Publications Holland authored a number of books about complex adaptive systems, including: Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems (1975, MIT Press) Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995, Basic Books); reviewed by Mark S. Miller in Reason Emergence: From Chaos to Order (1998, Basic Books) Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems (2012, MIT Press) Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (2014, Oxford University Press) Articles, a selection: "A universal computer capable of executing an arbitrary number of subprograms simultaneously", in: Proc. Eastern Joint Comp. Conf. (1959), pp. 108–112 "Iterative circuit computers", in: Proc. Western Joint Comp. Conf. (1960), pp. 259–265 "Outline for a logical theory of adaptive systems", in: JACM, Vol 9 (1962), no. 3, pp. 279–314 "Hierarchical descriptions, universal spaces, and adaptive systems", in: Arthur W. Burks, editor. Essays on Cellular Automata (1970). University of Illinois Press "Using Classifier Systems to Study Adaptive Nonlinear Networks", in: Daniel L. Stein, editor. Lectures in the Sciences of Complexity (1989). Addison Wesley "Concerning the Emergence of Tag-Mediated Lookahead in Classifier Systems", in: Stephanie Forrest, editor. Emergent Computation: self-organizing, collective, and cooperative phenomena in natural and computing networks (1990). MIT Press "The Royal Road for Genetic Algorithms: Fitness Landscapes and GA Performance", in: Francisco J. Varela, Paul Bourgine, editors. Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems: proceedings of the first European conference on Artificial Life (1992). MIT Press "Echoing Emergence: objectives, rough definitions, and speculations for ECHO-class models", in: George A. Cowan, David Pines, David Meltzer, editors. Complexity: metaphors, models, and reality (1994), Addison-Wesley "Can There Be A Unified Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems?", in: Harold J. Morowitz, Jerome L. Singer, editors. The Mind, The Brain, and Complex Adaptive Systems (1995). Addison-Wesley "Board Games", in: John Brockman, editor. The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years (2000). Phoenix "What is to Come and How to Predict It.", in: John Brockman, editor. The Next Fifty Years: science in the first half of the twenty-first century (2002). Weidenfeld & Nicolson References External links Complexity science pioneer John Holland passes away at 86 at santafe.edu Biography Echo project of John Holland at the Santa Fe Institute 1929 births 2015 deaths 20th-century American psychologists American cognitive scientists Complex systems scientists University of Michigan faculty University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni MacArthur Fellows Artificial intelligence researchers Santa Fe Institute people Researchers of artificial life