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Theses:

• Gershenson, C. (2007). Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems. PhD Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel. [pdf]
• Gershenson, C. (2002d). A Comparison of Different Cognitive Paradigms Using Simple Animats in a Virtual Laboratory, with Implications to the Notion of Cognition. Unpublished MSc Thesis. University of Sussex. [html] [pdf]
• Gershenson, C. (2001a). Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents. Unpublished BEng Thesis. Fundación Arturo Rosenblueth, México.

Books:

• Bettstetter, C. & C. Gershenson (Eds.) (2011). Self-Organizing Systems 5th International Workshop, IWSOS 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany, February 23-24, 2011, Proceedings. Springer LNCS 6557. ISBN: 978-3-642-19166-4.
• Gershenson, C. (Ed.) (2008). Complexity: 5 Questions. Automatic Peess / VIP, ISBN 8792130135.
• Gershenson, C. (2007). Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems. CopIt ArXives, Mexico. TS0002EN.
• Gershenson, C., D. Aerts, and B. Edmonds (Eds.). (2007). Worldviews, Science, and Us: Philosophy and Complexity. World Scientific, Singapore.

In Journals:

• Gershenson, C. & D. A. Rosenblueth (In Press). Self-organizing traffic lights at multiple-street intersections, Complexity. doi:10.1002/cplx.20392
• Gershenson, C. (2011). Self-Organization Leads to Supraoptimal Performance in Public Transportation Systems.. PLoS ONE 6(6): e21469.
• Gershenson, C. (In Press). Guiding the Self-organization of Random Boolean Networks, Theory in Biosciences. DOI: 10.1007/s12064-011-0144-x
• Gershenson, C. & M. Prokopenko (2011). Complex Networks, Artificial Life 17(4):259–261.
• Poblanno-Balp, R. & C. Gershenson (2011). Modular Random Boolean Networks, Artificial Life 17(4):331–351.
• Gershenson, C. (2011). The sigma profile: A formal tool to study organization and its evolution at multiple scales, Complexity 19(4):305-322.
• Rosenblueth, D. A. & C. Gershenson (2011). A model of city traffic based on elementary cellular automata, Complex Systems 19(4):305-322.

 

• Gershenson, C. (2011). What Does Artificial Life Tell Us About Death?, International Journal of Artificial Life Research 2(3):1-5.

 

• Gershenson, C. (2011). Epidemiología y las Redes Sociales, Cirugía y Cirujanos,79(3).

 

• Pineda. L.A., I. V. Meza, H. H. Avilés, C. Gershenson, C. Rascón, M. Alvarado & L. Salinas (2011). IOCA: An Interaction-Oriented Cognitive Architecture, Research in Computer Science 54:273-284.

 

• Gershenson, C. (2010). Computing Networks: A General Framework to Contrast Neural and Swarm Cognitions, Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 1(2):147-153.
• Gershenson, C. and L. A. Pineda (2009). Why Does Public Transport Not Arrive on Time? The Pervasiveness of Equal Headway Instability. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7292
• Gershenson, C. and T. Lenaerts (2008). Evolution of Complexity. Artificial Life 14(3):241–243
• Gershenson, C. (2008). Towards Self-Organizing Bureaucracies, International Journal of Public Information Systems, 2008(1):1-24.
• Gershenson, C. (2005). Self-Organizing Traffic Lights. Complex Systems 16(1): 29-53. [preprint]

• Gershenson, C. (2004). Cognitive Paradigms: Which One is the Best? Cognitive Systems Research, 5(2):135-156, June 2004.

• Heylighen, F. and C. Gershenson (2003). The Meaning of Self-organization in Computing. IEEE Intelligent Systems, section Trends & Controversies - Self-organization and Information Systems, July/August 2003, pp. 72-75.

• Gershenson, C. (2002b). Philosophical Ideas on the Simulation of Social Behaviour. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 5(3).

In Books:

• Gershenson, C. (2007). Towards a General Methodology for Designing Self-Organizing Systems In Bogg, J. and R. Geyer (eds.) Complexity, Science and Society. Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford.
• Gershenson, C., D. Aerts, and B. Edmonds (2007). Introduction In Gershenson, C., D. Aerts, and B. Edmonds (Eds.). Worldviews, Science, and Us: Philosophy and Complexity. , pp. 1-4. World Scientific, Singapore.
• Cools, S.-B., C. Gershenson, and B. D'Hooghe (2007). Self-organizing traffic lights: A realistic simulation In Prokopenko, M. (Ed.) Self-Organization: Applied Multi-Agent Systems, Chapter 3, pp. 41-49. Springer, London.
• Heylighen, F., P. Cilliers, and C. Gershenson (2007). Complexity and Philosophy In Bogg, J. and R. Geyer (eds.) Complexity, Science and Society. Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford.
• Gershenson, C. and F. Heylighen (2005). How can we think the complex? In Richardson, Kurt (ed.) Managing Organizational Complexity: Philosophy, Theory and Application, Chapter 3. Information Age Publishing.

In Proceedings:

• Das, A., M. Marko, A. Probst, M. A. Porter, and C. Gershenson (2002). Neural Net Model for Featured Word Extraction. . In Minai, A. A. and Bar-Yam, Y. (Eds.), Unifying Themes in Complex Systems Vol. IV. pp. 353-362. Springer. Also InterJournal of Complex Systems , 539 (2002)
• Gershenson, C. (2007). The World as Evolving Information. In Proceedings of International Conference on Complex Systems ICCS2007.
• Rodriguez, M.A., Watkins, J.H., Bollen, J., Gershenson, C. (2007). Using RDF to Model the Structure and Process of Systems. In Proceedings of International Conference on Complex Systems ICCS2007. Also LA-UR-07-5720.
• Rodriguez, M.A., Steinbock, D.J., Watkins, J.H., Gershenson, C., Bollen, J., Grey, V., deGraf, B. (2007). Smartocracy: Social Networks for Collective Decision Making. 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS).Track: Electronic Government – E-Democracy, Waikoloa, Hawaii, January 2007. Also LA-UR-06-2244.
• Gershenson, C., S. A. Kauffman, and I. Shmulevich (2006). The Role of Redundancy in the Robustness of Random Boolean Networks. In Rocha, L. M., L. S. Yaeger, M. A. Bedau, D. Floreano, R. L. Goldstone, and A. Vespignani (Eds.), Artificial Life X, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. pp. 35-42. MIT Press.

• Gershenson, C. and T. Lenaerts (2006). Evolution of Complexity: Introduction to the Workshop. Artificial Life X Workshop Proceedings. pp. 71-72.
• Gershenson, C. (2004). Updating Schemes in Random Boolean Networks: Do They Really Matter? In Pollack, J., M. Bedau, P. Husbands, T. Ikegami, and R. A. Watson (eds.) Artificial Life IX, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. pp. 238-243. MIT Press.

• Gershenson, C. (2004). Introduction to Random Boolean Networks In Bedau, M., P. Husbands, T. Hutton, S. Kumar, and H. Suzuki (eds.) Workshop and Tutorial Proceedings, Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALife IX). pp. 160-173.

• Gershenson, C. and F. Heylighen (2004). Protocol Requirements for Self-organizing Artifacts: Towards an Ambient Intelligence In Proceedings of International Conference on Complex Systems ICCS2004. Also AI-Lab Memo 04-04.

• de la Mora-B., C.-R., C. Gershenson and García-Vega, A. (2004). Representation Development and Behavior Modifiers In Lemaître, C., C. A. Reyes, and J. A. González (Eds.) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2004: 9th Ibero-American Conference on AI. p. 504. LNAI 3315. Springer. Preprint

• Gershenson, C., J. Broekaert, and D. Aerts (2003). Contextual Random Boolean Networks In Banzhaf, W, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J. T. Kim, and J. Ziegler, Advances in Artificial Life, 7^th European Conference, ECAL 2003, Dortmund, Germany, pp. 615-624. LNAI 2801. Springer.

• Gershenson, C. and F. Heylighen (2003). When Can we Call a System Self-organizing? In Banzhaf, W, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J. T. Kim, and J. Ziegler, Advances in Artificial Life, 7^th European Conference, ECAL 2003, Dortmund, Germany, pp. 606-614. LNAI 2801. Springer.

• Gershenson, C. (2003). Comparing Different Cognitive Paradigms with a Virtual Laboratory. IJCAI-03: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1635-6. Morgan Kaufmann.

• Gershenson, C. (2002a). Complex Philosophy. Proceedings of the 1 st Biennial Seminar on Philosophical, Methodological & Epistemological Implications of Complexity Theory. La Habana, Cuba. Also in InterJournal of Complex Systems, 544.

• Gershenson, C. (2002c). Behaviour-based Knowledge Systems: An Epigenetic Path from Behaviour to Knowledge. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics. Edinburgh.

• Gershenson, C. (2002e). Classification of Random Boolean Networks In Standish, R. K., M. A. Bedau, and H. A. Abbass (eds.) Artificial Life VIII: Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Artificial Life. . pp. 1-8. Sydney, Australia. MIT Press. [pdf] [html]

• Gershenson, C., M. A. Porter, A. Probst, M. Marko, and A. Das. (2002) A Study on the Relevance of Information in Discriminative and Non-Discriminative Media. InterJournal of Complex Systems , 533.

• Marko, M., M. A. Porter, A. Probst, C. Gershenson, and A. Das (2002). Transforming the World Wide Web into a Complexity-Based Semantic Network. InterJournal of Complex Systems , 568.

• Gershenson, C. (2001b). Comments to Neutrosophy. In Smarandache, F. (Ed.) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Set, Probability and Statistics, University of New Mexico. Gallup, NM. pp. 139-146.

• González, P. P., M. Cárdenas, C. Gershenson, and J. Lagunez. (2001) Integration of Computational Techniques for the Modelling of Signal Transduction. In N.E. Mastorakis and L.A. Pecorelli-Peres (Eds.) Advances in Systems Science: Measurement, Circuits and Control. WSES Press.

• González, P. P., C. Gershenson, M. Cárdenas, and J. Lagunez.(2000) Modelling Intracellular Signalling Networks Using Behaviour-based Systems and the Blackboard Architecture, Proceedings of the International Conference: Mathematics and Computers in Biology and Chemistry (MCBC 2000), Montego Bay, Jamaica.

• Gershenson, C. and P. P. González, (2000). Dynamic Adjustment of the Motivation Degree in an Action Selection Mechanism . Proceedings of ISA '2000. Wollongong, Australia.

• Gershenson, C., P. P. González, and J. Negrete. (2000b) Thinking Adaptive: Towards a Behaviours Virtual Laboratory. In Meyer et. al. (eds.) SAB 2000 Proceedings Supplement. Paris, France. ISAB press.

• Gershenson, C., P. P. González, and J. Negrete. (2000a) Action Selection Properties in a Software Simulated Agent, in Cairó et. al. (Eds.) MICAI 2000: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1793, pp. 634-648. Springer-Verlag.

• González, P. P., J. Negrete, A. Barreiro and C. Gershenson.(2000) A Model for Combination of External and Internal Stimuli in the Action Selection of an Autonomous Agent, in Cairó et. al. (Eds.) MICAI 2000: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1793, pp. 621-633. Springer-Verlag.

• Gershenson, C. (1999) Modelling Emotions with Multidimensional Logic. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS '99), pp. 42-46. New York City, NY.

• Gershenson, C. (1998a). Lógica multidimensional: un modelo de lógica paraconsistente. Memorias XI Congreso Nacional ANIEI, pp. 132-141. Xalapa, México. [English version]

• Gershenson, C. (1998b). Control de Tráfico con Agentes: CRASH. Memorias XI Congreso Nacional ANIEI. Xalapa, México.

• Gershenson, C. (1997a). El Juego de la Vida en 3D. Memorias X Congreso Nacional ANIEI. Monterrey, México.

• Gershenson, C. (1997b). Aplicaciones de la Topología. Memorias X Congreso Nacional ANIEI. Monterrey, México.

Reviews:

• Gershenson, C. (In Press). Book Review: "Reviving the Living: Meaning Making in Living Systems". Yair Neuman. Artificial Life, In Press.
• Gershenson, C., Meza, I. V., Avilés, H. & Pineda, L.A. (2010). Film Review: “Mechanical Love”. Phie Ambo. (2009, Icarus Films). Artificial Life 16(3):269-270
• Gershenson, C. (2009). Book Review: "Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion". Stuart A. Kauffman. Artificial Life 15(4):485-487
• Gershenson, C. (2008). Book Review: "Self-Organization and Emergence in Life Sciences", edited by Bernard Feltz, Marc Crommelinck and Philippe Goujon. Artificial Life 14(2):239-240
• Gershenson, C. (2007). Book Review: "Life Evolving: Molecules, Mind, and Meaning", by Christian De Duve. Artificial Life 13(1):91-92

In Newspapers:

• Adapted for Global Coordination. Traffic Technology International, February-March 2011, p. 49.

• Paradigmas para Diseñar e Implementar Sistemas Complejos. InterFAR 1(8), April 2003. (in spanish)

• In the mexican newspaper La Jornada (in spanish)
  • Porqué las Máquinas No Conquistarán al Mundo. 2003-09-20
  • Sistemas Complejos. 2000-12-11
  • Manipulando la Evolución. 1999-11-15
  • Emergencia y Evolución. 1999-10-25
  • Inteligencia Artificial e Inteligencia Natural. 1999-06-14
  • Tecnologia y Desempleo. 1998-11-09
  • Farmaceuticas y Genetica. (con Jaime Lagunez). 1998-05-25
  • Pros y Contras de la Clonacion Humana. 1998-03-09
  • Nuestro Futuro Genetico y la Medicina.1998-02-02

In Preparation or Unpublished:

• Gershenson, C. and D. A. Rosenblueth (2009). Modeling self-organizing traffic lights with elementary cellular automata. C3 Report No. 2009.06.
• Gershenson, C. (2006). A General Methodology for Designing Self-Organizing Systems. Unpublished (ECCO working paper 2005-05).
• Das, A., G. Mayer-Kress, C. Gershenson, P. Das, M. A. Porter, and A. Probst (2004). From Bibliometrics to Webometrics: A Case Study Presented at International Conference on Complex Systems ICCS2004.
• Gershenson, C. (2003). Phase Transitions in Random Boolean Networks with Different Updating Schemes Unpublished.
• Gershenson, C. (2003). Self-organizing Traffic Control: First Results Unpublished.
• C. Gershenson, G. Mayer-Kress, A. Das, P. Das, and M. Marko (2003). Time-scales, Meaning, and Availability of Information in a Global Brain. Submitted.
• Gershenson, C. (2003). On the Notion of Cognition. Unpublished.
• Das, A., G. Mayer-Kress, C. Gershenson, and P. Das (2003). Conferences with Internet Web-Casting as Binding Events in a Global Brain: Example Data From Complexity Digest. Unpublished.
• Gershenson, C. (2002). Contextuality: A Philosophical Paradigm, with Applications to Philosophy of Cognitive Science. POCS Essay, COGS, University of Sussex. [pdf], [html]
• Gershenson, C. (2002). Where is the problem of "Where is the mind?"? POCS Essay, COGS, University of Sussex. [pdf], [html]
• Gershenson, C. (2002). Adaptive Development of Koncepts in Virtual Animats: Insights into the Development of Knowledge. COGS Adaptive Systems Essay, University of Sussex.
• Gershenson, C. (2002). Introduction to Chaos in Deterministic Systems. Formal Computational Skills Teaching Package, COGS, University of Sussex. [pdf], [html]
• Gershenson, C. (2001). Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners. Formal Computational Skills Teaching Package, COGS, University of Sussex. [pdf], [html]

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