[FRIAM] FRIAM book

[Jochen Fromm]

Certainly. The topic complex systems is wide.
Yet if we focus on what "the sciences of complexity"
have achieved and accomplished in the last 20 years - 
the SFI exists for more than 20 years, see for example 
http://www.santafe.edu/research/publications/bulletin/fall2004v19n2.pdf 
the list becomes much smaller, the topic becomes 
easier to handle and it is easier to come to an
agreement.

To collect the ideas in a MediaWiki is a good idea.
Maybe it would be recommendable to start with a coarse
table of contents (I. "What has complexity science 
achieved so far?", II. "What is the state of the art and 
the cutting edge of research?", and III. "What major
challenges and unsolved problems lie ahead?").

-J.


-----Original Message-----
From: magd maged
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 8:19 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 37, Issue 55

I think the topic of complex systems is too wide to be
included in one book unless it mentions the subtopics
briefly. Moreover the wide background of peole
interested in complex systems will make it extremely
difficult to agree on one book.