Founded by Stephen Wolfram in 1987 »
The original journal devoted to the science, mathematics and engineering of systems with simple components but complex overall behavior.
Complex Systems journal is included in the Web of Science (Clarivate) 2023 Journal Citation Reports with an Impact Factor of 1.2, ranking 11th in the category "Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Application - ESCI" and 5th by total citations.
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Volume 32, Issue 4
Patrik Christen
System Metamodeling of Open-Ended Evolution Implemented with Self-Modifying Code
Luan Carlos de Sena Monteiro Ozelim, André Luís Brasil Cavalcante, Todd Rowland and Jan M. Baetens
An Alternative Representation of Turing Machines by Means of the Iota-Delta Function
Savino Longo
Formal Grammars Generating Fractal Descriptions of Molecular Structures
Carlos Zapata-Carratalá and Xerxes D. Arsiwalla
An Invitation to Higher Arity Science
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