Complexity Digest Virtual Conference Network

International Conference on Complex Systems 2004 (ICCS2004):

Boston, MA, 04/05/16-21

Note: We did not have permission from the organizer to webcast presentations. Instead we present short summary statements in either asf or Real format (see below; we converted standard MP4 format to Real because currently many browsers don't support MP4).

Madhur Anand - Quantification Of Biocomplexity
Pierpaolo Andriani - Power Law Phenomena In Organizations
Hannelore Brandt - Indirect Reciprocity And The Evolution Of Morals
Irene Chen - Osmotic Effects On Lipid Vesicle Growth
Ariel Cintron-Arias, Rumors on Complex Attractors
Jim Collins - Engineered Gene Networks
John Doyle - Robustness and Fragility
Alan Guth - Inflationary Universe (Slides in pdf format)
Cefn Hoile - Application Of Immunological Principles To The Defensive Systems Of The Computer
Thomas Homer-Dixon - Complexity Of Global Systems
Sui Huang - Complex Gene Networks and Drug Discovery
Don Ingber - Systems Biology
Brian Josephson - How We Might Be Able To Understand The Brain, (Real, Quicktime format, movie in part edited by the author using iMovie)
Stuart Kauffman - Understanding Genetic Regulatory Networks: The Ensemble Approach
Yoshiki Kazuno - Industrial Economics of Semi-Conductor Industry in Japan, U.S.A., and Korea
Lev Levitin - Entropy And Information
Neo Martinez - Food Webs
Hiroyuki Masuda - Integrated Model Of Emergency Evacuation Of People After A Big Earthquake At The Busy Quarter Near A Major Junction Station In Suburban Tokyo
Gottfried Mayer-Kress - Multiple Time-Scale Landscape Models of Motor Learning
Lisa Marie Meffert - Experiments On The Escape From Extinction: Lessons From The Common Housefly.
Manuel Mendoza - How Communities Evolve (Slides in pdf format)
Eve Mitleton-Kelly - An Integrated Methodology To Facilitate The Emergence Of New Ways Of Organizing
Martin Nowak - Evolutionary Systems
Carlos Parra - Evolutionary Dynamics Of Knowledge
Salil H. Patel - Complex Medical Information Systems: A Social Context
Alan Perelson, Immunological Evolution
Jonathan Vos Post - New Approaches to Game Theory
Luis M. Rocha - Extraction and Semi-metric Analysis of Social and Biological Networks
Hiroki Sayama - Self-Protection And Diversity In Self-Replicating Cellular Automata
Margareta Segerstahl - Coupling Sexual Reproduction And Complex Multicellularity
Wei-Min Shen - Self-Reconfigurable Robots And Digital Hormones
Cassandra L. Smith - Schizophrenia: A Complex And Multifactorial Disease
Steven Strogatz - Synchrony
Seth Tisue- NetLogo: A Simple Environment for Modeling Complexity
John Peter Wikswo - From Physics To Medicine
Stephen Wolfram - New Science
Andrew Wuensche - Studying discrete dynamical networks with DDLab

Contributed by the Complexity Digest team.

Note: Video files are in asf format and can be played e.g. with windows media player. For the sound codec a (free) plugin might be required, but the download should be automatic.

Free Quicktime player for mpeg4 files is available here Free Real player for rm files is available here
For a theoretical background of the Complexity Digest Virtual Conference Network see:

Time-scales, Meaning, and Availability of Information in a Global Brain, C. Gershenson, G. Mayer-Kress, A. Das, P. Das, and M. Marko, 2003-07-11, DOI: cs.AI/0305012, arXiv

Conferences with Internet Web-Casting as Binding Events in a Global Brain: Example Data From Complexity Digest, A. Das, G. Mayer-Kress, C. Gershenson, P. Das, 2003-03-22, DOI: cs.NI/0303023, arXiv

Time-Scales and the Historical Role of Conferences for the Emergence of Global Brains, G. Mayer-Kress

in:From Intelligent Networks to Global Brains, Evolutionary Social Organization through Knowledge Technology, Brussels, Belgium, 01/07/3-5

The Global Brain As An Emergent Structure From The Worldwide Computing Network, And Its Implications For Modeling, Mayer-Kress, Gottfried; Barczys, Cathleen. The Information Society v11, n1 (Jan-Mar 1995): 1-27

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