Complex Systems: analysis methods

The First chapter outlines the reference context and provides some notations and hystory about the complex system theory. The Second chapter deals with topological models and structural issues of technological systems. The Third and Fourth chapter tackle the two opposite perspectives which can be undertaken in order to implement dynamical models of complex systems, specfically, an "holistic" perspective and a simulation driven approach. The last chapter present an innovative multi-scale modeling methodology, which can exploit the advantages of the previous methdologies, overcoming some of the limits shown by single scale approaches.