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business cycles
53

Calderon, Juan Pablo
180
,
184

cancer

and competition between cells
190–1

as Complex System
177
,
187–93

and crowd effect
6
,
70

and fractals
52

and networks
142
,
143

and nutrient supply
93
,
102
,
136
,
188–93
,
189
,
192

treatment
93
,
102

Casti, John
12

Castro, Alexandra Olaya
188–9
,
191–2
,
203–4

casualty data

and terrorism
168–71
,
174

and war
163–4
,
165–71
,
172–4

Challet, Damien
88
,
208

Chaos
39–66

and fractals
49
,
50
,
51–2
,
53–4
,
55

as non-linear dynamics
40
,
54

as periodic pattern
48

and predictability
40–1

and time-series
45–53
,
54–5

chaperones

and dating
157
,
194

and super-bugs
157–8

Choe, Sehyo Charley
108
,
188–9
,
191–2

Clauset, Aaron
168

climate change, and competition
9

cocaine
162–3

coin-toss
43
,
46
,
76–80
,
84
,
85–6
,
114

and quantum coin
206–7

and random walk
56–60
,
63
,
115–17

and war
172–3

cold virus
178
,
180–7

Cold War
161

Colombia, guerilla war
160
,
161
,
162–3
,
171

and casualty data
169–71
,
174

and timing of attacks
176

comfort limits

and choosing to go out
73
,
75
,
81
,
83
,
85
,
87

and choosing a route
130–3
,
144

in financial markets
120

community, and spread of viruses
178–87
,
see also
networks

competition

and anticrowds
82
,
85
,
86–8

and binary decisions
71–2
,
73
,
76
,
79
,
82–4
,
87
,
108

and cancer cells
190–1

and climate change
9

and crowds
4
,
34
,
71–2
,
82
,
87–8
,
97

and dating
148
,
155

and markets
11–12
,
72

and self-organization
83–4

and selfish machines
7–8
,
94

and traffic
4
,
11
,
129

and warfare
4
,
159–60
,
168
,
170
,
172

Complex Systems

as alive
14–15

biological
99–100
,
101–2
,
136–7
,
138
,
142
,
214

dictionary definition
3

and extreme behavior
19–20
,
123
,
162

and health
177–96

key components
13–14
,
see also
adaptability; agents; feedback; outputs

management
89–95

as open
14
,
32–7

order and disorder
15–16
,
19–37
,
55
,
110
,
125
,
167

and pockets of order
21
,
27
,
39
,
91–2
,
125

and warfare
103
,
160
,
171–5

Complexity

definition
3–4
,
13

in everyday life
11–13
,
21–4
,
55

future applications
213–14

key components
14–16
,
see also
disorder; order; phenomena, emergent

nanoscale
94
,
101
,
158
,
197–210

and science
16–18

and war
159–64

computer, quantum
9
,
201
,
205

conflict
see
war

congestion charging
134
,
137–9
,
141
,
144

connectivity
10
,
109–10
,
143

and dating
150
,
153
,
155

and globalization
108–10

multiple rings
139–43

and transmission of viruses
179–80
,
183–7
,
184

cooperation, and competition
71–2

Cox, Tom
156–7

crime, and networks
103
,
136
,
187

crowd-anticrowd theory
11
,
88
,
108
,
122
,
131

crowds
67–95

and competition
4
,
34
,
71–2
,
82
,
87
,
97

and decision-making
70–1
,
72–4
,
77
,
80–4
,
83
,
86–9

and emergent phenomena
4
,
5–6

in jazz
63

and
p
values
80
,
81–5
,
86–8
,
87

quantum
9
,
202

and quantum devices
208–10

and violence
159

see also
anticrowds; behavior, group; self-organization

cryptography, quantum
9
,
201

currency market
43
,
105–8
,
106
,
126–7

Darrah, Peter
103

dating
147–58

and chaperones
157
,
194

and competition
148

and computer simulations
149–57

and ladder of love
152
multiple
151–3
,
155

and perfect match
147–9
,
154

and super-daters
155–6

decision-making

and anticrowds
82–3
,
85
,
86–8

and crowds
63
,
70–1
,
72–4
,
77
,
80–4
,
86–9

in financial markets
113–15
,
120
,
122
,
132–3

as game
72–89
,
109
,
113–14
,
120

and
p
values
80
,
81–5
,
86–8
,
87

and traffic networks
129–34
,
144

transmission of information
139–43
,
144

and war and terrorism
163
,
172–3

defense, attacking/defensive
158
,
194–5

demand
83–4

Direction, Characteristic
91

disease
177

management
93

transmission
178–87

disorder
15–16
,
19–37
,
110

advantages
29–32

and music
63

and time-series
43
,
44
,
47
,
55–6
,
58–61
,
63–5

and the Universe
28–9

Dixon, Alex
175

dot-com boom
5
,
19

drunkard’s walk
see
random walk

dynamics
39–41
,
67

and fixed-point attractor
46

non-linear
40
,
54

Ecob, Richard
149–54
,
156–7

ecology

of information
89

of interacting agents
14
,
213

of war
103
,
162
,
175

economics
16
,
74

Efstathiou, Janet
16

Einstein, Albert

and entanglement
9

and quantum physics
197–201
,
203

relativity theory
10
,
197

Eisert, Jens
207

engineering, and competitive components
7
,
14
,
84

entanglement
9–10
,
200
,
201–2
,
203–5
,
206
,
208

errors, combination
208–10

evolution management
89–95

excitons
203–4

expectations theory, and economics
74

feedback
14
,
15
,
25–6
,
27
,
110
,
211

and decision-making
76
,
84
,
114–15
,
130
,
163

and jazz
63

and management
94

negative 00

in networks
97–8
,
117
,
119

and physical systems
36
,
53
,
54–7
,
67–8

positive
117–18

public
78–9
,
82
,
84–5
,
98

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