Howard Bloom's "Lucifer Principle" contains a wealth of complex-system-theory-like insights into the meta-level "pecking order" dynamics of nation states and...
CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES ============================ (Apologies if you receive multiple copies) 21st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2006) ...
Hi, I have three senior research scentist positions that I am trying to fill: Senior Research Scientist: Evolutionary Computation Senior Research Scientist:...
Complexity of Networks Russell K. Standish http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IT/0508075 The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems Scott Golder, Bernardo A. Huberman...
Building a Virtual Microbe, Gene by Gene by Gene By CARL ZIMMER A group of scientists is trying to reconstruct a living organism, Escherichia coli, inside a...
The Milky Way, it turns out, is no ordinary spiral galaxy. According to a massive new survey of stars at the heart of the galaxy by Wisconsin astronomers,...
Google Talk http://www.google.com/talk/ Google Talk is tightly integrated into Gmail; in fact, you need a Gmail account to use it, since your Gmail login and...
Greg Egan says in his science-fiction novel "Quarantine" from 1992: "Let a computer smear - with the right kind of quantum randomness - and you create, in...
A new, interesting book. Unfortunately the libraries here do not have it, so I can not judge it. It seems to be interesting but perhaps a bit superficial ...
Peter J. Bentley works at the University College, London, and works on artificial immune systems and other biologically inspired computing systems: Climbing...
When the butterfly effect is mentioned in films (for example in Jurassic Park), it is often amusing and simplifying, but not brain-stimulating at all. Yet...
Is it really possible to predict everything? Are there patterns in the incredibly complex, seemingly chaotic interactions between man and the elements that...
A Generative Model for Feedback Networks Douglas R. White, Natasa Kejzar, Constantino Tsallis, J. Doyne Farmer, and Scott D. White SFI Working Paper 05-08-034 ...
Does the stability decrease or increase with higher complexity in ecosystems, food webs and other competitive systems ? Looks like researchers propose both. ...
Kevin Kelly's book "Out of Control" can be read online here: http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/contents.php Basically it says that evolutionary systems are the...
I just bought this book after reading chapter 2 online. I started reading it and found it very interesting. This got me into thinking that maybe we should post...
The members of the FRIAM Mailing List (http://www.friam.org) discussed recently "Complexity" books about agent-based modelling, emergence, self-organization,...
** Self-Organization and Self-Organized Criticality: Per Bak, "How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality" Scott Camazine, et al. (eds.) "Self...
Dear all I just wanna if there is anybody interested n woking on a project entitled:application of MAS in bioinformatic" Pls reply this e-mail for further...
Agents and MAS are of course well suited to simulated complex systems. I doubt they are widely used in bioinformatics, but it is possible you could do it. You...
Cyber scribes could be praising or blasting your latest paper, but how would you know? If you post your work on the physics preprint server arXiv, now you can...