Complexity Digest 2010.09

   2010/04/23

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

  1. Complex networks: The fragility of interdependency, Nature
    1. Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks, Nature
  2. BuRSTS
    1. An Informative Itinerary, Science
  3. On the Algorithmic Nature of the World, arXiv
  4. Economists need their own uncertainty principle, Nature
    1. Fifteen years of econophysics: worries, hopes and prospects, arXiv
  5. VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization, TED.com
    1. Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions, TED.com
  6. Evolution of cooperation by natural selection, arXiv
  7. Portrait of a year-old pandemic, Nature
  8. Extending Healthy Life Span—From Yeast to Humans, Science
  9. Environmental Science: New life for the Dead Sea?, Nature
  10. Coding and decoding in the Evolution of communication: Information richness and Referentiality, arXiv
  11. No gain from brain training, Nature
  12. Besting Johnny Appleseed, Science
  13. Competition encourages cooperation: client fish receive higher-quality service when cleaner fish compete, Animal Behaviour
  14. Complexity and Diversity, Science
  15. Hierarchical modularity in human brain functional networks, arXiv
  16. BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data, PLoS ONE
  17. Efficient and Exact Sampling of Simple Graphs with Given Arbitrary Degree Sequence, PLoS ONE
  18. Valentin Turchin, eulogy, Andrei Sakharov Foundation
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Organizations: Social Systems Conducting Experiments, Springer
    2. Neurosociology: The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology, Springer
    3. Understanding Game Theory: Introduction to the Analysis of Many Agent Systems With Competition and Cooperation, World Scientific Publishing Company
    4. The Cooperative Game Theory of Networks and Hierarchies, Springer
    5. The Doctrine of Chances: Probabilistic Aspects of Gambling, Springer
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Event Announcements
    3. Webcast Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. Complex networks: The fragility of interdependency, Nature Bookmark and Share

    Summary: A study of failures in interconnected networks highlights the vulnerability of tightly coupled infrastructures and shows the need to consider mutually dependent network properties in designing resilient systems.
    • Source: Complex networks: The fragility of interdependency
      [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/464984a ], Alessandro Vespignani, DOI: 10.1038/464984a, Nature 464, 984-985, 2010/04/15

    1. Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks, Nature Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Complex networks have been studied intensively for a decade, but research still focuses on the limited case of a single, non-interacting network. Modern systems are coupled together and therefore should be modelled as interdependent networks. A fundamental property of interdependent networks is that failure of nodes in one network may lead to failure of dependent nodes in other networks. This may happen recursively and can lead to a cascade of failures.
      • Source: Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks
        [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08932 ], Sergey V. Buldyrev, Roni Parshani, Gerald Paul, H. Eugene Stanley, Shlomo Havlin, DOI: 10.1038/nature08932, Nature 64, 1025-1028, 2010/04/15

  2. BuRSTS Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    BuRSTS is a performance in human dynamics, a game of cooperation and prediction, that will gradually unveil the full text of Bursts. In a nutshell, if you register at http://brsts.com, you will be able to adopt one of the 84,245 words of the book. Once you adopt, the words adopted by others will become visible to you -- thus as each words finds a parent, the whole book will become visible to the adopters. But if you invite your friends (and please do!) and you are good at predicting hidden content, the book will unveil itself to you well before all words are adopted. We will even send each day free signed copied of Bursts to those with the best scores.
    See Also: http://brsts.com
    • Source: BuRSTS
      [ http://barabasi.com/bursts/ ], Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

    1. An Informative Itinerary, Science Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt:
      Melanie Mitchell (...) takes us on a personal guided tour in Complexity. I emphasize personal because Mitchell (a computer scientist at Portland State University and SFI) uses her experience in evolutionary computation and artificial life to paint her picture of the history, and current state, of complexity research. Also, she writes in an unpretentious style with frequent entertaining and useful anecdotes that make one feel she is a trusted companion on the tour. Lastly, she focuses predominantly on computational aspects, with ecology, economics, and (perhaps surprisingly) neuroscience being notably less emphasized.
      • Source: An Informative Itinerary
        [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1187332 ], Iain D. Couzin, DOI: 10.1126/science.1187332, Science Vol. 328. no. 5977, p. 430, 2010/04/23

  3. On the Algorithmic Nature of the World, arXiv Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: We propose a test based on the theory of algorithmic complexity and an experimental evaluation of Levin's universal distribution to identify evidence in support of or in contravention of the claim that the world is algorithmic in nature. To this end we have undertaken a statistical comparison of the frequency distributions of data from physical sources on the one hand--repositories of information such as images, data stored in a hard drive, computer programs and DNA sequences--and the frequency distributions generated by purely algorithmic means on the other--by running abstract computing devices such as Turing machines, cellular automata and Post Tag systems. Statistical correlations were found and their significance measured.
    • Source: On the Algorithmic Nature of the World
      [ http://arXiv.org/abs/0906.3554 ], Hector Zenil, Jean-Paul Delahaye, arXiv:0906.3554, 2010/01/11

  4. Economists need their own uncertainty principle, Nature Bookmark and Share

    Summary: Bad risk management contributed to the current financial crisis. Two economists believe the situation could be improved by gaining a deeper understanding of what is not known.
    • Source: Economists need their own uncertainty principle
      [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.157 ], Philip Ball, DOI: 10.1038/news.2010.157, Nature, 2010/04/05

    1. Fifteen years of econophysics: worries, hopes and prospects, arXiv Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: This anniversary paper is an occasion to recall some of the events that shaped institutional econophysics. But in these thoughts about the evolution of econophysics in the last 15 years we also express some concerns. Our main worry concerns the relinquishment of the simplicity requirement.
      • Source: Fifteen years of econophysics: worries, hopes and prospects
        [ http://arXiv.org/abs/1004.3229 ], Bertrand M. Roehner, arXiv:1004.3229, 2010/04/16

  5. VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization, TED.com Bookmark and Share

    About this talk: Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations of human civilization as we know it.
    • Source: VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization
      [ http://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_shaped_civilization.html ], TED.com, 2010/01
    • VIDEO - Watch this talk
      [http://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_shaped_civilization.html ]

    1. Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions, TED.com Bookmark and Share

      About this talk: Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.
      • Source: Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions
        [ http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right.html ], TED.com, 2010/03

  6. Evolution of cooperation by natural selection, arXiv Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The observed cooperation on the level of genes, cells, tissues, and individuals has been the object of intense study by evolutionary biologists,(...) We find that if stochastic strategies for the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (IPD) are encoded as genes, the environmental conditions that the strategies are adapting to determine the fixed point of the evolutionary trajectory. (...) These results imply that previous identifications of mechanisms that promote cooperation can be understood within a broader framework where increased predictability is sufficient for the evolution of cooperation
    • Source: Evolution of cooperation by natural selection
      [ http://arXiv.org/abs/1004.2020 ], Dimitris Iliopoulos, Arend Hintze, and Christoph Adami, arXiv:1004.2020, 2010/04/12

  7. Portrait of a year-old pandemic, Nature Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: One year ago this month, the world watched with trepidation as a novel influenza A virus, to which the global population had little or no immunity, emerged in Mexico and the United States. In the weeks that followed, the H1N1 'swine flu' virus spread rapidly to countries worldwide, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 June 2009 to officially declare the first flu pandemic in more than 40 years. Nature looks at the lessons learnt from H1N1, and how they will help scientists and health authorities to handle the next flu pandemic.
    • Source: Portrait of a year-old pandemic
      [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/4641112a ], Declan Butler, DOI: 10.1038/4641112a, Nature 464, 1112-1113, 2010/04/21

  8. Extending Healthy Life Spanâ€"From Yeast to Humans, Science Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Dietary restriction and reduced activity of nutrient-sensing pathways may thus slow aging by similar mechanisms, which have been conserved during evolution. We discuss these findings and their potential application to prevention of age-related disease and promotion of healthy aging in humans, and the challenge of possible negative side effects.
    • Source: Extending Healthy Life Span—From Yeast to Humans
      [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1172539 ], Luigi Fontana, Linda Partridge, Valter D. Longo, DOI: 10.1126/science.1172539, Science Vol. 328. no. 5976, pp. 321 - 326, 2010/04/23

  9. Environmental Science: New life for the Dead Sea?, Nature Bookmark and Share

    Summary: A conduit from the Red Sea could restore the disappearing Dead Sea and slake the region's thirst. But such a massive engineering project could have untold effects.
    • Source: Environmental Science: New life for the Dead Sea?
      [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/4641118a ], Josie Glausiusz, DOI: 10.1038/4641118a, Nature 464, 1118-1120, 2010/04/21

  10. Coding and decoding in the Evolution of communication: Information richness and Referentiality, arXiv Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: One of the most basic properties of the communicative sign is its dual nature. That is, a sign is a twofold entity composed of a formal component, which we call signal, and a referential component, namely a reference. Based on this conception, we say that a referent is coded in a particular sign, or that a sign is decoded in a particular referent. (...) the referentiality of a signal must be preserved after being decoded, due to a selective pressure. Despite the information-theoretic flavour of this requirement, an inquiry into classical concepts of information theory such as entropy or mutual information will lead us to the conclusion that information theory as usually stated does not account for this very important requirement that natural communication systems must satisfy. Motivated by the relevance of the preservation of referentiality in evolution, we will fill this gap from a theoretical viewpoint (...)
    • Source: Coding and decoding in the Evolution of communication: Information richness and Referentiality
      [ http://arXiv.org/abs/1004.1999 ], Bernat Corominas Murtra, Jordi Fortuny Andreu and Ricard Solé, arXiv:1004.1999, 2010/04/12

  11. No gain from brain training, Nature Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The largest trial to date of 'brain-training' computer games suggests that people who use the software to boost their mental skills are likely to be disappointed.
    • Source: No gain from brain training
      [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/4641111a ], Alla Katsnelson, DOI: 10.1038/4641111a, Nature 464, 1111, 2010/04/20

  12. Besting Johnny Appleseed, Science Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Even though all these trees are the same species, Malus x domestica, the apple, there's no end to the variety of shapes and postures they assume. Glenn, trim, white-haired, points out that some trees grow vertically like elms, while some droop like willows. Some have branches with elbows and right angles, still others lack a central trunk and sprout stalks like bamboo. And that's only part of the variety he'll see when their fruit arrives in late April. Cross two adult fruit treesâ€"a wild variety resistant to disease, say, and a domesticated one with sweet fruitâ€"and there's almost no telling what you'll get.
    • Source: Besting Johnny Appleseed
      [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.328.5976.301 ], Sam Kean, DOI: 10.1126/science.328.5976.301, Science Vol. 328. no. 5976, pp. 301 - 303, 2010/04/16

  13. Competition encourages cooperation: client fish receive higher-quality service when cleaner fish compete, Animal Behaviour Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Partner choice is likely to be an important mechanism for the maintenance of cooperation in many mutualisms, and cleaner mutualisms among fish have been a model system for testing predictions of partner choice theories. [...]The results indicate that cleaners give ornate butterflyfish, Chaetodon ornatissimus, priority of access to their services when these clients can switch partners; however, ornate butterflyfish are not cheated less often when they have access to multiple cleaner stations, and they frequently respond to cheating by aggressively chasing cleaners. In combination with previous work, these results indicate that partner choice influences cooperative interactions between bluestreak cleaner wrasse and their clients, but that some clients with the ability to switch partners may use other strategies (i.e. punishment) to limit cheating by cleaners.
    • Source: Competition encourages cooperation: client fish receive higher-quality service when cleaner fish compete
      [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.02.023 ], Adam TC, DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.02.023, Animal Behaviour, in Press, April 2010
    • Contributed by Segismundo

  14. Complexity and Diversity, Science Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The mechanisms for the origin and maintenance of biological diversity are not fully understood. It is known that frequency-dependent selection, generating advantages for rare types, can maintain genetic variation and lead to speciation, but in models with simple phenotypes (that is, low-dimensional phenotype spaces), frequency dependence needs to be strong to generate diversity. However, we show that if the ecological properties of an organism are determined by multiple traits with complex interactions, the conditions needed for frequency-dependent selection to generate diversity are relaxed to the point where they are easily satisfied in high-dimensional phenotype spaces. Mathematically, this phenomenon is reflected in properties of eigenvalues of quadratic forms. Because all living organisms have at least hundreds of phenotypes, this casts the potential importance of frequency dependence for the origin and maintenance of diversity in a new light.
    • Source: Complexity and Diversity
      [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1187468 ], Michael Doebeli, Iaroslav Ispolatov, DOI: 10.1126/science.1187468, Science Vol. 328. no. 5977, pp. 494 - 497, 2010/04/23

  15. Hierarchical modularity in human brain functional networks, arXiv Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The idea that complex systems have a hierarchical modular organization originates in the early 1960s and has recently attracted fresh support from quantitative studies of large scale, real-life networks. Here we investigate the hierarchical modular (or "modules-within-modules") decomposition of human brain functional networks, (...) Results show that human brain functional networks have a hierarchical modular organization with a fair degree of similarity between subjects, I=0.63.(...) We conclude that methods are available for hierarchical modular decomposition of large numbers of high resolution brain functional networks using computationally expedient algorithms. This could enable future investigations of Simon's original hypothesis that hierarchy or near-decomposability of physical symbol systems is a critical design feature for their fast adaptivity to changing environmental conditions.
    • Source: Hierarchical modularity in human brain functional networks
      [ http://arXiv.org/abs/1004.3153 ], D. Meunier, R. Lambiotte, A. Fornito, K.D. Ersche and E.T. Bullmore, arXiv:1004.3153, 2010/04/19

  16. BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data, PLoS ONE Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: In this study we present BioTorrents, a website that allows open access sharing of scientific data and uses the popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing technology.
    • Source: BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data
      [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010071 ], Langille MGI, Eisen JA, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010071, PLoS ONE 5(4): e10071., April 2010
    • Contributed by Segismundo

  17. Efficient and Exact Sampling of Simple Graphs with Given Arbitrary Degree Sequence, PLoS ONE Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Uniform sampling from graphical realizations of a given degree sequence is a fundamental component in simulation-based measurements of network observables, with applications ranging from epidemics, through social networks to Internet modeling. Here we propose an efficient, polynomial time algorithm that generates statistically independent graph samples with a given, arbitrary, degree sequence.
    • Source: Efficient and Exact Sampling of Simple Graphs with Given Arbitrary Degree Sequence
      [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010012 ], Del Genio CI, Kim H, Toroczkai Z, Bassler KE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010012, PLoS ONE 5(4): e10012., April 2010
    • Contributed by Segismundo

  18. Valentin Turchin, eulogy, Andrei Sakharov Foundation Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Valentin Turchin (born February 14, 1931, in the Soviet Union) died in America on April 7, 2010, after a long illness. He is survived by his wife Tatiana, and his sons Peter and Dmitri. (...) Valentin Turchin was a true Russian intelligent. A talented scientist. A courageous defender of human rights. A good man.
    See Also: The Phenomenon of Science (free e-book).
    • Source: Valentin Turchin, eulogy
      [ http://asf.prime-task.com/cgi/ASFdbs.pl?&action=Linkview&pass=&link_name=doc&link_type_doc=file&main_page=http://asf.prime-task.com/&main_page_title=ASF+Home+Page&layout=frame&database=asfdocs_n_first_sprivat&link_res_doc=turchin-kline.1271258936.html ], Edward Kline, Andrei Sakharov Foundation, 2010/04/11

  19. Book Announcements Bookmark and Share


    1. Organizations: Social Systems Conducting Experiments, Springer Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      What are organizations? What is their point? How should one design successful organizations? Although these questions have been treated by many authors in many different ways, this book offers a new perspective. In a nutshell, the book combines cybernetics, social systems theory and Aristotle’s ethics to describe organizations as "social systems conducting experiments with their survival" and to formulate principles for their design. The authors argue that ‘experimenting’ and ‘social interaction’ are key features of organizations. In order to survive, organizations continuously have to experiment with goals, infrastructures and transformation processes and this experiment is an inherently social activity. (...)
      • Source: Organizations: Social Systems Conducting Experiments
        [ http://www.amazon.com/dp/3642001092?tag=compldiges-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=3642001092&adid=1Q2HCD8ZTGBGVAATKANM& ], Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens, Springer, 2009/10/01
      • Contributed by Anton Joha - antonjohaagmail.com

    2. Neurosociology: The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology, Springer Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      The goal of this ground-breaking volume is to present how neuroscience research is relevant to sociologists and social psychologists as well as examining those areas of neuroscience that can refine and broaden sociological theory. The study of the brain and its effect on behavior grew to prominence in the mid-20th century. Neuroscientists and psychologists worked together in this area in the behavioral sciences but neuroscience has not had a big impact in sociology and the social sciences. Recently, neuroscientists have presented new research which has a direct impact on many areas of sociology. (...)
      • Source: Neurosociology: The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology
        [ http://www.amazon.com/dp/1441955305?tag=compldiges-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1441955305&adid=0W13SYG99Z5884KFEEEF& ], David D. Franks, Springer, 2010/05/01
      • Contributed by Anton Joha - antonjohaagmail.com

    3. Understanding Game Theory: Introduction to the Analysis of Many Agent Systems With Competition and Cooperation, World Scientific Publishing Company Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Steadily growing applications of game theory in modern science (including psychology, biology and economics) require sources to provide rapid access in both classical tools and recent developments to readers with diverse backgrounds. This book on game theory, its applications and mathematical methods, is written with this objective in mind. The book gives a concise but wide-ranging introduction to games including older (pre-game theory) party games and more recent topics like elections and evolutionary games and is generously spiced with excursions into philosophy, history, literature and politics.
      • Source: Understanding Game Theory: Introduction to the Analysis of Many Agent Systems With Competition and Cooperation
        [ http://www.amazon.com/dp/9814291714?tag=compldiges-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=9814291714&adid=1JYTX6TX52Q9N23TV7Q6& ], Vasily N. Kolokoltsov, Oleg A. Malafeyev, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2010/02/01
      • Contributed by Anton Joha - antonjohaagmail.com

    4. The Cooperative Game Theory of Networks and Hierarchies, Springer Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      The book brings together an overview of standard concepts in cooperative game theory with applications to the analysis of social networks and hierarchical authority organizations. The standard concepts covered include the multi-linear extension, the Core, the Shapley value, and the cooperative potential. Also discussed are the Core for a restricted collection of formable coalitions, various Core covers, the Myerson value, value-based potentials, and share potentials. Within the context of social networks this book discusses the measurement of centrality and power as well as allocation rules such as the Myerson value and hierarchical allocation rules. (...)
      • Source: The Cooperative Game Theory of Networks and Hierarchies
        [ http://www.amazon.com/dp/3642052819?tag=compldiges-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=3642052819&adid=159DK29ZH3VC7MAW5JZ4& ], Robert P. Gilles, Springer, 2010/05/01
      • Contributed by Anton Joha - antonjohaagmail.com

    5. The Doctrine of Chances: Probabilistic Aspects of Gambling, Springer Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Three centuries ago Montmort and De Moivre published two of the first books on probability theory, then called the doctrine of chances, emphasizing its most important application at that time, games of chance. This volume, on the probabilistic aspects of gambling, is a modern version of those classics. While covering the classical material such as house advantage and gambler's ruin, it also takes up such 20th-century topics as martingales, Markov chains, game theory, bold play, and optimal proportional play. In addition there is extensive coverage of specific casino games such as roulette, craps, video poker, baccarat, and twenty-one.
      • Source: The Doctrine of Chances: Probabilistic Aspects of Gambling
        [ http://www.amazon.com/dp/3540787828?tag=compldiges-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=3540787828&adid=01EPN98WJH8A5GH1KZM0& ], Stewart N. Ethier, Springer, 2010/05/01
      • Contributed by Anton Joha - antonjohaagmail.com

  20. Links & Snippets Bookmark and Share


    1. Other Publications Bookmark and Share

      1. Disorder-induced volatility of collective dynamics, Georges Harras, Claudio J. Tessone, Didier Sornette, 2010/04/13, arXiv:1004.2149
      2. The Least Action and the Metric of an Organized System, Georgi Georgiev, Iskren Georgiev, 2010/04/20, arXiv:1004.3518

    2. Event Announcements Bookmark and Share

      1. Wyss Symposium: New Directions in Synthetic Biology, Boston, MA, USA, 2010/04/30
      2. Second International Workshop-School CHAOS and DYNAMICS in BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS, Corsica, France, 2010/05/3-8
      3. AAMAS-2010, the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Toronto Canada, 2010/05/10-14
      4. The IV International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization - NICSO 2010, Granada, Spain, 10/05/12-14
      5. Exploring Complexity in Science and Technology from a Santa Fe Institute Perspective, Portland, Oregon , 2010/05/19-21
      6. Morphogenesis in Living Systems 2010, Paris, France, 2010/05/27-29
      7. International Conference on Computational Science 2010 (ICCS 2010), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010/05/31-06/2
      8. WDN 2010 International Workshop on Dynamic Networks, Avignon, France, 2010/06/04
      9. ICEIS 2010 (12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, 10/06/6-10
      10. NECSI Summer School 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2010/06/7-18
      11. International Workshop on Living Organisms in Flows: From Small-Scale Turbulence to Geophysical Flows, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2010/06/7-11
      12. ICAC 2010, the 7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, Washington, DC, USA, 2010/06/7-11
      13. Multi-disciplinary approach of complexity, networks, geosimulations , Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010/06/9-11
      14. First International Workshop on the Shapes of Brain Dynamics, Paris, France, 2010/06/18
      15. The International Workshop on Computing with Spatio-Temporal Dynamics, Tokyo, Japan, 2010/06/21-25
      16. NKS Summer School, University of Vermont, USA, 2010/06/21-07/09
      17. First European Summer School on Life & Cognition, Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain, 2010/06/22-26
      18. International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) , London, UK, 2010/06/28-30
      19. Tomorrow's Giants, London, UK, 2010/07/01
      20. 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2010), Beijing, China, 2010/07/7-9
      21. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010), Portland, Oregon, USA, 2010/07/7-11
      22. The 2010 Advanced Geographical Analysis and Modeling Workshop, Neve Ilan, Israel, 2010/07/8-10
      23. New Frontiers in Complex Networks: A Statphys24 Satellite Meeting, Seoul, Korea, 2010/07/12-16
      24. The First Australasian Workshop on Computation in Cyber-Physical Systems (CompCPS-2010), Sydney, Australia, 2010/07/15-16
      25. 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IJCNN 2010, FUZZ-IEEE 2010, and IEEE CEC 2010), Barcelona, Spain, 10/07/18-23
      26. The 2010 International Conference on Informatics Cypernetics, and Computer Applications (ICICCA2010), Bangalore, India, 2010/07/19-21
      27. 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
      28. 2010 International Conference on the Business and Digital Enterprises (ICBDE 2010), Bangalore, India, 2010/07/22-24
      29. Dynamics Days South America, São José dos Campos, Brazil, 2010/07/26-30
      30. Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School, Buea, Cameroon, 2010/08/2-13
      31. ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, 15th Edition, Freiburg, Germany, 2010/08/2-27
      32. European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Copenhagen, Denmark, 10/08/09-20
      33. Systems Biology of Development, Ascona, Switzerland, 2010/08/16-20
      34. Amorphous Computing and Complex Biological Networks, University of Sheffield, UK, 2010/08/17-20
      35. Artificial Life XII (ALife XII), Odense, Denmark, 10/08/19--23.
      36. The Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-2010): Enabling Computing, Services and Intelligence for Social Life, Minneapolis, USA, 2010/08/20-22
      37. Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science FIS 2010: Towards a New Science of Information, Beijing, China, 2010/09/20-23
      38. From animals to animats: the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'10), , Paris, France, 2010/08/24-28
      39. 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10), Toronto, Canada, 2010/08/31-09/03
      40. International Conference OPERATIONS RESEARCH "MASTERING COMPLEXITY", München, Germany, 2010/09/1-3
      41. SoNet-2010: SOCIAL NETWORKS: COMPUTING AND MINING, Brno, Czech Republic, 2010/09/3-5
      42. ANTS 2010, Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium, 10/09/8-10
      43. 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Cardiff, UK, 2010/09/8-10
      44. Artificial Economics, Treviso, Italy, 2010/09/9-10
      45. PPSN 2010: 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature, Krakow, Poland, 2010/09/11-15
      46. European Conference on Complex Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010/09/13-17
      47. 12th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2010), New York City, USA, 2010/09/20-22
      48. CASoN 2010 International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks, Taiyuan, China, 2010/09/26â€"28
      49. Data driven dynamical networks, Les Houches, France, 2010/09/26-10/01
      50. SASO 2010 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 2010/09/27-10/01
      51. 2nd Workshop on Complex Networks CompleNet 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010/10/13-15
      52. 1st International Conference on Bionics & Biomechanics, Venice, Italy, 2010/10/14-16
      53. Fifth National Conference on systems science, Fermo, Italy, 2010/10/16
      54. Joint Colloquium of the Cochrane & Campbell Collaborations, Keystone, Colorado, USA 2010/10/18-22
      55. The 5th Int'l Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems, Boston, MA, USA, 2010/12/1-3
      56. 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science CACS 2010, Singapore, 2010/12/4-6


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

      2. ASSYST Digital Library. Since 09/09

      3. Complex Systems Teleconferences. Since 09/09

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

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

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

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

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

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

      10. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      11. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 08/01/22-27
      12. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      13. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      14. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      15. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      16. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      17. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      18. Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
      19. An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
      20. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      21. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      22. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      23. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      24. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      25. North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity 2005 Conference, Virtual Conference Network, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, 05/06/09-11
      26. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      27. Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Complexity, with a celebration of the 65th birthday of Gregoire Nicolis. , Complexity Session, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 05/03/16
      28. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      29. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      30. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      31. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      32. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      33. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      34. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      35. Edge Videos


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