Empirical Paradox, Complexity Thinking and Generating New Kinds of Knowledge

Dr Bruce J. West is the Chief Mathematics Scientist at the Army Research Office (ARO), and holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Rochester, USA. Over a 50 year career, he has published 20 books, including Fractional Calculus View of Complexity, Tomorrow's Science (2016) and Nature's Patterns and the Fractional Calculus (2017), in addition to 26 book chapters. He has also published in excess of 300 scientific articles in referred scientific journals and magazines, and received the Army Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award in 2011, the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award in 2012, and the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award in 2017. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Army Research Laboratory, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Dr Korosh Mahmoodi is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He received his PhD in Physics from the Center for Nonlinear Science of the University of North Texas, and holds Master's Degrees in Materials Science and Engineering and Physics. His research interests include artificial intelligence, evolutionary game theory, dynamic complex networks, and nanomaterials, among others.Paolo Grigolini is a Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Nonlinear Science of the University of North Texas. He is the author of 369 publications, and leads the research program "From Sociology and Neuroscience to a New Physics".