About Complex Systems
Complex Systems was founded by Stephen Wolfram in 1987 as part of his work in launching the field of complex systems research.
As the first journal in the field, Complex Systems has had the privilege of publishing many seminal papers over the course of three decades.
Complex Systems journal has developed a uniquely broad base of readers and contributors from academia, industry, government and the general public in over 50 countries around the world. The topics of research covered by Complex Systems span a diverse array of areas, including mathematics, physics, computer science and biology.
Read the Nature article by Sir John Maddox, in which he introduced Complex Systems to Nature's readership in 1987.
Publication Information
Complex Systems ISSN 0891-2513
© 1987–2024 Complex Systems Publications, Inc.
Published four times annually
Complex Systems Publications, Inc.
PO Box 6149
Champaign, IL 61826 USA
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Complex Systems Open Access Terms
Complex Systems is Platinum Open Access. This means permanent and free access to published scientific works for readers with no publication fees for the authors—100% free. All articles are published under the most flexible reuse standard—the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0).
The original journal devoted to the science, mathematics and engineering of systems with simple components but complex overall behavior; publishes high-quality articles that focus on, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Dynamic, topological and algebraic aspects of cellular automata and discrete dynamical systems
- Complex systems and complexity theory
- Algorithmic complexity and information theory
- Emergent properties of dynamical systems
- Formal languages, grammars and automata
- Algorithmic information dynamics
- Symbolic dynamics and connections to continuous systems
- Tilings, rewriting and substitution systems
- Computability theory
- Synchronous versus asynchronous models
- Applications of automata to areas such as machine and deep learning, physics, biology, social sciences and others
Editorial Board
Andrew Adamatzky
University of the West of England, UK
Xerxes D. Arsiwalla
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Jan Baetens
Ghent University, Belgium
Yaneer Bar-Yam
New England Complex Systems Institute, USA
Charles H. Bennett
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Cristian Calude
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
David K. Campbell
Boston University, USA
Gregory Chaitin
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hocine Cherifi
University of Burgundy, France
Sybil Derrible
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Walid Gomaa
Egypt–Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt
Hermann Haken
University of Stuttgart, Germany
W. Daniel Hillis
Applied Inventions, LLC, USA
Katsunobu Imai
Hiroshima University, Japan
Richard M. Karp
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Stuart Kauffman
University of Vermont, USA
Narsis A. Kiani
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Scott Kirkpatrick
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Lucas Lacasa
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Matthieu Latapy
Sorbonne University and CNRS, France
Vito Latora
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Joseph Lizier
University of Sydney, Australia
Maurice Margenstern
The University of Lorraine, France
Chiara Marletto
University of Oxford, UK
Genaro J. Martínez
National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
University of the West of England, UK
John Milnor
SUNY at Stony Brook, USA
Liesbeth de Mol
University of Lille, France
Mohamed Nemiche
Ibn Zohr University, Morocco
Andrew M. Odlyzko
University of Minnesota, USA
Pedro P. B. de Oliveira
Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil
Norman H. Packard
ProtoLife, USA
Mikhail Prokopenko
The University of Sydney, Australia
Eric Rowland
Hofstra University, USA
Todd Rowland
Zeta Cubed, LLC, USA
Hiroki Sayama
Binghamton University, USA
Terrence J. Sejnowski
The Salk Institute, USA
Ilya Shmulevich
Institute for Systems Biology, USA
Peter M. A. Sloot
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alvy Ray Smith
Susan Stepney
University of York, UK
Klaus Sutner
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Michael Szell
Central European University, Hungary
Matthew P. Szudzik
Jesper N. Tegnér
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Tommaso Toffoli
Boston University, USA
Pierpaolo Vivo
King's College London, UK
Jim Yorke
University of Maryland, USA
Ivan Zelinka
Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
In Memoriam
Stanley Reiter
Northwestern University, USA
Steven A. Orszag
Princeton University, USA
John H. Holland
University of Michigan, USA
Bai-Lin Hao
Academia Sinica, Beijing, China
Mitchell Feigenbaum
Rockefeller University, USA
Philip W. Anderson
Princeton University, USA
