Complexity Digest 2011.14    2011/07/22
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. Is there a Newton of the blade of grass?, Complexity
  2. Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips, Science
  3. Statistical Laws Governing Fluctuations in Word Use from Word Birth to Word Death, arXiv
  4. A Common Scaling Rule for Abundance, Energetics, and Production of Parasitic and Free-Living Species, Science
  5. Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex, TED.com
    1. Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world, TED.com
    2. A robot that flies like a bird, TED.com
  6. Complex Networks, Artificial Life
  7. Structural and Dynamical Patterns on Online Social Networks: the Spanish May 15th Movement as a case study, arXiv
  8. Adaptive Group Coordination and Role Differentiation, PLoS ONE
  9. Early warning signals for critical transitions: A generalized modeling approach, arXiv
  10. Emergence of hierarchical networks and polysynchronous behaviour in simple adaptive systems, arXiv
  11. Irreducibility and emergence in complex systems and the quest for alternative insights, Complexity
    1. Complexity and the philosophy of becoming, ECCO working paper
  12. From L’Homme Machine to metabolic closure: Steps towards understanding life, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  13. Neural network computation with DNA strand displacement cascades, Nature
    1. Neurobiologically Realistic Determinants of Self-Organized Criticality in Networks of Spiking Neurons, PLoS Comput Biol
  14. Speed of complex network synchronization, Eur. Phys. J. B
  15. Influence and Dynamic Behavior in Random Boolean Networks, arXiv
  16. Detecting evolving patterns of self-organizing networks by flow hierarchy measurement, Complexity
  17. Explosive Percolation Is Continuous, Science
  18. The unplanned impact of mathematics, Nature
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Decision Making: A Psychophysics Application of Network Science, World Scientific Pub Co Inc
    2. Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information, Princeton Architectural Press
    3. Journey of the Universe, Yale University Press
    4. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Andrews McMeel Publishing
    5. Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in Urban-Regional and Ecologic-Economic Systems: From Catastrophe to Chaos and Beyond, Springer
    6. Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems, Ashgate
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Event Announcements
    3. Webcast Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. Is there a Newton of the blade of grass?, Complexity Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Why are the relations between physics and mathematics and biology and math- ematics as different as they could be? The alliance between mathematics and physics stands at the beginning of Western science and this ‘marriage’ has proven to be extremely stable and fruitful.

  2. Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips, Science Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The advent of the Internet, with sophisticated algorithmic search engines, has made accessing information as easy as lifting a finger. No longer do we have to make costly efforts to find the things we want. We can "Google" the old classmate, find articles online, or look up the actor who was on the tip of our tongue. The results of four studies suggest that when faced with difficult questions, people are primed to think about computers and that when people expect to have future access to information, they have lower rates of recall of the information itself and enhanced recall instead for where to access it. The Internet has become a primary form of external or transactive memory, where information is stored collectively outside ourselves.

  3. Statistical Laws Governing Fluctuations in Word Use from Word Birth to Word Death, arXiv Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: How often a given word is used, relative to other words, can convey information about the word's linguistic utility. Using Google word data for 3 languages over the 209-year period 1800-2008, we found by analyzing word use an anomalous recent change in the birth and death rates of words, which indicates a shift towards increased levels of competition between words as a result of new standardization technology. We demonstrate unexpected analogies between the growth dynamics of word use and the growth dynamics of economic institutions. Our results support the intriguing concept that a language's lexicon is a generic arena for competition which evolves according to selection laws that are related to social, technological, and political trends. Specifically, the aggregate properties of language show pronounced differences during periods of world conflict, e.g. World War II.

  4. A Common Scaling Rule for Abundance, Energetics, and Production of Parasitic and Free-Living Species, Science Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The metabolic theory of ecology uses the scaling of metabolism with body size and temperature to explain the causes and consequences of species abundance. However, the theory and its empirical tests have never simultaneously examined parasites alongside free-living species. This is unfortunate because parasites represent at least half of species diversity. We show that metabolic scaling theory could not account for the abundance of parasitic or free-living species in three estuarine food webs until accounting for trophic dynamics. Analyses then revealed that the abundance of all species uniformly scaled with body mass to the "¾ power. This result indicates “production equivalence,” where biomass production within trophic levels is invariant of body size across all species and functional groups: invertebrate or vertebrate, ectothermic or endothermic, and free-living or parasitic.

  5. Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex, TED.com Bookmark and Share

    About this talk: Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems -- and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us to embrace our randomness and start making better mistakes.

    1. Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world, TED.com Bookmark and Share

      About this talk: Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control.

    2. A robot that flies like a bird, TED.com Bookmark and Share

      About this talk: Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.

  6. Complex Networks, Artificial Life Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Graph theory was initiated by Euler in the eighteenth century. In mathematics, graph theory con- solidated itself in the following decades and centuries. However, it was only a little more than a decade ago that an explosion of research and applications occurred, in what is now referred to as network science. In particular, networks have become a central tool in the study of complex systems. The language of nodes and edges provided by networks has proven to be very illustrative of model elements of a system (nodes) and their interactions (edges). Having a language that describes interactions is essential for a non-reductionist science.
    • Source: Complex Networks, Carlos Gershenson, Mikhail Prokopenko, DOI: 10.1162/artl_e_00037, Artificial Life, Early Access, 2011/07/15

  7. Structural and Dynamical Patterns on Online Social Networks: the Spanish May 15th Movement as a case study, arXiv Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The number of people using online social networks in their everyday life is continuously growing at a pace never saw before. This new kind of communication has an enormous impact on opinions, cultural trends, information spreading and even in the commercial success of new products. More importantly, social online networks have revealed as a fundamental organizing mechanism in recent country-wide social movements. In this paper, we provide a quantitative analysis of the structural and dynamical patterns emerging from the activity of an online social network around the ongoing May 15th (15M) movement in Spain.

  8. Adaptive Group Coordination and Role Differentiation, PLoS ONE Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Many real world situations (potluck dinners, academic departments, sports teams, corporate divisions, committees, seminar classes, etc.) involve actors adjusting their contributions in order to achieve a mutually satisfactory group goal, a win-win result. However, the majority of human group research has involved situations where groups perform poorly because task constraints promote either individual maximization behavior or diffusion of responsibility, and even successful tasks generally involve the propagation of one correct solution through a group. Here we introduce a group task that requires complementary actions among participants in order to reach a shared goal. (...)

  9. Early warning signals for critical transitions: A generalized modeling approach, arXiv Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Critical transitions are sudden, often irreversible, changes that can occur in a large variety of complex systems. Signals that warn of critical transitions are highly desirable, but their construction can be impeded by limited availability of data. We propose a method that can significantly reduce the amount of time series data required for a robust early warning signal by using other information about the system. This information is integrated through the framework of a generalized model. We demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach through several examples, including a previously published fisheries model.

  10. Emergence of hierarchical networks and polysynchronous behaviour in simple adaptive systems, arXiv Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: We describe the dynamics of a simple adaptive network. The network architecture evolves to a number of disconnected components on which the dynamics is characterized by the possibility of differently synchronized nodes within the same network (polysynchronous states). These systems may have implications for the evolutionary emergence of polysynchrony and hierarchical networks in physical or biological systems modeled by adaptive networks.

  11. Irreducibility and emergence in complex systems and the quest for alternative insights, Complexity Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
    Henri Poincaré
    In this essay, we briefly survey the contemporary scientific and philosophical debates on emergence and conclude that this notion has become a dilemma. We argue that the reason for this dilemma is metaphysical. Subsequently, we investigate some fundamental philosophical methods in science, such as Cartesian reduction and objectivism, as the main sources of scientific drawbacks. Eventually, we suggest some refinements in philosophical methods for improvement of scientific insight and propose the method of transcendentionism as a metaphysical panacea to encounter the dilemma of emergence

    1. Complexity and the philosophy of becoming, ECCO working paper Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: This paper introduces Deleuze’s philosophy of becoming in system theoretic terms and proposes an alternative ontological foundation to the study of systems and complex systems in particular. A brief critique of system theory and difficulties apparent in it is proposed as an initial motivation to the discussion. Following is an overview aiming to provide an access to the ‘big picture’ of Deleuze’s revolutionary philosophical system with emphasize on a system theoretic approach and terminology. The major concepts of Deleuze’s ontology - difference, virtuality, multiplicity, assemblages, quasi-causation, becoming (individuation), intensity and progressive determination are introduced and discussed in some length. Deleuze’s work is a radical departure from the dogma of western philosophy that also guides the foundations of science and system theory. (...)

  12. From L’Homme Machine to metabolic closure: Steps towards understanding life, Journal of Theoretical Biology Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The nature of life has been a topic of interest from the earliest of times, and efforts to explain it in mechanistic terms date at least from the 18th century. However, the impressive development of molecular biology since the 1950s has tended to ...

  13. Neural network computation with DNA strand displacement cascades, Nature Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Here, building on the richness of DNA computing and strand displacement circuitry, we show how molecular systems can exhibit autonomous brain-like behaviours. Using a simple DNA gate architecture that allows experimental scale-up of multilayer digital circuits, we systematically transform arbitrary linear threshold circuits (an artificial neural network model) into DNA strand displacement cascades that function as small neural networks.

    1. Neurobiologically Realistic Determinants of Self-Organized Criticality in Networks of Spiking Neurons, PLoS Comput Biol Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: The intricate relationship between structural brain connectivity and functional brain activity is an important and intriguing research area. Brain structure (the pattern of neuroanatomical connections) is thought to strongly influence and constrain brain function (the pattern of neuronal activations). Concurrently, brain function is thought to gradually reshape brain structure, through processes such as activity-dependent plasticity (the “what fires together, wires together” principle). In this study, we examined the relationship between brain structure and function in a biologically realistic mathematical model. (...)

  14. Speed of complex network synchronization, Eur. Phys. J. B Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Synchrony is one of the most common dynamical states emerging on networks. The speed of convergence towards synchrony provides a fundamental collective time scale for synchronizing systems. Here we study the asymptotic synchronization times for directed networks with topologies ranging from completely ordered, grid-like, to completely disordered, random, including intermediate, partially disordered topologies. We extend the approach of master stability functions to quantify synchronization times. We find that the synchronization times strongly and systematically depend on the network topology. In particular, at fixed in-degree, stronger topological randomness induces faster synchronization, whereas at fixed path length, synchronization is slowest for intermediate randomness in the small-world regime. Randomly rewiring real-world neural, social and transport networks confirms this picture.

  15. Influence and Dynamic Behavior in Random Boolean Networks, arXiv Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: We present a rigorous mathematical framework for analyzing dynamics of a broad class of Boolean network models. We use this framework to provide the first formal proof of many of the standard critical transition results in Boolean network analysis, and offer analogous characterizations for novel classes of random Boolean networks. We precisely connect the short-run dynamic behavior of a Boolean network to the average influence of the transfer functions. We show that some of the assumptions traditionally made in the more common mean-field analysis of Boolean networks do not hold in general. For example, we offer some evidence that imbalance, or expected internal inhomogeneity, of transfer functions is a crucial feature that tends to drive quiescent behavior far more strongly than previously observed.

  16. Detecting evolving patterns of self-organizing networks by flow hierarchy measurement, Complexity Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Hierarchies occur widely in evolving self-organizing ecological, biological, technological, and social networks, but detecting and comparing hierarchies is difficult. Here we present a metric and technique to quantitatively assess the extent to which self-organizing directed networks exhibit a flow hierarchy. Flow hierarchy is a commonly observed but theoretically overlooked form of hierarchy in networks. We show that the ecological, neurobiological, economic, and information processing networks are generally more hierarchical than their comparable random networks. We further discovered that hierarchy degree has increased over the course of the evolution of Linux kernels. Taken together, our results suggest that hierarchy is a central organizing feature of real-world evolving networks, and the measurement of hierarchy opens the way to understand the structural regimes and evolutionary patterns of self-organizing networks. Our measurement technique makes it possible to objectively compare hierarchies of different networks and of different evolutionary stages of a single network, and compare evolving patterns of different networks. It can be applied to various complex systems, which can be represented as directed networks.

  17. Explosive Percolation Is Continuous, Science Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: “Explosive percolation” is said to occur in an evolving network when a macroscopic connected component emerges in a number of steps that is much smaller than the system size. Recent predictions based on simulations suggested that certain Achlioptas processes (much-studied local modifications of the classical mean-field growth model of Erdős and Rényi) exhibit this phenomenon, undergoing a phase transition that is discontinuous in the scaling limit. We show that, in fact, all Achlioptas processes have continuous phase transitions, although related models in which the number of nodes sampled may grow with the network size can indeed exhibit explosive percolation.

  18. The unplanned impact of mathematics, Nature Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Peter Rowlett introduces seven little-known tales illustrating that theoretical work may lead to practical applications, but it can't be forced and it can take centuries.
    Mark McCartney & Tony Mann: From quaternions to Lara Croft
    Graham Hoare: From geometry to the Big Bang
    Edmund Harriss: From oranges to modems
    Juan Parrondo & Noel-Ann Bradshaw: From paradox to pandemics
    Peter Rowlett: From gamblers to actuaries
    Julia Collins: From bridges to DNA
    Chris Linton: From strings to nuclear power

  19. Book Announcements Bookmark and Share


    1. Decision Making: A Psychophysics Application of Network Science, World Scientific Pub Co Inc Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book discusses how networking influences decision making. The individual lectures interconnect psychological testing, the modeling of neuron networks and brain dynamics to the transport of information within and between complex networks. Of particular importance was the introduction of a new principle that governs how complex networks talk to one another - the Principle of Complexity Management (PCM). PCM establishes that the transfer of information from a stimulating complex network to a responding complex network is determined by how the complexity indices of the two networks are related.

    2. Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information, Princeton Architectural Press Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Our ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it. Finding patterns and making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century. In recent years, designers, researchers, and scientists have begun employing an innovative mix of colors, symbols, graphics, algorithms, and interactivity to clarify, and often beautify, the clutter. From representing networks of friends on Facebook to depicting interactions among proteins in a human cell, Visual Complexity presents one hundred of the most interesting examples of information-visualization by the field's leading practitioners.

    3. Journey of the Universe, Yale University Press Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. We now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and living organisms, human beings and human consciousness came to be. In this book, the epic story of the universe is told from an inspired new perspective, weaving the findings of modern science together with enduring wisdom found in the humanistic traditions of the West, China, India, and indigenous peoples. (...)
      • Source: Journey of the Universe, Brian Thomas Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University Press, 2011/06/28
      • Contributed by Anton Joha - antonjohaagmail.com

    4. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, Andrews McMeel Publishing Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      In Tomatoland, investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Tomatoland reads like a suspenseful whodunit as well as an expose of today's agribusiness systems and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.

    5. Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in Urban-Regional and Ecologic-Economic Systems: From Catastrophe to Chaos and Beyond, Springer Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book presents an unusual perspective on economics and economic analysis. Current economic theory largely depends upon assuming that the world is fundamentally continuous. However, an increasing amount of economic research has been done using approaches that allow for discontinuities such as catastrophe theory, chaos theory, synergetics, and fractal geometry. The spread of such approaches across a variety of disciplines of thought has constituted a virtual intellectual revolution in recent years. This book reviews the applications of these approaches in various subdisciplines of economics and draws upon past economic thinkers to develop an integrated view of economics (...).

    6. Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems, Ashgate Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner's tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale. (...) This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to better understand how complex systems drift into failure.

  20. Links & Snippets Bookmark and Share


    1. Other Publications Bookmark and Share

      1. A Full Computation-relevant Topological Dynamics Classification of Elementary Cellular Automata, Martin Schuele, Ruedi Stoop, 2011/07/11, arXiv:1107.2080
      2. Resolution of the Stochastic Strategy Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma by Means of Particle Swarm Optimization, Zhang J, Zhang C, Chu T, Perc M, July 2011, PLoS ONE 6(7): e21787, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021787

    2. Event Announcements Bookmark and Share

      1. 29th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Washington, DC, USA, 2011/07/24-28
      2. The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'11, Nottingham, UK, 2011/07/25-26
      3. 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
      4. International Workshop on Game Theory and Society: Models of Social Interaction in Sociological Research, Zurich, 2011/07/27-30
      5. Summer School Course: Emergence, Explanation and Complexity. Prof. Alan Baker, Aarhus, Denmark, 2011/08/1-26
      6. ECAL 11: European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris, France, 2011/08/8-12
      7. The Effect of DNA Sequence and Structure on Genome Evolution, Rutgers University, NJ, USA, 2011/08/9-11
      8. 1st Annual Conference on Integral Biomathics, Stirling, Scotland, 2011/08/29-31
      9. TAROS 2011: 12th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Sheffield, UK, 2011/08/31-09/02
      10. The 2011 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'11, Klagenfurt, Austria, 2011/09/06-08
      11. Fourth International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2011), University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, UK, 2011/09/8-10
      12. ICMC 2011 - 2nd International Conference on Morphological Computation, Venice, Italy, 2011/09/12-14
      13. European Conference on Complex Systems 2011, Vienna, Austria, 2011/09/12-16
      14. The 15th WOSC INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS on CYBERNETICS and SYSTEMS, Nanjing, China, 2011/09/15-18
      15. Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems, Halkidiki, Greece, 2011/09/19-25
      16. ICCCI 2011 3rd International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence: Technologies and Applications, Gdynia, Poland, 2011/09/21-23
      17. World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, 2011/09/26-30
      18. SCIENCE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT - ENVIRONMENT FOR SOCIETY, Aarhus, Denmark, 2011/10/5-6
      19. The Third International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011), Singapore, 2011/10/6-8
      20. SSS 2011 - 13th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Grenoble, France, 2011/10/10-12
      21. EPIA2011 - 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011/10/10-13
      22. XII Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena (LAWNP-2011), San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 2011/10/10-15
      23. Complexity in Business Conference, Washington, DC, USA, 2011/10/14
      24. 2nd International Business Complexity & the Global Leader Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 2011/10/17-19
      25. Third World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC2011), Salamanca, Spain, 2011/10/19-21
      26. AMBIENT 2011: The First International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies and SIMUL 2011: The Third International Conference on Advances in System Simulation, Barcelona, Spain, 2011/10/23-28
      27. 3rd International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, Paris, France, 2011/10/24-26
      28. Complex Adaptive Systems: Energy, Information, and Intelligence, AAAI Fall Symposium; Arlington, VA, 2011/11/4-6
      29. Workshop on Complex Systems as Computing Models (WCSCM2011), Mexico City, Mexico, 2011/11/9-10
      30. VI Congreso Bienal Internacional Complejidad 2012, Havana, Cuba, 2012/01/10-13
      31. 38th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic, 2012/01/21"27
      32. 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 2012/02/6-8
      33. evostar - the main european events on evolutionary computation eurogp, evocop, evobio, evomusart and evoapplications, Málaga, Spain, 2012/03/11-13
      34. IWSOS'12 (Sixth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems), Delft, The Netherlands, 2012/03/15-16
      35. Collective Intelligence 2012, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2012/04/18-20


    3. Webcast Announcements Bookmark and Share

      1. IFISC@uib.es seminars, ongoing.
      2. Complex Systems: The Challenge of Prediction, Yaneer Bar-Yam, NECSI and MIT/ESD Seminar, 2011/04/08
      3. Lakeside Research Days 2010.
      4. Smarter Cities NYC. Posted on 2009/10/05
      5. ASSYST Digital Library. Since 09/09
      6. Complex Systems Teleconferences. Since 09/09
      7. Symmetry Festival 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 09/08/1-4.
      8. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, 09/06/8-12
      9. Memorial Service for Dr Gottfried Mayer, Founding Editor Complexity Digest, Taipei, Taiwan (1954-2009). Video [RM], 09/02/13
      10. Making Connections: In Memory and Celebration of the Life of Dr. Gottfried Mayer (1954-2009). Video [RM] [MPG], 09/02/13
      11. Eulogy for Gottfried Mayer by Dean LeBaron [WMV, 25 Mb], [RM, 10 Mb], 09/02/10
      12. Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?, Danielle Parsons, Slatev.com, 08/07/22
      13. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      14. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 08/01/22-27
      15. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      16. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      17. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      18. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      19. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      20. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      21. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      22. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      23. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      24. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      25. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      26. 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
      27. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      28. 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
      29. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      30. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      31. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      32. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      33. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      34. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      35. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      36. Edge Videos


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