Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 195, 153-158 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01407-2

Regular Article

The two messages of complexity theories and their implications to the study of society: Comments by J. Portugali on the Visioneer white papers by D. Helbing and S. Balietti

Tel Aviv University, ESLab (Environmental Simulation Lab), Dept. of Geography and the Human Environment, PO Box 39040, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel

^a e-mail: juval@post.tau.ac.il

Received: 8 January 2011
Revised: 26 February 2011
Published online: 30 May 2011

Abstract

This article comments on the Visioneer (Envisioning a Socio Economic Knowledge Collider) Project as described in the following white papers [1–3].^bb

The comments are based on my new book Complexity, Cognition and the City [4].