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...
By opening Windows to the Universe, students can compare comets that frequent the solar system, study a climate change tutorial, or learn about a star's life....
David Brin is like Greg Egan a contemporary author of "hard" science fiction with a degree in some kind of physics. He has written a lot of interesting books,...
Flock is an open-source browser, a "social browser" meaning that the application plays nicely with popular sites like Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us. ...
Friends for Free: Self-Organizing Artificial Social Networks for Trust and Cooperation David Hales and Stefano Arteconi http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.MA/0509037 ...
Buzzword - a trendy word or phrase that is used more to impress than explain. http://www.glasbergen.com/images/wed.gif Who gets the prize for the use of the...
The top ten 1. Karl Marx 27.93 2. David Hume 12.67 3. Ludwig Wittgenstein 6.8 4. Friedrich Nietzsche 6.49 5. Plato 5.65 6. Immanuel Kant 5.61 7. St. Thomas...
I recently watched an episode of Spongebob named "Sleepy Time". On first sight, Spongebob looks ugly and stupid, like the Simpsons. But if you watch it, it...
I must admit: I love spongebob. This next coincidence in what we like makes me start what I promised I would do this week: share the list of books I own. I'll...
The NetLogo development team at the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling at Northwestern University is pleased to announce NetLogo 3.0, a...
The environment is an essential component in any Multiagent System (MAS). It is a basic part of the perceive-reason-act cycle for agents, or simply "the world"...
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