Sorry for the late reply here. Regarding the threads on human intelligence we humans often don't have a clue as to what really goes on in our minds. We tend...
Jochen, I think this is a good idea and I think I'd like to participate, but I'll admit I don't know exactly what you are intending and how it differs from...
Regarding invented/artificial problems vs "natural" ones... I think I do understand what Jochen means when he says P vs NP is invented whereas "intelligence"...
A major evolutionary transition is for Kevin Padian for example the transition from fins to legs. This is not a major evolutionary transition (a 'landmark...
I am not sure, actually it is quite simple to write a community site such as Yahoo Groups. Using modern scripting languages (Ruby or Python), together with a...
Buzzword of the day: "Creative Destruction", meaning one thing is replaced by another from within. Sounds a bit like cancer.. Definitions for "creative...
Which of the following social networks will become a Facebook for scientists? Nature Network http://network.nature.com/ SciLink http://www.scilink.com/ ...
I'll bet on Nature Network. It's the only one I've stumbled across and know people who are on. Plus, people want the cache associated with the journal...
... The late military strategist John Boyd wrote a white paper titled "Creation and Destruction" as a process of analysis (taking things apart) and ...
I would suggest using a Content Management System (CMS) for such a site. Yes, you can write it if you put your mind to it but it still will be a lot of work....
I have created two new blogs: 4 Lines of Code http://4loc.wordpress.com/ CAS-Group Blog http://blog.cas-group.net/ The first is a personal blog about software...
Kevin Kelly of Wired gave an interesting talk on this subject. For a more speculative, but believable projection slightly farther out I recommend Vernor...
Could a computer scientists examine these 68 molecules and try to extract from their interactions the "juice" of complexity? Cheers, Telmo Menezes. ... Do 68...
An interesting article, but unfortunately I don't think it is possible. The illustration in the article shows the 20 amino acids used to make proteins and the...
Dear all, I have wrote this question to another group about complexity but i would like to have your opinion/help on this issue: I'm writing my PhD thesis in...
Are complex systems the most frequent systems we can find? It depends where you look at. On a very large scale, the Italian researcher is correct. If you...
My personal opinion is that everything in the actual universe is a complex system but that many such systems are approximated well with simpler models and thus...
I agree, it depends how you look at it. It's all in a human mind. Give me any system that you can think of and I bet that someone is capable of creating a...
Jochen, (I will try to respond again, sorry if the first attempt got to you) I was hoping to see something having to do with the dimensionality of complexity. ...
Determining the fractal dimension of an image is not difficult, you can use for example the box counting method. In complex networks, often the degree...
I believe that almost every biological, social and economic system is a complex system. Hence they are ubiquitous. E.Ahmed ... you) ... dimensionality of ... ...
I would like to inform you that CASoN 2009 Conference will take place in June from the 24th to the 27th in Fontainebleau, France. It is a conference...
Hey ... what's going on with the group? Did everyone move and not tell me? The last message is dated Oct. 14th. (Sheesh ... can't a guy skip a month or two...
... across the site.. I have setup a new blog here: http://blog.cas-group.net/ A wordpress blog offers better functionality for embedding pictures and videos,...
Ah, thanks ... you know, I had come across that new site recently, and so I searched for it again, but wasn't able to find it. Thanks for the link. -Ted...
Most interesting phenomena in natural and social systems include constant transitions and oscillations among their various phases. Wars, companies, societies,...
COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND SOCIAL SIMULATIONS SUMMER SCHOOL 2009 Central European University, Budapest, Hungary JULY 13 - 24, 2009 www.sun.ceu.hu/complex Application...
C a l l f o r C o n t r i b u t i o n s ... Special Issue of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems on Self-Adaptive Systems: Models &...