Note: You must establish a session for Fall Academic Term 2003 on wolverineaccess.umich.edu in order to use the link "Check Times, Location, and Availability". Once your session is established, the links will function. Courses in Complex Systems This page was created at 7:04 PM on Tue, Sep 23, 2003. Fall Academic Term, 2003 (September 2 - December 19) CMPLXSYS 501. An Introduction to Complex Systems. Section 001. Instructor(s): Rick L Riolo (rlriolo@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (3). (Excl). (BS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: http://cscs.umich.edu/education/CSCS-courses/cscs501.html This course covers a broad range of fundamental topics relevant to the study of complex systems. The course work involves weekly readings and discussion of papers and selections from books. The readings focus on "classics" in the complex systems literature, in order to give students a broad, general understanding for the variety of work that falls under the rubric of complex systems. Topics to be covered will include evolutionary systems, self-organized criticality, measures of complexity, approaches to modeling complex adaptive systems, and emergence. Authors to be covered include Holland, Axelrod, Kauffman, Bak, and Gell-Mann. Classwork and grades: Grading will be based on participation in the discussions and on two papers. Preference is given to CSCS Graduate Certificate Students. Preference is given to graduate students, and then graduating seniors. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 Graduate Course Listings for CMPLXSYS. This page was created at 7:04 PM on Tue, Sep 23, 2003. University of Michigan | College of LS&A | Student Academic Affairs | LS&A Bulletin Index | Department Homepage This page maintained by LS&A Advising Technology (webmaster_saa@umich.edu), G255-E Angell Hall Copyright © 2003 The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA +1 734 764-1817 Trademarks of the University of Michigan may not be electronically or otherwise altered or separated from this document or used for any non-University purpose.