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Complexity Digest 2011.25 Next Issue TOP

  1. The network takeover, Nature Physics
  2. Between order and chaos, Nature Physics
    1. Information processing in echo state networks at the edge of chaos, Theory in Biosciences
  3. Uninformed Individuals Promote Democratic Consensus in Animal Groups, Science
    1. Decision versus compromise for animal groups in motion, PNAS
  4. To Group or Not to Group?, Science
  5. Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness, TED.com
  6. Communities, modules and large-scale structure in networks, Nature Physics
    1. Evolution of a modular software network, PNAS
  7. Modelling dynamical processes in complex socio-technical systems, Nature Physics
  8. Collaborative learning in networks, PNAS
    1. Social selection and peer influence in an online social network, PNAS
  9. Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets, Science
  10. Evolution and development of Brain Networks: From Caenorhabditis elegans to Homo sapiens, arXiv
  11. The use of information theory in evolutionary biology, arXiv
  12. Networks formed from interdependent networks, Nature Physics
  13. Converging towards the optimal path to extinction, arXiv
  14. The Diversity Paradox: How Nature Resolves an Evolutionary Dilemma, arXiv
  15. Facing Complexity: Prediction vs. Adaptation, arXiv
  16. A comparative study of Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams of urban road networks governed by different traffic signal systems, arXiv
  17. The effects of spatially heterogeneous prey distributions on detection patterns in foraging seabirds, arXiv
  18. Slime mould imitation of Belgian transport networks: redundancy, bio-essential motorways, and dissolution, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Princeton University Press
    2. Bacteria: The Benign, the Bad, and the Beautiful, Wiley-Blackwell
    3. Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis, Portfolio Hardcover
    4. Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    5. Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, Columbia University Press
    6. What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite, Prometheus Books
    7. Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything, Wiley
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Complexity Digest 2011.24 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complex Systems: A Survey, arXiv
  2. Building a Science of Cities, CASA Working Papers
  3. What Are Leaders Really For?, HBR Blog Network
  4. An Experimental Study of Homophily in the Adoption of Health Behavior, Science
  5. Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration, TED.com
    1. Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk, TED.com
  6. How to Fix World Transportation, BusinessWeek
    1. Complexity in human transportation networks: a comparative analysis of worldwide air transportation and global cargo-ship movements, Eur. Phys. J. B
  7. An Evolution Toward a Programmable Universe, NYTimes.com
  8. Impact of epistasis and pleiotropy on evolutionary adaptation, Proc. R. Soc. B
  9. Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats, Science
  10. Energetics and the evolution of human brain size, Nature
  11. How The "Internet Of Things" Is Turning Cities Into Living Organisms, Fast Company
  12. Dynamics of non-equilibrium communities, Proc. R. Soc. B
  13. The Dichotomy in Degree Correlation of Biological Networks, PLoS ONE
  14. Context Modularity of Human Altruism, Science
    1. Cooperation, structure and hierarchy in multiadaptive games, arXiv
  15. Philosophy: Meditation in mind, Nature
  16. Entangling Macroscopic Diamonds at Room Temperature, Science
  17. The structure of coevolving infection networks, arXiv
    1. Recurrent host mobility in spatial epidemics: beyond reaction-diffusion, Eur. Phys. J. B
  18. Guiding the self-organization of random Boolean networks, Theory in Biosciences
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Evolution and the Emergent Self: The Rise of Complexity and Behavioral Versatility in Nature, Columbia University Press
    2. The Number That Killed Us: A Story of Modern Banking, Flawed Mathematics, and a Big Financial Crisis, Wiley
    3. The Common Extremalities in Biology and Physics, Second Edition: Maximum Energy Dissipation Principle in Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Evolution, Elsevier
    4. Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, Oxford University Press
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Complexity Digest 2011.23 Next Issue TOP

  1. Optimization of brain and life performance: Striving for playing at the top for the long run, arXiv
  2. Lynn Margulis 1938-2011 "Gaia Is A Tough Bitch", Edge.org
  3. Robust Signal Processing in Living Cells, PLoS Comput Biol
  4. Urban lead, Nature Geoscience
    1. Living in Living Cities, arXiv
  5. Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?, TED.com
    1. Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives, TED.com
  6. Discovering Network Structure Beyond Communities, Scientific Reports
  7. Modelling Epidemics on Networks, arXiv
  8. The role of sex separation in neutral speciation, arXiv
  9. Electricity Now and When, Science
    1. Electrical Energy Storage for the Grid: A Battery of Choices, Science
  10. Smart Swarms of Bacteria Inspire Robotics: Adaptable Decision-Making Found in Bacteria Communities, ScienceDaily
  11. The age of the megacity, Nature Geoscience
  12. Evolutionary Time Travel, Science
    1. Division of labour and the evolution of multicellularity, arXiv
  13. Environmental effects of information and communications technologies, Nature
  14. Peer-review in a world with rational scientists: Toward selection of the average, Eur. Phys. J. B
  15. Image characterization and classification by physical complexity, Complexity
    1. Natural Complexity, Computational Complexity and Depth, arXiv
  16. Rational Choice, Context Dependence, and the Value of Information in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), Science
  17. Collective Animal Behavior from Bayesian Estimation and Probability Matching, PLoS Comput Biol
  18. Memristive excitable cellular automata, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Price of Fish: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
    2. Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain, Ecco
    3. Language and Music as Cognitive Systems, Oxford University Press
    4. Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success on the Far Side of Failure, Wharton Digital Press
    5. Bioinformatics for Biologists, Cambridge University Press
    6. Computational Complexity: Theory, Techniques, and Applications, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2011.22 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Language of Dendrites, Science
  2. The Brain's Social Network, Science
    1. Social Network Size Affects Neural Circuits in Macaques, Science
  3. Evolutionary biology: The path to sociality, Nature
    1. Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates, Nature
  4. Briefing: Can ecosystems show how to fix the euro?, New Scientist
  5. Martin Hanczyc: The line between life and not-life, TED.com
    1. Paul Zak: Trust, morality -- and oxytocin, TED.com
    2. Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains, TED.com
    3. Allan Jones: A map of the brain, TED.com
  6. Another Reason to Exercise, Science
  7. Simulating the Social Processes of Science, JASSS
  8. Special issue on neuroscience: The autism enigma, Nature
  9. To End Poverty, What Works, What Doesn't and Why: A Conversation with the Authors of 'Poor Economics', Knowledge@Wharton
  10. Multi-Stage Complex Contagions, arXiv
    1. Recruitment dynamics in adaptive social networks, arXiv
  11. Daniel Kahneman: Beware the ‘inside view’, McKinsey Quaterly
  12. IBM Open-Sources Potential "Internet of Things" Protocol, ReadWrite Hack
  13. Computation Emerges from Adaptive Synchronization of Networking Neurons, PLoS ONE
  14. Temporal stability and psychological foundations of cooperation preferences, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
    1. Credible communication and cooperation: Experimental evidence from multi-stage Games, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  15. Steve Jobs (1955–2011), Nature
  16. The Birth-Death-Mutation Process: A New Paradigm for Fat Tailed Distributions, PLoS ONE
  17. Mathematics: Alice in time, Nature
  18. Role of fractal dimension in random walks on scale-free networks, Eur. Phys. J. B
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter, W. W. Norton & Company
    2. Metaphorical Management: Using Intuition and Creativity as a Guiding Mechanism for Complex Systems, Springer
    3. Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World, The MIT Press
    4. Mathematics of Complexity and Dynamical Systems, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2011.21 Next Issue TOP

  1. Time-Critical Social Mobilization, Science
  2. ‘Complexity’ Predicts Nations’ Future Growth, Wall Street Journal
    1. Revealed - the capitalist network that runs the world, New Scientist
  3. Stuart Kauffman - The End Of A Physics Worldview: Heraclitus and the Watershed of Life, NECSI
  4. Nature-inspired collective intelligence in theory and practice, Information Sciences
  5. Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid, TED.com
    1. Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement, TED.com
  6. Bombings, beheadings? Stats show a peaceful world, Physorg.com
  7. Cognitive robotics: Introduction to the special issue, New Ideas in Psychology
  8. Evolution of Networks for Body Plan Patterning; Interplay of Modularity, Robustness and Evolvability, PLoS Comput Biol
  9. Beyond the Mean Field in Host-Pathogen Spatial Ecology, arXiv
    1. Structural heterogeneity mediates the effect of community structure on cooperation, Complexity
  10. How Proteins Fold, Science
  11. All Scale-Free Networks Are Sparse, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  12. The effect of public health interventions on the spread of influenza among cities, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. Using network properties to predict disease dynamics on human contact networks, Proc. R. Soc. B
  13. Assessing Vaccination Sentiments with Online Social Media: Implications for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Control, PLoS Comput Biol
  14. The complexification of engineering, Complexity
  15. Self-similar scaling of density in complex real-world networks, arXiv
  16. Would you follow your own route description? Cognitive strategies in urban route planning, Cognition
  17. Social dynamics with peer support on heterogeneous networks, Eur. Phys. J. B
    1. Communication activity in social networks: growth and correlations, Eur. Phys. J. B
  18. Book Announcements
    1. The Structure of Complex Networks: Theory and Applications, Oxford University Press
    2. The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life, Basic Books
    3. Thinking, Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    4. The Universe as Automaton: From Simplicity and Symmetry to Complexity, Springer
    5. The Business of Projects: Managing Innovation in Complex Products and Systems, Cambridge University Press
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Complexity Digest 2011.20 Next Issue TOP

  1. The second economy, McKinsey Quaterly
  2. 2011 Nobel Prize Announcements, nobelprize.org
  3. Complexity on the workbench, YouTube
  4. Swayed by Friends or by the Crowd?, HP Labs
  5. Christoph Adami: Finding life we can't imagine, TED.com
    1. Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee, TED.com
  6. Good Fences: The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful Coexistence, arXiv
  7. Common Organizing Mechanisms in Ecological and Socio-economic Networks, arXiv
    1. Signalling and the Evolution of Cooperative Foraging in Dynamic Environments, PLoS Comput Biol
  8. Ten Simple Rules for Getting Help from Online Scientific Communities, PLoS Comput Biol
  9. Distinguishing Anticipation from Causality: Anticipatory Bias in the Estimation of Information Flow, Phys. Rev. Lett.
    1. Relating Fisher information to order parameters, Phys. Rev. E
  10. Are Minds Computable?, arXiv
  11. Editorial survey: swarm intelligence for data mining, Machine Learning
  12. Schedule and complex motion of shuttle bus induced by periodic inflow of passengers, Physics Letters A
  13. Do countries with lower self-citation rate produce higher-impact papers? Or, does humility pay?, Interciencia
  14. Tumour–host dynamics under radiotherapy, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
    1. A Quantitative Theory of Solid Tumor Growth, Metabolic Rate and Vascularization, PLoS ONE
  15. Cooperative game in a two-lane traffic flow, arXiv
  16. Smart Swarms of Bacteria-Inspired Agents with Performance Adaptable Interactions, PLoS Comput Biol
    1. Dynamical modeling of collective behavior from pigeon flight data: flock cohesion and dispersion, arXiv
  17. Indications of marine bioinvasion from network theory, Eur. Phys. J. B
  18. Competition of individual and institutional punishments in spatial public goods games, arXiv
    1. A New Existence and Uniqueness Theorem for Continuous Games, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Principles of Evolution: From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life, Springer
    2. Organic Computing - A Paradigm Shift for Complex Systems, Springer Basel
    3. Self-organising Software: From Natural to Artificial Adaptation, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2011.19 Next Issue TOP

  1. 10 Unsolved Mysteries, Scientific American
  2. The Food Crises: A quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol conversion, arXiv
  3. The Lost Decade?, New York Times
  4. Naturalizing Information, Information
  5. Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity, TED.com
    1. What we learned from 5 million books, TED.com
    2. Ben Goldacre: Battling Bad Science, TED.com
  6. Lots on Info, Not Always Accurate, Science
  7. Change and Aging Senescence as an Adaptation, PLoS ONE
  8. Quantifying the role of complexity in a system’s performance, Evolving Systems
  9. Dynamics of Information as Natural Computation, Information
  10. Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Vary with Work, Sleep, and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures, Science
  11. The Reinvention of Grand Theories of the Scientific/Scholarly Process, Perspectives on Science
  12. Neutrality in evolutionary algorithms… What do we know?, Evolving Systems
  13. Tracing Personalized Health Curves during Infections, PLoS Biol
  14. The role of diversity in the evolution of cooperation, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  15. Comparing Effectiveness of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategies in Containing Influenza, PLoS ONE
  16. The impact of projected increases in urbanization on ecosystem services, Proc. R. Soc. B
  17. Optimality in DNA repair, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  18. Traffic flow in a Manhattan-like urban system, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Phase Transitions (Primers in Complex Systems), Princeton University Press
    2. The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest, Crown Business
    3. Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Melville House
    4. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Knopf
    5. Unexpected Consequences: Why The Things We Trust Fail, Praeger
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Complexity Digest 2011.18 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Geometric Approach to Complexity, SFI Working Papers
  2. Visualizing Uncertainty About the Future, Science
  3. The evolution of overconfidence, Nature
  4. Heterogeneity, Correlations and Financial Contagion, SFI Working Papers
    1. Bankruptcy Cascades in Interbank Markets, SFI Working Papers
    2. Algorithmic trading to replace humans in the stock market, PhysOrg.com
  5. Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive, TED.com
    1. Edward Tenner: Unintended consequences, TED.com
    2. Yasheng Huang: Does democracy stifle economic growth?, TED.com
  6. Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males, PNAS
  7. Diversity Emerging: From Competitive Exclusion to Neutral Coexistence in Ecosystems, SFI Working Papers
  8. News mining might have predicted Arab Spring, News@Nature
    1. Foreign Policy and Complex Adaptive Systems: Exploring New Paradigms for Analysis and Action, SFI Working Papers
  9. Criteria for the Design and Evaluation of Cognitive Architectures, Cognitive Science
  10. Are opinions based on science: Modelling social response to scientific facts, arXiv
  11. Complex Systems and Archaeology, SFI Working Papers
  12. Deciphering Network Community Structure by Surprise, PLoS ONE
  13. Probability Collectives in Optimization, SFI Working Papers
  14. Evolvable Neuronal Paths: A Novel Basis for Information and Search in the Brain, PLoS ONE
  15. Spatial effects on species persistence and implications for biodiversity, arXiv
  16. Topological Phase Transition in a Network Model with Preferential Attachment and Node Removal, SFI Working Papers
  17. Merger dynamics in three-agent games, Eur. Phys. J. B
  18. Imitating emotions instead of strategies in spatial games elevates social welfare, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Information and Living Systems: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives, A Bradford Book
    2. Neuroscience in the Age of Complexity, Gazelle Distribution
    3. Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos: Complexity Theory, Deleuze|Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis, Routledge
    4. The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain, Hudson Street Press
    5. Cosmic Numbers: The Numbers That Define Our Universe, Basic Books
    6. Network Biology: Methods and Applications, Humana Press
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Complexity Digest 2011.17 Next Issue TOP

  1. FuturICT - A Knowledge Accelerator to Explore and Manage Our Future in a Strongly Connected World, arXiv
  2. Are There Laws of Genome Evolution?, PLoS Comput Biol
  3. Universal laws and economic phenomena, Complexity
  4. Complexity, arXiv
  5. Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves?, TED.com
  6. The “unfriending” problem: The consequences of homophily in friendship retention for causal estimates of social influence, Social Networks
  7. Learning to Live with Complexity, Harvard Business Review
    1. Embracing Complexity An Interview with Michael J. Mauboussin, Harvard Business Review
  8. The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities, American Economic Review
  9. Five Differences Between Ecological and Economic Networks, arXiv
  10. How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?, PLoS Biol
  11. Algorithms and mechanisms for procuring services with uncertain durations using redundancy, Artificial Intelligence
  12. Evolving dynamical networks: A formalism for describing complex systems, Complexity
    1. Predicting epidemic thresholds on complex networks: Limitations of mean-field approaches, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  13. War as a moral imperative (not just practical politics by other means), Proc. R. Soc. B
  14. Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate, Nature
  15. Did Einstein discover E = mc^2?, Physics World
  16. Communication patterns in a psychotherapy following traumatic brain injury: A quantitative case study based on symbolic dynamics, BMC Psychiatry
  17. Fertilizing Nature: A Tragedy of Excess in the Commons, PLoS Biol
  18. Emergence of robustness against noise: A structural phase transition in evolved models of gene regulatory networks, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change, Edward Elgar Pub
    2. Maximum Entropy and Ecology: A Theory of Abundance, Distribution, and Energetics, Oxford University Press
    3. Dynamics of Biological Systems, Chapman and Hall/CRC
    4. The Origins of Evolutionary Innovations: A Theory of Transformative Change in Living Systems, Oxford University Press
    5. Epistemology of the Cell: A Systems Perspective on Biological Knowledge, Wiley-IEEE Press
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Complexity Digest 2011.16 Next Issue TOP

  1. The ten grand challenges of synthetic life, Systems and Synthetic Biology
  2. Adaptive-network models of swarm dynamics, New J. Phys.
  3. The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East, arXiv
  4. Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity, arXiv
  5. Alex Steffen: The shareable future of cities, TED.com
    1. Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons, TED.com
  6. Market Instability: Why Flash Crashes Happen, NECSI
  7. Nest Inheritance Is the Missing Source of Direct Fitness in a Primitively Eusocial Insect, Science
  8. ArXiv at 20, Nature
  9. A Distant Glimpse of Alien Life?, Science
  10. Temporal Networks, arXiv
  11. Universality in Bacterial Colonies, arXiv
  12. The Lehman Brothers effect and bankruptcy cascades, Eur. Phys. J. B
  13. In retrospect: The Lorax, Nature
  14. Regenerative medicine: Bespoke cells for the human brain, Nature
  15. Structure-preserving model reduction of large-scale logistics networks, Eur. Phys. J. B
  16. Metabolism: Hungry cells eat from within, Nature
  17. Agent-based modeling of intracellular transport, Eur. Phys. J. B
  18. Ecosystems with mutually exclusive interactions self-organize to a state of high diversity, arXiv
    1. Evolutionary and Population Dynamics: A Coupled Approach, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Nature of Computation, Oxford University Press
    2. Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man, BenBella Books
    3. The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Our Evolution, Harper
    4. Studies in Complexity and Cryptography: Miscellanea on the Interplay between Randomness and Computation, Springer
    5. Desarrollo: la odisea del organismo, CopIt Arxives
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Complexity Digest 2011.15 Next Issue TOP

  1. Doom or Vroom?, Science
    1. 9 Billion?, Science
    2. A World of Chronic Disease, Science
  2. Cities, Productivity, and Quality of Life, Science
  3. Computing giants launch free science metrics, Nature
  4. Paul Cilliers (1956-2011), News from Stellenbosch University
  5. Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations, TED.com
    1. Luciano Floridi - "The fourth technological revolution", TEDxMaastricht
    2. Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys?, TED.com
    3. Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb, TED.com
  6. Robin Chase: Redesigning Cities, People Empowered by Technology, Futur en Seine
  7. Evidence for Network Evolution in an Arabidopsis Interactome Map, Science
  8. Statistics: Known unknowns, Nature
  9. Darwin in Mind: New Opportunities for Evolutionary Psychology, PLoS Biol
  10. Evolution: Not so selfish, Nature
  11. Hint of Higgs, but little more, Nature
  12. ‘It’s Alive! It’s Alive!’ Maybe Right Here on Earth, New York Times
  13. Information Content of Colored Motifs in Complex Networks, Artificial Life
  14. Information Dynamics in Small-World Boolean Networks, Artificial Life
    1. Modular Random Boolean Networks, Artificial Life
    2. Fisher Information at the Edge of Chaos in Random Boolean Networks, Artificial Life
  15. Acquiring Contextualized Concepts: A Connectionist Approach, Cognitive Science
  16. Predicting Cellular Automata, Complex Systems
  17. A Model of City Traffic Based on Elementary Cellular Automata, Complex Systems
  18. Non-Uniform Cellular Automata: classes, dynamics, and decidability, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Complexity, Cognition and the City, Springer
    2. The Second Law of Economics: Energy, Entropy, and the Origins of Wealth, Springer
    3. Towards an Information Theory of Complex Networks: Statistical Methods and Applications, Birkhuser Boston
    4. Chaos-based Cryptography: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, Springer
    5. Evolution and the Stability of Complex Systems, Kindle Edition
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Complexity Digest 2011.14 Next Issue TOP

  1. Is there a Newton of the blade of grass?, Complexity
  2. Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips, Science
  3. Statistical Laws Governing Fluctuations in Word Use from Word Birth to Word Death, arXiv
  4. A Common Scaling Rule for Abundance, Energetics, and Production of Parasitic and Free-Living Species, Science
  5. Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex, TED.com
    1. Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world, TED.com
    2. A robot that flies like a bird, TED.com
  6. Complex Networks, Artificial Life
  7. Structural and Dynamical Patterns on Online Social Networks: the Spanish May 15th Movement as a case study, arXiv
  8. Adaptive Group Coordination and Role Differentiation, PLoS ONE
  9. Early warning signals for critical transitions: A generalized modeling approach, arXiv
  10. Emergence of hierarchical networks and polysynchronous behaviour in simple adaptive systems, arXiv
  11. Irreducibility and emergence in complex systems and the quest for alternative insights, Complexity
    1. Complexity and the philosophy of becoming, ECCO working paper
  12. From L’Homme Machine to metabolic closure: Steps towards understanding life, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  13. Neural network computation with DNA strand displacement cascades, Nature
    1. Neurobiologically Realistic Determinants of Self-Organized Criticality in Networks of Spiking Neurons, PLoS Comput Biol
  14. Speed of complex network synchronization, Eur. Phys. J. B
  15. Influence and Dynamic Behavior in Random Boolean Networks, arXiv
  16. Detecting evolving patterns of self-organizing networks by flow hierarchy measurement, Complexity
  17. Explosive Percolation Is Continuous, Science
  18. The unplanned impact of mathematics, Nature
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Decision Making: A Psychophysics Application of Network Science, World Scientific Pub Co Inc
    2. Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information, Princeton Architectural Press
    3. Journey of the Universe, Yale University Press
    4. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Andrews McMeel Publishing
    5. Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in Urban-Regional and Ecologic-Economic Systems: From Catastrophe to Chaos and Beyond, Springer
    6. Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems, Ashgate
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Complexity Digest 2011.13 Next Issue TOP

  1. Ten Simple Rules for Building and Maintaining a Scientific Reputation, PLoS Comput Biol
  2. A Universe of Galaxies, Science
  3. Eurekometrics: Analyzing the Nature of Discovery, PLoS Comput Biol
  4. Following the Crowd: Brain Substrates of Long-Term Memory Conformity, Science
  5. Jonathan Drori: The beautiful tricks of flowers, TED.com
    1. Nathan Myhrvold: Cooking as never seen before, TED.com
  6. Self-Organization Leads to Supraoptimal Performance in Public Transportation Systems, PLoS ONE
  7. Sex, Death, and the Red Queen, Science
    1. Running with the Red Queen: Host-Parasite Coevolution Selects for Biparental Sex, Science
  8. Organizational health: The ultimate competitive advantage, McKinsey Quaterly
  9. How Cells Cope with Obesity, PLoS Biol
  10. Corporate competition: A self-organized network, arXiv
  11. Learning, Memory, and the Role of Neural Network Architecture, PLoS Comput Biol
  12. Experiments on wireless power transfer with metamaterials, Appl. Phys. Lett.
  13. Multiagent System Applied to the Modeling and Simulation of Pedestrian Traffic in Counterflow, JASSS
  14. Reallocation Problems in Agent Societies: A Local Mechanism to Maximize Social Welfare, JASSS
  15. Statistical mechanics for natural flocks of birds, arXiv
  16. Review: Game theory of public goods in one-shot social dilemmas without assortment, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  17. Cash Advance, New Approach Aim to Relaunch Biosphere 2, Science
  18. Effective Theories for Circuits and Automata, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Biologist's Mistress: Rethinking Self-Organization in Art, Literature, and Nature, Emergent Publications
    2. Twenty Questions About a Unified Theory of Information: A Short Exploration into Information from a Complex Systems View, Emergent Publications
    3. Lo que cabe en el espacio: La geometría como pretexto para explorar nuestra realidad física y matemática, CopIt Arxives
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Complexity Digest 2011.12 Next Issue TOP

  1. Physics of life: The dawn of quantum biology, Nature
  2. Computational Experiments for Science Education, Science
  3. Exploring the future with complexity science: The emerging models, Futures
  4. The Visual Impact of Gossip, Science
  5. Bill Ford: A future beyond traffic gridlock, TED.com
    1. Øyvind Vada - Hierarchies and networks, TEDxOslo
    2. Google Consciousness - Maf Lewis, Rome Viharo, TEDxCardiff
  6. Prediction and Modularity in Dynamical Systems, arXiv
  7. Researchers tweet technical talk, Nature
  8. A generalization of Hamilton's rule - Love others how much?, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  9. Complex motion in nonlinear-map model of elevators in energy-saving traffic, Physics Letters A
  10. Controllability of Real Networks, arXiv
  11. Mission Critical: 15 Principles to Help Leaders Meet Their Toughest Challenges, Knowledge@Wharton
  12. Intestinal networks in health and disease, Nature
  13. Combining Computational Fluid Dynamics and Agent-Based Modeling: A New Approach to Evacuation Planning, PLoS ONE
  14. Culturomics: Word play, Nature
  15. The Evolution of Dispersal in Random Environments and The Principle of Partial Control, arXiv
  16. Investigating joint attention mechanisms through spoken human–robot interaction, Cognition
  17. Open access comes of age, Nature
  18. A Simple Threshold Rule Is Sufficient to Explain Sophisticated Collective Decision-Making, PLoS ONE
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain, Pantheon
    2. Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, Basic Books
    3. How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, W. W. Norton & Company
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Complexity Digest 2011.11 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complex systems: Unzipping Zipf's law, Nature
  2. Next Step: DNA Robots?, Science
  3. In Evolution, the Sum Is Less than Its Parts, Science
  4. Cryptic genetic variation promotes rapid evolutionary adaptation in an RNA enzyme, Nature
  5. Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds, TED.com
    1. Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object, TED.com
    2. Damon Horowitz calls for a "moral operating system", TED.com
  6. A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism, PLoS Biol
  7. Behavior and the Dynamic Genome, Science
  8. Interactive Evolution of Camouflage, Artificial Life
  9. Adaptation and Evolutionary Rescue in Metapopulations Experiencing Environmental Deterioration, Science
  10. Niche as a Determinant of Word Fate in Online Groups, PLoS ONE
  11. Untethered Hovering Flapping Flight of a 3D-Printed Mechanical Insect, Artificial Life
  12. The thermodynamic meaning of negative entropy, Nature
  13. Slime mould prefers sedatives, say researchers, BBC News
  14. Measuring the Evolution of the Drivers of Technological Innovation in the Patent Record, Artificial Life
  15. Assessing the consistency of community structure in complex networks, arXiv
    1. Epidemiology and social networks, Cir Cir
  16. Synergy in spreading processes: from exploitative to explorative foraging strategies, arXiv
  17. Shift of percolation thresholds for epidemic spread between static and dynamic small-world networks, Eur. Phys. J. B
  18. Evolution: Darwin's city, Nature
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Exploring Discrete Dynamics, Luniver Press
    2. The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives, Crown Business
    3. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, Viking Adult
    4. The Origins of Health and Disease, Cambridge University Press
    5. Behavior Dynamics in Media-Sharing Social Networks, Cambridge University Press
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Complexity Digest 2011.10 Next Issue TOP

  1. Controllability of complex networks, Nature
    1. How Structure Determines Correlations in Neuronal Networks, PLoS Comput Biol
  2. Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study, Science
  3. Synthetic genomes: The next step for the synthetic genome, Nature
  4. On the Role of Free Will in Predictive Models of Human Behavior, NECSI
  5. Interview with Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Radio Cafe
    1. Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution?, TED.com
    2. Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman, TED.com
    3. Csermely Peter - The Tao of Talent, TEDx
  6. The Implications of Interactions for Science and Philosophy, arXiv
  7. Time-Ordered Networks Reveal Limitations to Information Flow in Ant Colonies, PLoS ONE
  8. Self-Organized Discrimination of Resources, PLoS ONE
  9. Universal Entropy of Word Ordering Across Linguistic Families, PLoS ONE
  10. Growth and Optimality in Network Evolution, arXiv
  11. Dynamical Patterns of Cattle Trade Movements, PLoS ONE
    1. Evolution of scaling emergence in large-scale spatial epidemic spreading, arXiv
  12. How Citation Boosts Promote Scientific Paradigm Shifts and Nobel Prizes, PLoS ONE
  13. Evolution of adaptive phenotypic variation patterns by direct selection for evolvability, Proc. R. Soc. B
    1. Non-adaptive origins of interactome complexity, Nature
  14. The Alchemical Revolution, Science
  15. Emergence of coherent motion in aggregates of motile coupled maps, arXiv
  16. Cellular automaton supercolliders, arXiv
  17. Stability Criteria for Complex Ecosystems, arXiv
  18. From genes to games: Cooperation and cyclic dominance in meiotic drive, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy, Yale University Press
    2. Laws, Mind, and Free Will, The MIT Press
    3. Epilepsy: The Intersection of Neurosciences, Biology, Mathematics, Engineering, and Physics, CRC Press
    4. Que somos y de donde venimos: el dilema de la creacion vs evolucion, Lulu
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Complexity Digest 2011.09 Next Issue TOP

  1. Launching “The Evolution of Cooperation”, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  2. An interview with Melanie Mitchell: Melanie Mitchell on complexity, Ubiquity
  3. Stability of the World Trade Web over Time - An Extinction Analysis, arXiv
  4. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick – review, The Observer
  5. Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries, TED.com
    1. Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse, TED.com
    2. Black Holes: Attractors for Intelligence?, arXiv
  6. Red in Tooth and Claw Among the Literati, Science
  7. Network Archaeology: Uncovering Ancient Networks from Present-Day Interactions, PLoS Comput Biol
  8. Using the Psychology of Evil To Do Good, Science
  9. Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task, PNAS
  10. European researchers chase billion-euro technology prize, News@Nature
  11. Four lessons for transforming African agriculture, McKinsey Quaterly
    1. Transforming U.S. Agriculture, Science
  12. Minimum Information About a Simulation Experiment (MIASE), PLoS Comput Biol
  13. Agency and structure: a social simulation of knowledge-intensive industries, CMOT
  14. Finding Statistically Significant Communities in Networks, PLoS ONE
  15. Systems immunology: Complexity captured, Nature
  16. Learning to cooperate via indirect reciprocity, Games and Economic Behavior
  17. Is cooperation viable in mobile organisms? Simple Walk Away rule favors the evolution of cooperation in groups, Evolution and Human Behavior
  18. Landscape encoding: faster optimization in larger spaces, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Chaos Theory of Careers, Routledge
    2. Crashes, Crises and Calamities, Basic Books
    3. The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization: The Origins of Human Thought, Language, and Civilization, Princeton University Press
    4. Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds, Princeton University Press
    5. Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us, Crown Archetype
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Complexity Digest 2011.08 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Evolution and Structure of Sustainability Science, SFI Working Papers
  2. Moral assessment in indirect reciprocity, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  3. Education: The PhD factory, Nature
  4. A Single Historical Continuum, Cliodynamics
  5. David Christian: Big history, TED.com
    1. Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization, TED.com
  6. Information storage and transfer in the synchronization process in locally-connected networks, SSCI 2011
  7. How mutation affects evolutionary games on graphs, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. Strength of Social Tie Predicts Cooperative Investment in a Human Social Network, PLoS ONE
  8. Self-organizing traffic lights at multiple-street intersections, arXiv
  9. The geometry of chaotic dynamics – a complex network perspective, Eur. Phys. J. B
  10. Emergent Criticality Through Adaptive Information Processing in Boolean Networks, arXiv
  11. Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals, Nature
  12. The Dynamics of Generalized Market Exchange, SFI Working Papers
  13. On the interaction of the stick and the carrot in social dilemmas, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. The joker effect: Cooperation driven by destructive agents, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  14. Evidence of Strategic Periodicities in Collective Conflict Dynamics, SFI Working Papers
    1. The Emergence of Homogeneous Norms in Heterogeneous Populations, SFI Working Papers
  15. Polyethism in a colony of artificial ants, arXiv
  16. Ravens Reconcile after Aggressive Conflicts with Valuable Partners, PLoS ONE
  17. Statistical physics approach to graphical games: local and global interactions, Eur. Phys. J. B
  18. The contribution of statistical physics to evolutionary biology, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature, Basic Books
    2. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, Pantheon
    3. Mathematics of Life: Unlocking the Secrets of Existence, Profile
    4. In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, Simon & Schuster
    5. Transient Chaos: Complex Dynamics on Finite Time Scales, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2011.07 Next Issue TOP

  1. An Inquiry into History, Big History, and Metahistory, Cliodynamics
    1. Regularities in Human Affairs, Cliodynamics
    2. Toward Cliodynamics, Cliodynamics
    3. A Paleontological Look at History, Cliodynamics
    4. Complexity in Big History, Cliodynamics
  2. Tools for Thinking, NYTimes
  3. Social science: Web of war, Nature
  4. Propagation of Cascades in Complex Networks: From Supply Chains to Food Webs, arXiv
  5. Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car, TED.com
    1. Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon, TED.com
  6. Innovation as an Emerging System Property: An Agent Based Simulation Model, JASSS
  7. The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information, Science
  8. A Simple Mechanism for Complex Social Behavior, PLoS Biol
  9. On religion and language evolutions seen through mathematical and agent based models, arXiv
  10. Urban road networks: spatial networks with universal geometric features?, Eur. Phys. J. B
  11. Information Theory and Population Genetics, arXiv
  12. The Roots of Bioinformatics in Theoretical Biology, PLoS Comput Biol
  13. Coping with Chaos: How Disordered Contexts Promote Stereotyping and Discrimination, Science
  14. Phase transitions in contagion processes mediated by recurrent mobility patterns, arXiv
    1. Natural human mobility patterns and spatial spread of infectious diseases, arXiv
    2. Simulated Epidemics in an Empirical Spatiotemporal Network of 50,185 Sexual Contacts, PLoS Comput Biol
  15. Extending Dynamical Systems Theory to Model Embodied Cognition, Cognitive Science
  16. Map-based models in neuronal dynamics, Physics Reports
  17. Information content of colored motifs in complex networks, arXiv
    1. The topological issues of cooperation, arXiv
  18. Noise Driven Evolutionary Waves, PLoS Comput Biol
    1. Random copying in space, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Complex Webs: Anticipating the Improbable, Cambridge University Press
    2. Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer, Crown Business
    3. The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive, Doubleday
    4. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    5. The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice, University Of Chicago Press
    6. Gastronomy: A visual feast, Nature
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Complexity Digest 2011.06 Next Issue TOP

  1. James Clerk Maxwell, Nature
  2. Unification + 150, Nature
  3. Networks in biology: Handling biological complexity requires novel inputs into network theory, Complexity
    1. Biology, Methodology or Chance? The Degree Distributions of Bipartite Ecological Networks, PLoS ONE
  4. Developmental motifs reveal complex structure in cell lineages, Complexity
  5. Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine, TED.com
    1. David Brooks: The social animal, TED.com
    2. Janna Levin: The sound the universe makes, TED.com
    3. Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing, TED.com
  6. Happiness is assortative in online social networks, arXiv
  7. Possible Early Warning Sign for Market Crashes, Wired
  8. Devastating Earthquake Defied Expectations, Science
  9. Cooperation in bike racing—When to work together and when to go it alone, Complexity
  10. Extremely rare interbreeding events can explain Neandertal DNA in modern humans, arXiv
  11. The aggregate complexity of decisions in the game of Go, Eur. Phys. J. B
  12. Understanding microbial cooperation, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. Sex and evolutionary stability, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  13. Wikipedia Information Flow Analysis Reveals the Scale-Free Architecture of the Semantic Space, PLoS ONE
  14. Valuing Water: How Can Businesses Manage the Coming Scarcity?, Knowledge@Wharton
  15. Making tools isn’t child’s play, Cognition
  16. The spatial Ultimatum game revisited, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  17. Experimental Philosophy and the Problem of Free Will, Science
  18. Robot ethics: Mapping the issues for a mechanized world, Artificial Intelligence
  19. Book Announcements
    1. SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed, Free Press
    2. Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems, Garland Science
    3. The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics, Macmillan
    4. Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality, Princeton University Press
    5. The Mystery of Metamorphosis: A Scientific Detective Story, Chelsea Green Publishing
    6. Technology: The medium is the message, Nature
    7. Biotechnology: Making people, Nature
    8. Living Inspired, Science
    9. A Better View of Eras of Life, Science
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Complexity Digest 2011.05 Next Issue TOP

  1. How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction, Science
  2. Collective behaviour: When it pays to share decisions, Nature
  3. Can complexity theory explain Egypt's crisis?, New Scientist
    1. Contagion and Cascades Through the Middle East: Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria..., NECSI
    2. Framing a complexity theory solution to the Middle East crises, NECSI
  4. Co-Residence Patterns in Hunter-Gatherer Societies Show Unique Human Social Structure, Science
  5. Danny Hillis: Understanding cancer through proteomics, TED.com
    1. Deb Roy: The birth of a word, TED.com
  6. Dan Ariely on irrationality in the workplace, McKinsey Quaterly
  7. Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?, Nature
  8. Tomography of Reaction-Diffusion Microemulsions Reveals Three-Dimensional Turing Patterns, Science
  9. Motifs in co-authorship networks and their relation to the impact of scientific publications, Eur. Phys. J. B
  10. Integrated information increases with fitness in the simulated evolution of autonomous agents, arXiv
  11. Nonlinear deterministic equations in biological evolution, arXiv
  12. Learning and Coordination for Autonomous Intersection Control, Applied Artificial Intelligence
  13. Reactive automata, Information and Computation
  14. Coevolving agent strategies and network topology for the public goods games, Eur. Phys. J. B
  15. The Moran model as a dynamical process on networks and its implications for neutral speciation, arXiv
  16. Selection for smaller brains in Holocene human evolution, arXiv
  17. Give postdocs a career, not empty promises, Nature
  18. Fiction: Attack of the killer fungi, Nature
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Modeling Multi-Level Systems (Understanding Complex Systems), Springer
    2. Philosophy & Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason, Continuum
    3. Ahead of Change: How Crowd Psychology and Cybernetics Transform the Way We Govern, Campus Verlag
    4. Social and Economic Networks, Princeton University Press
    5. Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology, Univ Of Minnesota Press
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Complexity Digest 2011.04 Next Issue TOP

  1. Systems Genetics, Science
  2. The challenges and scope of theoretical biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  3. Biological Computation, SFI Working Papers
  4. Predicting economic market crises using measures of collective panic, arXiv
  5. Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the "mesh", TED.com
    1. Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies, TED.com
  6. Metaphors We Think With: The Role of Metaphor in Reasoning, PLoS ONE
  7. Climate change and evolutionary adaptation, Nature
  8. Robustness and modular structure in networks, arXiv
  9. Emergence and Decline of Scientific Paradigms, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  10. Explosive Synchronization Transitions in Scale-free Networks, arXiv
  11. Superexponential Long-term Trends in Information Technology, SFI Working Papers
  12. General coevolution of topology and dynamics in networks, arXiv
  13. Evolution as Computation: Implications for Economic Theory and Ontology, SFI Working Papers
  14. Parameter inference for an individual based model of chytridiomycosis in frogs, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  15. Prosperity is associated with instability in dynamical networks, arXiv
    1. Two wrongs do not make a right: The initial viability of different assessment rules in the evolution of indirect reciprocity, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  16. Predicting Cellular Automata, SFI Working Papers
    1. Many Roads to Synchrony: Natural Time Scales and Their Algorithms, SFI Working Papers
  17. Revisiting the Gaia Hypothesis: Maximum Entropy, Kauffman's 'Fourth Law' and Physiosemeiosis, arXiv
  18. The Past and Future in the Present, SFI Working Papers
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, Pantheon
    2. Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality, Random House
    3. Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    4. Geometry, Mechanics, and Dynamics: Volume in Honor of the 60th Birthday of J.E. Marsden, Springer
    5. The Complexity of Dynamical Systems: A Multi-disciplinary Perspective, Wiley-VCH
    6. Modelling Complex Ecological Dynamics: An Introduction into Ecological Modelling for Students, Teachers & Scientists, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2011.03 Next Issue TOP

  1. More Is Less: Signal Processing and the Data Deluge, Science
  2. Happy People Live Longer, Science
  3. Rescuing ecosystems from extinction cascades through compensatory perturbations, Nature Communications
    1. Dispensability of Escherichia coli's latent pathways, PNAS
  4. Complexity Science and Public Policy, http://www.homerdixon.com
  5. Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture, TED.com
    1. Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots, TED.com
    2. Thomas Goetz: It's time to redesign medical data, TED.com
  6. Critical Overview of Agent-Based Models for Economics, arXiv
  7. A Biological Solution to a Fundamental Distributed Computing Problem, Science
  8. Google matrix of business process management, Eur. Phys. J. B
  9. El Farol revisited: A note on emergence, game theory, and society, Complexity
  10. Schema Redescription in Cellular Automata: Revisiting Emergence in Complex Systems, arXiv
  11. Detecting evolving patterns of self-organizing networks by flow hierarchy measurement, Complexity
    1. Metabolic Robustness and Network Modularity: A Model Study, PLoS ONE
  12. Path planning strategies inspired by swarm behaviour of plant root apexes, European Space Agency
  13. Co-evolution of pre-play signaling and cooperation, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. Evolution of cooperation among mobile agents, Physica A
    2. Cooperation among non-relatives evolves by state-dependent generalized reciprocity, Proc. R. Soc. B
  14. Oscillatory phase coupling coordinates anatomically-dispersed functional cell assemblies, PNAS
  15. Collective Classification of Textual Documents by Guided Self-Organization in T-Cell Cross-Regulation Dynamics, arXiv
  16. Soft Robotics for Chemists, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  17. Fairness Emergence in Reputation Systems, JASSS
  18. Zaller-Deffuant Model of Mass Opinion, JASSS
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Randomness Through Computation: Some Answers, More Questions, World Scientific Publishing Company
    2. Fractal Time: Why a Watched Kettle Never Boils (Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena in Life Science), World Scientific Publishing Company
    3. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human, W. W. Norton & Company
    4. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, Knopf
    5. The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going, Doubleday
    6. Big History and the Future of Humanity, Wiley-Blackwell
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Complexity Digest 2011.02 Next Issue TOP

  1. Systemic risk in banking ecosystems, Nature
  2. The Newest Synthesis: Understanding the Interplay of Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics, Science
  3. Swarm intelligence in plant roots, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    1. Primitive agriculture in a social amoeba, Nature
    2. Nutritional state and collective motion: from individuals to mass migration, Proc. R. Soc. B
  4. The local information dynamics of distributed computation in complex systems, The University of Sydney
  5. Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption, TED.com
    1. Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk, TED.com
  6. Evolutionary Mechanics: new engineering principles for the emergence of flexibility in a dynamic and uncertain world, arXiv
  7. Infectious moods: How bugs control your mind, New Scientist
  8. Morphological change in machines accelerates the evolution of robust behavior, PNAS
  9. Complexity through Recombination: From Chemistry to Biology, Entropy
  10. Gross Domestic Happiness: What Is the Relationship between Money and Well-being?, Knowledge@Wharton
  11. The Functional Consequences of Mutualistic Network Architecture, PLoS ONE
    1. Larval Connectivity in an Effective Network of Marine Protected Areas, PLoS ONE
  12. Mating strategies in primates: A game theoretical approach to infanticide, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. Modelling The Evolution And Diversity Of Cumulative Culture, Phil. Trans. B
  13. Cooperation through imitation and exclusion in networks, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
    1. Models of coalition or alliance formation, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    2. The evolution of punishment through reputation, Proc. R. Soc. B
  14. The effects of mental model formation on group decision making: An agent-based simulation, Complexity
  15. A mathematical theory of communication: Meaning, information, and topology, Complexity
  16. Peer review: Trial by Twitter, Nature
  17. Artificial hydrogen tests quantum theory, Nature News
  18. New System for Analyzing Information on WikiLeaks, Social Media, ScienceDaily
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Between Necessity and Probability: Searching for the Definition and Origin of Life, Springer
    2. Complex Dynamics in Physiological Systems: From Heart to Brain, Springer
    3. Introduction to Complexity and Complex Systems, CRC Press
    4. Chaos: The Science of Predictable Random Motion, Oxford University Press
    5. Networks of the Brain, The MIT Press
    6. Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions, Henry Holt and Co.
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Complexity Digest 2011.01 Next Issue TOP

  1. New year, new science, Nature
    1. 2010: The year in which …, Nature
  2. Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books, Science
  3. BioLogistics and the Struggle for Efficiency: Concepts and Perspectives, arXiv
  4. Molecular computing: DNA as a logic operator, Nature
  5. Barry Schwartz: Using our practical wisdom, TED.com
    1. Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now, TED.com
  6. Communication: Mapping science, Nature
  7. Continuous-time model of structural balance, PNAS
  8. Modular Random Boolean Networks, arXiv
  9. An Agent-Based Approach to Self-Organized Production, arXiv
  10. The AHA! Experience: Creativity Through Emergent Binding in Neural Networks, Cognitive Science
  11. An Open-Source Microscopic Traffic Simulator, arXiv
  12. Environmental dynamics: Simplicity versus complexity, Nature
  13. Think the thought, walk the walk – Social priming reduces the Stroop effect, Cognition
  14. Selection in Scientific Networks, arXiv
    1. Percolate or die: Multi-percolation decides the struggle between competing innovations, arXiv
  15. Weighted argument systems: Basic definitions, algorithms, and complexity results, Artificial Intelligence
  16. Evidence of strategic periodicities in collective conflict dynamics, arXiv
  17. Suppression of Avian Influenza Transmission in Genetically Modified Chickens, Science
  18. Corruption kills, Nature
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Self-Organizing Systems, Springer
    2. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, W. W. Norton & Company
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