Complexity Digest 2010.02

2010/01/18

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Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

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Content

  1. The Evolution and Development of the Universe, arXiv
  2. From the Semantic Web to social machines: A research challenge for AI on the World Wide Web, Artificial Intelligence
  3. From biological and clinical experiments to mathematical models, Philosophical Transactions A
  4. New year, new science, Nature
    1. 2020 visions, Nature
  5. Biological Aspects of Fundamental Reality, University of Cambridge Streaming Media Service
    1. Shifting Assumptions in Science, University of Cambridge Streaming Media Service
  6. The Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Emotions, HBR
  7. World view: Tomorrow never knows, Nature
    1. Are Leading Papers Of Better Quality? Evidence From A Natural Experiment, Oxford Econ. Papers
  8. 'Lifeless' Prions Capable of Evolutionary Change and Adaptation, ScienceDaily
  9. Coevolutionary games - A mini review, Biosystems
  10. Robustness in complex information systems: The role of information barriers in Boolean networks, Complexity
  11. Competing through organizational agility, McKinsey Quaterly
  12. Humans, Animals-It's One Health. Or Is It?, Science
    1. Questions Abound in Q-Fever Explosion in the Netherlands, Science
  13. Imitation explains the propagation, not the stability of animal culture, Proc. R. Soc. B
  14. Smart grids: The energy storage problem, Nature
  15. Quantum computation, quantum theory and AI, Artificial Intelligence
  16. The increased risk of predation enhances cooperation, Proc. R. Soc. B
    1. Cognitive and Motivational Requirements for the Emergence of Cooperation in a Rat Social Game, PLoS ONE
  17. Darwin And The Evolution Of Flowers, Phil. Tran. B
  18. New Evidence Of Culture In Wild Chimpanzees, ScienceDaily
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind, The MIT Press
    2. Stuff, Polity
    3. Simplifying Complex Networks: From a Clustering to a Coarse Graining Strategy, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
    4. Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior, Oxford University Press
    5. The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science, Simon & Schuster
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Conference Announcements
    3. Webcast Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. The Evolution and Development of the Universe, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: This document is the Special Issue of the First International Conference on the Evolution and Development of the Universe (EDU 2008). Please refer to the preface and introduction for more details on the contributions. Keywords: acceleration, artificial cosmogenesis, artificial life, Big Bang, Big History, biological evolution, biological universe, biology, causality, classical vacuum energy, complex systems, complexity, computational universe, conscious evolution, cosmological artificial selection, cosmological natural selection, cosmology, critique, cultural evolution, dark energy, dark matter, development of the universe, development, emergence, evolution of the universe evolution, exobiology, extinction, fine-tuning, fractal space-time, fractal, information, initial conditions, intentional evolution, linear expansion of the universe, log-periodic laws, macroevolution, materialism, meduso-anthropic principle, multiple worlds, natural sciences, Nature, ontology, order, origin of the universe, particle hierarchy, philosophy, physical constants, quantum darwinism, reduction, role of intelligent life, scale relativity, scientific evolution, self-organization, speciation, specification hierarchy, thermodynamics, time, universe, vagueness.
    See Also: http://evodevouniverse.com/wiki/index.php/Conference_2008

  2. From the Semantic Web to social machines: A research challenge for AI on the World Wide Web, Artificial Intelligence Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The advent of social computing on the Web has led to a new generation of Web applications that are powerful and world-changing. However, we argue that we are just at the beginning of this age of “social machines” and that their continued evolution and growth requires the cooperation of Web and AI researchers. In this paper, we show how the growing Semantic Web provides necessary support for these technologies, outline the challenges we see in bringing the technology to the next level, and propose some starting places for the research.

  3. From biological and clinical experiments to mathematical models, Philosophical Transactions A Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    This theme issue discusses the complex cross-disciplinary interactions among the various disciplines involved in the study of a living system (biology, mathematics, and computer sciences). The usual way to formalize, in a rational form, the structure of a biological system is to propose a mathematical formulation of the key processes and of interactions among them which have been identified as fundamental for the studied system. This approach allows one to study, from a mathematical point-of-view, the properties arising from the mathematical model. It is then possible to return to reality with proposals for new experiments in order to validate (or to invalidate) the emergent properties predicted by the mathematical model. However, the complexity of living system precludes a complete model of their behaviour, and models of the subsystems of interest are sometimes mathematically intractable.

  4. New year, new science, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Nature looks at what key events may come from the research world in 2010:
    Stopping species loss (...) Planck peeks at the Universe's origin (...) Life, but not as we know it (...) An Antarctic time machine (...) A flood of genomes (...) Mexico City: the new Copenhagen (...) Earth-like worlds elsewhere (...) Hope for HIV prevention (...) A perfect symmetry (...) Quantum effects go large (...) Cell reprogramming gets safer (...) Embryonic stem cells go clinical (...) Space travel crosses frontiers (...) X-rays with laser-sharp focus (...) Climate computing heats up (...)
    • Source: New year, new science, Richard Van Noorden, DOI: 10.1038/463012a, Nature 463, 12-13 (2010), 2010/01/06

    1. 2020 visions, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary: For the first issue of the new decade, Nature asked a selection of leading researchers and policy-makers where their fields will be ten years from now. We invited them to identify the key questions their disciplines face, the major roadblocks and the pressing next steps.
      • Source: 2020 visions, DOI: 10.1038/463026a, Nature 463, 26-32, 2010/01/07

  5. Biological Aspects of Fundamental Reality, University of Cambridge Streaming Media Service Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Reductionism is the dominant paradigm of many fields of modern science. The main assumption is that a complex system can be explained in terms of the sum of its parts. On the basis of this idea we can conclude that all the natural phenomena can be explained in terms of some fundamental law of physics. However, this reductionist approach fails when applied to very complex systems such as biological ones. Thus, new paths to the formulation of a theory of everything could include complexity as the basic element. On the basis of this concept, Prof. Brian D. Josephson offered in his lecture a different "non-orthodox" biological prospective for understanding the laws of nature. His approach is based on the concept that “life" is a new fundamental aspect of reality. Unitary elements behave in several complex ways such as reforming, reshaping, dissolving etc. All these elements represent the basic bricks of a new " although yet unshaped " approach that could lead our knowledge beyond the "standard model".

    1. Shifting Assumptions in Science, University of Cambridge Streaming Media Service Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: Selected discussions from the 'Hokkaido-8' symposium of July 2008 on Evolving Science. The theme of the discussions was the evolution of science from its current form, with its materialistic emphasis, to a more inclusive global form, integrating all aspects of knowledge.

  6. The Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Emotions, HBR Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The heat of the moment is a powerful, dangerous thing. We all know this. If we’re happy, we may be overly generous. Maybe we leave a big tip, or buy a boat. If we’re irritated, we may snap. Maybe we rifle off that nasty e-mail to the boss, or punch someone. And for that fleeting second, we feel great. But the regret"and the consequences of that decision"may last years, a whole career, or even a lifetime. At least the regret will serve us well, right? Lesson learned"maybe. Maybe not. My friend Eduardo Andrade and I wondered if emotions could influence how people make decisions even after the heat or anxiety or exhilaration wears off.

  7. World view: Tomorrow never knows, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Predictions are not instructions that people simply follow to make better decisions. They are pieces of an intricate puzzle that may sometimes contribute to improved decisions. For complex, long-term problems such as climate change or nuclear-waste disposal, the accuracy of predictions is often unknowable, uncertainties are difficult to characterize and people commonly disagree about the outcomes they desire and the means to achieve them. For such problems, the belief that improved scientific predictions will compel appropriate behaviour and lead to desired outcomes is false.

    1. Are Leading Papers Of Better Quality? Evidence From A Natural Experiment, Oxford Econ. Papers Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: (�) Given the subjective nature of such evaluations, some scientists prefer verifiable measures such as citation counts. This, however, also is prone to problems since the number of cites is correlated, among others, with the order of appearance in an issue. In particular, leading papers are more cited. It is, thus, difficult to assess whether they are of better quality, or whether this happens because they appear first in an issue. We make use of a natural experiment (�). Our estimates suggest that approximately two thirds of the additional cites are due to going first, and one third to higher quality.

  8. 'Lifeless' Prions Capable of Evolutionary Change and Adaptation, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: (�) have determined for the first time that prions, bits of infectious protein devoid of DNA or RNA that can cause fatal neurodegenerative disease, are capable of Darwinian evolution. The study (�) shows that prions can develop large numbers of mutations at the protein level and, through natural selection, these mutations can eventually bring about such evolutionary adaptations as drug resistance, a phenomenon previously known to occur only in bacteria and viruses. (�)"On the face of it, you have exactly the same process of mutation and adaptive change in prions as you see in viruses," said (�).

  9. Coevolutionary games - A mini review, Biosystems Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: [...] Here we review recent works on evolutionary games incorporating coevolutionary rules, as well as give a didactic description of potential pitfalls and misconceptions associated with the subject. In addition, we briefly outline directions for future research that we feel are promising, thereby particularly focusing on dynamical effects of coevolutionary rules on the evolution of cooperation, which are still widely open to research and thus hold promise of exciting new discoveries.

  10. Robustness in complex information systems: The role of information barriers in Boolean networks, Complexity Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: In this supposed information age, a high premium is put on the widespread availability of information. Access to as much information as possible is often cited as key to the making of effective decisions. While it would be foolish to deny the central role that information and its flow has in effective decision-making processes, this chapter explores the equally important role of barriers to information flows in the robustness of complex systems. The analysis demonstrates that (for simple Boolean networks at least) a complex system's ability to filter out, i.e., block, certain information flows is essential if it is not to be beholden to every external signal. The reduction of information is as important as the availability of information.

  11. Competing through organizational agility, McKinsey Quaterly Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Market turbulence did not begin with the fall of Lehman Brothers, and it will not end when the global economy recovers.1 Indeed, a variety of academic studies"using measures such as stock price volatility, the mortality of firms, the persistence of superior performance, the frequency of economic shocks, and the speed of technology dissemination"have concluded that volatility at the firm level increased somewhere between two- and fourfold from the 1970s to the 1990s

  12. Humans, Animals-It's One Health. Or Is It?, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: A "holistic approach" and "synergism" working for the health of all species are the buzzwords of the One Health movement, which aims to bring veterinary and human health closer together. But the Dutch Q-fever outbreak provides a vivid example of how those two worlds often don't get along, especially when the stakes are different for each.

    1. Questions Abound in Q-Fever Explosion in the Netherlands, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary: A burgeoning goat-farm sector appears to be behind the worst outbreak ever recorded in humans of a rare zoonosis that until now has been seen primarily as a rare occupational disease for farmers, veterinarians, and slaughterhouse workers and as a potential"if not very deadly"bioterror agent.

  13. Imitation explains the propagation, not the stability of animal culture, Proc. R. Soc. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: [...] and we use a formal model to argue that imitation, which may well play a major role in the propagation of animal culture, cannot be considered faithful enough to explain its stability.

  14. Smart grids: The energy storage problem, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: Renewable energy is not a viable option unless energy can be stored on a large scale. David Lindley looks at five ways to do that.

  15. Quantum computation, quantum theory and AI, Artificial Intelligence Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to examine some (potential) applications of quantum computation in AI and to review the interplay between quantum theory and AI. For the readers who are not familiar with quantum computation, a brief introduction to it is provided, and a famous but simple quantum algorithm is introduced so that they can appreciate the power of quantum computation. Also, a (quite personal) survey of quantum computation is presented in order to give the readers a (unbalanced) panorama of the field. The author hopes that this paper will be a useful map for AI researchers who are going to explore further and deeper connections between AI and quantum computation as well as quantum theory although some parts of the map are very rough and other parts are empty, and waiting for the readers to fill in.

  16. The increased risk of predation enhances cooperation, Proc. R. Soc. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Theory predicts that animals in adverse conditions can decrease individual risks and increase long-term benefits by cooperating with neighbours.[...] This study demonstrates the positive impact of predation risk on cooperation in breeding songbirds, which might help in explaining the emergence and evolution of cooperation.

    1. Cognitive and Motivational Requirements for the Emergence of Cooperation in a Rat Social Game, PLoS ONE Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: [...] Here we show that rats understand the payoff matrix of the PD game and the strategy of the opponent. Importantly, our findings reveal that rats possess the necessary cognitive capacities for reciprocity-based cooperation to emerge in the context of a prisoner's dilemma.

  17. Darwin And The Evolution Of Flowers, Phil. Tran. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: With the ubiquity of flowers in our everyday lives, it is sometimes easy to overlook their central importance in the production of food and other materials on which human survival depends. The origin of flowering plant (angiosperm) diversity, which is intimately connected to the diversification of floral form and floral biology, is also of great interest because as the dominant autotrophs of terrestrial environments, angiosperms provide the energy on which most of the rest of biological diversity depends. The evolution of flowers and flowering plants is therefore both of fundamental significance and of contemporary relevance. (�)
    • Source: Darwin And The Evolution Of Flowers, P. R. Crane - peter.craneayale.edu, E. M. Friis, W. G. Chaloner, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0230, Phil. Tran. R. Soc. B, 2010/02/12
    • Contributed by Atin Das - dasatinayahoo.co.in

  18. New Evidence Of Culture In Wild Chimpanzees, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: A new study of chimpanzees living in the wild adds to evidence that our closest primate relatives have cultural differences, too. The study, (�) shows that neighboring chimpanzee populations in Uganda use different tools to solve a novel problem: extracting honey trapped within a fallen log. Kibale Forest chimpanzees use sticks to get at the honey, whereas Budongo Forest chimpanzees rely on leaf sponges -- absorbent wedges that they make out of chewed leaves. "The most reasonable explanation for this difference in tool use was that chimpanzees resorted to preexisting cultural knowledge in trying to solve the novel task," said (�).

  19. Book Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind, The MIT Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Chess is an activity in which we deploy almost all our available cognitive resources; therefore, it makes an ideal laboratory for investigation into the workings of the mind. Indeed, research into artificial intelligence (AI) has used chess as a model for intelligent behavior since the 1950s. In Chess Metaphors, Diego Rasskin-Gutman explores fundamental questions about memory, thought, emotion, consciousness, and other cognitive processes through the game of chess, using the moves of thirty-two pieces over sixty-four squares to map the structural and functional organization of the brain.

    2. Stuff, Polity Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff. It presents the theories that are required to understand the way we are created by material as well as social relations. It takes us inside the very private worlds of our home possessions and our processes of accommodating. (...)
      • Source: Stuff, Daniel Miller, Polity, 2009/12/09
      • Contributed by Anton Joha - antonjohaagmail.com

    3. Simplifying Complex Networks: From a Clustering to a Coarse Graining Strategy, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Networks, or graphs, provide a remarkable framework to represent a wide class of complex systems. Examples of such systems include protein interaction maps, neuronal connections in the brain, the Internet, electrical grids, or social interactions underlying the spreading of an epidemic. For most of these systems, the complexity arises because of their large size and intricate internal organization. A promising approach to simplify such systems is therefore to reduce the complexity of the corresponding networks. Throughout this Thesis, we investigated several methods to reduce the complexity of networks. (...)

    4. Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior, Oxford University Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      How do animals perceive the world, learn, remember, search for food or mates, communicate, and find their way around? Do any nonhuman animals count, imitate one another, use a language, or have a culture? What are the uses of cognition in nature and how might it have evolved? What is the current status of Darwin's claim that other species share the same "mental powers" as humans, but to different degrees? In this book, Sara Shettleworth addresses these questions, among others, by integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research. (...)

    5. The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science, Simon & Schuster Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Despite everything that has been written about the brain, a very important part of this vital organ has been overlooked in most books, until now. The Other Brain is the story of glia, which make up approximately 85 percent of the cells in the brain. Long neglected as little more than cerebral packing material, glia are sparking a revolution in brain science. Glia are completely different from neurons, the brain cells that we are familiar with. Scientists are discovering that glia have their own communication network, which operates in parallel to the more familiar communication among neurons. (...)

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Looking For The Heartbeat Of Cellular Networks: Optical Approach Measures Molecular Kinetics In Living Cells, 2009/12/18 ref_journal Innovations-report
      2. Scientists Use Cell Phone Records To Predict Spread Of Malaria, 2009/12/18 ref_journal Innovations-report
      3. Scientists Use Light To Map Neurons' Effects On One Another: All-Optical Technique Determines When Neurons Inhibit Or Excite One Another, 2009/12/21 ref_journal Innovations-report
      4. Enhanced Sweet Taste: This Is Your Tongue On Pot, 2009/12/22 ref_journal Innovations-report
      5. Simulation-Based Model Selection For Dynamical Systems In Systems And Population Biology, T. Toni - ttoniaimperial.ac.uk, M. P. H. Stumpf - m.stumpfaimperial.ac.uk, 2010 26:1, online 2009/10/29, Bioinformatics, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp619
      6. It's Good to Talk: Changing How Nerves Communicate in Congestive Heart Failure, 2010/01/04, ScienceDaily & Journal of Clinical Investigation
      7. Scans Show Learning 'Sculpts' The Brain's Connections, 2010/01/05, ScienceDaily & PNAS
      8. Positive interactions and the emergence of community structure in metacommunities, Elise Filotas, Martin Grant, Lael Parrott and Per Arne Rikvold, 2010/01/07, arXiv:1001.1111
      9. Defining The Limits Of Flowers: The Challenge Of Distinguishing Between The Evolutionary Products Of Simple Versus Compound Strobili, P. J. Rudall - p.rudallakew.org, R. M. Bateman, 2010/02/12, Phil. Tran. R. Soc. B, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0234
      10. Aquilegia As A Model System For The Evolution And Ecology Of Petals, E. M. Kramer - ekrameraoeb.harvard.edu, S. A. Hodges, 2010/02/12, Phil. Tran. R. Soc. B, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0277
      11. Intensive fish farming and the evolution of pathogen virulence: the case of columnaris disease in Finland, Pulkkinen K, Suomalainen LR, Read AF, Ebert D, Rintamäki P, Valtonen ET, February 2010, Proc. R. Soc. B vol. 277 no. 1681:593-600, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1659
      12. Higher Education Academic Salaries In The UK, J. Walker - j.t.walkerahenley.reading.ac.uk, A. Vignoles, M. Collins, Jan. 2010, Oxford Economic Papers, DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpp004
      13. Predator Escape Tactics In Birds: Linking Ecology And Aerodynamics, P. J. van den Hout - piet.van.den.houtanioz.nl, K. J. Mathot, L. R.M. Maas, T. Piersma, Jan.-Feb. 2010, online 2009/11/05, Behavioral Ecology, DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp1469
      14. How And Why The Winner Effect Forms: Influences Of Contest Environment And Species Differences, M. J. Fuxjager - mjfawisc.edu, C. A. Marler, Jan.-Feb. 2010, online 2009/11/13, Behavioral Ecology, DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp148
      15. Dynamic Networks from Hierarchical Bayesian Graph Clustering, Park Y, Moore C, Bader JS, January 11, 2010, PLoS ONE 5(1): e8118, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008118

    2. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. 2nd Winter School in Complexity Sciences "Formal approaches for the representation and analysis of social network structures" , Lisbon, Portugal, 2010/01/11-15
      2. Conference on Dynamics of Layering in Biological Systems, Pasadena, California, USA, 2010/01/15-16
      3. 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2010), Valencia, Spain, 10/01/22-24
      4. Fluctuations, information flow and experimental measurements., Paris, , 2010/01/26-27
      5. QualityCommons, an interdisciplinary workshop on collective quality representations and the social processes behind them, Paris, France, 2010/01/28"29
      6. Networks: A Framework for cross-disciplinary applications,Zaragoza, Spain, 2010/02/3-6
      7. The International Seminar on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication (JAIST-EELC2010), Kyoto, Japan, 2010/03/10-12
      8. 4th International Nonlinear Science Conference, University of Palermo, Sicily, 2010/03/15-17
      9. 20th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, EMCSR 2010, University of Vienna, Austria, 10/04/6-9
      10. EvoStar 2010 , Istanbul, Turkey, 10/04/7-10
      11. International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Valencia, Spain, 10/04/7-10
      12. EmergeNET4: Engineering Emergence, York, UK, 2010/04/19-20
      13. AAMAS-2010, the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Toronto Canada, 2010/05/10-14
      14. The IV International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization - NICSO 2010, Granada, Spain, 10/05/12-14
      15. International Conference on Computational Science 2010 (ICCS 2010), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010/05/31-06/2
      16. ICEIS 2010 (12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, 10/06/6-10
      17. International Workshop on Living Organisms in Flows: From Small-Scale Turbulence to Geophysical Flows, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2010/06/7-11
      18. ICAC 2010, the 7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, Washington, DC, USA, 2010/06/7-11
      19. International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) , London, UK, 2010/06/28-30
      20. Tomorrow's Giants, London, UK, 2010/07/01
      21. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010), Portland, Oregon, USA, 2010/07/7-11
      22. The 2010 Advanced Geographical Analysis and Modeling Workshop, Neve Ilan, Israel, 2010/07/8-10
      23. 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IJCNN 2010, FUZZ-IEEE 2010, and IEEE CEC 2010), Barcelona, Spain, 10/07/18-23
      24. The 2010 International Conference on Informatics Cypernetics, and Computer Applications (ICICCA2010), Bangalore, India, 2010/07/19-20
      25. 1st International Workshop on Complexity and Real World Applications: Using the Tools and Concepts from the Complexity Sciences to Support Real World Decision-making Activities, Southampton, England, UK, 2010/07/21-23
      26. Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School, Buea, Cameroon, 2010/08/2-13
      27. European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Copenhagen, Denmark, 10/08/09-20
      28. Amorphous Computing and Complex Biological Networks, University of Sheffield, UK, 2010/08/17-20
      29. Artificial Life XII (ALife XII), Odense, Denmark, 10/08/19--23
      30. The Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-2010): Enabling Computing, Services and Intelligence for Social Life, Minneapolis, USA, 2010/08/20-22
      31. From animals to animats: the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'10), , Paris, France, 2010/08/24-28
      32. 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10), Toronto, Canada, 2010/08/31-09/03
      33. ANTS 2010, Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium, 10/09/8-10
      34. European Conference on Complex Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010/09/13-17

    3. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Smarter Cities NYC. Posted on 2009/10/05

      2. ASSYST Digital Library. Since 09/09

      3. Complex Systems Teleconferences. Since 09/09

      4. Symmetry Festival 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 09/08/1-4.

      5. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, 09/06/8-12

      6. Memorial Service for Dr Gottfried Mayer, Founding Editor Complexity Digest, Taipei, Taiwan (1954-2009). Video [RM], 09/02/13

      7. Making Connections: In Memory and Celebration of the Life of Dr. Gottfried Mayer (1954-2009). Video [RM] [MPG], 09/02/13

      8. Eulogy for Gottfried Mayer by Dean LeBaron [WMV, 25 Mb], [RM, 10 Mb], 09/02/10

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

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

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      • Tenurometer provides a smart interface to make Google Scholar more powerful, convenient, and easy to use. Unlike *Publish or Perish*, Tenurometer is not a standalone application; it is a browser extension, so it can be used on any computer with a Firefox browser.
        There is a twist. By using Tenurometer you help tag authors and contribute to a social database of annotations, associating authors, papers, and disciplines. We plan to make this data publicly available for research purposes. All you do is use Tenurometer for your own purposes, and submit one or more discipline tags when you query. Statistics from the annotations are available on the Tenurometer website.
        In addition to providing various established impact measures such as the h-index, Tenurometer leverages the statistics collected from user annotations to make it possible for the first time to compute the "universal h-index" (Radicchi & al, PNAS 2008). This measure is designed to quantitatively compare the impact of authors in different disciplines, with different citation patterns. While citation analysis has its well-known limitations and must be used with care, the universal h-index and its implementation may represent an important step toward meaningful comparative evaluation of research impact across diverse disciplines in science, the social sciences, arts and humanities.
      • A new Masters programme in Complex Systems is launched, as a joint venture of Univ. of Warwick (UK), Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and Chalmers Univ. & Univ. of Gothenburg (Sweden), in partnership with the Complex Systems Society.
        Through the Erasmus Mundus scheme, there are full scholarships for 10-12 overseas students (deadline 4 Jan) and partial scholarships for up to 8 European students (deadline 4 May).

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