The study of Complex Systems is considered by many to be a new scientific field, and is distinguished by being a discipline that has applications within many separate areas of scientific study. The study of Neural Networks, Traffic Patterns, Artificial Intelligence, Social Systems, and many other scientific areas can all be considered to fall within the realm of Complex Systems, and can be stud...

A theory of complex systems has been developed from the forties, relating simple elementary processes to collective functional properties in physics, biology and the social sciences. More recently, application to design and business have been developed. A major turning point around year 2000 is the availability of huge set of data which complex systems methodology allows to transform into usefu...