INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING - ICONIP 2004 Calcutta, India - November 23-25 SPECIAL SESSION ON ANT COLONY AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS ...
The CSRG Complex Systems Reading Group at the University of Michigan, organized by Christopher Paul Warren, is discussing this paper in their meeting on...
"Because almost every real system is inherently complicated, to say that a system is complex is almost an empty statement — couldn't an Institute for Complex...
Scaling Laws and Urban Systems Denise Pumain SFI Working Paper 04-02-002 http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/Working-Papers/04-02-002.pdf Finite State...
Advertising, Replication and Reproduction Have you noticed that many religious, political, military and other groups (or the corresponding group-owners,...
Bill Bryson has written a very popular book about evolution and the emergence of complexity. He gives a summary what has happened from the time of the Big Bang...
Before it drowns in the NYTimes.com archives, here is Ed Regis' review of Bryson's book from May 18, 2003. ... Atoms the Size of Peas By Ed Regis A SHORT...
... The problem with economy's growth, as it stands, is that it is following a "growth imperative" which is exponential. Growth patterns of production and...
Hi, In regards to five star reviews... ... This fascinating article appears in todays New York Times. Thought you might find it of interest. February 14, 2004...
Take at look beyond the edge of time with Hubble. Astronomers today (09-Mar-2004) unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible Universe ever achieved by...
250 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the land and oceans teemed with life. This was the Permian, a golden era of biodiversity that...
Presenter (Graham Chapman): Good evening. CAPTION: "THRUST - A QUITE CONTROVERSIAL LOOK AT THE WORLD AROUND US" Presenter: I have with me tonight Anne Elk. Mrs...
Stephen Jay Gould has proposed with Niles Eldredge the theory of punctuated equilibrium (*) in evolution. The traditional or gradualistic view, represented by...
Richard Dawkins writes in the foreword to "The Theory of Evolution" from John Maynard Smith (Cambridge University Press, 1993): "You can live some sort of life...
From the publisher "Kassel University Press". I will post a link to the corresponding website as soon as it is published (which will be next month, maybe even...
Oops, the last posting got the wrong subject line. Here are the most interesting new SFI working papers: Networks, Fields, and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics,...
in "How the Mind Works" he writes on page 92 (where he discusses Herbert Simon's article): "Modular design in computers and minds is a special case of modular,...
NKS Summer School 2004 will be held June 20 - July 9, 2004 at Brown University. Applications were due March 15 for the NKS Summer School 2004, but late...
Are memes cooperative and genes selfish ? A meme, a word orginally coined by Richard Dawkins, is according to the Oxford English Dictionary MEME An element of...
Jochen Fromm wrote:- ... -- snip -- ... True. And since memes have such efficient replication mechanisms, what then limits their explosive cancer-like growth...
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According to a saying, if you give a boy a hammer, the whole world becomes a nail. As Steven Pinker argues in "How the Mind works", if you give someone an ...
Man, mouse, rat, chicken, dog and fish share more DNA than previously thought. A collection of mystery DNA segments, which seem to be critical for the survival...
Geologist Luann Becker believes she has found more evidence for an ancient crater left by the impact off the coast of what is now Australia. "What we found is...