Complexity Digest 2008.37

11-Sept-2008

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  1. Homelands Security To Use Social Networks For Alerts, vnunet.com
    1. E-Mails, Conspiracy Rumors Plague Palin, Politico
  2. Opening Search to Semantic Upstarts, Technology Review
    1. Infovell's 'Research Engine' Finds Deep Web Pages That Google, Yahoo Miss, PhysOrg.com
  3. Big Data: Welcome To The Petacentre, Nature
    1. Big Data: Wikiomics, Nature
    2. Google Planning Offshore Data Barges, Data Center Knowledge
  4. A Systems Approach To Unravel Complex Water Management Institutions, Ecol. Complexity
  5. The Increasing Intensity Of The Strongest Tropical Cyclones, Nature
  6. Cloud-Seeding Ships Could Combat Climate Change, PhysicsWorld.com
    1. Flood Or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation?, Science
  7. Evolving Designer Ecosystem Sheds Light On Unintended Consequences, Innovations-report
  8. Network Scaling Reveals Consistent Fractal Pattern In Hierarchical Mammalian Societies, Biol. Lett.
  9. Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life, Wired
    1. Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life, ScienceDaily
  10. Highly Wired - New Brain Study Finds More Synapses In Men Than In Women, Science News
  11. Inborn Path To Math - Mathematics Ability May Be Related To An Evolutionarily Ingrained Sense For Numbers, Science News
    1. Psychology: Investigating The Psychopathic Mind, Science
  12. Neuroscience: Hippocampal Firing Patterns Linked To Memory Recall, Science
    1. Internally Generated Cell Assembly Sequences in the Rat Hippocampus, Science
  13. Gene Regulation Makes The Human, Science News
  14. Cancer Genetics: A Detailed Genetic Portrait Of The Deadliest Human Cancers, Science
  15. Multimodal Warning Signals For A Multiple Predator World, Nature
  16. Robot Spider Vs. Bee, Science News
  17. Chemical Oscillations Of Air-Seeded Bubbles In Water Driven By Ultrasound, Physical Review
  18. Geochemistry and the Biosphere / Essays by Vladimir I. Vernadsky, Book Review, Ralph Abraham
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Global Poll Shows Doubt About al-Qaida Role in 9/11 Attacks, Voice of America
    2. White House: Politics Not A Factor In Bin Laden Hunt, AFP
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. Homelands Security To Use Social Networks For Alerts, vnunet.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has developed a tool for MySpace users to get emergency broadcast warnings for natural disasters. The tool saw its first deployment after Hurricane Gustaf came ashore at the start of the week. Officials from the DHS asked MySpace to fast track the applications after the storm hit and it went live on Tuesday. "What you are seeing us doing with DHS and FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) is the beginning of bigger things to come in the future (...). "Tragedy often inspires people to do great things and this has happened here. " (...)

    1. E-Mails, Conspiracy Rumors Plague Palin, Politico Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: ¡§Information abhors a vacuum, and like Barack Obama was at first, Sarah Palin was an unknown quanity,¡¨ said the internet folklorist David Emery. ¡§When you have all that pressure and very little information - that's when the rumors start flying.¡¨ (...)

      ¡§There are a large number of people who are very suspicious of Sarah Palin that are looking for a face to put on it, and these stories are ways to try to dramatize that,¡¨ said Bill Ellis, an expert on urban legends at Penn State University. (...)


  2. Opening Search to Semantic Upstarts, Technology Review Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Credit: Technology Review Even if you have a great idea for a new search engine, it's far from easy to get it off the ground. For one thing, the best engineering talent resides at big-name companies. Even more significantly, according to some estimates, it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to buy and maintain the servers needed to index the Web in its entirety.

    However, Yahoo recently released a resource that may offer hope to search innovators and entrepreneurs. Called Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS), it allows programmers to make use of Yahoo's index of the Web--billions of pages that are continually updated--thereby removing perhaps the biggest barrier to search innovation.

    1. Infovell's 'Research Engine' Finds Deep Web Pages That Google, Yahoo Miss, PhysOrg.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      With Infovell, users search with key phrases up to 25,000 words long, rather than keywords.
      Image credit: Infovell.
      According to a study by the University of California at Berkeley, traditional search engines such as Google and Yahoo index only about 0.2% of the Internet. The remaining 99.8%, known as the "deep Web," is a vast body of public and subscription-based information that traditional search engines can't access.

      To dig into this "invisible" information, scientists have developed a new search engine called Infovell geared at helping researchers find often obscure data in the deep Web.

  3. Big Data: Welcome To The Petacentre, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Big Data: Wikiomics, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Pioneering biologists are trying to use wiki-type web pages to manage and interpret data, reports Mitch Waldrop. But will the wider research community go along with the experiment? (...)

      Scientists write review articles and textbooks to make sense of it all. But it's still not enough.

      Hence the proliferation of wikis, which have the potential to vastly multiply the number of annotators and bring in the most interested expertise: "The best people to do annotation are the researchers in the laboratories, the people who are producing this knowledge in the first place,(...)."

    2. Google Planning Offshore Data Barges, Data Center Knowledge Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: In a startling new take on data center engineering, Google has filed a patent for a "water-based data center" that uses the ocean to provide power and cooling. The patent also confirms Google's development of a container-based data center, describing "crane-removable modules" to power the computing platforms.

      The floating data centers would be located 3 to 7 miles from shore, in 50 to 70 meters of water. If perfected, this approach could be used to build 40 megawatt data centers that don't require real estate or property taxes.

  4. A Systems Approach To Unravel Complex Water Management Institutions, Ecol. Complexity Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The study unravels the complexity of water management institutions by analysing the interactive nature of actors and rules to a particular water-related problem, using a systems approach in a hamlet in the Indian Himalayas. The approach builds on the strengths of institutional analysis development framework, but makes amendments to suit complex and adaptive water management institutions. It applies multiple research methods to collect both qualitative and quantitative information (...). (...) the study reveals human entities - stakeholders, actors and agents - occupy different positions, which they actively shift in a problem context and when agents pursue ‘projects' by integrating diverse rules and resources to remain adaptive. (...)

  5. The Increasing Intensity Of The Strongest Tropical Cyclones, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Atlantic tropical cyclones are getting stronger on average, with a 30-year trend that has been related to an increase in ocean temperatures over the Atlantic Ocean and elsewhere. Over the rest of the tropics, however, possible trends in tropical cyclone intensity are less obvious, owing to the unreliability and incompleteness of the observational record and to a restricted focus, in previous trend analyses, on changes in average intensity.

  6. Cloud-Seeding Ships Could Combat Climate Change, PhysicsWorld.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Artist's impression of a Flettner spray vessel. The wind would be blowing from the right-hand side of the image, the rotor spin would be clockwise as seen from above, and the rotors would push the vessel to the left. (Courtesy: J. MacNeill).
    It should be possible to counteract the global warming associated with a doubling of carbon dioxide levels by enhancing the reflectivity of low-lying clouds above the oceans, (...) this can be done using a worldwide fleet of autonomous ships spraying salt water into the air.

    Clouds are a key component of the Earth's climate system. They can both heat the planet by trapping the longer-wavelength radiation given off from the Earth's surface and cool it by reflecting incoming shorter wavelength radiation back into space. The greater weight of the second mechanism means that, on balance, clouds have a cooling effect.

    1. Flood Or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation?, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Aerosols serve as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and thus have a substantial effect on cloud properties and the initiation of precipitation. Large concentrations of human-made aerosols have been reported to both decrease and increase rainfall as a result of their radiative and CCN activities. At one extreme, pristine tropical clouds with low CCN concentrations rain out too quickly to mature into long-lived clouds. On the other hand, heavily polluted clouds evaporate much of their water before precipitation can occur, if they can form at all given the reduced surface heating resulting from the aerosol haze layer. We propose a conceptual model that explains this apparent dichotomy.

  7. Evolving Designer Ecosystem Sheds Light On Unintended Consequences, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: What are the consequences of human-made tinkering with land cover and hydrology on surrounding native desert ecosystems and biodiversity? This question forms the backdrop for a case study (...) which found that one of the most profound impacts of urbanization is the "reconfiguration of surface hydrology." (...) found that construction of artificial lakes and canal systems along with extensive groundwater pumping have had "unintended impacts on nutrient cycling." (...)

  8. Network Scaling Reveals Consistent Fractal Pattern In Hierarchical Mammalian Societies, Biol. Lett. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Recent studies have demonstrated that human societies are hierarchically structured with a consistent scaling ratio across successive layers of the social network; each layer of the network is between three and four times the size of the preceding (smaller) grouping level. Here we show that similar relationships hold for four mammalian taxa living in multi-level social systems. For elephant (Loxodonta africana), gelada (Theropithecus gelada) and hamadryas (Papio hamadryas hamadryas) baboon, successive layers of social organization have a scaling ratio of almost exactly 3, indicating that such branching ratios may be a consistent feature of all hierarchically structured societies. (...)

  9. Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life, Wired Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    A team of biologists and chemists is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life.
    Modern life is far more complex than the simple systems that Szostak and others are working on, so the protocells don't look anything like the cells that we have in our bodies or Venter's genetically-modified E. coli.

    "What we're looking at is the origin of life in one aspect, and the other aspect is life as a small nanomachine on a single cell level," said Hans Ziock, a protocellular researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory.


    1. Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Scientists at Penn State have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The team's method has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins all the way back to either cells or viruses, thus settling the debate once and for all over which of these life forms came first. "We have just begun to tap the potential power of this method," said (...). "We believe, if it is possible at all, that it is within our grasp to determine whether viruses evolved from cells or vice-versa." (...)

  10. Highly Wired - New Brain Study Finds More Synapses In Men Than In Women, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    This image shows a brain cell as it responds to an electrical stimulus. The blue traces the path of the signal and its transmission through synapses to the brain cell.
    Credit: Michael A. Colicos, University of Calgary
    An investigation of brain tissue recovered from epilepsy patients during surgery showed men had a higher density of brain cell connectors, called synapses, than their female counterparts, (...).

    The find might explain why men have better spatial perception, while women better remember what they hear and can talk faster, the researchers suggest.

    "Or, it could mean men's brains are just more redundant, (...)."

  11. Inborn Path To Math - Mathematics Ability May Be Related To An Evolutionarily Ingrained Sense For Numbers, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    In a new study, 14-year-olds had a fraction of a second to identify the more numerous of two sets of colored dots, such as those in the images shown here. Teens who performed this task especially well had also achieved high scores on standardized math tests throughout grade school.
    Credit: Halberda
    A portion of 14-year-olds deftly estimate approximate quantities of items without counting, whereas others do so with either moderate or limited success, a new study finds. The ability is evolutionarily ancient and cannot be taught, but tends to get better with age. Large variations in this number sense closely parallel youngsters' mathematics achievement scores from kindergarten to sixth grade,(...).

    "Our results suggest that there is a strong and significant relationship between the acuity of a student's approximate number system and his or her performance in school mathematics," (...).

    1. Psychology: Investigating The Psychopathic Mind, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: At age 38, Kiehl is embarking on a project he hopes will unravel the neural basis of psychopathy, a suite of personality and behavioral traits that is far more common in violent criminals than in the general population and is a strong predictor of repeat offenses. Given the crime and other societal costs caused by psychopathic individuals, Kiehl says, this group has been woefully understudied. He intends to change that. With a custom-built mobile magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner--roughly $2.3 million of equipment packed into a 15-meter-long trailer--and permission from the New Mexico governor to work in all 12 state prisons, Kiehl aims to scan 1000 inmates a year.

  12. Neuroscience: Hippocampal Firing Patterns Linked To Memory Recall, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The hippocampus, tucked deep inside the temporal lobes of the brain, has been intensely studied for its role in recording memories. Now two studies--one with rats and one with people undergoing surgery for intractable epilepsy--suggest that patterns of neuron firing in the hippocampus are also involved in recalling past experiences.

    "The two papers are significant because they point directly to reactivation of neural activity sequences as a mechanism for memory recall," (...). Such a mechanism may underlie several functions attributed to the hippocampus, Moser says, including navigation, memory, and planning future actions.

    1. Internally Generated Cell Assembly Sequences in the Rat Hippocampus, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: A long-standing conjecture in neuroscience is that aspects of cognition depend on the brain's ability to self-generate sequential neuronal activity. We found that reliably and continually changing cell assemblies in the rat hippocampus appeared not only during spatial navigation but also in the absence of changing environmental or body-derived inputs. During the delay period of a memory task, each moment in time was characterized by the activity of a particular assembly of neurons.

  13. Gene Regulation Makes The Human, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    A human version of a stretch of DNA, when inserted into a mouse embryo, cranks up the activity of genes in the developing thumb (shown blue). But this activity was much lower with the chimp or rhesus macaque version of the same DNA sequence. The difference could point to the kinds of developmental changes that make us human.
    Credit: AAAS/Science
    Genes alone don't make the man - after all, humans and chimps share roughly 98 percent of their DNA. But where, when and how much genes are turned on may be essential in setting people apart from other primates.

    A stretch of human DNA inserted into mice embryos revs the activity of genes in the developing thumb, toe, forelimb and hind limb. But the chimp and rhesus macaque version of this same stretch of DNA spurs only faint activity in the developing limbs,

  14. Cancer Genetics: A Detailed Genetic Portrait Of The Deadliest Human Cancers, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Three studies published this week, two of which are being published online by Science, have given researchers their most detailed look so far at the genetic mutations that underlie the deadliest of human cancers: pancreatic cancer and the brain tumor glioblastoma. (...)

    (...) report finding hundreds of genes that were mutated in these two cancers. There were an average of 63 altered genes in each pancreatic tumor and 60 per glioblastoma. The mutations varied from tumor to tumor, but the most important tended to fall in the same cell pathways.

  15. Multimodal Warning Signals For A Multiple Predator World, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: During spring, when birds are active and bats less so, we found that tiger moths did not produce ultrasonic clicks. Throughout both spring and summer, tiger moths most active during the day were visually conspicuous. Those species emerging later in the season produced ultrasonic clicks; those that were most nocturnal were visually cryptic. Our results indicate that selective pressures from multiple predator classes have distinct roles in the evolution of multimodal warning displays now effective against a single predator class.

  16. Robot Spider Vs. Bee, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    A new bee-testing device mimics a close call with a dangerous camouflaged spider. A bee that ignores the yellow-on-yellow spider shape and buzzes close to sip a sugar droplet gets a remotely triggered squeeze from electronic sponges (clockwise starting at top left).Credit: Ings
    Getting wise to the dangers of camouflaged predators, however, has a cost for the bees, (...). Predator-savvy bees get jumpy, slowing down on the nectar-collection job, (...).

    And in the end, some of the bumblebees get a little paranoid, increasingly shying away from safe flowers. "They're behaving as if they're starting to see ghosts," Chittka says.

  17. Chemical Oscillations Of Air-Seeded Bubbles In Water Driven By Ultrasound, Physical Review Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Chemical oscillations are shown to be responsible for very low frequency modulations of a bubble oscillating nonlinearly in a high intensity ultrasound field. In the parameter space of incomplete dissociation near the onset of sonoluminescence a small bubble is shown to grow on a long time scale by the intake of dissolved air.

    Bubble collapses get hotter and more dense, noninert gases are dissociated and removed, and a small growing argon bubble is left behind continuing the circle.

  18. Geochemistry and the Biosphere / Essays by Vladimir I. Vernadsky, Book Review, Ralph Abraham Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The Essays on Geochemistry, regarding the chemical elements in the Earth's crust, is a technical work outside my bailiwick -- and there is an excellent review (...) -- so I will confine my review to The Biosphere.

    The Biosphere has three parts:
    1. The biosphere in the cosmos (82 pages),
    2. The domain of life (96 pages), and
    3. A few words about the noosphere (13 pages).


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

    1. Global Poll Shows Doubt About al-Qaida Role in 9/11 Attacks, Voice of America Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      World Trade Center attacks 11 Sept 2001 (file)
      Seven years after terrorist attacks killed several thousand people in the United States, a new global public opinion poll shows that many people do not believe the attacks were the work of the al-Qaida terror network. (...)

      An independent U.S.-based group called World Public Opinion.org asked 16,000 people in 17 countries who they thought was responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.

    2. White House: Politics Not A Factor In Bin Laden Hunt, AFP Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The rivals to succeed Bush -- fellow Republican John McCain and Democratic foe Barack Obama -- have been warring over which of them would more likely finally succeed in reaching the elusive Al-Qaeda terrorist network chief.

      And a recent wave of media reports alleging US raids or missile strikes in a remote area of Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan -- the area thought to be bin Laden's sanctuary -- has fueled speculation of a ramped-up campaign.

      "The 2008 election doesn't play any role in the president's trying to track down and find Osama bin Laden and his top deputies," said Perino.

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Microbiology: How To Infect A Mimivirus, Hiroyuki Ogata, Jean-Michel Claverie, 08/09/05, Science : 1305-1306. Summary: Large DNA viruses such as the giant Mimivirus can be infected by smaller viruses.
      2. Shadow Enhancers as a Source of Evolutionary Novelty, Joung-Woo Hong, David A. Hendrix, Michael S. Levine, 08/09/05, Science : 1314. Some developmentally important genes can be regulated via two enhancers, one located nearby and the other, a "shadow" enhancer, 10 to 20 kilobases away.
      3. Ants Under Crowded Conditions Consume More Energy, T. T. Cao, A. Dornhaus, 2008/09/02, Biological Letters, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0381
      4. Nuclear And Mitochondrial Sequences Confirm Complex Colonization Patterns And Clear Species Boundaries For Flightless Weevils In The Galápagos Archipelago, A. S. Sequeira, M. Sijapati, A. A. Lanteri, L. R. Albelo, 2008/09/02, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0109
      5. Hallucinations In The Flash Of An Eye, 2008/09/04, Innovations-report
      6. New Nano Device Detects Immune System Cell Signaling, 2008/09/04, Innovations-report
      7. Complex Ocean Behavior Studied With 'Artificial Upwelling', 2008/09/04, ScienceDaily & Oregon State University
      8. Eyeball Reflexes: Security and Biometrics That Cannot Be Spoofed, 2008/09/04, ScienceDaily & Inderscience Publishers
      9. Molecular Evolution Is Echoed In Bat Ears, 2008/09/04, ScienceDaily & University of Bristol
      10. Can Science Improve Man's Best Friend?, 2008/09/08, ScienceDaily & Monash University
      11. Complex Dynamics In Multistable Systems, U. Feudel - u.feudelaicbm.de, Jun. 2008, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, DOI: 10.1142/S0218127408021233
      12. Alfvén Complexity, E. L. Rempel, A. C. -L. Chian, D. Koga, R. A. Miranda, W. M. Santana, Jun. 2008, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, DOI: 10.1142/S0218127408021282
      13. Multistable Chaotic Dynamical Systems And Philosophy, V. Aboites, Jun. 2008, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, DOI: 10.1142/S0218127408021397

    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?, Danielle Parsons, Slatev.com, 08/07/22

        As roads and highways become ever more clogged, Danielle Parsons tells us how researchers are studying ways to learn from nature's own traffic-flow experts: ants.

      2. 7th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 07/10/28-11/02
      3. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      4. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 08/01/22-27
      5. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      6. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      7. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      8. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      9. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      10. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      11. Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
      12. An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
      13. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      14. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      15. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      16. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      17. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      18. 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
      19. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      20. 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
      21. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      22. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      23. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      24. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      25. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      26. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      27. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      28. Edge Videos

    3. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. 5th European Conference on Complex Systems, Jerusalem, Israel, 08/09/14-19
      2. EPOS 2008, III Edition of Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation, Lisbon, Portugal, 08/10/02-03
      3. 1st Intl Conf on the Evolution and Development of the Universe, Paris, France, 08/10/08-09
      4. Spatial Evolutionary Dynamics Workshop, Paris, France, 08/10/17
      5. International Congress on Complex Thought, Hermosillo , Sonora , Mexico, 08/10/21-24
      6. What Is Computation? (How) Does Nature Compute? - 2008 Midwest NKS Conference, Bloomington, IN, 08/10/30-11/02
      7. 2nd Intl Congress of Complex Systems in Sport (2nd ICCSS) and 10th European Workshop of Ecological Psychology. (10th EWEP), Funchal, in Madeira Island, Portugal, 08/11/05-08
      8. 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-08), Sydney, Australia, 08/12/09-12
      9. COMPLEX'2009, First Intl Conf on Complex Systems: Theory and Applications, Shanghai, China, 09/02/23-25
      10. Models and Simulations 3 Conference, Charlottesville, USA 09/03/05-07
      11. 2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Nashville, Tennessee, USA,09/03/30-04/02

    4. Other Announcements Bookmark and Share

      1. PhD Studentship in Unconventional Computing or Cellular Automata, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, Deadline: 08/10/01
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        Dear ComDig Readers,

        Our editor, Dr. Gottfried Mayer, is affectionately esteemed by many of you -- as readers, you know he devotes himself unselfishly to widening our knowledge of complexity science. He was recently diagnosed with advanced colon cancer and given a timetable of a very few years. Knowing Gottfried, you can imagine that, in addition to the customary processes of chemotherapy, he would explore other frontier therapies, especially those arising out of interdisciplinary applications of complexity. These are expensive ... if he can find them.

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