Complexity Digest 2011.05

2011/03/11

Follow us on twitter.com/cxdig

Editor-in-Chief:Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

For individual e-mail subscriptions go to Subscriptions.
Previous issue 2011.04 | Next issue 2011.06

Content

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

  1. How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: In coming to understand the worldâ€"in learning concepts, acquiring language, and grasping causal relationsâ€"our minds make inferences that appear to go far beyond the data available. How do we do it? This review describes recent approaches to reverse-engineering human learning and cognitive development and, in parallel, engineering more humanlike machine learning systems. Computational models that perform probabilistic inference over hierarchies of flexibly structured representations can address some of the deepest questions about the nature and origins of human thought: How does abstract knowledge guide learning and reasoning from sparse data? What forms does our knowledge take, across different domains and tasks? And how is that abstract knowledge itself acquired?

  2. Collective behaviour: When it pays to share decisions, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: Theory suggests that the accuracy of a decision often increases with the number of decision makers, a phenomenon exploited by betting agents, Internet search engines and stock markets. Fish also use this 'wisdom of the crowd' effect.

  3. Can complexity theory explain Egypt's crisis?, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    Food shortages won't help the situation (Image: Jason Larkin/Getty)
    Civilisation, goes an old maxim, is four meals away from barbarism â€" once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order. That could mean trouble for the political uprising in Egypt. It may also be what triggered it.
    Scientists who study complex systems have been warning that ever-tighter coupling among the world's finance, energy and food systems would result in waves of political instability. Some say that is now happening in the Middle East.
    Better models of the complex relationships in these systems could allow us to predict the next domino to fall.

    1. Contagion and Cascades Through the Middle East: Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria..., NECSI Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: How and why is the unrest spreading? Is there a "domino effect"?
      One possibility is a contagion model, akin to the spread of panic in a crowded theater. States, or perhaps individual people, choose to protest or not based on their neighbors' actions and success rate. By this mechanism, we might expect the states that are currently in turmoil to reinforce one another, and that the more states there are experiencing protest, the more likely another state is to rise up as well.
      Another suggestion is to consider the entire Middle East region to be a system in a state of self-organized criticality.

    2. Framing a complexity theory solution to the Middle East crises, NECSI Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: The cascading crises in the Middle East are being seen as a democratic transition and yet are raising concerns about social stability. One concern is the possibility of a transition to Iranian type theocracy. More generally, widespread violence has begun in some countries and may spread. To develop a solution to the risks of social unrest and violence we need to frame the question properly, both historically and with an understanding of the complexity theory principles that underly revolutions.

  4. Co-Residence Patterns in Hunter-Gatherer Societies Show Unique Human Social Structure, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Contemporary humans exhibit spectacular biological success derived from cumulative culture and cooperation. The origins of these traits may be related to our ancestral group structure. Because humans lived as foragers for 95% of our species’ history, we analyzed co-residence patterns among 32 present-day foraging societies (total n = 5067 individuals, mean experienced band size = 28.2 adults). We found that hunter-gatherers display a unique social structure where (i) either sex may disperse or remain in their natal group, (ii) adult brothers and sisters often co-reside, and (iii) most individuals in residential groups are genetically unrelated. These patterns produce large interaction networks of unrelated adults and suggest that inclusive fitness cannot explain extensive cooperation in hunter-gatherer bands. However, large social networks may help to explain why humans evolved capacities for social learning that resulted in cumulative culture.

  5. Danny Hillis: Understanding cancer through proteomics, TED.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    About this talk: Danny Hills makes a case for the next frontier of cancer research: proteomics, the study of proteins in the body. As Hillis explains it, genomics shows us a list of the ingredients of the body -- while proteomics shows us what those ingredients produce. Understanding what's going on in your body at the protein level may lead to a new understanding of how cancer happens.

    1. Deb Roy: The birth of a word, TED.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      About this talk: MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.

  6. Dan Ariely on irrationality in the workplace, McKinsey Quaterly Next Article Bookmark and Share

    About this talk: Although Dan Ariely is an academic by trade, he is a pragmatist at heart. The Duke professor and best-selling author brings his theories to light through practical applications and behavioral experiments, where irrationality is almost always certain. Ariely has written two books on the subjectâ€"The Upside of Irrationality1 and Predictably Irrational2â€"and recently sat down with Olivier Sibony, a director in McKinsey’s Paris office, to share his insights into human behavior that can help companies make better decisions.

  7. Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Palaeontologists characterize mass extinctions as times when the Earth loses more than three-quarters of its species in a geologically short interval, as has happened only five times in the past 540 million years or so. Biologists now suggest that a sixth mass extinction may be under way, given the known species losses over the past few centuries and millennia. Here we review how differences between fossil and modern data and the addition of recently available palaeontological information influence our understanding of the current extinction crisis. Our results confirm that current extinction rates are higher than would be expected from the fossil record, highlighting the need for effective conservation measures.
    • Source: Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?, Anthony D. Barnosky, Nicholas Matzke, Susumu Tomiya, Guinevere O. U. Wogan, Brian Swartz, Tiago B. Quental, Charles Marshall, Jenny L. McGuire, Emily L. Lindsey, Kaitlin C. Maguire, Ben Mersey & Elizabeth A. Ferrer, DOI: 10.1038/nature09678, Nature 471, 51â€"57, 2011/03/03

  8. Tomography of Reaction-Diffusion Microemulsions Reveals Three-Dimensional Turing Patterns, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract:
    Stationary structures in numerical simulations.
    Spatially periodic, temporally stationary patterns that emerge from instability of a homogeneous steady state were proposed by Alan Turing in 1952 as a mechanism for morphogenesis in living systems and have attracted increasing attention in biology, chemistry, and physics. Patterns found to date have been confined to one or two spatial dimensions. We used tomography to study the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction in a microemulsion in which the polar reactants are confined to aqueous nanodroplets much smaller than the scale of the stationary patterns. We demonstrate the existence of Turing patterns that can exist only in three dimensions, including curved surfaces, hexagonally packed cylinders, spots, and labyrinthine and lamellar patterns.

  9. Motifs in co-authorship networks and their relation to the impact of scientific publications, Eur. Phys. J. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Co-authorship networks, where the nodes are authors and a link indicates joint publications, are very helpful representations for studying the processes that shape the scientific community. At the same time, they are social networks with a large amount of data available and can thus serve as vehicles for analyzing social phenomena in general. (...) Here we show that the success of individual authors or publications depends unexpectedly strongly on an intermediate scale in co-authorship networks. (...) We find that the average citation frequency of a group of authors depends on the motifs these authors form. In particular, a box motif (four authors forming a closed chain) has the highest average citation frequency per link. (...) We argue that the box motif may be an interesting category in a broad range of social and technical networks.

  10. Integrated information increases with fitness in the simulated evolution of autonomous agents, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: One of the hallmarks of biological organisms is their ability to integrate disparate information sources to optimize their behavior in complex environments. How this capability can be quantified and related to the functional complexity of an organism remains a challenging problem, in particular since their functional complexity is not well-defined. We present here several candidate measures that quantify information and integration, and study their dependence on fitness as an artificial agent evolves over thousands of generations to solve a navigation task in a simple, simulated environment. (...) A correlation of measures of information integration (...) and fitness strongly suggests that these measures reflect the functional complexity of the agent, and that such measures can be used to quantify functional complexity even in the absence of fitness data.

  11. Nonlinear deterministic equations in biological evolution, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: We review models of biological evolution in which the population frequency changes deterministically with time. If the population is self-replicating, although the equations for simple prototypes can be linearised, nonlinear equations arise in many complex situations. For sexual populations, even in the simplest setting, the equations are necessarily nonlinear due to the mixing of the parental genetic material. The solutions of such nonlinear equations display interesting features such as multiple equilibria and phase transitions. We mainly discuss those models for which an analytical understanding of such nonlinear equations is available.

  12. Learning and Coordination for Autonomous Intersection Control, Applied Artificial Intelligence Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Future urban road traffic management is an example of a socially relevant problem that can be modeled as a large-scale, open, distributed system, composed of many autonomous interacting agents, which need to be controlled in a decentralized manner. In this context, advanced, reservation-based, intersection controlâ€"where autonomous vehicles controlled entirely by agents interact with a coordination facility that controls an intersection, to avoid collisions and minimize delaysâ€"will be a possible scenario in the near future. In this article, we seize the opportunities for multiagent learning offered by such a scenario, studying i) how vehicles, when approaching a reservation-based intersection, can coordinate their actions in order to improve their crossing times, and therefore, speed up the traffic flow through the intersection, and ii) how a set of reservation-based intersections can cooperatively act over an entire network of intersections in order to minimize travel times.

  13. Reactive automata, Information and Computation Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: A reactive automaton has extra links whose role is to change the behaviour of the automaton. We show that these links do not increase the expressiveness of finite automata but that they can be used to reduce dramatically their state number both in the deterministic case and the non-deterministic case.
    Typical examples of regular expressions associated with deterministic automata of exponential size according to the length of the expression show that reactive links provide an alternative representation of total linear size for the language.
    • Source: Reactive automata, Maxime Crochemore, Dov M. Gabbay, DOI: 10.1016/j.ic.2011.01.002, Information and Computation Volume 209, Issue 4, Pages 692-704, 2011/04

  14. Coevolving agent strategies and network topology for the public goods games, Eur. Phys. J. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Much of human cooperation remains an evolutionary riddle. Coevolutionary public goods games in structured populations are studied where players can change from an unproductive public goods game to a productive one, by evaluating the productivity of the public goods games. (...) we observe that high cooperation levels in public goods interactions are attained by the entangled coevolution of strategy and structure.

  15. The Moran model as a dynamical process on networks and its implications for neutral speciation, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: In genetics the Moran model describes the neutral evolution of a bi-allelic gene in a population of haploid individuals subjected to mutations. We show in this paper that this model can be mapped into an influence dynamical process on networks subjected to external influences. The panmictic case considered by Moran corresponds to fully connected networks and can be completely solved in terms of hypergeometric functions. Other types of networks correspond to structured populations, for which approximate solutions are also available. (...) We show that the effect of mutations in structured populations, where individuals can mate only with neighbors, is greatly enhanced with respect to the panmictic case. (...)

  16. Selection for smaller brains in Holocene human evolution, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Background: Human populations during the last 10,000 years have undergone rapid decreases in average brain size as measured by endocranial volume or as estimated from linear measurements of the cranium. A null hypothesis to explain the evolution of brain size is that reductions result from genetic correlation of brain size with body mass or stature.
    Results: The absolute change of endocranial volume in the study samples was significantly greater than would be predicted from observed changes in body mass or stature.
    Conclusions: The evolution of smaller brains in many recent human populations must have resulted from selection upon brain size itself or on other features more highly correlated with brain size than are gross body dimensions. This selection may have resulted from energetic or nutritional demands in Holocene populations, or to life history constraints on brain development.

  17. Give postdocs a career, not empty promises, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: (...) I also propose a solution: we should professionalize the postdoc role and turn it into a career rather than a scientific stepping stone.
    Consider the scientific community as an ecosystem, and it is easy to see why postdocs need another path. The system needs only one replacement per lab-head position, but over the course of a 30â€"40-year career, a typical biologist will train dozens of suitable candidates for the position. The academic opportunities for a mature postdoc some ten years after completing his or her PhD are few and far between.

  18. Fiction: Attack of the killer fungi, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    Crichton made millions with his formula; Spiral deserves to do the same for Paul McEuen, a physicist at Cornell University in New York. His debut novel is more enjoyable and more palatable than Crichton's and boasts impeccable science. (...)
    The fictional tale begins at the end of the Second World War, when young Irish microbiologist Liam Connor is brought on board a US warship to witness the effects of a devastating biological weapon developed by the Japanese: a fungal infection called the Uzumaki that induces hallucinations and madness, and is ultimately fatal. Connor ends up hiding away a tiny vial of the stuff, wrestled from the Japanese engineer Hitoshi Kitano who was responsible for developing it.

  19. Book Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Modeling Multi-Level Systems (Understanding Complex Systems), Springer Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book is devoted to modeling of multi-level complex systems, a challenging domain for engineers, researchers and entrepreneurs, confronted with the transition from learning and adaptability to evolvability and autonomy for technologies, devices and problem solving methods. Chapter 1 introduces the multi-scale and multi-level systems and highlights their presence in different domains of science and technology. Methodologies as random systems, non-Archimedean analysis, category theory and specific techniques as model categorification and integrative closure, are presented in chapter 2. Chapters 3 and 4 describe polystochastic models, PSM, and their developments. (…)

    2. Philosophy & Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason, Continuum Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      In this groundbreaking new book, Delanda analyzes all the different genres of simulation (from cellular automata and genetic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems) as a means to conceptualize the possibility spaces associated with causal (and other) capacities. Simulations allow us to stage actual interactions among a population of agents and to observe the emergent wholes that result from those interactions. Simulations have become as important as mathematical models in theoretical science. (...) A philosophical examination of the epistemology of simulations is needed to cement this new role, underlining the consequences that simulations may have for materialist philosophy itself.

    3. Ahead of Change: How Crowd Psychology and Cybernetics Transform the Way We Govern, Campus Verlag Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Wars, revolutions, and financial disasters do not have to happen. There are ways to transform governmental policies so as to avoid such catastrophes. What is neededâ€"argues management expert Constantin Malikâ€"is to anticipate change and to prepare for it. With this highly instructive and provocative book, Malik brings management theory to government, suggesting a series of new methods and instruments for successful governance, approaches based on the latest research in the fields of crowd psychology and management cybernetics.

    4. Social and Economic Networks, Princeton University Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to emerge in a society, and why we organize ourselves as we do. In Social and Economic Networks, Matthew Jackson offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawing on the latest findings in economics, sociology, computer science, physics, and mathematics. (...)
      • Source: Social and Economic Networks, Matthew O. Jackson, Princeton University Press, 2010/12/01
      • Contributed by Anton Joha - antonjohaagmail.com

    5. Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology, Univ Of Minnesota Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      In Insect Media, Jussi Parikka analyzes how insect forms of social organization-swarms, hives, webs, and distributed intelligence-have been used to structure modern media technologies and the network society, providing a radical new perspective on the interconnection of biology and technology. (...) Deftly moving from the life sciences to digital technology, from popular culture to avant-garde art and architecture, and from philosophy to cybernetics and game theory, Parikka provides innovative conceptual tools for exploring the phenomena of network society and culture. (...)

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. The Conflict between Economic Development and Planetary Ecosystem in the Context of Sustainable Development, Corina-Maria Ene, Anda Gheorghiu, Cristina Burghelea, Anca Gheorghiu, 2011/02/28, arXiv:1102.5747
      2. Evolutionary Dynamics in a Simple Model of Self-Assembly, Iain G. Johnston, Sebastian A. Ahnert, Jonathan P. K. Doye and Ard A. Louis, 2011/02/28, arXiv:1102.5694
      3. How does the earth system generate and maintain thermodynamic disequilibrium and what does it imply for the future of the planet?, Axel Kleidon, 2011/03/10, arXiv:1103.2014
      4. A Deterministic Approach to the Synchronization of Cellular Automata, J. Garcia, P. Garcia, 2011/03/10, arXiv:1103.2119
      5. Human-specific loss of regulatory DNA and the evolution of human-specific traits, Cory Y. McLean, Philip L. Reno, Alex A. Pollen, Abraham I. Bassan, Terence D. Capellini, Catherine Guenther, Vahan B. Indjeian, Xinhong Lim, Douglas B. Menke, Bruce T. Schaar, Aaron M. Wenger, Gill Bejerano & David M. Kingsley, 2011/03/10, Nature 471, 216–219, DOI: 10.1038/nature09774

    2. Event Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Natural Computing Winter School, Hakodate, Japan, 2011/03/15-16
      2. International Workshop: Mining the Digital Traces of Science - Toward interactive visualization of science dynamics, Paris, France, 2011/03/23-24
      3. ImagineNano, Bilbao, Spain, 2011/04/11-14
      4. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - SSCI 2011, Paris, France, 2011/04/11-15
      5. EVOSTAR 2011, Torino, Italy, 2011/04/27-29
      6. Science Beyond Fiction: European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary, 2011/05/4-6
      7. 1st European Conference of Microbiology and Immunology, Budapest, Hungary, 2011/05/12-14
      8. Advances in Applied Physics and Materials Science Congress, Antalya, Turkey, 2011/05/12-15
      9. Chaos, Complexity and Transport (CCT'11), Marseilles, France, 2011/05/23-27
      10. Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011/05/31-06/01
      11. 7th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Athens, Greece, 2011/06/13-16
      12. NECSI Summer School on Complex Systems, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011/06/13-24
      13. International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2011), Cergy, France, 2011/06/14-15
      14. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, 2011/06/20-25
      15. International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2011), Boston, MA, USA, 2011/06/26-07/01
      16. International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), London, UK, 2011/06/27-29
      17. Origins 2011 ISSOL and Bioastronomy Joint International Conference, Montpellier, France, 2011/07/3-8
      18. The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2011), Istanbul, Turkey, 2011/07/4-8
      19. Lipari School on the Game Theoretic Approach to Computational Complex Systems, Lipari Island, Italy, 2011/07/9-16
      20. GECCO 2011: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2011/07/12-16
      21. IJCAI 2011, the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 2011/07/16-22
      22. The 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, Cambridge, UK, 2011/07/18-21
      23. 29th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Washington, DC, USA, 2011/07/24-28
      24. The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'11, Nottingham, UK, 2011/07/25-26
      25. Third International Workshop on nonlinear Dynamics and Synchronization -- INDS'11 Sixteenth International Symposium on Theoretical Electrical Engineering -- ISTET'11, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria, 2011/07/25-27
      26. International Workshop on Game Theory and Society: Models of Social Interaction in Sociological Research, Zurich, 2011/07/27-30
      27. Summer School Course: Emergence, Explanation and Complexity. Prof. Alan Baker, Aarhus, Denmark, 2011/08/1-26
      28. ECAL 11: European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris, France, 2011/08/8-12
      29. TAROS 2011: 12th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Sheffield, UK, 2011/08/31-09/02
      30. The 2011 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'11, Klagenfurt, Austria, 2011/09/06-08
      31. ICMC 2011 - 2nd International Conference on Morphological Computation, Venice, Italy, 2011/09/12-14
      32. European Conference on Complex Systems 2011, Vienna, Austria, 2011/09/12-16
      33. The 15th WOSC INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS on CYBERNETICS and SYSTEMS, Nanjing, China, 2011/09/15-18
      34. Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems, Halkidiki, Greece, 2011/09/19-25
      35. ICCCI 2011 3rd International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence: Technologies and Applications, Gdynia, Poland, 2011/09/21-23
      36. World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, 2011/09/26-30
      37. SSS 2011 - 13th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Shinagawa (Tokyo), Japan, 2011/10/4-7
      38. SCIENCE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT - ENVIRONMENT FOR SOCIETY, Aarhus, Denmark, 2011/10/5-6
      39. The Third International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011), Singapore, 2011/10/6-8
      40. XII Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena (LAWNP-2011), San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 2011/10/10-15
      41. 3rd International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, Paris, France, 2011/10/24-26
      42. VI Congreso Bienal Internacional Complejidad 2012, Havana, Cuba, 2012/01/10-13

    3. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Lakeside Research Days 2010.
      2. Smarter Cities NYC. Posted on 2009/10/05
      3. ASSYST Digital Library. Since 09/09
      4. Complex Systems Teleconferences. Since 09/09
      5. Symmetry Festival 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 09/08/1-4.
      6. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, 09/06/8-12
      7. Memorial Service for Dr Gottfried Mayer, Founding Editor Complexity Digest, Taipei, Taiwan (1954-2009). Video [RM], 09/02/13
      8. Making Connections: In Memory and Celebration of the Life of Dr. Gottfried Mayer (1954-2009). Video [RM] [MPG], 09/02/13
      9. Eulogy for Gottfried Mayer by Dean LeBaron [WMV, 25 Mb], [RM, 10 Mb], 09/02/10
      10. Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?, Danielle Parsons, Slatev.com, 08/07/22
      11. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      12. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 08/01/22-27
      13. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      14. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      15. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      16. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      17. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      18. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      19. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      20. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      21. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      22. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      23. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      24. 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
      25. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      26. 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
      27. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      28. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      29. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      30. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      31. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      32. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      33. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      34. Edge Videos

    4. Other Announcements Bookmark and Share


Also available in: Simple HTML format | TXT format | TXT format with links | Print