Data Science for Complex Systems

Anindya S. Chakrabarti is an Associate Professor of Economics and UTI Chair of Macroeconomics at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. His main research interests are macroeconomics, big data in economics, time series econometrics, network theory and complex systems. K. Shuvo Bakar is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney. His research interests are Bayesian modelling and computation to reduce uncertainty in inferential statements. He works on statistical machine learning methods and applications to real-life data-driven problems. Anirban Chakraborti is Dean of Research at the School of Engineering and Technology at BML Munjal University, India. His main research interests lie in the areas of econophysics, data science, quantum physics and nanomaterial science.

Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Facets of complex systems; Part II. Heterogeneity and Dependence: 2. Quantifying heterogeneity: Classical and Bayesian statistics; 3. Statistical analyses of time-varying phenomena; Part III. Patterns and Interlinkages: 4. Pattern recognition in complex systems: machine learning; 5. Interlinkages and heterogeneity: network theory. Part IV. Emergence: from Micros to Macro: 6. Interaction and emergence: agent-based models; 7. Epilogue; References; Index.