Complexity Digest 2007.37

27-Sep-2007

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  1. A Global Game Explodes: Currencies, Wall Street Journal
    1. SFR Talk: Science Guy, Santa Fe Reporter
  2. Adaptive Coevolutionary Networks -- A Review, arXiv
    1. Complexity, Collective Effects and Modelling of Ecosystems: Formation, Function and Stability, arXiv
  3. Why a Person Doesn't Evolve in One Lifetime, News@Nature
  4. Paleoanthropology: A New Body Of Evidence Fleshes Out Homo Erectus, Science
    1. Walking Small: Humanlike legs took Homo out of Africa, Science News
    2. Archaeology: Easter Island Revisited, Science
  5. Why Are Some Groups Of Animals So Diverse?, Innovations-report
  6. Biotechs Go Generic: The Same But Different, Nature
  7. Developmental Biology: Home For The Precious Few, Science
    1. Structural Biology: Unexpected Opening, Nature
  8. New Understanding Of Basic Units Of Memory, ScienceDaily
  9. The Science Of Collective Decision-making, ScienceDaily
    1. The Political Ecology Of Violence In Eastern Sri Lanka, Dev. & Change
  10. Linguistics: Read My Slips: Speech Errors Show How Language Is Processed, Science
    1. The Double Thinker, NY Times
  11. Work on Paralysis Shows Just How Hard It Is to Read Minds, Wall Street Journal
    1. Acupuncture 'Best For Back Pain', BBC News
  12. To Evade Chemotherapy, Some Cancer Cells Mimic Stem Cells, Innovations-report
  13. Noise, Nonlinearity And Seasonality: The Epidemics Of Whooping Cough Revisited, Interface
  14. An Oracle for Our Time, Part Man, Part Machine, NY Times
  15. 'Self-Aware' Space Rovers Would Be Speedy Explorers, New Scientist
  16. Computing: The Wireless Epidemic, Nature
  17. Toward Next-generation Integrated Circuits Made From Carbon Nanotubes, Science Daily
    1. It's All In The Spin: Quantum Physics Cools Down Computers, PhysOrg.com
  18. Condensed-Matter Physics: Relaxation After A Tight Squeeze, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Invisible, Invincible, Hindustan Times
    2. Air Force Leaders Discuss Need To Control Cyberspace, Air Force Link
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. A Global Game Explodes: Currencies, Wall Street Journal Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: As subprime mortgage problems in the U.S. fanned out in recent months to hedge funds and banks thousands of miles away, investors got a stark view of the vast interconnectedness of the global financial system.

    Now, a report by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, adds some hard numbers to that picture. Global markets are exploding in size, scope and complexity. (...)

    In April, daily turnover in currency markets rose to $3.2 trillion, the bank said yesterday.

    1. SFR Talk: Science Guy, Santa Fe Reporter Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      Geoffrey West is the president of and a distinguished professor at the Santa Fe Institute, a scientific think tank. In 2006, West was named one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. (...)

      What are the 'big questions'? Questions about complex systems, like the environment and global warming. Questions about financial markets: Is there any underlying understanding about how financial markets work? How can we understand the dynamics of cities? All these kinds of questions require a kind of multidisciplinary kind of thinking. Twenty years ago, when the Institute was started, that idea was pooh-poohed; now terms like 'complexity' have become the buzzwords within the scientific community.

  2. Adaptive Coevolutionary Networks -- A Review, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Adaptive networks appear in many biological applications. They combine topological evolution of the network with dynamics in the network nodes. Recently, the dynamics of adaptive networks has been investigated in a number of parallel studies from different fields, ranging from genomics to game theory. Here we review these recent developments and show that they can be viewed from a unique angle. We demonstrate that all these studies are characterized by common themes, most prominently: complex dynamics and robust topological self-organization based on simple local rules.

    1. Complexity, Collective Effects and Modelling of Ecosystems: Formation, Function and Stability, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: We discuss the relevance of studying ecology within the framework of Complexity Science from a statistical mechanics approach. Ecology is concerned with understanding how systems level properties emerge out of the multitude of interactions amongst large numbers of components, leading to ecosystems that possess the prototypical characteristics of complex systems. We argue that statistical mechanics is at present the best methodology available to obtain a quantitative description of complex systems, and that ecology is in urgent need of ``integrative'' approaches that are quantitative and non-stationary. We describe examples where combining statistical mechanics and ecology has led to improved ecological modelling and, at the same time, broadened the scope of statistical mechanics.

  3. Why a Person Doesn't Evolve in One Lifetime, News@Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: It's not easy making a human. Getting from a fertilized egg to a full-grown adult involves a near-miracle of orchestration, with replicating cells acquiring specialized functions in just the right places at the right times. So you'd think that, having done the job once, our bodies would replace cells when required by the simplest means possible.
    Oddly, they don't. Our tissues don't renew themselves by mere copying, with old skin cells dividing into new skin cells and so forth. Instead, they keep repeating the laborious process of starting each cell from scratch. Now scientists think they know why: it could be nature's way of making sure that we don't evolve as we grow older.

  4. Paleoanthropology: A New Body Of Evidence Fleshes Out Homo Erectus, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The long-legged human ancestor Homo erectus is known for breaking records: It has been seen as the first globetrotter, the first inventor of stone hand axes, and the first human to dramatically expand its brain and to reach the height of people today. But such views of the body of H. erectus rely heavily on a single partial skeleton of a strapping youth from Nariokotome, Kenya. Now the discovery of incredibly rare trunk and limb bones of early H. erectus shows that the species wasn't always so tall and brainy--and, according to some interpretations, suggests that it may have emerged in Asia, not Africa.

    1. Walking Small: Humanlike legs took Homo out of Africa, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      LEG UP. Researchers uncovered this leg bone and other fossils from a Homo species that inhabited central Asia's Dmanisi site 1.77 million years ago. Georgian National Museum
      The earliest known human ancestors that trekked from Africa into Asia possessed legs, feet, and spines much like ours, even as they sported relatively apelike arms and small brains, according to an analysis of 1.77-million-year-old fossils unearthed in the central Asian nation of Georgia.

      A team led by David Lordkipanidze of the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi recovered 33 lower-body bones from at least three adults and one teenager at a site called Dmanisi.

    2. Archaeology: Easter Island Revisited, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Much remains to understand about Easter. Here are my six favorite unsolved questions.

      First, was Easter's mysterious rongorongo writing invented after or before the arrival of Europeans? If the latter were true, Easter would have been by far the world's smallest society to invent writing independently. Orliac's recent 14C-dating of one surviving rongorongo object is a tantalizing first step toward an answer.

      Second, did Easter Islanders live in isolation from other humans from the time of colonization until European arrival, or did further Polynesian settlers arrive? For instance, was the sweet potato brought by the first settlers, or only later?

  5. Why Are Some Groups Of Animals So Diverse?, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: A new study of finger-sized Australian lizards sheds light on one of the most striking yet largely unexplained patterns in nature: why is it that some groups of animals have evolved into hundreds, even thousands of species, while other groups include only a few? The study takes a look at Australia's most diverse group of vertebrates-more than 252 species of lizards called skinks. Researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have found evidence that the "drying up" of Australia over the past 20 million years triggered this explosive diversification. (...)

  6. Biotechs Go Generic: The Same But Different, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: As several lucrative protein-based drugs are poised to go off patent, makers of biopharmaceuticals argue that their products are too complex to be reproduced as generics. Heidi Ledford investigates how close 'biosimilar' drugs can get to the original.

  7. Developmental Biology: Home For The Precious Few, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: It was initially surmised that testis stem cells must exist because men make sperm for decades. Then, in rodent models, it was observed that spermatogenesis would naturally be reestablished after a severe toxic insult. Spermatogonial stem cells were eventually identified when a preparation of cells from a donor mouse testis was shown to repopulate spermatogenesis when transplanted into the testis of a sterile recipient animal (8). As with any tissue maintained by stem cells, only a small fraction of testis cells are spermatogonial stem cells. But where is home for these precious, few cells?

    1. Structural Biology: Unexpected Opening, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Cell membranes contain channels that open to allow ions into cells. The structure of a sodium ion channel helps explain how it opens in response to protons, and settles a long-standing debate about its composition.

      What do humans have in common with worms, flies, hydra and sea urchins? One answer is that they all have proteins known as degenerins1 that form pores in cell membranes for the passage of sodium ions.

  8. New Understanding Of Basic Units Of Memory, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: A molecular "recycling plant" permits nerve cells in the brain to carry out two seemingly contradictory functions -- changeable enough to record new experiences, yet permanent enough to maintain these memories over time. The discovery of this molecular recycling plant, detailed in a study (...) provides new insights into how the basic units of learning and memory function. Individual memories are "burned onto" hundreds of receptors that are constantly in motion around nerve synapses -- gaps between individual nerve cells crucial for signals to travel throughout the brain. (...)

  9. The Science Of Collective Decision-making, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Why do some juries take weeks to reach a verdict, while others take just hours? How do judges pick the perfect beauty queen from a sea of very similar candidates? We have all wondered exactly why we did not win a certain award. Now, new psychological research explains how groups come to a collective decision. (...) conducted the first empirical investigation of the "doctrinal paradox." This occurs when judges, say a hiring committee or a jury, must evaluate several factors about a candidate, (e.g. a possible employee or a defendant in a trial) and come to a majority decision. (...)

    1. The Political Ecology Of Violence In Eastern Sri Lanka, Dev. & Change Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: In political ecology, violence is usually associated with conflicts over the control of natural resources. Up to now, political ecology has lacked a sound conceptual approach for analysing how violence that has its origin in political conflict induces environmental and social change. This article examines how the environment serves as an arena for exerting power, by using different forms of violence, affecting both ecosystems and the entitlements of the people who are dependent on natural resources. After a brief description of the role of violence in political ecology research, a conceptual framework for a political ecology of violence is laid out. (...)

  10. Linguistics: Read My Slips: Speech Errors Show How Language Is Processed, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Researchers are analyzing spoonerisms and other slips of the tongue to help understand how humans--and even apes--can comprehend and use language. (...)

    But the field got a boost in the 1970s when researchers created ways to elicit many (but not all) types of speech errors in the lab. One method involved giving people word pairs like "duck bill," "dart board," and "dust bin," then asking them to say "barn door." About 10% of the time, subjects said "darn bore."

    1. The Double Thinker, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Then there's the clash between ancient and modern science. Aristotle thought projectiles continued through space because a force propelled them. He thought they eventually fell because Earth was their natural home. Modern science rejects both ideas. Pinker says Aristotle was right, not about projectiles but about how we understand them. We think in terms of force and purpose because our minds evolved in a biological world of force and purpose, not in an abstract world of vacuums and multiple gravities. Aristotle's bad physics was actually good psychology.

      How can we be sure the mind works this way? By studying its chief manifestation: language.

  11. Work on Paralysis Shows Just How Hard It Is to Read Minds, Wall Street Journal Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The computer control systems of both Prof. Donoghue and Prof. Wolpaw require users to concentrate on a task. Another approach to the problem is to take advantage of the brain's "reflex" actions, those that occur without our conscious knowledge.

    For example, neurons in the visual cortex will automatically "fire" at the same rate as something blinking. So Melody Moore Jackson at Georgia Tech University shows patients a keyboard on a screen, each "key" a colored square flashing at a different frequency.

    1. Acupuncture 'Best For Back Pain', BBC News Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      Acupuncture is said to release the body's vital energy
      Acupuncture is more effective at treating back pain than conventional therapies, research suggests.

      A German study found almost half the patients treated with acupuncture needles felt pain relief that lasted for months.

      In contrast, only about a quarter who received drugs and other Western therapies felt better.

      The Archives of Internal Medicine study also found fake acupuncture to work nearly as well as the real thing.

  12. To Evade Chemotherapy, Some Cancer Cells Mimic Stem Cells, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Anti-cancer treatments often effectively shrink the size of tumors, but some might have an opposite effect, actually expanding the small population of cancer stem cells believed to drive the disease, according to findings presented today in Atlanta, Georgia at the American Association for Cancer Research's second International Conference on Molecular Diagnostics in Cancer Therapeutic Development. "Our experiments suggest that some treatments could be producing more cancer stem cells that then are capable of metastasizing, because these cells are trying to find a way to survive the therapy," said (...).

  13. Noise, Nonlinearity And Seasonality: The Epidemics Of Whooping Cough Revisited, Interface Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Understanding the mechanisms that generate oscillations in the incidence of childhood infectious diseases has preoccupied epidemiologists and population ecologists for nearly two centuries. This body of work has generated simple yet powerful explanations for the epidemics of measles and chickenpox, while the dynamics of other infectious diseases, such as whooping cough, have proved more challenging to decipher. (...) Here we use household data on the incubation period in order to parametrize more realistic distributions of the latent and infectious periods. We demonstrate that previously reported phenomena result from transients following the interaction between the stable annual attractor and unstable multiennial solutions.

  14. An Oracle for Our Time, Part Man, Part Machine, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Jonathon Rosen
    But the concept is not so different from what happens routinely during a Google search. The network of computers answering your query pays attention to which results you choose to read. You're gathering data from the network while the network is gathering data about you. The result is a statistical accretion of what people - those beings who clack away at the keys - are looking for, a rough sense of what their language means.

    In the 1950s William Ross Ashby, a British psychiatrist and cyberneticist, anticipated something like this merger when he wrote about intelligence amplification - human thinking leveraged by machines.

  15. 'Self-Aware' Space Rovers Would Be Speedy Explorers, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: His virtual rover first makes a single slow drive through an unknown area gathering as much tilt data as possible. Based on this information, it then builds 15 different simulations of its extended surroundings with itself at its current position. It makes "educated guesses" based on sensor data about the likely features in these the areas beyond its initial route.

    The robot combines all 15 models and identifies the direction in which the models vary the most. It then drives off into this region and checks its models against new tilt data, providing more information for further, more accurate simulation building.

  16. Computing: The Wireless Epidemic, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: As wireless communication technologies spread, so the potential for viruses to exploit them grows. Biological models of virus transmission will assume new relevance for assessing the emerging threat.

  17. Toward Next-generation Integrated Circuits Made From Carbon Nanotubes, Science Daily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Photo and illustration (inset) of carbon nanotube circuits. (Credit: Courtesy of Ze'ev Abrams and Yael Hanein, Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
    The study describes a method to manufacture and assemble large arrays of SWCNTs into an integrated circuit format. It can be used on a variety of surfaces and produced on an industrial scale. The process involves creating networks of nanotubes suspended between silicon pillars, which are then transferred onto other surfaces by direct stamping, the researchers say.

    1. It's All In The Spin: Quantum Physics Cools Down Computers, PhysOrg.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Using special semiconductor material made from layers of mercury telluride and cadmium telluride, the experimenters employed quantum tricks to align the spin of electrons like a parade of tops spinning together. Under these extraordinary conditions, the current flows only along the edges of the sheet of semiconductor.

      Interestingly, electrons with identical spins travel in the same direction together, while electrons with the opposite spin move in the opposite direction. Unlike existing semiconductors, this unusual electric current does not generate destructive heat through dissipation of power or the collision of electrons with impurities in the semiconducting material.

  18. Condensed-Matter Physics: Relaxation After A Tight Squeeze, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Are the rules that determine relaxation to equilibrium the same in the classical and quantum worlds? Recent experiments supported the idea that they are - but an investigation with ultracold atoms now contradicts that.

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

    1. Invisible, Invincible, Hindustan Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The internet provides terrorist groups with unprecedented access to the world outside from releasing propaganda videos to posting 'messages' from terrorist bosses the web is the ultimate forum for extremist groups. And it can't be regulated.

      According to Mohamed Hafez, author of Suicide Bombers in Iraq, 53 of the 124 suicide bombers identified in the embattled West Asian nation were Saudi nationals. Italy and Syria provided eight each, while seven came from Jordan. Only 18 of the 124 bombers were Iraqis.


    2. Air Force Leaders Discuss Need To Control Cyberspace, Air Force Link Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Mr. Byrne said terrorist networks rely on common commercial items such as cell phones, camera phones and Global Positioning System devices. U.S. warfighters need to take advantage of these same technologies, too, he said, arguing that they can greatly enhance collaboration, which is the real key to information awareness.

      "I'm not saying we should replace the sensors and communication systems we're using now, but that we should use these commercial technologies to supplement them," he said. He acknowledged that the military would have to ensure the security of such an expanded network, but thought the problem solvable.

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. The Primitive Wrist of Homo floresiensis and Its Implications for Hominin Evolution, Matthew W. Tocheri, Caley M. Orr, Susan G. Larson, Thomas Sutikna, Jatmiko, E. Wahyu Saptomo, Rokus Awe Due, Tony Djubiantono, Michael J. Morwood, William L. Jungers, 07/09/21, Science : 1743-1745. Homo floresiensis, the enigmatic diminutive hominin from Flores, Indonesia, retains primitive wrist bones, implying that it is not closely related to modern humans.
      2. The Breast Solution - Nature's Nutrition Keeps HIV At Bay, Carolyn Barry, 07/09/22, ScienceNews, Reversing earlier advice, health authorities now say that babies of HIV-positive mothers in poor countries have a better chance of avoiding infection if they feed only on breast milk that's not supplemented with other food.
      3. Aiding and Abetting: A longevity gene also promotes cancer, Patrick Barry, 07/09/22, ScienceNews, A gene that normally helps cells overcome stress can also promote cancer, perhaps offering a new target for cancer treatment.
      4. A New View of the Waggle Dance: Making Scents to Recruit Fellow Foragers, Liza Gross, 2007/08/21, PLoS Biol 5(9): e249, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050249
      5. Bacterial Solutions to the Problem of Sex, J. Arjan G. M. de Visser, 2007/09/18, PLoS Biol 5(9): e245, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050245
      6. Susceptible-Infected-Recovered Epidemics In Dynamic Contact Networks, E. Volz, L. A. Meyers, 2007/09/18, Proceedings B: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1159
      7. Council Workers Fired Over 'Web Addiction': Employees Sacked For Cyber-Skiving, I. Thomson, 2007/09/21, vnunet.com
      8. Speech Perception At The Interface Of Neurobiology And Linguistics, D. Poeppel, W. J. Idsardi, V. van Wassenhove, 2007/09/21, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2160
      9. Key To Longer Life (in Flies) Lies In Just 14 Brain Cells, 2007/09/21, ScienceDaily & Brown University
      10. Market Forces In Utilities Industries Benefit Company And Not Society, 2007/09/24, Innovations-report
      11. Racism's Cognitive Toll: Subtle Discrimination Is More Taxing On The Brain, 2007/09/24, ScienceDaily & Association for Psychological Science
      12. Understanding The Neuron's Green Architecture, 2007/09/24, ScienceDaily & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
      13. Can The United States Shed Its Oil Addiction?, J. Braml - bramladgap.org, Autumn 2007, Online 2007/08/20, Washington Quarterly, DOI: 10.1162/wash.2007.30.4.117
      14. Resource Accessibility And Vulnerability In Andhra Pradesh: Caste And Non-Caste Influences, L. Bosher, E. P.-Rowsell, S. Tapsell, Jul. 2007, online 2007/07/25, Development and Change, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00426.x
      15. Analysis Of Fractal And Fast Fourier Transform Spectra Of Human Electroencephalograms Induced By Odors, S. Murali, K. V. Vladimir, Oct. 2007, International Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1080/00207450600941130

    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      2. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 07/01/24-28
      3. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      4. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      5. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      6. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      7. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      8. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      9. Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
      10. An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
      11. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      12. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      13. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      14. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      15. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      16. 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
      17. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      18. 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
      19. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      20. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      21. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      22. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      23. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      24. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      25. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      26. Edge Videos

    3. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. 3rd Edition of the Econophysics Colloquium , Ancona, Italy, 07/09/27-29
      2. European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07), Dresden, Germany, 07/10/01-05
      3. Processes Of Emergence Of Systems And Systemic Properties. Towards A General Theory Of Emergence. , Castel Ivano (Trento), 07/10/18-20
      4. 2nd Annual Conf on The Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water, West Dover, Vermont. 07/10/18-21
      5. Smithsonian conference, Creating a Sustainable Future in a Complex World, Washington, DC, 07/10/27
      6. Intl Conf on Complex Systems 2007, Boston, MA, USA, 07/10/28-11/02
      7. 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intl Joint Conf on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'07), Silicon Valley, USA, 07/11/02-05
      8. Theory In Cognitive Neuroscience, Wildbad Kreuth (Bavaria), Germany, 07/11/04-07
      9. 7th Intl Conf on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems , Piscataway, NJ, 07/11/05-07
      10. KSS 2007 - 8th Intl Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, 07/11/05-07
      11. NetLogo Workshop at Agent 2007 Conference, Evanston, IL, USA, 07/11/12-14
      12. Australia New Zealand Systems Conference 2007 "Systemic development: Local solutions in a global environment", Auckland, New Zealand, 07/12/02-05
      13. The 3rd Indian Intl Conf on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07), Pune, INDIA, 07/12/17-19
      14. The 1st Conf on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08), Memphis, Tennessee, USA, 08/03/01-03
      15. The 3rd International Nonlinear Sciences Conference (INSC), Tokyo, Japan, 08/03/13-15
      16. 19th European Meeting On Cybernetics And Systems Research, (EMCSR 2008), Vienna, Austria, 08/03/25-28
      17. 1st Intl Conf on Social Entrepreneurship & Complexity, Garden City, NY, USA, 08/04/10-12
      18. The 12th World Multi-Conf on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA, 08/06/29-07/02
      19. From Animals To Animats 10 - The 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation Of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'08), Osaka, Japan, 08/07/07-12
      20. Stochastic Resonance 2008, Perugia, Italy, 08/08/17-21

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      2. Intl Master of Science in Methods For Management Of Complex Systems - Academic Year 2007-2008, Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia, Italy, 08/01/01
      3. News notes on Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) for July 2007 are now available on-line, 07/08/04
      4. National Humanities Center Launches Humanities/Sciences Website, 07/04, As part of its ongoing "Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human & The Humanities" project (ASC), the National Humanities Center makes public a new website for the initiative which significantly expands the potential pool of humanists and scientists engaged in the exploration and examination of topics surrounding the question of human being.

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