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Complexity Digest 2009.26 Next Issue TOP

  1. Living Technology: Exploiting Life's Principles in Technology, Artificial Life
    1. Systems Architecture: A New Model for Sustainability and the Built Environment using Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive Science with Living Technology, Artificial Life
  2. Systems chemistry: Molecular networks come of age, Nature
  3. Download Your Own Robot Scientist, Wired
  4. Copenhagen accord emerges, Nature
    1. Changes in the Air: What Will Come of the Copenhagen Climate Summit?, Knowledge@Wharton
  5. Interview Francis Heylighen, Lakeside Labs
    1. Interview Raissa D'Souza, Lakeside Labs
  6. Sexual Selection and Darwin's Mystery of Mysteries, Science
  7. Testing guilt aversion, Games and Economic Behavior
  8. Indirect Punishment and Generosity Toward Strangers, Science
    1. Evolutionary dynamics in structured populations, Philosophical Transactions B
  9. Credit where credit is due, Nature
  10. Networked buffering: a basic mechanism for distributed robustness in complex adaptive systems, arXiv
  11. SIRS Anatomy: whence th oscillations?, arXiv
  12. Developmental biology: Asymmetry with a twist, Nature
  13. Fictitious play in an evolutionary environment, Games and Economic Behavior
  14. So You Want to Live to 100? More of Us Will, and Here Is What Life Might Look Like, Knowledge@Wharton
  15. Self-organizing urban transportation systems, arXiv
  16. Imitation as a Mechanism of Cultural Transmission, Artificial Life
  17. Long-run equilibria with dominated strategies, Games and Economic Behavior
  18. Computer Modeling Describes Gravity-Related Adaptation in Cell Cultures, PLoS ONE
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life, Basic Books
    2. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, Little, Brown and Company
    3. Emerging Systems Approaches in Information Technologies: Concepts, Theories and Applications, Information Science Reference
    4. Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics, Springer
    5. Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines, University Of Chicago Press
    6. Macro Roles for MicroRNAs in the Life and Death of Neurons, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2009.25 Next Issue TOP

  1. Location, Location, Location, Science
    1. Anatomic Demarcation of Cells: Genes to Patterns, Science
    2. The Molecular Basis of Size Differences, Science
  2. On the Origin of Tomorrow, Science
  3. Could They All Be Prion Diseases?, Science
  4. Evolutionary dynamics from a variational principle, arXiv
  5. Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when, TED.com
    1. Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks, TED.com
  6. Article-Level Metrics and the Evolution of Scientific Impact, PLoS Biol
    1. University Public-Access Mandates Are Good for Science, PLoS Biol
  7. Mexico's transgenic maize under fire, Nature
  8. The Climate in Copenhagen, Science
    1. Relative increase of record high maximum temperatures compared to record low minimum temperatures in the U.S., Geophys. Res. Lett.
    2. Indirect Emissions from Biofuels: How Important?, Science
  9. Scale-free correlations in bird flocks, arXiv
  10. Flu-virus prevalence comes under scrutiny, Nature
    1. Identifying Changes in Selective Constraints: Host Shifts in Influenza, PLoS Comput Biol
    2. Epidemic Dynamics at the Human-Animal Interface, Science
    3. Reproducibility and usability of chronic virus infection model using agent-based simulation; comparing with a mathematical model, Biosystems
  11. Beyond word frequency: Bursts, lulls, and scaling in the temporal distributions of words, PLoS ONE
    1. Zipf's Law in the Popularity Distribution of Chess Openings, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  12. Biological logic, Nature
  13. Microbial Evolution: Enforcing Cooperation by Partial Kin Selection, Current Biology
  14. Forcing cells to change lineages, Nature
  15. Quantification of Circadian Rhythms in Single Cells, PLoS Comput Biol
  16. Emergence of heterogeneity and political organization in information exchange networks, arXiv
  17. Emotional expressivity as a signal of cooperation, Evolution and Human Behavior
    1. Honor among thieves: Cooperation as a strategic response to Functional Unpleasantness, European Journal of Political Economy
  18. What Can Virtual Worlds and Games Do for National Security?, Science
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Brain-Inspired Information Technology, Springer
    2. Modeling and Control of Complex Physical Systems: The Port-Hamiltonian Approach, Springer
    3. Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences, Springer
    4. Interest Rates and Coupon Bonds in Quantum Finance, Cambridge University Press
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Complexity Digest 2009.24 Next Issue TOP

  1. Guided self-organization, HFSP Journal
    1. Information: currency of life?, HFSP Journal
    2. How evolution guides complexity, HFSP Journal
    3. The Use of Ideas of Information Theory for Studying “Language” and Intelligence in Ants, Entropy
  2. Rethinking Lean: Beyond the Shop Floor, Knowledge@Wharton
  3. Bacteria Expect The Unexpected, Innovations-report
  4. Swine flu: One killer virus, three key questions, Nature
  5. Robert Meyers explaining Complexity, Springer
    1. Chaos, Complexity, and Public Policy, Dialogue
  6. Complexity science and intentional systems, arXiv
  7. Controlling the Velocity of Light Pulses, Science
  8. Has the world economy reached its globalization limit?, Physica A
  9. NASA Reproduces A Building Block Of Life In Laboratory, ScienceDaily
  10. Lessons from Brazil: Why Is It Bouncing Back While Other Markets Stumble?, Knowledge@Wharton
  11. Selfless Memes, Science
  12. Predicting new molecular targets for known drugs, Nature
  13. The Narrow Line Between Love And Jealousy, Innovations-report
  14. Mutation load and rapid adaptation favour outcrossing over self-fertilization, Nature
  15. The Communication of Meaning in Anticipatory Systems: A Simulation Study of the Dynamics of Intentionality in Social Interactions, arXiv
  16. Why Can't Chimps Speak? Key Differences In How Human And Chimp Versions Of FOXP2 Gene Work, ScienceDaily
  17. Opening the black box - Development, testing and documentation of a mechanistically rich agent-based model, Ecological Modelling
  18. Darwin's Contributions To Our Understanding Of Emotional Expressions, Phil. Tran. B
    1. Emotions Increase Or Decrease Pain, Say Researchers, ScienceDaily
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Complexity and Spatial Networks: In Search of Simplicity, Springer
    2. Mind Force, Human Attractions (Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena in Life Science), World Scientific Publishing Company
    3. Ecosystem Geography: From Ecoregions to Sites, Springer
    4. A Systems Approach to Leadership: How to Create Sustained High Performance in a Complex and Uncertain Environment, Springer
    5. Ecology, Cognition and Landscape: Linking Natural and Social Systems, Springer-Verlag
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Complexity Digest 2009.23 Next Issue TOP

  1. Foundations of Societal Inequality, Science
  2. Can an Infectious Disease Genomics Project Predict and Prevent the Next Pandemic?, PLoS Biol
    1. The Transmissibility and Control of Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Virus, Science
  3. Development and Climate Change, Science
    1. Biodiversity and Climate Change, Science
  4. Structure of Protein Interaction Networks and Their Implications on Drug Design, PLoS Comput Biol
  5. Why three buses come at once, and how to avoid it, New Scientist
    1. Transforming Transportation, Frontier Economy
    2. Why Does Public Transport Not Arrive on Time? The Pervasiveness of Equal Headway Instability, PLoS ONE
  6. Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?, TED.com
  7. Accelerating the pace of discovery by changing the peer review algorithm, arXiv
  8. ‘Glocal’ Robustness Analysis and Model Discrimination for Circadian Oscillators, PLoS Comput Biol
    1. Extreme Degeneracies Characterize the Module Identification Problem for Complex Networks, SFI Working Papers
  9. Quantum speed limit, Nature
  10. The complexity of advice-giving, Complexity
  11. Cooperation between non-kin in animal societies, Nature
    1. Cooperation, Norms, and Conflict: A Unified Approach, SFI Working Papers
    2. Evolutionary Dynamics of Populations with Conflicting Interactions: Classification and Analytical Treatment Considering Asymmetry and Power, arXiv
  12. Unobserved punishment supports cooperation, Journal of Public Economics
    1. Influence of the variance of degree distributions on the evolution of cooperation in complex networks, Physica A
  13. Multilevel Selection in Models of Prebiotic Evolution II: A Direct Comparison of Compartmentalization and Spatial Self-Organization, PLoS Comput Biol
  14. Compression-based investigation of the dynamical properties of cellular automata and other systems, arXiv
  15. Benefits of diversity, communication costs, and public opinion dynamics, Complexity
    1. The Non-linear Dynamics of Meaning-Processing in Social Systems, arXiv
  16. Solvable Model of Spiral Wave Chimeras, arXiv
  17. Male or Female? For Honeybees, a Single Gene Makes All the Difference, PLoS Biol
  18. The Development of Social Simulation as Reflected in the First Ten Years of JASSS: a Citation and Co-Citation Analysis, JASSS
    1. Understanding Artificial Anasazi, JASSS
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Entropy and Information, Birkhäuser Basel
    2. Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior, Viking Adult
    3. Exploring Avenues to Interdisciplinary Research: From Cross- to Multi- to Interdisciplinarity, Nottingham University Press
    4. The Search for Certainty: On the Clash of Science and Philosophy of Probability, World Scientific Publishing Company
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Complexity Digest 2009.22 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2009, nobelprize.org
    1. Economic Networks: What Do We Know And What Do We Need To Know?, Adv. Complex Sys.
  2. The Ecology Of Social Transitions In Human Evolution, Phil. Trans. B
    1. The Evolutionary And Ecological Roots Of Human Social Organization, Phil. Trans. B
  3. Origins And Resolution Of Financial Crises: Lessons From The Current And Northern European Crises, Asian Econ. Papers
    1. Financial Crisis American Style, Asian Econ. Papers
  4. A Fresh Theoretical Framework, Science
  5. Tom Ray on Twenty Years of Tierra, Biota Live
  6. Not So Useless, Science
  7. Multi-Market Minority Game: Breaking The Symmetry Of Choice, Adv. Complex Sys.
  8. Adaptation And The Genetics Of Social Behaviour, Phil. Trans. B
  9. Information causality as a physical principle, Nature
  10. Why did life emerge?, arXiv
  11. Massively collaborative mathematics, Nature
  12. UA Scientists Discover Quantum Fingerprints Of Chaos, Innovations-report
  13. Solar System: Saturn's colossal ring, Nature
  14. Resolving social dilemmas on evolving random networks, arXiv
  15. Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental, Fast Company
  16. The Impact of Past Epidemics on Future Disease Dynamics, arXiv
  17. Chimpanzees Help Each Other upon Request, PLoS ONE
    1. Social Stability And Helping In Small Animal Societies, Phil. Trans. B
  18. Biological Clocks Discovery Overturns Long-Held Theory, ScienceDaily
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution, Oxford University Press
    2. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Little, Brown and Company
    3. Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, Oxford University Press
    4. Emergence, Analysis and Evolution of Structures: Concepts and Strategies Across Disciplines, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2009.21 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009, nobelprize.org
    1. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009, nobelprize.org
    2. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009, nobelprize.org
  2. From System Complexity to Emergent Properties, Springer
  3. On the Origin of Ecological Structure, Science
  4. Passion and Practicality – Dartmouth and the Liberating Arts, Dartmouth Speeches
  5. Showcasing the evidence for evolution, Nature
  6. Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research, PLoS Biol
  7. Cooperation through imitation, Games and Economic Behavior
    1. Mutual trust and cooperation in the evolutionary hawks-doves game, Biosystems
    2. Feedback, punishment and cooperation in public good experiments, Games and Economic Behavior
  8. Anti-Newtonian dynamics, Am. J. Phys.
  9. Coevolutionary games - a mini review, arXiv
    1. Healthcare: A complex service system, Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering
    2. Emergence of multilevel selection in the prisoner's dilemma game on coevolving random networks, arXiv
  10. Disease and the Dynamics of Food Webs, PLoS Biol
    1. Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases, Nature
  11. From Autism to Humanism
  12. Dynamics of Unperturbed and Noisy Generalized Boolean Networks, arXiv
  13. Feathered dinosaurs in a tangle, Nature
  14. Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinase 1 Signaling Regulates Mammalian Life Span, Science
  15. Available All the Time: Etiquette for the Social Networking Age, Knowledge@Wharton
  16. Beyond Element-Wise Interactions: Identifying Complex Interactions in Biological Processes, PLoS ONE
    1. Coevolutionary cycling of host sociality and pathogen virulence in contact networks, J Theor Biol.
  17. Network structure of Japanese firms. Scale-free, hierarchy, and degree correlation: analysis from 800,000 firms, Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal
  18. Diversity, persistence and chaos in consumption patterns, Journal of Bioeconomics
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Press
    2. Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business, Wiley
    3. Humanity, Nature and Environment: On the philosophical foundation of Ecological Economics, Routledge
    4. Brain-Mind Machinery: Brain-inspired Computing and Mind Opening, World Scientific Publishing Company
    5. Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2009.20 Next Issue TOP

  1. Emergent or Just Complex?, Science
    1. Highly Variable Spread Rates in Replicated Biological Invasions: Fundamental Limits to Predictability, Science
  2. Seasonal transmission potential and activity peaks of the new influenza A(H1N1): a Monte Carlo likelihood analysis based on human mobility, arXiv
    1. A Race Against Time to Vaccinate Against Novel H1N1 Virus, Science
  3. On Universality in Human Correspondence Activity, Science
  4. Ten Simple Rules for Chairing a Scientific Session, PLoS Comput Biol
  5. A Year after Lehman's Collapse: What Does Wall Street Look Like?, Knowledge@Wharton
  6. Clearing the Air, Science
    1. Carbon Sequestration, Science
  7. The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity, Nature
  8. Parsing Social Network Survey Data from Hidden Populations Using Stochastic Context-Free Grammars, PLoS ONE
  9. A safe operating space for humanity, Nature
  10. The Evolution of Overconfidence, arXiv
  11. Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions, Science
    1. A New Biology to Mend Society's Woes, Science
  12. An Adaptive Complex Network Model for Brain Functional Networks, PLoS ONE
  13. Cosmology at a Crossroads, Science
  14. Unraveling Traveling, Science
  15. Impact of Epistasis on Evolutionary Adaptation, arXiv
  16. Beyond Cell Doctrine Complexity Theor y Infor ms Alternate Models of the Body for Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  17. How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0: McKinsey Global Survey Results, McKinsey Quaterly
  18. Attitudes and Action: Public Opinion and the Occurrence of International Terrorism, Science
  19. Book Announcements
    1. New Visions of Nature: Complexity and Authenticity, Springer
    2. Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, University Of Chicago Press
    3. Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn, The MIT Press
    4. The Social Embeddedness of Industrial Ecology, Edward Elgar Publishing
    5. Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed?: A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations of Science, World Scientific Publishing Company
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Complexity Digest 2009.19 Next Issue TOP

  1. An information-theoretic primer on complexity, self-organization, and emergence, Complexity
    1. A synthesis and a practical approach to complex systems, Complexity
  2. Early-warning signals for critical transitions, Nature
  3. Economic Networks: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?, SFI Working Papers
  4. On the Origin of Cooperation, Science
    1. Self-Organization and Emergence in Social Systems: Modeling the Coevolution of Social Environments and Cooperative Behavior, SFI Working Papers
    2. Positive Interactions Promote Public Cooperation, Science
  5. Pandemic flu: from the front lines, Nature
  6. Randomness, Chaos, And Structure, Complexity
  7. Do High-fat Diets Make Us Stupid And Lazy? Physical And Memory Abilities Of Rats Affected After 9 Days, ScienceDaily
  8. Society need not be selfish, Nature
  9. Like Infant, Like Dog, Science
    1. Differential Sensitivity to Human Communication in Dogs, Wolves, and Human Infants, Science
  10. Hot Ice Computer, arXiv
  11. Collective Decision-Making In White-Faced Capuchin Monkeys, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Monkey Brains Signal The Desire To Explore, ScienceDaily
  12. Time To Tap Climate-Change-Combating Potential Of The World's Ecosystems, Innovations-report
    1. Web Page Ranking Algorithm Detects Critical Species In Ecosystems, ScienceDaily
  13. Friend or Foe: Subjective Expected Relative Similarity as a Determinant of Cooperation, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
  14. Poor Money Saving Linked To General Impulsiveness, ScienceDaily
  15. Cooperation, punishment, emergence of government and the tragedy of authorities, arXiv
    1. When and How to Imitate Your Neighbours: Lessons from and for FEARLUS, JASSS
  16. Adaptive Social Immunity In Leaf-Cutting Ants, Biol. Lett.
  17. Recession Is Good News For Cloud Computing, V3.co.uk
  18. Complex Joint R&D Projects: From Empirical Evidence To Managerial Implications, Complexity
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Critical Transitions in Nature and Society, Princeton University Press
    2. The New Foundations of Evolution: On the Tree of Life, Oxford University Press
    3. On the Death and Life of Languages, Yale University Press
    4. Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
    5. Complexity Science & Social Entrepreneurship: Adding Social Value Through Systems Thinking, ISCE Publishing
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Complexity Digest 2009.18 Next Issue TOP

  1. Collective Behavior, Topics in Cognitive Science
    1. Collective Information Processing and Pattern Formation in Swarms, Flocks, and Crowds, Topics in Cognitive Science
  2. Preface to special issue on cooperation in selfish systems, Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
    1. Towards the evolution of social structure, Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
  3. Modeling the Emergence of Language as an Embodied Collective Cognitive Activity, Topics in Cognitive Science
    1. The Ontogeny of Scale-Free Syntax Networks: Phase Transitions in Early Language Acquisition, Advances in Complex Systems
    2. Going to the Dogs, Science
  4. Energy flows in complex ecological systems: a review, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity
  5. Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation, TED.com
    1. Using prizes to spur innovation, McKinsey Quaterly
  6. Red Queen Dynamics with Non-Standard Fitness Interactions, PLoS Comput Biol
  7. Evolutionary game theory: temporal and spatial effects beyond replicator dynamics, Physics of Life Reviews
    1. Coevolution of game and network structure with adjustable linking, Physica A
  8. What Is It Like to Be a Cell?, Science
  9. Web-Based Experiments for the Study of Collective Social Dynamics in Cultural Markets, Topics in Cognitive Science
    1. Toward collective intelligence of online communities: A primitive conceptual model, Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering
    2. Farhad Mohit: DotSpots and the Wisdom of Crowds, Knowledge@Wharton
  10. E-government 2.0, McKinsey Quaterly
  11. Constructing a Philosophy of Science of Cognitive Science, Topics in Cognitive Science
    1. Qualia: The Geometry of Integrated Information, PLoS Comput Biol
    2. A Philosopher's Reflections on the Discovery of Mirror Neurons, Topics in Cognitive Science
  12. Self-organised complex aerial displays of thousands of starlings: a model, arXiv
    1. Adapting to Dynamic Environments: Polyethism in Response Threshold Models for Social Insects, Advances in Complex Systems
  13. Evidence for an early prokaryotic endosymbiosis, Nature
  14. Knowledge synthesis in technology development, Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering
  15. Modulated Exploratory Dynamics Can Shape Self-Organized Behavior, Advances in Complex Systems
  16. Risks of Climate Engineering, Science
  17. Incorporating Existing Network Information into Gene Network Inference, PLoS ONE
  18. A Quick Guide to Teaching R Programming to Computational Biology Students, PLoS Comput Biol
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Debugging the Link Between Social Theory and Social Insects, Louisiana State University Press
    2. Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?, Wiley
    3. The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty, Wiley
    4. Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies, The MIT Press
    5. Secular Cycles, Princeton University Press
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Complexity Digest 2009.17 Next Issue TOP

  1. The economy needs agent-based modelling, Nature
    1. Economics: Meltdown modelling, Nature
    2. Modelling to contain pandemics, Nature
  2. Generalized Models Reveal Stabilizing Factors in Food Webs, Science
  3. Capuchin Monkeys Display Affiliation Toward Humans Who Imitate Them, Science
    1. Social Structure Of Primate Interaction Networks Facilitates The Emergence Of Cooperation, Biol. Lett.
  4. Where Do Innovations Come From? Transformations In The US Economy, 1970�2006, Socio-Econ. Rev.
  5. Worries About Africa as Pandemic Marches On, Science
    1. Type 2 Poliovirus Back From The Dead in Nigeria, Science
    2. Does Education Affect HIV Status? Evidence From Five African Countries, World Bank Econ. Rev.
  6. Dollar A Day Revisited, World Bank Econ. Rev.
  7. Folding DNA into Twisted and Curved Nanoscale Shapes, Science
  8. In Retrospect: Lamarck's treatise at 200, Nature
    1. Darwin Would Have Loved DNA: Celebrating Darwin 200, Biol. Lett.
  9. Quantitative measure of randomness and order for complete genomes, Phys. Rev. E
  10. Steering plasmodium with light: Dynamical programming of Physarum machine, arXiv
    1. Progress Toward Artificial Cells: Synthesis Of Uniform, Unilamellar Vesicles By Means Of Microfluidics, Innovations-report
    2. Genetic Circuit That Regulates Behavior Of Stem Cells Discovered, ScienceDaily
  11. Advances in development reverse fertility declines, Nature
  12. Dense packings of the Platonic and Archimedean solids, Nature
  13. Cultural Evolution Continues Throughout Life, Innovations-report
  14. Evolutionary games on scale-free networks with a preferential selection mechanism, Physica A
    1. Simulated Trust: A cheap social learning strategy, Theoretical Population Biology
    2. Preferential selection promotes cooperation in a spatial public goods game, Physica A
    3. Cooperative behavior in evolutionary snowdrift game with bounded rationality, Physica A
  15. Does uncertainty lead to sincerity? Simple and complex voting mechanisms, Social Choice and Welfare
  16. A complex systems methodology to transition management, Journal of Evolutionary Economics
    1. Irrationality, Non-equilibrium Conflict and Complex Dynamics, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
  17. Leaping the Efficiency Gap, Science
  18. The Validation and Assessment of Machine Learning: A Game of Prediction from High-Dimensional Data, PLoS ONE
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math, Princeton University Press
    2. Chaos: Concepts, Control and Constructive Use, Springer
    3. Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable, Oxford University Press
    4. From System Complexity to Emergent Properties, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2009.16 Next Issue TOP

  1. Connections, Science
    1. Scale-Free Networks: A Decade and Beyond, Science
    2. Revisiting the Foundations of Network Analysis, Science
  2. Disentangling the Web of Life, Science
    1. A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems, Science
  3. Economic Networks: The New Challenges, Science
    1. Predicting the Behavior of Techno-Social Systems, Science
    2. Managing Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems, European Review
  4. Multiscale mobility networks and the large scale spreading of infectious diseases, arXiv
    1. Common group dynamic drives modern epidemics across social, financial and biological domains, arXiv
    2. 2009 Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) Resembles Previous Influenza Isolates, PLoS ONE
  5. Kary Mullis' next-gen cure for killer infections, TED.com
    1. Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good, TED.com
    2. Inspiring non-scientists, Nature
  6. Interactions Between Social and Biological Thinking: The Case of Lamarck, Perspectives on Science
  7. Symmetry at the Foundation of Science and Nature, Symmetry
  8. Towards a Better Understanding of Diversity, Diversity
  9. Reflecting the impossible, Nature
  10. Identification of a Topological Characteristic Responsible for the Biological Robustness of Regulatory Networks, PLoS Comput Biol
    1. Emergent Network Structure, Evolvable Robustness, And Nonlinear Effects Of Point Mutations In An Artificial Genome Model, Advances in Complex Systems (ACS)
  11. Observational and Model Evidence for Positive Low-Level Cloud Feedback, Science
    1. A viscosity-enhanced mechanism for biogenic ocean mixing, Nature
    2. How to Cope with Climate's Complexity?, European Review
  12. A Quest for Cosmic Karma, Science
  13. Why 'there's never just one', Nature
  14. Physics and Five Problems in the Philosophy of Mind, Arxiv
  15. Can We Reinvent the Internet?, Science
  16. Cooperative behaviour in complex systems, Arxiv (PhD thesis)
    1. Looking For Evidence Of Differentiation And Cooperation: Natural Measures For The Study Of Evolution Of Multicellularity, Advances in Complex Systems (ACS)
  17. Wind power: High hopes, Nature
  18. On filamental cellular automata, arXiv
    1. Dragon-Kings, Black Swans and the Prediction of Crises, Arxiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity, Columbia University Press
    2. Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution, Oxford University Press
    3. Seasons of Life: The Biological Rhythms That Enable Living Things to Thrive and Survive, Yale University Press
    4. The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism, Springer
    5. The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life, W.W. Norton & Co.
    6. RANDOMNICITY: Rules and Randomness in the Realm of the Infinite, Imperial College Press
    7. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self, Basic Books
    8. Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
    9. Long-Range Futures Research: An Application of Complexity Science, BookSurge Publishing
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Complexity Digest 2009.15 Next Issue TOP

  1. What can DNA tell us? Place your bets now, New Scientist
    1. 'Toy Universe' Could Solve Life's Origins, Space.com
  2. Towards a Post Reductionist Science: The Open Universe, arXiv
  3. Global patterns of speciation and diversity, Nature
  4. The Brain, a Complex Self-organizing System, European Review
  5. Degeneracy: a design principle for achieving robustness and evolvability, arXiv
    1. Modularity and anti-modularity in networks with arbitrary degree distribution, arXiv
  6. Toward a Smarter Web, Science
  7. Straight From the Pig's Mouth: Swine Research With Swine Influenzas, Science
  8. Foundations for a New Science of Learning, Science
  9. Dynamics in Complex Systems, European Review
  10. Modeling self-organizing traffic lights with elementary cellular automata, arXiv
  11. Dynamics of Coupled Adaptive Elements : Bursting and Intermittent Oscillations Generated by Frustration in Networks, arXiv
  12. Darwin's last laugh, Nature
    1. The possibility of impossible cultures, Nature
  13. Complexity in Economic Theory and Real Economic Life, European Review
    1. Chaos and order in exchange rates, International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance
  14. Towards Complex Matter: Supramolecular Chemistry and Self-organization, European Review
    1. Complex Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Plasmas, European Review
  15. Is Quantum Theory Exact?, Science
  16. Effects of a Trust Mechanism on Complex Adaptive Supply Networks: An Agent-Based Social Simulation Study, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  17. The role of black holes in galaxy formation and evolution, Nature
  18. French Roadmap for Complex Systems 2008-2009, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Shapes: Nature's patterns (Part 1), Oxford University Press
    2. Flow: Nature's patterns (Part 2), Oxford University Press
    3. Branches: Nature's patterns (Part 3), Oxford University Press
    4. Chaos and Complexity: New Research, Nova Science Publishers Inc
    5. Chaos and Complexity in Psychology: The Theory of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Cambridge University Press
    6. Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art and Nature, Society for Industrial Mathematics
    7. The Super-organism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, W. W. Norton & Co.
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Complexity Digest 2009.14 Next Issue TOP

  1. On the Origin of The Nervous System, Science
  2. A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures, PLoS ONE
  3. Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic, Nature
    1. Ferrets Shed Light on New Virus's Severity and Spread, Science
  4. Complexity, A Guided Tour, PlexusCalls
  5. Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything, TED.com
    1. Jared Diamond on why societies collapse, TED.com
  6. Mind the Gap! [Book review], PLoS Biol
  7. The Role of Stromal Stem Cells in Tissue Regeneration and Wound Repair, Science
    1. The Increasing Complexity of the Cancer Stem Cell Paradigm, Science
    2. Growth Factors, Matrices, and Forces Combine and Control Stem Cells, Science
  8. Urban chaos and perplexing dynamics of urbanization, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences
    1. Can Chaos Theory Explain Complexity In Urban Fabric? Applications in Traditional Muslim Settlements, Nexus Network Journal
  9. Glider-Guns in 3d Cellular Automata, DDLab
  10. Are complex systems hard to evolve?, Complexity
  11. Welcome to the Intelligence Age: an examination of intelligence as a complex venture emergent behavior, VINE
  12. The Structure of Critical Care Transfer Networks, Medical Care
  13. Engineering Sexless Seeds as a Path to High-Yield Crops, PLoS Biol
    1. The Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship, PLoS ONE
    2. Turning Meiosis into Mitosis, PLoS Biol
  14. Geometries of Imaginary Space: Architectural Developments of the Ideas of M. C. Escher and Buckminster Fuller, Nexus Network Journal
  15. Tools of the Trade: A Survey of Various Agent Based Modeling Platforms, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
    1. Design Guidelines for Agent Based Model Visualization, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  16. Deterministic evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations, arXiv
  17. High-speed tracking of rupture and clustering in freely falling granular streams, Nature
  18. On energy transfer between vibrating systems under linear and nonlinear interactions, Nonlinear Dynamics
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Complex Sciences: First International Conference, Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009, Springer
    2. Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (v. 1-10), Springer
    3. A Third Window: Natural Life beyond Newton and Darwin, Templeton Press
    4. The Dialectical Tragedy of the Concept of Wholeness: Ludwig von Bertalanffy's Biography Revisited, ISCE Publishing
    5. Reviving the Living, Volume 6: Meaning Making in Living Systems, Elsevier Science
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Complexity Digest 2009.13 Next Issue TOP

  1. The common patterns of nature, arXiv
  2. Modeling Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: A Review, Mathematical Problems in Engineering
  3. The Energy Landscape of Social Balance, arXiv
    1. The complexity of advice-giving, Complexity
  4. Lifetime of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Millennial Time Scales of Potential CO2 and Surface Temperature Perturbations, Journal of Climate
    1. Planting the forest of the future, Nature
  5. Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria "talk", TED.com
  6. Emergence and pandemic potential of swine-origin H1N1 influenza virus, Nature
    1. Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza A (H1N1): Early Findings, Science
    2. Strategies To Rein In Disease Epidemics Need To Be Retooled For Rural Populations, Innovations-report
  7. Unlocking the secrets of the genome, Nature
  8. Media research: The black box, Nature
    1. Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?, Quar. J. Econ.
  9. Economic Recovery: Are Happy Days Here Again?, Knowledge@Wharton
    1. Volatility, Heterogeneous Agents and Chaos, The Electronic Journal of Evolutionary Modeling and Economic Dynamics
    2. The leadership of emergence: A complex systems leadership theory of emergence at successive organizational levels, The Leadership Quarterly
    3. Complexity, simplicity, simplexity, European Management Journal
  10. Self-organization in the developing nervous system: theoretical models, HFSP J.
    1. Self-organization in dissipative structures: A thermodynamic theory for the emergence of prebiotic cells and their epigenetic evolution, Biosystems
  11. So You Think Owning a Home Will Make You Happy? Don't Be Too Sure, Knowledge@Wharton
  12. Why Do Species Vary In Their Rate Of Molecular Evolution?, Biol. Lett.
  13. Mathematicians Take Aim At 'Phantom' Traffic Jams: New Model Could Help Design Better Roads, ScienceDaily
  14. Design Complexity In Termite-Fishing Tools Of Chimpanzees, Biol. Lett.
  15. Adaptation and the evolution of parasite virulence in a connected world, Nature
    1. Bumble-Bees Learn The Value Of Social Cues Through Experience, Biol. Lett.
  16. Simple Chemical System Created That Mimics DNA, ScienceDaily
  17. Structural complexity in digital images as an ecological indicator for monitoring forest dynamics across scale, space and time, Ecological Indicators
  18. The Academic Achievement Gap In Grades 3 To 8, Rev. Econ. & Stat.
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Risk Analysis of Complex and Uncertain Systems, Springer
    2. Weak Links: The Universal Key to the Stability of Networks and Complex Systems, Springer
    3. Science Matters: Humanities As Complex Systems, World Scientific Publishing Company
    4. Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, Cambridge University Press
    5. Adaptive Networks: Theory, Models and Applications, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2009.12 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Origin of Life, American Scientist
    1. On the Origin of Sexual Reproduction, Science
  2. Towards the evolution of social structure, Journal Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
  3. Complexity and Industrial Ecology, Journal of Industrial Ecology
  4. New Details on Virus's Promiscuous Past, Science
  5. Muhammad Yunus: Lifting People Worldwide out of Poverty, Knowledge@Wharton
  6. On Becoming Modern, Science
    1. Did Warfare Among Ancestral Hunter-Gatherers Affect the Evolution of Human Social Behaviors?, Science
    2. Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior, Science
  7. Evolution of cooperation on dynamical graphs, Biosystems
    1. The evolution of cooperation on structured population, Physica A
    2. Evolving learning rules and emergence of cooperation in spatial prisoner's dilemma, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  8. Microscopic marvels: Magnifying power, Nature
  9. Getting in Touch with Your Friends, Science
  10. Hypergraphs and Cellular Networks, PLoS Comput Biol
  11. A Look Back: The Top Article from Each of the Past 10 Years, Knowledge@Wharton
  12. The Computation of Social Behavior, Science
  13. Prediction, Retrodiction, and the Amount of Information Stored in the Present, SFI Working Papers
    1. Information Accessibility and Cryptic Processes, SFI Working Papers
  14. Entangled mechanical oscillators, Nature
  15. Evolving networks and their application to synaptic pruning, arXiv
  16. Dynamical Clustering of Exchange Rates, arXiv
  17. The survival of the weakest in networks, Journal Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
    1. The norm game: punishing enemies and not friends, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination
  18. Symmetry in world trade network, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity
    1. Global recessions as a cascade phenomenon with interacting agents, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination
    2. Business fluctuations and bankruptcy avalanches in an evolving network economy, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks (Book), Cambridge University Press
    2. Complex Systems and Self-organization Modelling (Book), Springer
    3. Mathematical Ecology of Populations and Ecosystems (Book), Wiley-Blackwell
    4. One Dimensional Cellular Automata, Luniver Press
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Complexity Digest 2009.11 Next Issue TOP

  1. Wolfram|Alpha Released, Wolfram|Alpha
  2. Has the Response to Swine Flu Been Too Feverish?, Knowledge@Wharton
    1. Epidemic Science in Real Time, Science
    2. Flu Researchers Train Sights On Novel Tricks of Novel H1N1, Science
    3. Pandemics: good hygiene is not enough, Nature
    4. Pandemics: avoiding the mistakes of 1918, Nature
  3. Computation: The edge of reductionism, Nature
    1. More really is different, Physica D
  4. Innovation and Self-Organization in a Multi-Agent Model, Advances in Complex Systems
  5. Modeling Statistical Properties of Written Text, PLoS ONE
  6. Reassessment of the Potential Sea-Level Rise from a Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Science
    1. Critical Turning Point Can Trigger Abrupt Climate Change, ScienceDaily & Paleoceanography
  7. Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast, Nature
    1. Critical behavior in an evolutionary Ultimatum Game with social structure, Advances in Complex Systems
  8. Bubbles and crashes: Gradient dynamics in financial markets, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
    1. Waiting Times in Simulated Stock Markets, Advances in Complex Systems
  9. Social Norms: Does It Matter Whether Agents Are Rational Or Boundedly Rational?, J. Socio-Econ.
  10. Interpretations of the Web of Data, arXiv
    1. Feedback loops of attention in peer production, arXiv
    2. Identifying the Large-Scale Structure of the Blogosphere, Advances in Complex Systems
  11. Driving on Biomass, Science
  12. The Diffusion Of Development, Quar. J. Econ.
  13. 'Junk' DNA Has Important Role, Researchers Find, ScienceDaily & Science Magazine
  14. Food Webs: A Ladder For Picking Strawberries Or A Practical Tool For Practical Problems?, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    1. Food-Web Assembly And Collapse: Mathematical Models And Implications For Conservation, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  15. Global and Local Information in Traffic Congestion, arXiv
  16. Larger groups are more successful in innovative problem solving in house sparrows, PNAS
  17. Of Body And Mind, And Deep Meditation, ScienceDaily
  18. Critical Role Of Evolutionary Processes In Species Coexistence And Diversity Revealed, ScienceDaily & Ecology Letters
  19. Monkeys Found To Wonder What Might Have Been, ScienceDaily & Science Magazine
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Complexity Digest 2009.10 Next Issue TOP

  1. Out of Mexico? Scientists Ponder Swine Flu's Origins, Science
    1. How severe will the flu outbreak be?, Nature News
    2. Devilish Dilemmas Surround Pandemic Flu Vaccine, Science
  2. What can we learn from the 1918 flu pandemic?, TED.com
    1. The Role of Environmental Transmission in Recurrent Avian Influenza Epidemics, PLoS Comput Biol
  3. A Dynamic Network Approach for the Study of Human Phenotypes, PLoS Comput Biol
  4. Cloud Computing: A New Horizon, ScienceDaily
  5. Rousing a Latent Defense Mechanism to Fight HIV, PLoS Biol
  6. Ten Simple Rules To Combine Teaching and Research, PLoS Comput Biol
  7. The reductionist blind spot, Complexity
    1. On irreducible description of complex systems, Complexity
    2. A Brief History of Information-Based Complexity, SFI Working Papers
  8. Climate change: Too much of a bad thing, Nature
    1. The worst-case scenario, Nature
    2. Chemistry: Fuel from thin air, Nature
    3. Climate: Ground truths, Nature
  9. What's Bugging Plants?, Science
  10. Why Stock-price Volatility Should Never Be a Surprise, Even in the Long Run, Knowledge@Wharton
  11. Percolation in Insect Nest Networks: Evidence for Optimal Wiring, SFI Working Papers
  12. Imperfect Imitation Can Enhance Cooperation, arXiv
  13. Complicated Supercomplexes, Science
  14. Physicists See The Cosmos In A Coffee Cup, ScienceDaily
  15. Alexander von Humboldt and the General Physics of the Earth, Science
  16. Dissecting The Two Cultures, Nature
  17. The Beautiful Otherness Of The Autistic Mind, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    1. Outsider Art And The Autistic Creator, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    2. How Does Visual Thinking Work In The Mind Of A Person With Autism? A Personal Account, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  18. Exponential Synchronization Of The Complex Dynamical Networks With A Coupling Delay And Impulsive Effects, Nonlin. Anal.: Real World Appl.
  19. Global Markets: Chinese Consumers Respond To Western Brands, Innovations-report
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Complexity Digest 2009.09 Next Issue TOP

  1. Universality of Rank-Ordering Distributions in the Arts and Sciences, PLoS ONE
  2. Can evolution explain how minds work?, Nature
  3. The architecture of mutualistic networks minimizes competition and increases biodiversity, Nature
  4. Final warning from a sceptical prophet, Nature
  5. The Role of the Corporation in Supporting Local Development, The SoL e-Journal
  6. This title is false, Nature
  7. Leverage: The Root of All Financial Turmoil, Science
  8. Quantum chemistry: The little molecule that could, Nature
  9. Developmental biology: Two by two, Nature
  10. Stochastic cellular automata model of neural networks, arXiv
  11. A quantum probability explanation for violations of ‘rational’ decision theory, Proc. R. Soc. B
  12. Dialogue games that agents play within a society, Artificial Intelligence
  13. Big Brother has evolved, Nature
  14. Fusion's Great Bright Hope, Science
  15. Coevolution of competing systems: cooperation and inhibition, arXiv
  16. Learning, Evolution, and Population Dynamics, Advances in Complex Systems
  17. Time to sequence the 'red and the dead', Nature News
  18. Obesity: Be cool, lose weight, Nature
  19. Where Is My Quantum Computer?, Science
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Complexity Digest 2009.08 Next Issue TOP

  1. Exploring the “Global Workspace” of Consciousness, PLoS Biol
    1. Converging Intracranial Markers of Conscious Access, PLoS Biol
  2. Self-adjusting systems avoid chaos, Complexity
    1. The Human Brain Is On The Edge Of Chaos, ScienceDaily
  3. Behavioural science: School soundings, Nature
    1. Critical Population Density Triggers Rapid Formation of Vast Oceanic Fish Shoals, Science
  4. Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data, Science
  5. Open Revolution, PLoS Biol
    1. Technology: The textbook of the future, Nature
    2. Clicking on a new chapter, Nature
  6. Initial community evenness favours functionality under selective stress, Nature
  7. Social Circles: A Simple Structure for Agent-Based Social Network Models, JASSS
  8. Faith in the Algorithm, Part 2: Computational Eudaemonics, arXiv
  9. Brain On A Chip?, ScienceDaily
  10. The Implications of Multiple Circadian Clock Origins, PLoS Biol
  11. Chemistry: Three in one, Nature
  12. Evolution: Biology's next top model?, Nature
    1. On the Origin of Flowering Plants, Science
    2. Mutated Gene In Zebrafish Sheds Light On Blindness In Humans, Innovations-report
    3. Darwin's One Special Difficulty: Celebrating Darwin 200, Biol. Lett.
  13. The cancer genome, Nature
    1. Cancer: When restriction is good, Nature
  14. Building a Better Nano-Biped, Science
    1. A Bipedal DNA Brownian Motor with Coordinated Legs, Science
  15. Quark statistics shed light on Universe's symmetry, Nature
  16. Multifractal Behaviors In Foreign Exchange Markets., Fractals
  17. Language Of Music Really Is Universal, ScienceDaily
  18. Parental Effects In Ecology And Evolution: Mechanisms, Processes And Implications, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  19. Persistence and Success in the Attention Economy, arXiv
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Complexity Digest 2009.07 Next Issue TOP

  1. Bringing clarity to complexity, Nature
  2. Scientist Citizens, Science
  3. Time’s Barbed Arrow: Irreversibility, Crypticity, and Stored Information, SFI Working Papers
  4. When wise words are not enough, Nature
  5. Strengths and synergies of evolved and designed controllers: A study within collective robotics, Artificial Intelligence
  6. Explosive Percolation in Random Networks, Science
  7. The Reality Game, SFI Working Papers
  8. The ubiquitin system, Nature
  9. Human Synthetic Lethal Inference as Potential Anti-cancer Target Gene Detection, SFI Working Papers
  10. The Surprising Power of Neighborly Advice, Science
  11. Epidemic thresholds for infections in uncertain networks, Complexity
  12. International Trade and the Persistence of Cultural-Institutional Diversity, SFI Working Papers
  13. Biomimetics: Steel strong, air light, Nature
  14. Electric cows, Nature
  15. Optimal Leverage from Non-ergodicity, SFI Working Papers
  16. An investigation of synchrony in transport networks, Complexity
  17. Genetic Contribution to Variation in Cognitive Function: An fMRI Study in Twins, Science
  18. Evolution and the second law of thermodynamics, arXiv
  19. Nation-State Routing: Censorship, Wiretapping, and BGP, arXiv
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Complexity Digest 2009.06 Next Issue TOP

  1. Web Usage Data Outline Map of Knowledge, News@Nature
    1. Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science, PLoS One
  2. Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution, PNAS
  3. A smarter way to combat hunger, Nature
  4. Circadian rhythms: Of owls, larks and alarm clocks, Nature
  5. Matters of Principal, New York Times
    1. Minimal agent based model for financial markets I, EPJ B
  6. Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important as Google, Twine
  7. Obama overturns stem-cell ban, News@Nature
    1. Virus-free pluripotency for human cells, News@Nature
  8. Nonlinear Energy Harvesting, Phys. Rev. Lett.
    1. Harvesting Ocean Wave Energy, Science
    2. The energy should always work twice, Nature
  9. Evolution of cooperation on scale-free networks subject to error and attack, arXiv
    1. Socio-economical dynamics as a solvable spin system on co-evolving networks, EPJ B
    2. Epidemic spreading with nonlinear infectivity in weighted scale-free networks, arXiv
  10. What does it all mean?, News@Nature
  11. Geographic Range Limits Of Species, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  12. Discovering The Secret Code Behind Photosynthesis, ScienceDaily
    1. On the Origin of Photosynthesis, Science
  13. Toward Synthetic Life: Scientists Create Ribosomes -- Cell Protein Machinery, ScienceDaily
  14. The Evolution And Genetics Of Cerebral Asymmetry, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    1. Why Are Some People Left-Handed? An Evolutionary Perspective, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    2. Mechanisms And Functions Of Brain And Behavioural Asymmetries, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  15. Engineered viruses fight bacteria, News@Nature
  16. Belief-Free Equilibria In Games With Incomplete Information, Econometrica
  17. Search, Obfuscation, And Price Elasticities On The Internet, Econometrica
  18. Watching as Ants Go Marching--and Deciding--One by One, Science
  19. Suicide In The Workplace 'Contagious,' Swedish Study Suggests, ScienceDaily
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Complexity Digest 2009.05 Next Issue TOP

  1. Wings, Horns, and Butterfly Eyespots: How Do Complex Traits Evolve?, PLoS Biol
    1. Mutation Patterns in the Human Genome: More Variable Than Expected, PLoS Biol
  2. Attractors and Democratic Dynamics, Science
  3. Language is a Complex Adaptive System, SFI Working Papers
    1. Agent-Based Models of Levels of Consciousness, SFI Working Papers
  4. Simple but not simpler, Comput Math Organ Theory
  5. Physics of Evolution: Selection without Fitness, SFI Working Papers
  6. Recession Watch: How to survive the recession, Nature
    1. Trade Wars: Will Protectionism Win out over Recovery?, Knowledge@Wharton
    2. Recession Brings Rise In 'Bargain' Spam: Money-Conscious Users Targeted In New Attacks, vnunet.com
  7. Communities in Networks, arXiv
    1. Navigating Ultrasmall Worlds in Ultrashort Time, Phys. Rev. Lett.
    2. Enhanced Synchronizability In Scale-Free Networks, Chaos
    3. Coherence Resonance Induced By Rewiring In Complex Networks, Chaos
    4. Generalized Outer Synchronization Between Complex Dynamical Networks, Chaos
  8. Microbial awakenings, Nature
  9. A World Transformed: What Are the Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years?, Knowledge@Wharton
  10. Obtaining Consent for Future Research with Induced Pluripotent Cells: Opportunities and Challenges, PLoS Biol
  11. Neutrality and Robustness in Evo-devo: Emergence of Lateral Inhibition, SFI Working Papers
    1. Dynamical Hierarchy and Modularity in Gene Regulatory Networks, SFI Working Papers
  12. Cancer Research Meets Evolutionary Biology, SFI Working Papers
  13. Parkinson’s Law Quantified: Three Investigations on Bureaucratic Inefficiency, SFI Working Papers
  14. Obesity: Fat chance, Nature
  15. Researcher Seeks To Turn Stem Cells Into Blood Vessels, Innovations-report
    1. Molecules Self-assemble To Provide New Therapeutic Treatments, ScienceDaily
    2. What's Feeding Cancer Cells?, ScienceDaily
  16. Conceptualizing Climate Governance Beyond The International Regime, Global Env. Polit.
    1. Emission Of Methane From Plants, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  17. Gourmet Food, Served by Dogs, Science
  18. Asynchronous sequential processes, Information and Computation
  19. Katrina, 9/11, Global Recession: Moving Beyond Old Thinking about New Risks, Knowledge@Wharton
    1. Power Grid Vulnerability: A Complex Network Approach, Chaos
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Complexity Digest 2009.04 Next Issue TOP

  1. Gates Predicts Recession Will Last Until 2012, vnunet.com
  2. Humanity and evolution, Nature
    1. Darwin 200: The other strand, Nature
    2. Is Genetic Evolution Predictable?, Science
    3. The evolution and distribution of species body size, arXiv
  3. How to Cool the Planet, Manually, ScienceNOW
    1. Big Year For Darwin, But What Would He Make Of The Climate Change Ahead?, ScienceDaily
  4. Can Kangaroos save the world?, Faculty of 1000 Biology
    1. Native wildlife on rangelands to minimize methane and produce lower-emission meat: kangaroos versus livestock, Conservation Letters
  5. Errors and Artefacts in Agent-Based Modelling, JASSS
    1. Forum: Contra Epstein, Good Explanations Predict, JASSS
    2. Forum: Not All Explanations Predict Satisfactorily, and Not All Good Predictions Explain, JASSS
  6. The Key to Pandora's Box, Science
  7. A Neandertal Primer, Science
  8. The Nonsense In Our Genes:1 In 200 Human Genes Superfluous?, Innovations-report
    1. Extra Copies Of A Gene Carry Extra Risk, Innovations-report
  9. Stochastic evolutionary game dynamics, arXiv
  10. Being Human: Engineering: Worldwide ebb, Nature
    1. Network Analysis in the Social Sciences, Science
    2. Boolean modeling of collective effects in complex networks, arXiv
  11. Agreeing to Disagree, Science
  12. Sudden Death of Entanglement, Science
  13. Less is Moore, The Economist
  14. Exploring Agent-Based Methods for the Analysis of Payment Systems: A Crisis Model for StarLogo TNG, JASSS
  15. A Proximate Mechanism for Communities of Agents to Commemorate Long Dead Ancestors, JASSS
  16. Modelling Control Of Epidemics Spreading By Long-Range Interactions, Interface
  17. Where You Stand Depends Upon Where Your Grandparents Sat: The Inheritability Of Generalized Trust, Public Opin. Quart.
    1. The End Of Welfare As We Know It? Durable Attitudes In A Changing Information Environment, Public Opin. Quart.
  18. Can Mathematics Map the Way Toward Less-Bizarre Elections?, Science
    1. Social Trust And Attitudes Toward Democracy, Public Opin. Quart.
  19. Military Power And International Order, World Policy J.
    1. Motives For Martyrdom: Al-Qaida, Salafi Jihad, And The Spread Of Suicide Attacks, Int. Security
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Complexity Digest 2009.03 Next Issue TOP

  1. Redefining Science Education, Science
  2. An Economy of Faith and Trust, NY Times
    1. Your inbox, Mr President, News@Nature
    2. Top 10 IT Priorities For Obama: Hopes For The New Administration, vnunet.com
    3. Major Foreign Policy Challenges For The Next Us President, Int. Affairs
  3. The Commodification Of Emergence: Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology And Intellectual Property, Biosocieties
  4. On An Evolutionary Foundation Of Neuroeconomics, Econ. & Phil.
  5. Friends dis-united?, News@Nature
    1. Preference or opportunity? Why do we find more friendship segregation in more heterogeneous schools?, arXiv
  6. How low can you go?, News@Nature
  7. Artificial Chemistry, Artificial Life
  8. Thinking outside the box, Nature
  9. Biological Systems from an Engineer's Point of View, PLoS Biol
  10. Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Biology, PLoS Biol
  11. Self-organized criticality and adaptation in discrete dynamical networks, arXiv
    1. Hierarchical structure and the prediction of missing links in networks, arXiv
  12. Revisiting the Age of Enlightenment from a Collective Decision Making Systems Perspective, arXiv
  13. A framework for the local information dynamics of distributed computation in complex systems, arXiv
    1. The transmission sense of information, arXiv
  14. Neural Networks as dynamical systems, arXiv
  15. Where Bacteria and Languages Concur, Science
  16. Emergence Of Cooperation In Public Goods Games, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  17. A Longer Working Life A Good Thing For Everyone?, Innovations-report
  18. Spurring Innovation To Lift The Economy, Innovations-report
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Military Power And International Order, Int. Affairs
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Complexity Digest 2009.02 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Year of Darwin, Science
    1. Darwin 200, Nature
    2. On the Origin of Life on Earth, Science
  2. International Year of Astronomy, Nature
  3. Grooming your way to the top, News@Nature
  4. I Am Not a Scientist, I Am a Number, PLoS Comput Biol
    1. MPACT And Citation Impact: Two Sides Of The Same Scholarly Coin?, Lib. & Info. Sc. Res.
  5. Why Model?, JASSS
  6. Being Human: Love: Neuroscience reveals all, Nature
  7. Trade Liberalization and Economic Development, Science
    1. Informed Traders, Phil. Trans. A
  8. Metabolic Reactions: Less Is More In Single-celled Organisms, ScienceDaily
    1. Spontaneous Reaction Silencing in Metabolic Optimization, PLoS Comput Biol
  9. Predicting the popularity of online content, arXiv
    1. Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope, arXiv
  10. Key To Future Medical Breakthroughs Is Systems Biology, Innovations-report
  11. 2009: The Year Ahead In The US: What's In Store For The Tech Industry Stateside, vnunet.com
    1. Snap, Map, Chat And Hyperlink?, Innovations-report
  12. Unlocking The Dynamic Web, Innovations-report
    1. The Evolution Of The Web And Implications For eResearch, Phil. Trans. A
  13. New Hope For Cancer Comes Straight From The Heart, ScienceDaily
  14. Clockwork That Drives Powerful Virus Nanomotor Discovered, ScienceDaily
  15. How The Spider Spun Its Web: Missing Link In Spider Evolution Discovered, ScienceDaily
  16. The Dynamics of Public Opinion in Complex Networks, JASSS
    1. Replication in the Deception and Convergence of Opinions Problem, JASSS
    2. Modeling Cultural Dynamics, arXiv
  17. Professor Helps Control Infectious Diseases With Models And Math, ScienceDaily
  18. Fractal, A Microscopic Crowd Model, Fractals
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Police Get New Hacking Powers: Remote Computer Searching Without A Warrant Upsets Privacy Groups, vnunet.com
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Complexity Digest 2009.01 Next Issue TOP

  1. The New Boss In Town, Nature News
    1. Does Allocation Of Public Spending Matter In Poverty Reduction? Evidence From Thailand, Asian Econ. J.
  2. When Does Optional Participation Allow The Evolution Of Cooperation?, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Calculated Reciprocity After All: Computation Behind Token Transfers In Orang-Utans, Biol. Lett.
  3. New Challenges In Content Dissemination Networks, Bell Labs Tech. J.
  4. NSF Rethinks Its Digital Library, Science
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