems: A Subject Catalogue - Yasusi Kanada
Artificial Life Online - home of Artificial Life
Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies - Alife page
Constructivist ALife - Alexander Riegler
C.O.P.P Software Flanders/VITAL - alife interest group
Evolving Artificial Moral Ecologies - Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC
Ezequiel Paolo’s index - annotated on-line bibliography
Harrison’s ALife - software
Japanese ALife Garden - adopt your own ALife entity
Karl Sims - virtual creatures
Life Spacies - text to alife
Oliver’s ALife Bookmarks - many links
Prison Project - Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma
Reed College Artificial Life Project - Mark Bedau
Systems Thinking Practice - reading list by Roderich Otto Ruehl
Technosphere III - 3D WWW model world
Temple of Alife: Morphs Lab - evolve your own organisms
Tierra Photoessay - Tom Ray
Virtual Alife Library - all the papers you could ever want
Yahoo Artificial Life Menu - with search option
Zooland - the ultimate ALife resource, perhaps…

Attractor Resources

Attractors & Co. - software & gallery by Pascal Leclercq
Chaotic Attractors - in 3 Dimensions
Gallery Of Strange Attractors- Bluy Brink
Strange Attractors paper - Clint Sprott
Stuart Kauffman - boolean networks

Cellular Automata Resources


Abstract State Machines - formal modelling languages
An Early Sampler of CAM-8 Applications - MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Cellular Automata - Harold V. McIntosh
Cellular Automata - Mario Rodríguez-Riotorto
Cellular Automata - Tim Tyler
Cellular Automata at Santa Fe - interactive exploration
Cellular Automata Repository - comprehensive CA resources
Complex Systems and ALife Created by Cellular Automata - Tomoaki Suzudo
Conway’s Game of Life - patterns, programs & links
Games of Life in Colour - by Gunnar Johnsson
Game of Life Varients - by David Ingalls Bell
Gray Scott Model of Reaction Diffusion - Abelson, Adams, Coore, Hanson, Nagpal, Sussman
Life Page - by Mark D. Niemiec
Primordial Soup Kitchen - software/developments
Reversible Cellular Automata - self-reproduction with movies
StarLOGO - CAs at MIT
StarLOGO Models - fractals & others
Structurally Dissolvable Self-Reproducing Loop - Sayama Hiroki
The Artis Project - synthesizing evolution with self-reproducing CAs
Yahoo Cellular Automata - links

Complexity and Complex Systems Resources

Centre for Complex Studies - Florin Munteanu
Center for Complex Systems Research (CCSR) - various
Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) - University of Michigan

Chaos & Complexity at Cornell - faculty guide

Complex (Adaptive) Systems - links, programs, news, pictures
Complex Adaptive Systems & Artificial Physics - William M. Spears
Complex Adaptive Systems Research - Mark Voss
Complex Systems - University of Alaska
Complex Systems - University of Oxford
Complex Systems - University of Buenos Aires
Complex Systems Virtual Library - comprehensive A-Z annotated links
Complexity, Self-Organisation & ALife - PCWeb links
Complexity On-Line - Charles Sturt University
Complexity Science Research Centre - Open University
Complexity Society - openness, equality and diversity
Complex Systems Bibliography - large, in many categories
Complex Systems: Policy and Decision Making - workshop at Cortina D’Ampezzo
Cybernetics, Systems Theory and Complexity - Univ of Colorado
Digital Library - several categories
Evolution of Complex Sysytems - online papers and essays
Fractals, Chaos & Complexity - Ramiro Perez
Idiagram - art of complex problem solving
IAIR - advanced interdisciplinary research
ICREA Complex Systems Lab - GRIB
Ilya Prigogine Center - statistical mechanics and complex systems
Institute for the Study of Complex Systems - synergy in evolution
ISSS & Primer Project - integrating the systems sciences
LEM - logic based approach to general systems theory
New England Complex Systems Institute - interdisciplinary studies
Nonlinear Sciences - complex systems e-print archive
Phil Goetz Complexity Links - old but big…
ProtoTista - Alder Fuller
Santa Fe Institute - home of complexity and CAS studies
Systems Thinking Press - publishers and clearinghouse
SystemsWiki - enabling a systems thinking world
The Complexity Network - University of Liverpool
The Joint Committee on Complexity - various resources
VCU Complexity Research Group - understanding the world
Visualisation of Complex Dynamical Systems - Institute of Computer Graphics
Yahoo Complex Systems - links

Cybernetics and System Dynamics


American Society for Cybernetics - Venkat Sunil Dudi
Buckminster Fuller Institute - synergetics
Cybernetics - random steps to serious insight
Facilitated Systems - publications
Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Systems Thinking - Joseph O’Connor
Principia Cybernetica Web - evolutionary systems philosophy
Stafford Beer - team syntegrity
Synergetics on the Web - Kirby Urner
Systems - multidisciplinary links
System Dynamics / Systems Thinking - Günther Ossimitz’s Mega Link List
System Dynamics Methods: A Quick Introduction - Craig Kirkwood
System Dynamics Resource Page- Arizona State University
System Dynamics Society - policy analysis & design
Systems Theory - links by David X. Swenson
The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics - conferences
Whole Systems - links, books, essays by Flemming Funch

Evolutionary Computation & GA Resources

EC Gateway to the World - Battelle
Encore - Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to Evolutionary Computation
Evolutionary Alogrithms for Dynamic Optimzation Problems - Jürgen Branke
Evolutionary Computation – A Subject Catalogue - Yasusi Kanada
Evolutionary Dynamics Bibliography - Jim Crutchfield
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization - bibliography by Carlos A. Coello Coello
EvoNet - European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing
GA Hotlist - people/links
GA Technical Reports - A-Z by Raffaele Gaioni
Gene Expression Programming - Candida Ferreira
Genetic Algorithms Archive - inc GA-List back issues
Genetic Algorithms Warehouse - Applications
Genetic Programming Bibliography - William Langdon
Genetic Programming Notebook - incl GAs
Genetic-Programming.Com - applied GP
Genetic-Programming-Org - conferences
IlliGAL - Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
John Koza’s Home page - home of Genetic Programming
Learning Classifier Systems Group - University of the West of England
Memetic Algorithms’ Home Page - heuristic search in optimization
Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms - Carlos Fonseca/Jane Shaw
Multisimplex - evolutionary operation (EVOP)
Netadelica - GA evaluations
Nova Genetica - Genetic Algorithms and all
On-Line Bibliography on Learning Classifier Systems and Genetic Algorithms - Andrea Murru
Optimization Online - an eprint site

Fractal Resources

 

Archer’s Fractal Art - draw your own
Carlson’s Fractal Gallery - collection
efg’s Computer Lab - Fractals & Chaos
FracTop - analyse fractals mathematically
Fractal Forest - Ruth Johns
Fractal Heart Organic Art - select your own
Fractal Image Compression - a review
Fractal Image Encoding - comprehensive links
Fractal Navigator - Jules Ruis
Fractal Science - IBM Research
Fractal Sound - illustrative samples
Fractals at the Edge of Chaos - Rob’s Fractal Studio
Fractals on the Internet - Chaffey High School’s comprehensive links
Fractals Page - links to fractal sites
Graphics Archive - fractals
IFS Fractal Encyclopedia - pictures, animations, software
Iterated Function System Playground - grow your own online
Jean-Pierre Louvet’s Fractal Gallery - interesting collection
Keplerian Fractals - David Hop
Lindenmeyer Systems Links - Christian Jacob
Mu-Ency - encyclopedia of the Mandelbrot set
Multifractals - Jacques Lévy Véhel
Online Interactive Fractal Gallery - various artists
Patrick Hahn’s Fractal Gallery - theory & practice
Paul N. Lee - fractals
Redbeard’s Life Raft - fractal set-surfer
Spanky’s Fractal Database - home of Fractint
Sprott’s Fractal Gallery - the works
Study Web - comprehensive evaluated fractal links
Woodside Fractals - annotated pictures
3D Fractals (Quaternions) - Dirk Meyer
4D Julibrot Fractal - Benno Schmid

Fuzzy Logic Resources


Application Examples in Real World Systems - STØ Group descriptions
Applications & Related Areas - links and researchers
Fuzzy Logic & Neurofuzzy Resources - by Martin Brown at Southhampton
Fuzzy Logic Sources of Information - by Bob John
Fuzzy Sets and Systems - links by Robert Fuller
Fuzzy Systems - Digital Library
fuzzyTech - applications, demos and all
Meridian Marketing Group - newsletter/software

Neural Network Resources


Adaptive Logic Networks - Bill Armstrong
Adaptive Resonance Theory - FAQ
Applications Corner - list from NeuroSolutions
Artificial Neural Network - definition with links
Artificial Neural Network and Computational Brain Theory Group - Illinois
Bayesian Methods for Neural Nets - FAQ by David MacKay
BioComp Systems - applications of neuro-genetics
Correlation Coding and Self-Organizations on Pulse Neural Networks - Natsuhiro Ichinose
Developmental Replay in Neural Servo Networks - Mervyn van Kuyen
Diffusible GasNets - new ANN type
EmerNet - emergent neural computation
Extended Kohenen Maps - Peter Kleiweg
Image Processing & Neural Networks Laboratory - University of Texas, Arlington
Imagination Engines - creative NNs
Multivalued Logic Neural Computing - David D. Olmsted
Neural Network Links - with groups and publications
Neural Networks – A Subject Catalogue - Yasusi Kanada
Neural Networks Research Centre Helsinki - self-organizing maps
NEuroNet - various archives
Pulse Coupled Neural Networks - CAOS
SIENA - successful application case studies
UH ERDC Neural Systems Group - ANNs
Yahoo Neural Networks - a few links

Nonlinearity & Chaos Resources


Applied Chaos Lab - Georgia Tech
CATS Copenhagen - chaos & turbulence
Chaos Bibliography - nonlinear dynamics
Chaos in Nature - complex forms
Chaos Metalink - art, music & science
Chaotic Bookstore - on chaos, nonlinear dynamics, financial markets
Chaotic N-Space Network - a repository for a wide variety of information
Complex Systems & Nonlinear Dynamics - many links/big Glossary
Cycle Expansions - Ronnie Mainieri
International Group For Chaos Studies (IGCS) - Vladimir Gontar
Non-Linearity & Complexity - links from Greece
Nonlinear Lab (includes Lorenz Equations) - Blair Fraser
Nonlinear Nonsense Netletter - by Dick Oliver (fractals/chaos for the weird ?)
Nonlinear Science - E-print archive
Nonlinear Who Is Who - by subject
Solitons & Nonlinear Waves - Alwn Scott
Stochastic Processes & Nonlinear Dynanics Group - book/references
Yahoo Chaos - general links

Self-Organizing Systems Resources


Archive of papers - adaptation/self-organizing systems
EVALife - Self-organisation in life-cycles
Extropia - open source software
Fractal Structures and Self-Organization - TMR Network
One-Over-F Noise - bibliography
Scalable Self-Organizing Simulations - DARPA
Self-Organising Adaptive Systems - BT Labs
Self-Organising Nanopatterns - Sandia National Laboratory
Self-organization and fractals - Geodynamics
Shalizi’s Notebook - self-organization
SOS on The Web - small
Symbiotic Intelligence Project - self-organizing knowledge
Stigmergic Systems - Peter Small
The Self-Organization of the European Information Society - EU TSER Project
WEBSOM Self-Organizing Maps - web intelligence

Related Sciences Resources

AI Jumps List - comprehensive links by Seth Russell
Artificial Intelligence in General – A Subject Catalogue - Yasusi Kanada
Artificial Intuition - Monica Anderson
Biosemiotics - Alexei A. Sharov 
Center for Evolutionary Psychology - UC Santa Barbara
Chilean School of Biology of Cognition (Autopoiesis) - Humberto Maturana
Doing Science - an overview by Pete Jumars
Edge Foundation - Reality Club and Third Culture
Encyclopaedia Autopoietica - Maturana & Varela’s biology of cognition
Entropy on the World Wide Web - incl dynamical systems & chaos
NRC Artificial Intelligence - general resources
SciCentral - comprehensive science guide
Yahoo Artificial Intelligence - general links

Related Philosophy Resources


Center for Process Studies - developmental thought
Connectionist Epistemology - Bruce MacLennan
Constructivism - extensive links
Enformy and Enformed Systems - holistic systems
Karl Popper Web - critical rationalist thought
Logic, Philosophy & Alife - various links
Metaphysics & Philosophy of Pattern - investigating systems ontology
Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Set, Probability and Statistics - Florentin Smarandache
Online papers on Consciousness - David Chalmers
Philosophy of Mind, AI & Cognitive Science - Dey Alexander
Philosophy on the Internet - comprehensive guide
Polycontextual Logic - multisystem logics
Radical Constructivism - Alex Riegler
Tangled Web: Whole Thinking - Lawrence University
The Ceptual Institute - integrity & perspectives
The Tree of Philosophy - introductory course
Value Logic & Simplicity Theory - Stephen Phillips