Chaos and Complex Systems

Fall 2006
Bibliography

Databases and Search Engines Pre-prints and online papers in economics and related fields. The Social Science Research Network. The Science Citation Index via Web of Science. Only available from the COA network. List of all electronic journals available through COA. Google Scholar. arXiv.org: Over 383,443 (and growing daily) free papers in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology.

General References wikipedia: This is an excellent source of (almost always) reliable information about an incredibly wide variety of topics. Wikipedia often has very clear, not too technical explanations technical terms. mathworld: Lots of good information here, often at rather technical level.

Networks and Graphs M.E.J Newman, Models of the Small World: A Review. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0001118/. Published in: J. Stat. Phys. 101, 819-841 (2000). A short review article about empirical results and different models of small world graphs. A list of papers authored by members of Duncan Watts' research group. A cool java applet for visualizing small world graphs. M.E.J Newman, The structure and function of complex networks. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303516/. Published in SIAM Review 45, 167-256 (2003). An excellent, clear, and thorough review article about complex networks. T.S. Evans, Complex Networks. http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0405123. Another excellent review article. Class lectures from Understanding Networks: Theory and Applications, a class taught by Raissa D'souza.