"This volume contains the best lectures from the Summer School Lectures volumes dealing with the theme of pattern formation. Topics include self-organization by simulated evolution, nonlinear dynamics"

About the Santa Fe Institute , Preface , Pattern and Process , Self-Organization by Simulated Evolution , Limiting Assumptions in Models of Somatotopic Map Organization , Functional Self-Organization in Complex Systems , Nonlinear Dynamics of Pattern Formation in Physics and Biology , Synchronous Oscillations in Neuronal Systems: Mechanisms and Functions , The Emergence of Computational Ecologies , Preimages and Forecasting for Cellular Automata , Probablistic Cellular Automata: Some Statistical Mechanical Considerations , Nonlocal Cellular Automata , The Dynamics and Analysis of Patterns , Pattern Formation in Biological Systems , Impulse Activity and the Patterning of Connections During CNS Development , Pattern Formation in Chemical Systems: Roles of Open Reactors , The Future of Time Series: Learning and Understanding