Les deux références suivantes se complète bien et donne une bonne vue du domaine.

• Chapter VIII (p. 410-454): The geometry of Human affair in Alternate realities by Paul Caspi (mathematical moedling and applied math). Good introduction, with a broad view and without too much formalism.

• Some structure and notation of Q-analysis A mathematical introduction. May serve as a memento

• Q-Analysis: A hard language for the soft sciences A methodological introduction for social scientists, by Atkin the father of Q-analysis.

• An Introduction to Q-analysis (slides) Systemic view for social scientist and a reference to lattice computing, see also Lattice Computing: lattice theory based computational intelligence

• An Introduction to Q-analysis An introduction for geographer.

• Q-analysis for modeling and decision making

• How far can Q-analysis go into social systems understanding ? systemic approaches for social science

• Perspectives on A-homotopy theory and its applications combinatorial homotopy theory of simplicial complexes and graphs

• Combinatorial and algebraic approaches to Network Analysis change analysis of time series of dynamic networks

• Hypernetworks for reconstructing the dynamics of multilevel systems Rephrasing some stuff in more modern language. A focus on miulti-level systems

• Chapter II: A theory of Stars in Complex Systems in Complexity, Language and Life: Mathematical Approaches An slight generalization of Q-analysis to accomadate multiple-level of hierarchies.

• Factory Automation Project Selection Using Multicriterion Q-analysis multi-criterion decision making

• Evaluation of the performance of a distribution system

• Q-analysis and the structure of friendship networks

• Q-analysis of user-database interaction

• Complexity, Design, Q-analysis, Science Life & Everything (slides) focus on design and complexity measure)

• The Multilevel Hypernetwork Dynamics of Complex Systems of Robot Soccer Agents dynamics of multilevel systems illustrated on Robot soccer

• Q-analysis and transport: a false start ? application to transportation

• Higher-order Q analysis of a range of personality and psychophysiological variables classification in psychology

• J.-L. Giavitto and O. Michel. MGS: a rule-based programming language for complex objects and collections. In Mark van den Brand and Rakesh Verma, editors, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, volume 59. Elsevier Science Publishers, 2001.

• Jean-Louis Giavitto and Antoine Spicher. Topological rewriting and the geometrization of programming. Physica D, 237:1302–1314, 2008.

• Jean-Louis Giavitto, Antoine Spicher. MGS Tutorial. Special Session at Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC’2012), 3-7 Septembre 2012. (about 400 slides). Cf. http://www.spatial-computing.org/mgs:tutorial

• J.-L. Giavitto and E. Valencia. A Topological Framework for Modeling Diagrammatic Reasoning Tasks. In Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning. Editors : P. Olivier, M. Anderson and B. Meyer. Springer Verlag. (Livre paru en mars 2002 après avoir été annoncé en 2001.)

• Programmation spatiale : application à l'analyse des contes de fées et à l'analyse musicale, séminaire IPAC, Nancy mars 2012.

• L. Bigo, J.-L. Giavitto, A. Spicher. Building Topological Spaces for Musical Objects. Proc. of the Int. Mathematics and Computation in Music. Paris, Juin 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6726