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At the end of the sixties, our program for dynamics lost momentum, and some of us turned to applications for inspiration. My own attempts at modeling in the biological sciences led me to complex dynamics, a blend of our own style of dynamical systems theory with system dynamics. A complex dynamical system is a directed graph, with a dynamical scheme (dynamical system with parameters) at each node, and a coupling function on each edge, expressing the control parameters of one scheme as a function of the states of another.1
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Abraham, R. (1993). Cellular Dynamata. In: Hirsch, M.W., Marsden, J.E., Shub, M. (eds) From Topology to Computation: Proceedings of the Smalefest. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2740-3_50
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