Biological Complexity. A Symposium

"The development of instruments for the analysis of complex systems is an enterprise that concerns researchers coming from a large variety of scientific disciplines. Situations specially difficult to tackle for the scientific research arte, precisely, those exhibiting the property called 'complexity'. The Symposium on Biological Complexity held in Montevideo in 1995, assembled scientific researchers coming from different areas and whose works arte deeply concerned with this subject. As complexity shows similar faces in different disciplines, participation in the Symposium of researchers coming from Mathematics and Physics, was also promoted. In addition, both experimentalists and theoreticians were present, since each one of their modes of research can not exist without the other. Favouring such a variety, the meeting intended to contact with 'hot' problems coming from the experimental side and, at the same time, to oppose a dangerous tendency: to take transitory solutions of problems as if they were final truths. The Symposium was attended by 21 researchers from Argentina, Chile, France, Israel, USA and Uruguay. This book assembles their papers, together with considerations discussed in a round table, and a closing lecture." Índice resumido: Prólogo, agradecimientos, veintiún capítulos y un epílogo. Autores: Luis Acerenza, Fabián Álvarez, Fernando Álvarez, Cristina Arruti, Henri Atlan, Luis Bercier, Benjamin Bolker, Eric Boussard, Ítalo Bove, Ruben Budelli, Arturo Cervantes, Alicia De María, Paul Dixon, Ricardo Ehrlich, Julián Fernández, Antonio Glaría-Bengoechea, Leonel Gómez, Lisette Gorfinkiel, Miguel Ángel Jiménez-Montaño, Ronald Jonas-Zúñiga, Juan Lin, Mónica Marín, Ryan McAllister, Eduardo Mizraji, Jorge Mpodozis-Marín, Fernando Ortega, Stephen W. Pacala, Khashayar Pakdaman, Ángel Plastino, Andrés Pomi, Thorsten Pöschel, Paul E. Rapp, José-Pedro Segundo, Aníbla C. Sicardi-Schifino, Michael Stiber, Roberto E. Suárez-Antola, George Sugihara, Jean-Francois Vibert, Mario Wschebor. Presentación: Rústica. Contiene cuadros y gráficas en blanco y negro.