Complexity Digest 2010.10    2010/05/11
Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer
  Archive: http://comdig.unam.mx
  "I think the next century will be the century of complexity." Stephen Hawking, 2000.
  1. Neanderthal genes 'survive in us', BBC News
  2. A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome, Science
  3. One Billion Euros to Unleash the Power of Information, ScienceDaily
    1. A telescope for spotting global crises, The Great Beyond
  4. Meaning-Making Neurons, Science
  5. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything, TED.com
    1. George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity, TED.com
    2. Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks, TED.com
  6. Comparing genomes to computer operating systems in terms of the topology and evolution of their regulatory control networks, PNAS
    1. Dynamics and Control of Diseases in Networks with Community Structure, PLoS Comput Biol
  7. Biological Systems Theory, Science
  8. The Envelope, Please: From Eight Great Innovative Tools, Which Ones Are the Winners?, Knowledge@Wharton
  9. The self-organization of genomes, Complexity
    1. Diversity, competition, extinction: the ecophysics of language change, arXiv
  10. Multi-scale Modularity in Complex Networks, arXiv
  11. The cause of universality in growth fluctuations, arXiv
  12. Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks, arXiv
  13. Poissonian bursts in e-mail correspondence, Eur. Phys. J. B
    1. Prediction of extreme events in the OFC model on a small world network, arXiv
    2. Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory, PLoS Biol
  14. How Cooperation Is Maintained in Human Societies: Punishment, Study Suggests, ScienceDaily
  15. Evolutionary Establishment of Moral and Double Moral Standards through Spatial Interactions, PLoS Comput Biol
    1. Cooperation and Punishment, Science
  16. Bacterial foraging algorithm with varying population, Biosystems
  17. The Quick And The Dead: When Reaction Beats Intention, Proc. R. Soc. B
  18. Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens, BBC News
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Thinking About Complexity: Grasping the Continuum through Criticism and Pluralism, ISCE Publishing
    2. Dynamics of Information Systems: Theory and Applications, Springer
    3. Disrupted Networks: From Physics to Climate Change, World Scientific Publishing Company
    4. Causal Models: How People Think About the World and Its Alternatives, Oxford University Press
    5. Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, The MIT Press
    6. Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating The Risk Intelligent Enterprise, Wiley
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Event Announcements
    3. Webcast Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. Neanderthal genes 'survive in us', BBC News Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Many people alive today possess some Neanderthal ancestry, according to a landmark scientific study. The finding has surprised many experts, as previous genetic evidence suggested the Neanderthals made little or no contribution to our inheritance. The result comes from analysis of the Neanderthal genome - the "instruction manual" describing how these ancient humans were put together. Between 1% and 4% of the Eurasian human genome seems to come from Neanderthals.

  2. A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome, Science Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Neandertals, the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans, lived in large parts of Europe and western Asia before disappearing 30,000 years ago. We present a draft sequence of the Neandertal genome composed of more than 4 billion nucleotides from three individuals. Comparisons of the Neandertal genome to the genomes of five present-day humans from different parts of the world identify a number of genomic regions that may have been affected by positive selection in ancestral modern humans, including genes involved in metabolism and in cognitive and skeletal development. We show that Neandertals shared more genetic variants with present-day humans in Eurasia than with present-day humans in sub-Saharan Africa, suggesting that gene flow from Neandertals into the ancestors of non-Africans occurred before the divergence of Eurasian groups from each other.

  3. One Billion Euros to Unleash the Power of Information, ScienceDaily Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Humanity faces enormous challenges ranging from financial and economic instability to environmental destruction and climate change, all linked directly to our inability to manage -- and often even to understand the nature of -- our collective activities and their consequences. Now a diverse group of leading scientists has unveiled an extraordinary plan to meet these challenges through a project inspired by historic enterprises such as the Apollo Project. Their ambitious proposal aims to stimulate an urgent scientific effort of unprecedented scope focused on building a more powerful and accurate science of human systems and their interaction with the global environment. Their efforts will exploit the revolutionary scientific potential of modern computational, communication, and information technologies, backed up by theoretical analysis.
    See Also: http://www.futurict.eu

    1. A telescope for spotting global crises, The Great Beyond Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: The good news is that your future can be predicted. The bad news is that it’ll cost a billion euros. That, at least, is what a team of scientists led by Dirk Helbing of the ETH in Switzerland believes. And as they point out, a billion euros is small fare compared with the bill for the current financial crisis â€" which might conceivably have been anticipated with the massive social-science simulations they want to establish.

  4. Meaning-Making Neurons, Science Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    In The Brain and the Meaning of Life, philosopher, psychologist, and computer scientist Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo) has elegantly employed the pithiness principle. He offers a tightly reasoned, often humorous, and original contribution to the emerging practice of applying science to areas heretofore the province of philosophers, theologians, ethicists, and politicians: What is reality and how can we know it? Are mind and brain one or two? What is the source of the sense of self? What is love? What is the difference between right and wrong, and how can we know it? What is the most legitimate form of government? What is the meaning of life, and how can we find happiness in it?
    • Source: Meaning-Making Neurons, Michael Shermer, DOI: 10.1126/science.1189752, Science Vol. 328. no. 5979, pp. 693 - 694, 2010/05/07

  5. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything, TED.com Bookmark and Share

    About this talk: Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

    1. George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity, TED.com Bookmark and Share

      About this talk: Simplicity: We know it when we see it -- but what is it, exactly? In this funny, philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer.

    2. Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks, TED.com Bookmark and Share

      About this talk: We're all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits -- from happiness to obesity -- can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don't even know.

  6. Comparing genomes to computer operating systems in terms of the topology and evolution of their regulatory control networks, PNAS Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The genome has often been called the operating system (OS) for a living organism. A computer OS is described by a regulatory control network termed the call graph, which is analogous to the transcriptional regulatory network in a cell. To apply our firsthand knowledge of the architecture of software systems to understand cellular design principles, we present a comparison between the transcriptional regulatory network of a well-studied bacterium (Escherichia coli) and the call graph of a canonical OS (Linux) in terms of topology and evolution. We show that both networks have a fundamentally hierarchical layout, but there is a key difference: (...)

    1. Dynamics and Control of Diseases in Networks with Community Structure, PLoS Comput Biol Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Here we use both data from social networking websites and computer generated networks to study the effect of community structure on epidemic spread. We find that community structure not only affects the dynamics of epidemics in networks, but that it also has implications for how networks can be protected from large-scale epidemics.

  7. Biological Systems Theory, Science Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Mathematical models are fashionable in systems biology, but there is a world of difference between a model and a theorem. When researchers build models, they make assumptions about a specific experimental setting and have to choose values for rate constants and other parameters. A theorem, by contrast, can apply to a setting of arbitrary molecular complexity, such as a biochemical network with many components. In a recent study, Shinar and Feinberg (1) formulate a theorem that shows when such biochemical networks exhibit "absolute concentration robustness."
    • Source: Biological Systems Theory, Jeremy Gunawardena, DOI: 10.1126/science.1188974, Science Vol. 328. no. 5978, pp. 581 - 582, 2010/04/30

  8. The Envelope, Please: From Eight Great Innovative Tools, Which Ones Are the Winners?, Knowledge@Wharton Bookmark and Share

    Summary: Ramping up customer satisfaction, maximizing the effectiveness of human capital and repairing supply chains were just a few of the ambitious aims of the ground-breaking "tools" entered in the Wipro-Knowledge@Wharton Innovation Tournament, whose final round of judging took place on March 23 in Philadelphia. Eight finalists, selected from among 120 entries, presented their concepts to a panel of judges during the event. We present the final eight and announce the three competitors who came out on top.

  9. The self-organization of genomes, Complexity Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Menzerath-Altmann law is a general law of human language stating, for instance, that the longer a word, the shorter its syllables. With the metaphor that genomes are words and chromosomes are syllables, we examine if genomes also obey the law. We find that longer genomes tend to be made of smaller chromosomes in organisms from three different kingdoms: fungi, plants, and animals. Our findings suggest that genomes self-organize under principles similar to those of human language.

    1. Diversity, competition, extinction: the ecophysics of language change, arXiv Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: As early indicated by Charles Darwin, languages behave and change very much like living species. They display high diversity, differentiate in space and time, emerge and disappear. (...) The models are reviewed here and include extinction, invasion, origination, spatial organization, coexistence and diversity as key concepts and are very simple in their defining rules. Such simplicity is used in order to catch the most fundamental laws of organization and those universal ingredients responsible for qualitative traits. The similarities between observed and predicted patterns indicate that an ecological theory of language is emerging, supporting (on a quantitative basis) its ecological nature, although key differences are also present.

  10. Multi-scale Modularity in Complex Networks, arXiv Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: We focus on the detection of communities in multi-scale networks, namely networks made of different levels of organization and in which modules exist at different scales. It is first shown that methods based on modularity are not appropriate to uncover modules in empirical networks, mainly because modularity optimization has an intrinsic bias towards partitions having a characteristic number of modules which might not be compatible with the modular organization of the system. We argue for the use of more flexible quality functions incorporating a resolution parameter that allows us to reveal the natural scales of the system. Different types of multi-resolution quality functions are described and unified by looking at the partitioning problem from a dynamical viewpoint. Finally, significant values of the resolution parameter are selected by using complementary measures of robustness of the uncovered partitions. The methods are illustrated on a benchmark and an empirical network.

  11. The cause of universality in growth fluctuations, arXiv Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Phenomena as diverse as breeding bird populations, the size of U.S. firms, money invested in mutual funds, the GDP of individual countries and the scientific output of universities all show unusual but remarkably similar growth fluctuations. The fluctuations display characteristic features, including double exponential scaling in the body of the distribution and power law scaling of the standard deviation as a function of size. To explain this we propose a remarkably simple additive replication model

  12. Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks, arXiv Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Current methods for the detection of contagious outbreaks give contemporaneous information about the course of an epidemic at best. Individuals at the center of a social network are likely to be infected sooner, on average, than those at the periphery. However, mapping a whole network to identify central individuals whom to monitor is typically very difficult. We propose an alternative strategy that does not require ascertainment of global network structure, namely, monitoring the friends of randomly selected individuals.

  13. Poissonian bursts in e-mail correspondence, Eur. Phys. J. B Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Recent work has shown that the distribution of inter-event times for e-mail communication exhibits a heavy tail which is statistically consistent with a cascading Poisson process. In this work we extend this analysis to higher-order statistics, using the Fano and Allan factors to quantify the extent to which the empirical data are more correlated â€" bursty â€" than a Poisson process.

    1. Prediction of extreme events in the OFC model on a small world network, arXiv Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: We investigate the predictability of extreme events in a dissipative Olami-Feder-Christensen model on a small world topology. Due to the mechanism of self-organized criticality, it is impossible to predict the magnitude of the next event knowing previous ones, if the system has an infinite size. However, by exploiting the finite size effects, we show that probabilistic predictions of the occurrence of extreme events in the next time step are possible in a finite system.

    2. Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory, PLoS Biol Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Many species are experiencing sustained environmental change mainly due to human activities. The unusual rate and extent of anthropogenic alterations of the environment may exceed the capacity of developmental, genetic, and demographic mechanisms that populations have evolved to deal with environmental change. To begin to understand the limits to population persistence, we present a simple evolutionary model for the critical rate of environmental change beyond which a population must decline and go extinct.

  14. How Cooperation Is Maintained in Human Societies: Punishment, Study Suggests, ScienceDaily Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Humans are incredibly cooperative, but why do people cooperate and how is cooperation maintained? A new research (ďż˝) suggests cooperation in large groups is maintained by punishment. The finding challenges previous cooperation/punishment models that argue punishment is uncoordinated and unconditional. (ďż˝) To understand the study, let's start with a small group of friends. In small groups, individuals often have personal connections with other group members and cooperation typically is maintained by a "you help me, I'll help you" reciprocity system. Group members cooperate because they do not want to hurt their friends by not participating in group efforts, and also because they may want help in the future. (ďż˝)

  15. Evolutionary Establishment of Moral and Double Moral Standards through Spatial Interactions, PLoS Comput Biol Bookmark and Share

    Summary: Why do friends spontaneously come up with mutually accepted rules, cooperation, and solidarity, while the creation of shared moral standards often fails in large communities? In a “global village”, where everybody may interact with anybody else, it is not worthwhile to punish people who cheat. Moralists (cooperative individuals who undertake punishment efforts) disappear because of their disadvantage compared to cooperators who do not punish (so-called “second-order free-riders”). However, cooperators are exploited by free-riders. This creates a “tragedy of the commons”, where everybody is uncooperative in the end. Yet, when people interact with friends or local neighbors, as most people do, moralists can escape the direct competition with non-punishing cooperators by separating from them. Moreover, in the competition with free-riders, moralists can defend their interests better than non-punishing cooperators. Therefore, while seriously depleted in the beginning, moralists can finally spread all over the world (“who laughs last laughs best effect”). Strikingly, the presence of a few non-cooperative individuals (“deviant behavior”) can accelerate the victory of moralists. In order to spread, moralists may also form an “unholy cooperation” with people having double moral standards, i.e., free-riders who punish non-cooperative behavior, while being uncooperative themselves.

    1. Cooperation and Punishment, Science Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: In an era in which the "tragedy of the commons" has acquired new meaning on a global scale, social scientists are beginning to find hope in human nature. True, we are self-interested creatures capable of destroying the habitats that support us as we each focus on getting our share of the global commons before others beat us to it. Yet Homo sapiens could never have populated the planet and mastered complex technologies and organizational forms had nature not also made us sensitive to one another's regard. Both field studies and laboratory experiments depict humans as willing to cooperate when convinced that others are doing the same and that at least some will incur costs to sanction cheating. On page 613 in this issue, Janssen et al. (1) show that communication among members of a group is key to establishing cooperation and using punishment effectively, and on page 617, Boyd et al. (2) provide a model of how signaling (a stylized kind of communication) could have allowed punishment and cooperation to evolve.
      • Source: Cooperation and Punishment, Louis Putterman, DOI: 10.1126/science.1189969, Science Vol. 328. no. 5978, pp. 578 - 579, 2010/04/30

  16. Bacterial foraging algorithm with varying population, Biosystems Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Most of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are based on a fixed population. However, due to this feature, such algorithms do not fully explore the potential of searching ability and are time consuming. This paper presents a novel nature-inspired heuristic optimization algorithm [...]BFAVP has been tested on several benchmark functions and the results show that it performs better than other popularly used EAs, in terms of both accuracy and convergency.

  17. The Quick And The Dead: When Reaction Beats Intention, Proc. R. Soc. B Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Everyday behaviour involves a trade-off between planned actions and reaction to environmental events. Evidence from neurophysiology, neurology and functional brain imaging suggests different neural bases for the control of different movement types. Here we develop a behavioural paradigm to test movement dynamics for intentional versus reaction movements and provide evidence for a �reactive advantage� in movement execution, whereby the same action is executed faster in reaction to an opponent. We placed pairs of participants in competition with each other to make a series of button presses. Within-subject analysis of movement times revealed a 10 per cent benefit for reactive actions. (�)
    • Source: The Quick And The Dead: When Reaction Beats Intention, A. E. Welchman - a.e.welchmanabham.ac.uk, J. Stanley, M. R. Schomers, R. Chris Miall, H. H. Bďż˝lthoff, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2123, Proc. R. Soc. B, 2010/06/07, online 2010/02/03
    • Contributed by Atin Das - dasatinayahoo.co.in

  18. Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens, BBC News Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Prof Hawking thinks that, rather than actively trying to communicate with extra-terrestrials, humans should do everything possible to avoid contact. He explained: "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."

  19. Book Announcements Bookmark and Share


    1. Thinking About Complexity: Grasping the Continuum through Criticism and Pluralism, ISCE Publishing Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      The aim of this book is to introduce some of the basic ideas concerning the science of complex systems, and to develop a philosophical stance that is sensitive to complexity itself. In doing so, it is assumed that the Universe in which we find ourselves can be well-described at some arbitrarily deep level as a complex system. (...) It is argued that in Life there are no real and absolute boundaries, although many patterns can be uncovered that can be used to build sufficient levels of understanding to allow us to interact with our environment in useful ways. (...)

    2. Dynamics of Information Systems: Theory and Applications, Springer Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Dynamics of Information Systems presents state-of-the-art research explaining the importance of information in the evolution of a distributed or networked system. This book presents techniques for measuring the value or significance of information within the context of a system. These newly developed techniques have numerous applications including: the detection of terrorist networks, the design of highly functioning businesses and computer systems, modeling the distributed sensory and control physiology of animals, quantum entanglement and genome modeling, multi-robotic systems design, as well as industrial and manufacturing safety.

    3. Disrupted Networks: From Physics to Climate Change, World Scientific Publishing Company Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. (...)

    4. Causal Models: How People Think About the World and Its Alternatives, Oxford University Press Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect, between action and outcome. In cognitive terms, how do people construct and reason with the causal models we use to represent our world? A revolution is occurring in how statisticians, philosophers, and computer scientists answer this question. Those fields have ushered in new insights about causal models by thinking about how to represent causal structure mathematically, in a framework that uses graphs and probability theory to develop what are called causal Bayesian networks. (...)

    5. Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, The MIT Press Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      The integration of economics and psychology has created a vibrant and fruitful emerging field of study. The essays in Economics and Psychology take a broad view of the interface between these two disciplines, going beyond the usual focus on "behavioral economics." As documented in this volume, the influence of psychology on economics has been responsible for a view of human behavior that calls into question the assumption of complete rationality (and raises the possibility of altruistic acts), the acceptance of experiments as a valid method of economic research, and the idea that utility or well-being can be measured. (...)

    6. Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating The Risk Intelligent Enterprise, Wiley Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      The ability of businesses to survive and thrive often requires unconventional thinking and calculated risk taking. The key is to make the right decisionsâ€"even under the most risky, uncertain, and turbulent conditions. In the new book, authors Rick Funston and Steve Wagner suggest that effective risk taking is needed in order to innovate, stay competitive, and drive value creation. Based on their combined decades of experience as practitioners, consultants, and advisors to numerous business professionals throughout the world, Funston and Wagner discuss the adoption of 10 essential and practical skills, which will improve agility, resilience, and realize benefits. (...)

  20. Links & Snippets Bookmark and Share


    1. Other Publications Bookmark and Share

      1. Food web framework for size-structured populations, Martin Hartvig, Ken H. Andersen, and Jan E. Beyer, 2010/04/23, arXiv:1004.4138
      2. Reduction of behavior of additive cellular automata on groups, Valeriy Bulitko, 2010/04/25, arXiv:1004.4361
      3. A classification of complex statistical systems in terms of their stability and a thermodynamical derivation of their entropy and distribution functions, Rudolf Hanel and Stefan Thurner, 2010/05/02, arXiv:1005.0138
      4. New Study Examines Use of Social Media in the Classroom, 2010/05/05, ScienceDaily & Rochester Institute of Technology
      5. Gene Linked to Schizophrenia: New Clues to Disorder, 2010/05/05, ScienceDaily & University of Montreal
      6. Managing the Emotions Behind Eating, 2010/05/05, ScienceDaily & Temple University
      7. Viruses Effective Against Brain Cancer in Animals: Human Trials Set to Start, 2010/05/05, ScienceDaily & Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
      8. How Dark Chocolate May Guard Against Brain Injury from Stroke, 2010/05/05, ScienceDaily & Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
      9. Declining Social Security Benefits Keep Older Men In Workforce, 2010/05/05 ref_journal Innovations-report
      10. Cell Phones Could Double As Night Vision Devices, 2010/05/05 ref_journal Innovations-report
      11. Social Influences Of Competition On Impulsive Choices In Domestic Chicks, H. Amita, A. Kawamori, T. Matsushima - matusimaasci.hokudai.ac.jp, April 2010, online 2009/10/28, Biol. Lett., DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0685
      12. A three-dimensional multi-agent-based model for the evolution of Chagas’ disease, Galvão V, Vivas-Miranda JG, June 2010, Biosystems 100(3): 225-230, DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2010.03.007

    2. Event Announcements Bookmark and Share

      1. The IV International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization - NICSO 2010, Granada, Spain, 10/05/12-14
      2. Exploring Complexity in Science and Technology from a Santa Fe Institute Perspective, Portland, Oregon , 2010/05/19-21
      3. Morphogenesis in Living Systems 2010, Paris, France, 2010/05/27-29
      4. International Conference on Computational Science 2010 (ICCS 2010), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010/05/31-06/2
      5. WDN 2010 International Workshop on Dynamic Networks, Avignon, France, 2010/06/04
      6. ICEIS 2010 (12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, 10/06/6-10
      7. NECSI Summer School 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2010/06/7-18
      8. International Workshop on Living Organisms in Flows: From Small-Scale Turbulence to Geophysical Flows, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2010/06/7-11
      9. ICAC 2010, the 7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, Washington, DC, USA, 2010/06/7-11
      10. Multi-disciplinary approach of complexity, networks, geosimulations , Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010/06/9-11
      11. First International Workshop on the Shapes of Brain Dynamics, Paris, France, 2010/06/18
      12. The International Workshop on Computing with Spatio-Temporal Dynamics, Tokyo, Japan, 2010/06/21-25
      13. NKS Summer School, University of Vermont, USA, 2010/06/21-07/09
      14. First European Summer School on Life & Cognition, Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain, 2010/06/22-26
      15. Transportation Networks in Nature and Technology, Paris, France, 2010/06/24
      16. International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) , London, UK, 2010/06/28-30
      17. Tomorrow's Giants, London, UK, 2010/07/01
      18. 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2010), Beijing, China, 2010/07/7-9
      19. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010), Portland, Oregon, USA, 2010/07/7-11
      20. The 2010 Advanced Geographical Analysis and Modeling Workshop, Neve Ilan, Israel, 2010/07/8-10
      21. New Frontiers in Complex Networks: A Statphys24 Satellite Meeting, Seoul, Korea, 2010/07/12-16
      22. The First Australasian Workshop on Computation in Cyber-Physical Systems (CompCPS-2010), Sydney, Australia, 2010/07/15-16
      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, 2010/07/19-21
      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. 2010 International Conference on the Business and Digital Enterprises (ICBDE 2010), Bangalore, India, 2010/07/22-24
      27. Dynamics Days South America, São José dos Campos, Brazil, 2010/07/26-30
      28. Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School, Buea, Cameroon, 2010/08/2-13
      29. 4th Annual French Complex Systems Summer School, Paris, France, 2010/08/02-20
      30. ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, 15th Edition, Freiburg, Germany, 2010/08/2-27
      31. European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Copenhagen, Denmark, 10/08/09-20
      32. Systems Biology of Development, Ascona, Switzerland, 2010/08/16-20
      33. Amorphous Computing and Complex Biological Networks, University of Sheffield, UK, 2010/08/17-20
      34. Artificial Life XII (ALife XII), Odense, Denmark, 10/08/19--23.
      35. The Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-2010): Enabling Computing, Services and Intelligence for Social Life, Minneapolis, USA, 2010/08/20-22
      36. Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science FIS 2010: Towards a New Science of Information, Beijing, China, 2010/09/20-23
      37. From animals to animats: the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'10), , Paris, France, 2010/08/24-28
      38. 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10), Toronto, Canada, 2010/08/31-09/03
      39. International Conference OPERATIONS RESEARCH "MASTERING COMPLEXITY", MĂĽnchen, Germany, 2010/09/1-3
      40. SoNet-2010: SOCIAL NETWORKS: COMPUTING AND MINING, Brno, Czech Republic, 2010/09/3-5
      41. ANTS 2010, Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium, 10/09/8-10
      42. 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Cardiff, UK, 2010/09/8-10
      43. Artificial Economics, Treviso, Italy, 2010/09/9-10
      44. PPSN 2010: 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature, Krakow, Poland, 2010/09/11-15
      45. European Conference on Complex Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010/09/13-17
      46. 12th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2010), New York City, USA, 2010/09/20-22
      47. CASoN 2010 International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks, Taiyuan, China, 2010/09/26â€"28
      48. Data driven dynamical networks, Les Houches, France, 2010/09/26-10/01
      49. SASO 2010 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 2010/09/27-10/01
      50. 2nd Workshop on Complex Networks CompleNet 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010/10/13-15
      51. 1st International Conference on Bionics & Biomechanics, Venice, Italy, 2010/10/14-16
      52. Fifth National Conference on systems science, Fermo, Italy, 2010/10/16
      53. Joint Colloquium of the Cochrane & Campbell Collaborations, Keystone, Colorado, USA 2010/10/18-22
      54. The 5th Int'l Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems, Boston, MA, USA, 2010/12/1-3
      55. 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science CACS 2010, Singapore, 2010/12/4-6
      56. 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011), Rome, Italy, 2011/01/28-30
      57. IJCAI 2011, the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 2011/07/19-22


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      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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