Engineering a spaceship is as difficult as it sounds. Modeling plays a large role in the time and effort it takes to create spaceships and other complex engineering systems. It requires extensive ...

Uri Wilensky is the author of the NetLogo modeling software, which introduces complexity to students of all ages. Uri Wilensky: The world has grown very interconnected and complex, and to adapt to it, ...

In fields ranging from immunology and ecology to economics and thermodynamics, multi-scale complex systems are ubiquitous. They are also notoriously difficult to model. Conventional approaches take ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. NASA has more programs today than at any ...

What are “complex systems” in this context? These are noncomputer systems, such as a company’s supply chain. A system is “complex” when it has so many variables and interacting forces that it can’t be ...

Kinetic theory and mathematical modeling have emerged as indispensable tools for elucidating the collective behaviour of complex systems. This discipline applies statistical mechanics to a diverse ...

A team led by Academician GUO Guangcan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), with collaborative efforts from the University of ...

Researchers of the Laboratory of Complex Systems Modeling and Control have proposed a missing component of the mechanism of self-organized criticality, which will enable the reproduction of power-law ...

Information theory and network physiology are rapidly converging fields that offer powerful frameworks for unraveling the complexities of living systems. At ...

Just weeks before the latest round of international talks seeking solutions for our rapidly warming world, this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics highlights some of the fundamental science at the heart of ...