However, this book takes a pure biology approach describing the phenomena of self-organising systems and a number of case studies (fireflies, army ants, fish, bees etc). Each case study has a chapter dedicated to it. The text is readable by the non-biologist, non-mathematician and helps to provide an intuitive understanding of the processes.

So whilst the book may not be as rigorous as some may need for modelling purposes, or as applied as some computer science types want, I have found it to be very inspirational in looking for new ways to build software.

I have bought other books in the area but this is by far my favourite.