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Modeling Complex Systems

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The essential points of this first chapter are The definition of a complex system The notion of emergence The definition of a model The notion of dynamical system

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Boccara, N. (2010). Introduction. In: Modeling Complex Systems. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6562-2_1

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