Advances in Complex Societal, Environmental and Engineered Systems

Part I. Societal and Ecological Systems

1. ProtestLab: A Computational Laboratory for Studying Street Protests
Carlos M. Lemos, Helder Coelho, Rui J. Lopes

2. A Generic Agent-Based Model of Historical Social Behaviors Change
Ahmed M’hamdi, Mohamed Nemiche, Rafael Pla Lopez, Fatima Ezzahra SFA, Khabid Sidati, Omar Baz

3. Understanding Social Systems Research
Louis Klein

4. ForestSim: An Agent-Based Simulation for Bioenergy Sustainability Assessment
Mark Rouleau

5. Toward a Complex Concept of Sustainability
Humberto Mariotti

6. Effects of Policy Decision-Making on Riparian Corridors in a Semi-arid Desert: A Modeling Approach
Aloah Pope, Randy Gimblett

Part II. Approaches for Understanding, Modeling, Forecasting and Mastering Complex Systems

7. Dialectical Systems Theory as a Way to Handle Complex Systems
Matjaz Mulej, Zdenka Ženko, Nastja Mulej

8. Reducing Complexity of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems
Anca Maria Nagy-Kiss, Georges Schutz, Benoît Marx, Gilles Mourot, José Ragot

9. A Few Reflections on the Quality of Emergence in Complex Collective Systems
Vincenzo Florio

10. Link Structure Analysis of Urban Street Networks for Delineating Traffic Impact Areas
Tzai-Hung Wen, Wei-Chien-Benny Chin, Pei-Chun Lai

11. Logic, Mathematics and Consistency in Literature: Searching for Don Quixote’s Place
Javier Montero, Gracia Rodríguez-Caderot, Pilar Romero

12. Energy-Efficient Buildings as Complex Socio-technical Systems: Approaches and Challenges
F. Lachhab, M. Bakhouya, R. Ouladsine, M. Essaaidi

Part III. Real-Life Examples

13. Modelling Space-Time-Action Modularity and Evolution of Living Systems
Pierre Bricage

Keywords: Engineering, Complexity, Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics