RESOURCES
BOOKS
• Bar-Yam, Yaneer. Dynamics of Complex Systems. Addison-Wesley, 1997.
• Bar-Yam, Yaneer. Making Things Work: Solving Complex Problems in a Complex World. Knowledge Press. 2005.
• Braha, Dan, Marcus A. M. de Aguiar, Carlos Gershenson, Alfredo J. Morales, Les Kaufman, Elena N. Naumova, Ali A. Minai, and Yaneer Bar-Yam (eds.). Unifying Themes in Complex Systems X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Complex Systems. Springer, 2021.
• Byrne, David, Brian Castellani, and Emma Uprichard. Complexity in Social Science. Routledge Series, 2017-18.
• Charbonneau, Paul. Natural Complexity: A Modeling Handbook. Princeton Univ. Press, 2017.
• De Domenico, Manlio, Dirk Brockmann, Chico Camargo, Carlos Gershenson, Daniel Goldsmith, Sabine Jeschonnek, Lorren Kay, Stefano Nichele, José R. Nicolás, Thomas Schmickl, Massimo Stella, Josh Brandoff, Ángel José Martínez Salinas, Hiroki Sayama. Complexity Explained (2019). GitHub.io.
• Downey, Allen. Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling. O’Reilly Media, 2018.
• Edelman, Gerald M. and Giulio Tononi. A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination. Basic Books, 2000.
• Holland, John H. Complexity: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford Univ. Press, 2014.
• Kauffman, Stuart A. Humanity in a Creative Universe. Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.
• Krakauer, David C. Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: Thirty Years of Complexity Thinking at the Santa Fe Institute. Santa Fe Institute Press, 2019.
• Luhmann, Niklas, Dirk Baecker, and Peter Gilgen. Introduction to Systems Theory. Polity, 2012.
• Maturana, Humberto R., and Francisco J. Varela. Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Springer, 1991.
• Margulis, Lynn, and Eduard Punset. Mind, Life and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2007.
• Mitchell, Melanie. Complexity: A Guided Tour. Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.
• Mobus, George E., and Michael C. Kalton. Principles of Systems Science. Springer, 2015.
• Morales, Alfredo J., Carlos Gershenson, Dan Braha, Ali A. Minai, and Yaneer Bar-Yam (eds.). Unifying Themes in Complex Systems IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Complex Systems. Springer, 2018.
• Norman, Donald A. Living with Complexity. MIT Press, 2010.
• Sayama, Hiroki. Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems. Open SUNY Textbooks, 2015.
• Shanken, Edward A. (ed.). Systems. The MIT Press, 2015.
• Thurner, Stefan, Rudolf Hanel, and Peter Klimek. Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems. Oxford Univ. Press, 2018.
• von Bertalanffy, Ludwig. General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications, 1968/1976.
• Also see this list of books: What is Life? Lifestyles • Lifeworlds • Lifeworks
COURSES
• Complexity Explained (Fondazione Bruno Kessler / Binghamton Univ.)
• Complexity Explorables | Introduction to Complex Systems (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
• Complexity Explorer (Santa Fe Institute & Portland State Univ.)
• Systems Innovation (formerly ComplexityLabs.io) | Systems Innovation Academy (formerly SystemsAcademy.io) [cc]
• New England Complex Systems Institute (Course)
• Capra Course | Center for Ecoliteracy
ORGANIZATIONS
• Centre for Complex Systems Studies (Utrecht Univ., Netherlands)
• Center for the Study of Complex Systems (Univ. of Michigan)
• Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad (C3, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
• Communication, Complexity, and Sustainability (Univ. of Oregon Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences)
• Complex Systems Society (CSS)
• Human Systems Dynamics Institute (HSDI)
• Institute for the Study of Complex Systems (ISCS)
• Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas (IIMAS)
• International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
• International Society for Systems Sciences (ISSS)
• MIT OpenCourseWare (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)
• Plexus Institute (health care)
• Santa Fe Institute (independent)
• Systems Science (Univ. of Ottawa)
• System Science Program (Portland State Univ.)
• Systems Science for Social Impact (Brown School at Washington Univ. in St. Louis)
• Vermont Complex Systems Center (Univ. of Vermont)
JOURNALS (under construction)
• Complex Systems
• Cybernetics and Human Knowing
• PhilPapers (complexity in biology)
• Systema
• Systems Research and Behavioral Science
• The Systems Thinker
WIKI
• Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems
• Complex Systems
• Complexity Theory
• Computational Complexity Theory
• NetWiki
• PDX Systems Science Links
• Principia Cybernetica Web
• Other Systems Science Programs
* This list was curated by Dr. Jeremy Swartz (Univ. of Oregon)