William C. Schieve is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Center for Complex Quantum Systems at the University of Texas at Austin. Peter M. Allen is Emeritus Professor in Complex Systems at Cranfield School of Management.

• Preface 1. The Challenge of Complexity (I. Prigogine and P. M. Allen) 2. Self-Organization in Nonequilibrium Chemistry and in Biology (Jack S. Turner) 3. On the Dynamics of Technological Evolutions: Phase Transitions (Elliott W. Montroll) 4. The Many Faces of Scaling: Fractals, Geometry of Nature, and Economics (Benoit B. Mandelbrot) 5. Successive Reequilibrations as the Mechanism of Cultural Evolution (Robert L. Carneiro) 6. The Emergence of Hierarchical Social Structure: The Case of Late Victorian England (Richard Newbold Adams) 7. Self-Organization in the Urban System (P M. Allen) 8. Criticality and Urban Retail Structure: Aspects of Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation (A. G. Wilson) 9. Trip Making and Locational Choice (Martin J. Beckmann) 10. Creation of Order by Environmental Noise in the Volterra-Lotka Model (J. W. Stucki and W. Horsthemke) 11. Noise-Induced Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions (Werner Horsthemke) 12. Nucleation Paradigm: Survival Threshold in Population Dynamics (W. H. Zurek and W. C. Schieve) 13. The Efficiency of Oxidative Phosphorylation and the Thermodynamic Buffer Enzymes (W. Stucki) 14. Patterns of Nonequilibrium Organization in a Marine Bacterial Population (J. Wagensberg and J. Rodellar) 15. Boolean Equations with Temporal Delays (AndrÉ de Palma, Isabelle Stengers, and Serge Pahaut) 16. Remarks on Traffic Flow Theories and the Characterization of Traffic in Cities (Robert Herman) 17. Fluctuations in Demand and Transportation Mode Choice (J. L. Deneubourg, A. de Palma, and D. Kahn) 18. A Calibration of the Boltzmann-Like Theory of Traffic Flow (Tenny N. Lam) 19. Energy Analysis and Technology Assessment (Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen) 20. Thermodynamic Constraints in Economic Analysis (R. Stephen Berry and Bjarne Andresen) 21. Economic Dynamics (Russell Davidson) 22. From Self-Reference to Self-Transcendence: The Evolution of Self-Organization Dynamics (Erich Jantsch) 23. Four Different Causal Metatypes in Biological and Social Sciences (Magoroh Maruyama)

William C. Schieve is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Center for Complex Quantum Systems at the University of Texas at Austin. Peter M. Allen is Emeritus Professor in Complex Systems at Cranfield School of Management.

• Preface 1. The Challenge of Complexity (I. Prigogine and P. M. Allen) 2. Self-Organization in Nonequilibrium Chemistry and in Biology (Jack S. Turner) 3. On the Dynamics of Technological Evolutions: Phase Transitions (Elliott W. Montroll) 4. The Many Faces of Scaling: Fractals, Geometry of Nature, and Economics (Benoit B. Mandelbrot) 5. Successive Reequilibrations as the Mechanism of Cultural Evolution (Robert L. Carneiro) 6. The Emergence of Hierarchical Social Structure: The Case of Late Victorian England (Richard Newbold Adams) 7. Self-Organization in the Urban System (P M. Allen) 8. Criticality and Urban Retail Structure: Aspects of Catastrophe Theory and Bifurcation (A. G. Wilson) 9. Trip Making and Locational Choice (Martin J. Beckmann) 10. Creation of Order by Environmental Noise in the Volterra-Lotka Model (J. W. Stucki and W. Horsthemke) 11. Noise-Induced Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions (Werner Horsthemke) 12. Nucleation Paradigm: Survival Threshold in Population Dynamics (W. H. Zurek and W. C. Schieve) 13. The Efficiency of Oxidative Phosphorylation and the Thermodynamic Buffer Enzymes (W. Stucki) 14. Patterns of Nonequilibrium Organization in a Marine Bacterial Population (J. Wagensberg and J. Rodellar) 15. Boolean Equations with Temporal Delays (AndrÉ de Palma, Isabelle Stengers, and Serge Pahaut) 16. Remarks on Traffic Flow Theories and the Characterization of Traffic in Cities (Robert Herman) 17. Fluctuations in Demand and Transportation Mode Choice (J. L. Deneubourg, A. de Palma, and D. Kahn) 18. A Calibration of the Boltzmann-Like Theory of Traffic Flow (Tenny N. Lam) 19. Energy Analysis and Technology Assessment (Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen) 20. Thermodynamic Constraints in Economic Analysis (R. Stephen Berry and Bjarne Andresen) 21. Economic Dynamics (Russell Davidson) 22. From Self-Reference to Self-Transcendence: The Evolution of Self-Organization Dynamics (Erich Jantsch) 23. Four Different Causal Metatypes in Biological and Social Sciences (Magoroh Maruyama)