Complexity Digest 2007.15

09-Apr-2007

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  1. Formula For Panic: Crowd-Motion Findings May Prevent Stampedes, Science News
  2. Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration, PLoS Comput Biol
    1. An Agent-Based Model Of Group Decision Making In Baboons, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
  3. The World as Evolving Information, arXiv
    1. A Method for Inferring Hierarchical Dynamics in Stochastic Processes, arXiv
  4. Flying Wind Farms, The Economist
  5. Schemas and Memory Consolidation, Science
    1. Genetic Switch Can Control Memory, ScienceDaily
  6. Stop Signs: Study Identifies 'Braking' Mechanism In The Brain, Innovations-report
  7. China Plans To Modernize Traditional Medicine, Nature
  8. Why The Rich Get Richer, Innovations-report
    1. Role Of ICTs In Participatory Development: An Indian Experience, Info. Tech. Dev.
  9. Many Dieters 'Finish Up Heavier', BBC News
  10. Death Of An Order, Biol. Lett.
  11. Bacteria vs. Humans: Score One for Us, Technology Review
  12. Networking Of Circadian Cells Aids Adaptation To Seasonal Change, ScienceDaily
  13. Proteins Make Light Work Of Nerve Control, Nature
  14. Pictures Posing Questions - The Next Steps In Photography Could Blur Reality, Science News
  15. Physicists Take A Crack At Rocks, PhysicsWeb
  16. Can't Knock It Down, Science News
  17. Angling For The Best Knot, PhysicsWeb
    1. Pulling Strings to Untangle Catastrophe, Science
  18. Thin Carbon Is In: Graphene Steals Nanotubes' Allure, NYTimes
    1. New Experiment Probes Weird Zone Between Quantum and Classical, Wired News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Revolution, Flashmobs, And Brain Chips. A Grim Vision Of The Future, The Guardian
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Call for Papers - Course/Book Announcements

  1. Formula For Panic: Crowd-Motion Findings May Prevent Stampedes, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    DANGEROUS BRIDGE. Every year, millions of Muslim pilgrims walk across the Jamarat Bridge near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the stoning of the pillars ritual. New research may have prevented catastrophic stampedes this year. Zainal abd Halim/Reuters/Corbis
    In normal conditions, pedestrians tend to spontaneously fall into ordered patterns, such as lanes going in opposite directions, previous research had shown. As crowds get denser, stop-and-go patterns begin to propagate in waves, as is typical for cars on heavily trafficked highways. But in critical situations - as when cars get into gridlock - people can break out in panics that result in random patterns of motion, similar to the turbulence of water in the wake of a boat. Crowd members can get squeezed and asphyxiated or fall and be trampled.

  2. Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration, PLoS Comput Biol Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Scientific research has always been a collaborative undertaking, and this is particularly true today. For example, between 1981 and 2001, the average number of coauthors on a paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A rose from 3.9 to 8.4 (...) Given that collaboration is crucial, how do you go about picking the right collaborators, and how can you best make the collaboration work? Here are ten simple rules based on our experience that we hope will help.(...) Above all, keep in mind that these rules are for both you and your collaborators. Always remember to treat your collaborators as you would want to be treated yourselfâ€"empathy is key. (...)

    1. An Agent-Based Model Of Group Decision Making In Baboons, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: We present an agent-based model of the key activities of a troop of chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) based on the data collected at De Hoop Nature Reserve in South Africa. We analyse the predictions of the model in terms of how well it is able to duplicate the observed activity patterns of the animals and the relationship between the parameters that control the agent's decision procedure and the model's predictions.

  3. The World as Evolving Information, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: This philosophical paper discusses the benefits of describing the world as information, especially in the study of the evolution of life and cognition. Traditional studies encounter difficulties because it is difficult to describe life and cognition in terms of matter and energy, falling into a dualist trap. However, if matter and energy, as well as life and cognition, are described in terms of information, evolution can be described consistently as information becoming more complex. Moreover, information theory is already well established and formalized.
    The paper presents five tentative laws of information, which are generalizations of Darwinian, cybernetic, thermodynamic, and complexity principles. These are further used to discuss the notions of life and cognition, including their origins and evolution.

    1. A Method for Inferring Hierarchical Dynamics in Stochastic Processes, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: Complex systems may often be characterized by their hierarchical dynamics. In this paper do we present a method and an operational algorithm that automatically infer this property in a broad range of systems; discrete stochastic processes. The main idea is to systematically explore the set of projections from the state space of a process to smaller state spaces, and to determine which of the projections that impose Markovian dynamics on the coarser level. These projections, which we call Markov projections, then constitute the hierarchical dynamics of the system. The algorithm operates on time series or other statistics, so a priori knowledge of the intrinsic workings of a system is not required in order to determine its hierarchical dynamics. We illustrate the method by applying it to two simple processes; a finite state automaton and an iterated map.

  4. Flying Wind Farms, The Economist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Sky Wind Power
    If it ever seems windy where you live, be thankful you do not live 10km up in the air. At that height, the jet-stream winds blow stronger and more constantly than ground level winds, carrying up to a hundred times more energy.

    So, just as oil companies are drilling deeper and in more remote locations in search of new reserves, pioneer wind-power engineers are looking higher in the sky for new sources of energy.

  5. Schemas and Memory Consolidation, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Memory encoding occurs rapidly, but the consolidation of memory in the neocortex has long been held to be a more gradual process. We now report, however, that systems consolidation can occur extremely quickly if an associative "schema" into which new information is incorporated has previously been created. In experiments using a hippocampal-dependent paired-associate task for rats, the memory of flavor-place associations became persistent over time as a putative neocortical schema gradually developed.
    • Source: Schemas and Memory Consolidation, Dorothy Tse, Rosamund F. Langston, Masaki Kakeyama, Ingrid Bethus, Patrick A. Spooner, Emma R. Wood, Menno P. Witter, Richard G. M. Morris, Science: 76-82., 07/04/06

    1. Genetic Switch Can Control Memory, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: McGill University researchers have discovered that a mutant gene improves the long-term memory of laboratory mice, (...). "We now have an excellent target for the development of new drugs that would be capable of doing the same thing that we did, which could be of great benefit to an aging population with memory loss," said Dr. Mauro (...). Using a mutant gene that regulates the switch from short- to long-term memory in mice, Dr. Costa-Mattioli and his colleagues were able to manipulate biochemical reactions in the animals' brains to control their memory and cognitive behaviour (...).

  6. Stop Signs: Study Identifies 'Braking' Mechanism In The Brain, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: As wise as the counsel to "finish what you've started" may be, it is also sometimes critically important to do just the opposite -- stop. And the ability to stop quickly, to either keep from gunning the gas when a pedestrian steps into your path or to bite your tongue mid-sentence (...) may depend on a few "cables" in the brain. Researchers (...) have found white matter tracts -- bundles of neurons, or "cables," forming direct, high-speed connections, between distant regions of the brain -- that appear to play a significant role in the rapid control of behavior. (...)

  7. China Plans To Modernize Traditional Medicine, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Government initiative aims to meet scientific standards.

    China has announced an ambitious attempt to bring the ancient practice of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) into line with modern standards. The government says it will expand basic and clinical research, and improve the testing and developing of TCM remedies for export. But critics question whether the research will meet the scientific standards necessary for international recognition.

  8. Why The Rich Get Richer, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: A new theory shows how wealth, in different forms, can stick to some but not to others. The findings have implications ranging from the design of the Internet to economics. Real-world data -- whether distributions of wealth, size of earthquakes or number of connections on a computer network -- often follow power-law distributions rather than the familiar bell-shaped curve. In a power-law distribution, large events are reasonably common compared to smaller events. Networks often show power laws. They can be caused by the "rich get richer" effect, also known as "preferential attachment," where nodes gain new connections in proportion (...).

    1. Role Of ICTs In Participatory Development: An Indian Experience, Info. Tech. Dev. Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Participation of local communities has been important at least in two domains: (a) rural development processes in developing countries and (b) information systems design. The issue of participation becomes especially important in the contemporary contexts in which the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is being integrated within rural development initiatives in developing countries, for example in e-governance. This article attempts to synthesize the issues around participation from both IS and development studies literature in order to identify four key problematic areas: viz., (a) who defines the participation agenda, (b) what capabilities do stakeholders have to participate (...).

  9. Many Dieters 'Finish Up Heavier', BBC News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Many dieters put on more weight than they lose
    Dieting is unlikely to lead to long-term weight loss and may put a person's health at risk, a study says. US researchers found people typically lose between 5% and 10% of their weight during the first six months of a diet.

    But the review of 31 previous studies, by the University of California, said up to two-thirds put more weight on than they had lost within five years. Repeatedly losing and gaining weight is linked to heart disease and stroke, the American Psychologist journal reported.

  10. Death Of An Order, Biol. Lett. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Termites are instantly recognizable mound-builders and house-eaters: their complex social lifestyles have made them incredibly successful throughout the tropics. Although known as 'white ants', they are not ants and their relationships with other insects remain unclear. Our molecular phylogenetic analyses, the most comprehensive yet attempted, show that termites are social cockroaches, no longer meriting being classified as a separate order (Isoptera) from the cockroaches (Blattodea). Instead, we propose that they should be treated as a family (Termitidae) of cockroaches. It is surprising to find that a group of wood-feeding cockroaches has evolved full sociality, (...).

  11. Bacteria vs. Humans: Score One for Us, Technology Review Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Microbes have ruled the earth for more than a billion years; comparatively, we humans are just upstarts. Yet since the invention of penicillin in 1940, we have inflicted a crippling blow on many types of bacteria that make us ill or kill us.

    But the bugs have struck back by activating DNA that is prone to errors when it replicates. This increases the chance that mutations will develop to fend off the mortal threat posed by antibiotics.

  12. Networking Of Circadian Cells Aids Adaptation To Seasonal Change, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: (...) shows for the first time experimentally that the circadian cells in fruit flies function as a network that enables the insects to adapt their behavior according to seasonal changes. This discovery leads the way to understanding how mammals, and presumably humans, adjust physiology and behavior to environmental changes such as short winter days and long summer ones. For years, behavioral geneticists have known that specific brain cells in Drosophila fruit flies regulate the daily rhythmic behavior according to 24-hour endogenous clock machinery. But until now, scientists had offered only mathematical models to explain (...).

  13. Proteins Make Light Work Of Nerve Control, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Simple switch promises revolution in neuroscience.(...)

    The revolution could consign electrodes - neuroscience's staple tools - to the trash after a century of faithful service. They would be replaced by genetically engineered proteins that allow investigators to stimulate or inhibit very precise groups of nerves at the flick of a light switch. No previous technology has come close to this level of control and precision.

    "It is incredibly exciting - now we can really start to investigate how different neuronal cell types contribute to the neural circuits that mediate all sorts of behaviours," (...).

  14. Pictures Posing Questions - The Next Steps In Photography Could Blur Reality, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    3-D FROM A DOUGHNUT. Photographing a person's face with a cone-shaped mirror in front of the lens creates a distorted, doughnut-shaped image (left). The cone provides two extra perspectives of the face on opposite sides of the center point, providing enough information to construct a 3-D model (right). Computer Vision Lab., Columbia Univ.
    Computational photography, however, transforms the act of capturing the image. Some researchers use curved mirrors to distort their camera's field of view. Others replace the camera lens with an array of thousands of microlenses or with a virtual lens that exists only in software. Some use what they call smart flashes to illuminate a scene with complex patterns of light, or set up domes containing hundreds of flashes to light a subject from many angles. The list goes on: three-dimensional apertures, multiple exposures, cameras stacked in arrays, and more.

  15. Physicists Take A Crack At Rocks, PhysicsWeb Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Sandstone and granite are very different types of rock, so it might come as a surprise that both materials appear to crack in the same way -- at least according to physicists in Canada and Germany who have measured the sounds given off by rocks before they shatter. What's even more curious is that sounds from the small samples of rock studied by the group have similar characteristics as those detected after an earthquake, suggesting cracking is a universal process that occurs in many different materials over a wide range of size and time scales (Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 125502).

  16. Can't Knock It Down, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Domokos and V?rkonyi used mathematics to design this self-righting object. G. Domokos
    Eventually, the team managed to construct an object mathematically that has just one stable and one unstable balance point. The figure is like a pinched sphere, with a high, steep back and a flattish bottom. They sent their equations to a fabricator, who constructed the object. V?rkonyi now keeps it in his office. "People like playing with it," he says.

    Once the pair had built their self-righting object, they noticed that it looked very much like a turtle.

  17. Angling For The Best Knot, PhysicsWeb Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Torus knots with 3, 5, 9 and 13 crossings: (a) shows how the knots were tied, (b) shows the knots loosely tightened, and (c) shows the knots squeezed tightly. (Courtesy: Hiroki Uehara, Gumna University.)
    As any experienced angler will know, some knots are better than others -- but exactly why a "blood knot" should be stronger than, say, a "reef knot" is far from clear. Now, physicists in Japan have tried to unravel this mystery by carrying out the first experiments into how fishing lines with knots in them actually break. Surprisingly, it turns out that some knots that are strong when made using traditional nylon fishing line are in fact the weakest when made in a more modern material called PVDF (New Journal of Physics 9 65).

    1. Pulling Strings to Untangle Catastrophe, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: About the simplest experiment imaginable may yield insights into calamitous events such as the sudden failure of cables on a suspension bridge. Taking a break from work on liquid crystals, physicist Peter Palffy-Muhoray and graduate student Jake Fontana of Kent State University in Ohio spent a few months tugging on string to see how the force required to break it varied with its length. Their preliminary results fit a model based on a gambling puzzle that stumped Daniel Bernoulli and other mathematicians in the early 18th century.

  18. Thin Carbon Is In: Graphene Steals Nanotubes' Allure, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    University of Manchester
    Dr. Andre Geim placed a graphite flake on adhesive tape, repeatedly folded the tape and pulled it apart, and then stuck it to a silicon wafer and rubbed, producing flakes one atom thick.
    Graphene is the thinnest of all possible materials in the universe. It shares many of the properties that excited physicists about nanotubes a decade ago, but it is easier to make and manipulate, giving greater hope that it will make the move from laboratory to practical application. Physicists have made transistors out of graphene and used it to explore odd quantum phenomena at room temperatures.

    1. New Experiment Probes Weird Zone Between Quantum and Classical, Wired News Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany have created a tiny silicon cantilever arm on a chip that, after being cooled down to 0.0001 degrees above absolute zero, will sway back and forth in multiple modes at once, becoming the world's first macroscopic system in a purely quantum mechanical state. Image: Max Planck Institute, Munich/Jorg Kotthaus, Universtiy of Munich
      "Either you have a real, macroscopic object in a quantum state -- or you find out that quantum mechanics doesn't work for the macroscopic world," he said. "In either case, it would be quite fascinating." (...)

      A group led by J?rg Kotthaus at the University of Munich has fabricated a first version of Treutlein's chip, with the cantilever and magnet mechanism (see photo). Treutlein's group will soon be ready to prepare a rubidium cloud that will hover over the chip and interact electromagnetically with the cantilever arm.

  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Revolution, Flashmobs, And Brain Chips. A Grim Vision Of The Future, The Guardian Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      The MoD predicts more use of chemical weapons. Photograph: Paul J Richards/EPA
      Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx's proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132 percent, while Europe's drops as fertility falls. "Flashmobs" - groups rapidly mobilized by criminal gangs or terrorists groups.

      This is the world in 30 years' time envisaged by a Ministry of Defence team responsible for painting a picture of the "future strategic context" likely to face Britain's armed forces.

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. A Gasping Heart , 07/04/07, Science News, A common imperfection in the structure of the heart may exacerbate obstructive sleep apnea and, in mountaineers, trigger a life-threatening lung condition called high-altitude pulmonary edema.
      2. Wave's-Eye View Of A Hurricane , 07/04/07, Science News, Strong hurricanes aren't as effective at transmitting their energy to the ocean's surface as weak ones are, a counterintuitive finding that may help researchers estimate the size of storm surges.
      3. Physarum Machine: Implementation of Kolmogorov-Uspensky Machine in Biological Substrat, Andrew Adamatzky, 2007/03/26, arXiv, DOI: cs.AR/0703128
      4. Neural Correlates Of The Contents Of Visual Awareness In Humans, G. Rees, 2007/03/29, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2094
      5. Modulation Of Visual Processing By Attention And Emotion: Windows On Causal Interactions Between Human Brain Regions, P. Vuilleumier, J. Driver, 2007/03/29, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2092
      6. From Cognitive To Neural Models Of Working Memory, M. D'Esposito, 2007/03/30, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2086
      7. Flexible Electronics Could Find Applications As Sensors, Artificial Muscles, 2007/04/02, Innovations-report
      8. GPS Under Threat From Cosmic Radiation: Solar Flares Could Disrupt The Entire System, Warn Scientists, I. Williams, 2007/04/05, vnunet.com
      9. Ancient Greek Amphitheater: Why You Can Hear From Back Row, 2007/04/06, ScienceDaily & Georgia Institute of Technology
      10. Good Behavior, Religiousness May Be Genetic, 2007/04/06, ScienceDaily & Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
      11. The Right Of National Defense, D. R. Mapel, Feb. 2007, online 2007/01/09, International Studies Perspectives, DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01017.x
      12. Chaotic Spatial Bifurcation By Complex Coupling, V. D. Shalfeev, M. V. Ivanchenko, Jun. 2007, online 2007/04/05, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, DOI: 10.1063/1.2671871
      13. Rich Countries, Poor People?, J. Stiglitz, Winter 2007, online 2007/01/18, New Perspectives Quarterly, DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5842.2007.00856.x

    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 07/01/24-28
      2. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      3. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      4. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      5. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      6. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      7. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      8. Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
      9. An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
      10. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      11. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      12. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      13. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      14. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      15. North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity 2005 Conference, Virtual Conference Network, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, 05/06/09-11
      16. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      17. Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Complexity, with a celebration of the 65th birthday of Gregoire Nicolis. , Complexity Session, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 05/03/16
      18. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      19. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      20. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      21. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      22. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      23. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      24. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      25. Edge Videos

    3. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. 4th Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems, Lake Arrowhead, CA, 07/04/25-29
      2. Intl Conf on Morphological Computation, Venice Italy, 07/03/26-28
      3. Capturing Business Complexity with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Useful, Usable, and Used Techniques - A Course on Business Applications, Argonne Natl Lab, Woodridge, IL, 07/04/16-20
      4. New Trends in Mathematics for Complex Systems - Nouvelles approches en mathématiques pour les systèmes complexes, Paris, 07/04/23-25
      5. Complexity and Organizational Resilience , The Village, Pohnpei, Micronesia, 07/05
      6. 9th GEF -The World Festival of Creativity in Schools, Sanremo ITALY, 07/05/02-06
      7. UCS 2007 - Understanding Complex Systems, Urbana-Champaign, Ill, 07/05/14-17
      8. Applied Neuroscience for Healthy Brains, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 07/05/17-20
      9. Visualizing Network Dynamics Competition @ NetSci07, New York, 07/05/20-25
      10. 2nd Intl Conf on Built Environment Complexity - Embracing complexity thinking in built environments, Cape Town South Africa, 07/05/21-25
      11. ECO 2007 Summit: Ecological Complexity and Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for 21st-Century Ecology, Beijing, China, 07/05/22-27
      12. 2007 IEEE/ICME Intl Conf on Complex Medical Engineering-CME2007, Beijing, China, 07/05/23-27
      13. Analysis and Control of Complex Networks, Milan, Italy, 07/05/24-26
      14. The 7th Intl Workshop on Meta-Synthesis and Complex Systems, Beijing, 07/05/27-30
      15. 2nd Intl Wkshp on Engineering Emergence in Decentralised Autonomic Systems EEDAS 2007, Jacksonville, Fl, 07/06/11-15
      16. 7th conf SYMMETRY IN NONLINEAR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, Kiev, Ukraine, 07/06/24-30
      17. Symposium on Knowledge Domain Visualizations @ IV 2007, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 07/07/04-06
      18. Summer School In Complexity Science, London, UK, 07/07/08-17
      19. 2007 Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007), London, UK, 07/07/07-11
      20. 22nd European Conference on Operational Research EURO XXII, Prague, Czech Republic, 07/07/08-11
      21. 11th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, 07/07/08-11
      22. SASO 2007 - First IEEE Intl Conf Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems , Boston, Mass., USA, 07/07/09-11
      23. STATPHYS 23, the 23rd Intl Conf on Statistical Physics of the Intl Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), Genova, Italy, 07/07/09-13
      24. SMBI-07 - Statistical Mechanics and Biological Information - Satellite Conference of STATPHYS 2007, Torino, Italy, 07/07/16-18
      25. Enhancing Learning Through Technology-- Emerging Technologies And Pedagogies , Hong Kong SAR, 07/07/09-10
      26. IEEE Intl Conf on Development and Learning 2007, Imperial College London, 07/07/11-13
      27. NKS 2007 Wolfram Science Conference, Burlington, VT, 07/07/13-15
      28. Complex Change Webinar: Planning in the Midst of Chaos, 07/07/17
      29. 22nd Conf on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07) and 19th Conf on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-07), Vancouver, British Columbia, 07/07/22-26
      30. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences 17th Annual Intl Conf, Orange, Ca, USA, 07/07/27-29
      31. ICCM 2007 - 8th Intl Conf on Cognitive Modeling, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 07/07/27-29
      32. ICS PIF Summer School 2007 - First French Complex Systems Summer School, Paris, 07/07/30-08/26
      33. Natural Complexity: Data and Theory in Dialogue, Cambridge, UK, 07/08/13-17
      34. ECAL 2oo7 - 9th European Conference on Artificial Life , Lisbon, Portugal, 07/09/10-14
      35. 3rd Edition of the Econophysics Colloquium, Ancona, 07/09/27-29
      36. European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07) , Dresden, Germany, 07/10/01-05
      37. Processes Of Emergence Of Systems And Systemic Properties. Towards A General Theory Of Emergence. , Castel Ivano (Trento), 07/10/18-20
      38. 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intl Joint Conf on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'07), Silicon Valley, USA, 07/11/02-05
      39. Theory In Cognitive Neuroscience, Wildbad Kreuth (Bavaria), Germany, 07/11/04-07
      40. 7th Intl Conf on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems , Piscataway, NJ, 07/11/05-07
      41. KSS 2007 - 8th Intl Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, 07/11/05-07
      42. The 3rd Indian Intl Conf on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07), Pune, INDIA, 07/12/17-19

    4. Call for Papers - Course/Book Announcements Bookmark and Share

      1. Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Artificial Life journal on the Evolution of Complexity,
      2. Chaos and Complexity Resources for Students and Teachers, 06/03/01

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