Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems

Chen, Hal Lewis, Vlad Miskovic, Chun-An Chou, Brandon Gibb, Genki Ichinose, DavidSloan Wilson, Prahalad Rao, Jeff Schmidt, Benjamin James Bush, Xinpei Ma, and HyobinKim, as well as other fantastic collaborators I was lucky enough to have outsidethe campus, including Thilo Gross, René Doursat, László Barabási, Roberta Sinatra, JunichiYamanoi, Stephen Uzzo, Catherine Cramer, Lori Sheetz, Mason Porter, Paul Trunfio,Gene Stanley, Carol Reynolds, Alan Troidl, Hugues Bersini, J. Scott Turner, Lindsay Yazzolino,and many others. Collaboration with these wonderful people has given me lots ofinsight and energy to work on various complex systems research and education projects.I would also like to thank the people who gave me valuable feedback on the draftversions of this book, including Barry Goldman, Blake Stacey, Ernesto Costa, RicardoAlvira, Joe Norman, Navdep Kaur, Dene Farrell, Aming Li, Daniel Goldstein, StephanieSmith, Hoang Peter Ta, Nygos Fantastico, Michael Chambers, and Tarun Bist. Needlessto say, I am solely responsible for all typos, errors, or mistakes remaining in this textbook.I would greatly appreciate any feedback from any of you.My final thanks go to a non-living object, my Lenovo Yoga 13 laptop, on which I wasable to write the whole textbook anytime, anywhere. It endured the owner’s carelesshandling (which caused its touchscreen to crack) and yet worked pretty well to the end.I hope you enjoy this OpenSUNY textbook and begin an exciting journey into complexsystems.xiiiJuly 2015Hiroki SayamaBinghamton, NY / Natick, MA / Dresden, Germany