(For more general introductions on these subjects see our Themes page)
| Artificial Intelligence - comp.ai newsgroup (7 part Text FAQ) |
| Artificial Life - comp.ai.alife newsgroup (Original FAQ) |
| Cellular Automata - comp.theory.cell-automata newsgroup (Original FAQ) |
| Evolutionary Computation - comp.ai.genetic newsgroup |
| Fractals - sci.fractals newsgroup |
| Fuzzy Systems - comp.ai.fuzzy newsgroup |
| Genetic Programming - comp.ai.genetic newsgroup |
| Neural Nets - comp.ai.neural-nets newsgroup |
| Non-Linear Systems - sci.nonlinear newsgroup |
| Robotics - comp.robotics newsgroup |
| Self-Organizing Systems - comp.theory.self-org-sys newsgroup |
Introductions & Tutorials
(listed in order of difficulty or detail per subject category)
For more general introductions see Themes and for more specialised treatments see Online Papers
| Artificial Intelligence for the Beginner - incl NNs and GAs by Mark Lambourne |
| An Introduction to AI - essays on most areas by Generation 5 |
| An Introduction to the Science of Artificial Intelligence - by Thinkquest |
| Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - course notes (some Postscript) by Michael Gasser |
The Pattern Recognition Basic of AI - introductory Book by Donald Tveter  |
| Introduction to CNS/Ph175: Artificial Life - by Chris Adami |
| Artificial Life - introduction by Anders Kaplan |
| Artificial Life an Interactive Essay - by Stewart Dean |
| An Introduction to Artificial Life - paper by Moshe Sipper |
| SSIE 580B Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life - lecture notes by Luis Rocha |
| CNS/Ph 175: Artificial Life - technical lecture notes (part Postscript) by Chris Adami |
| The Nature of Autonomous Agents - technical lecture notes by Stuart Kauffman |
| Introduction: Autopoiesis and Enaction - tutorial by Randall Whitaker |
| The Ontological Foundations of Autopoietic Theory - tutorial by Kent Palmer |
| A Brief Introduction to Cellular Automata - by Moshe Sipper |
| Introduction to One-dimensional Cellular Automata - with Java applets by David Eck |
| Cellular Automata - introduction by Scott Robert Ladd |
| Cellular Automata - brief tutorial by David Green |
| Introduction to Lattice Gas Automata - David Hanon and Olivier Tribel |
| Cellular Automata and Art - introduction by Brian P. Hoke |
| Cellular Automata: Digital Worlds - detailed tutorial by Alexander Schatten |
| Simulation with Cellular Automata - lecture notes by Jörg R. Weimar |
| Stochastic Spatial Models - hyper-tutorial by Rick Durrett |
| Cellular Neural Networks - brief introduction by Giulio Destri |
| Cellular Programming - brief introduction by Moshe Sipper |
| Chaos Theory: A Brief Introduction - by Greg Rae |
| Chaos Introduction - by Andrew Ho |
| Chaos: A Pictorial Introduction - animated by John Banks |
| What Are Chaos & Complex Systems Theory ? - explanation by Mark Michaels |
| Chaos in the Classroom - tutorial by Robert Devaney |
Chaos Tutorial - by Gar-Field High School  |
| Chaos without the Math - by Judy Petree |
| Chaos & Fractals: A Guided Tour - by Brian Wynn |
| What is Chaos? a five-part online course for everyone - by Matthew A. Trump |
| Exploring Chaos & Fractals - a web Book by Informit |
| Chaos Hypertextbook - mathematics by Glenn Elert |
| Order - chaos maths intro for high school by M. Casco Associates |
| Classical and Quantum Chaos: A Cyclist Treatise - a web Book (mostly Postscript) by Predrag Cvitanovic |
| Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Complexity Science - Buck Lawrimore |
| Systems Thinking: Simplified Overview - by Rod Draheim, Mike Henderson, Gus Neverman, Duane Schwartz & Mike Wenzlick |
| Systems Thinking - animated overview by Clinton Andrews and Carl Henn |
| The Art of Systems Thinking - Joseph O'Connor and Ian McDermott |
| Back to Basics: Introduction to Systems Theory and Complexity - concepts by Onar Ĺm (temp URL) |
| What are Complex Adaptive Systems ? - a brief description by Peter Fryer |
| Complexity and Organisation Development - by Richard Seel |
| An Introduction to Complex Systems - Torsten Reil |
| Guide to Complex Systems - NECSI |
| Complexity - by Don Mikulecky |
| Primer to Complexity Theory - Amanda Inskip Corcoran |
| Applied Systems Thinking - Curt McNamara |
| Systems and Systemic Theory - course notes by Gary Boyd |
| PCC Complexity Course - lecture notes by Larry Edwards |
| Systems Theory Lesson - AECT Change Division |
An Introduction to Complexity in Social Science - Bernard Pavard & Julie Dugdale  |
| Introduction to Dynamic Systems - workshop notes by Keith Clayton |
| Dynamic Systems & Fractals - Book length maths lecture notes by David Wright |
| Learning Dynamic Systems: A Tutorial - by Dean, Leach & Shatkay |
| What is Evolutionary Psychology ? - primer by Leda Cosmides & John Tooby |
| Fractals - lessons for kids by Cynthia Lanius |
| Zarmi's Fractals Page - brief illustrated intro |
| Basic Information on Fractals - by Jean-Pierre Louvet |
| A Brief Introduction to Fractals - by Godric Wilkie |
| The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot set - high school intro by Robert Devaney |
| An Introduction to Chaos Theory and Fractals - by the Amateur Chaologist |
| An Introduction to Fractals - by Paul Bourke |
| The Natural Geometry of Fractals - by Michael Bayne |
| The Nature of Fractals - intro by Juan Luis Martínez |
| Introduction to Fractals & Chaos Theory - by Scott Vaughen |
| Fractal Tutorials - by ThinkQuest |
| The Fractal Guide - by Parmjit Virk |
| The Fract-Ed Information Pages - tutorial by Douglas Martin |
| Fractals and Scale - tutorial by David Green |
| Cubic Tutorial - by Ingvar Kullberg |
| The Feigenbaum Fractal - introduction and tutorial by Hĺvard Berland |
| Fractals Unleashed - comprehensive tutorial |
| Fractal Geometry - course by Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot & Nial Neger |
| About Fractal Theory - maths introduction by Cygnus Software (Fractal eXtreme) |
| The Fractory: An Interactive Tool for Creating and Exploring Fractals - multi-level intro by Green, Kulesza & Bergstresser
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| A Graphical Introduction to Fuzzy Logic - Jim Sibigtroth |
| Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic - overview by Brian T. Luke |
| Fuzzy Systems: A Tutorial - by James Brule |
| A Brief Course in Fuzzy Logic & Fuzzy Control - by Peter Bauer, Stephan Nouak & Roman Winkler |
| Fuzzy Logic and Neurofuzzy Tutorials - collection by Martin Brown |
| What are Neuro-Fuzzy Systems ? - brief introduction by Detlef Nauck |
| Fuzzy Logic Tutorial - Steven D. Kaehler
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| Fuzzy Decision Making - lecture notes (postscript) by Robert Fullér |
| Introducing Evolutionary Computing - by EvoNet |
| A Brief Introduction to Genetic Algorithms - by Moshe Sipper |
| Introduction to Genetic Algorithms - by Rabatin Investment Technology |
| Genetic Algorithms - introduction with JAVA by Marek Obitko |
| The GA Tutorials Notebook - lists of introductions and tutorials |
| An Overview of Evolutionary Computation - by Spears, De Jong, Baeck, Fogel & de Garis |
| Genetic Algorithms - detailed introduction by Scott Robert Ladd |
| Practical Guide to Genetic Algorithms - by Ron Shaffer |
| Genetic Algorithms - tutorial by Alexander Schatten |
| A Genetic Algorithm Tutorial - by Darrell Whitley (postscript) |
| Genetic Algorithms and Genetically Evolved Neural Networks - introduction from NIBS Pte Ltd |
| The Genetic Programming Tutorial Notebook - by Jaime Fernandez |
| An Introduction to Lindenmayer Systems - Gabriela Ochoa |
| L-Systems - tutorial by David Green |
| Fractint L-Systems Tutorial - by William McWorter |
| Mandelbrot, Julia, Quaternion - tutorials by Frode Gill |
| PGD's Quick Guide to the Mandelbrot Set - by Paul Derbyshire |
| Introduction to the Mandelbrot Set - by David Dewey |
| The Mandelbrot Set - maths by Hoppy |
| What are Neural Networks ? - brief intro by Battelle |
| What is an Artifical Neural Network ? - by NeuroSolutions |
| A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks - from the US Department of Defense |
| An Introduction to Neural Networks - by Leslie Smith |
| Artificial Neural Networks - an introduction by the Helsinki Cognitive Science Group |
| Connectionism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
| Neural Networks Tutorial - Vikram Pudi |
| The Backprop Algorithm - by Donald R. Tveter |
| PBio 520 ANN Lecture Notes - by Deborah A. Stacey (Postscript) |
| Artificial Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, and Distributed Intelligence - by Colin Fyfe (Postscript) |
| Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART): An Introduction - L.G. Heins and D.R. Tauritz (Postscript) |
| Neural Nets - Book length course notes by Kevin Gurney |
| An Introduction to Neural Networks - Textbook by Ben Kröse and Patrick van der Smagt (postscript) |
| Neural Nets - introduction to linear RBF nets by Mark Orr |
| Information Theory and Artificial Neural Networks - by Colin Fyfe (Postscript) |
| Training Recurrent Neural Networks - a mathematical tutorial by Herbert Jaeger (pdf) |
| Biology 576 Landscape Ecology & Macroscopic Dynamics: Self-Organizing Systems - tutorial by Ethan Decker |
| Exploring Emergence - a Java tutorial by Mitchel Resnick and Brian Silverman |
| Learning and Self-Organizing Systems - Denni Rögnvaldsson (some Swedish) |
| Self-Organization, Systems Theory & Constructivism - course by Moses A. Boudourides |
| Strange Attractor Lore - introduction by Patrick Coleman |