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Complexity Digest 2010.26 Next Issue TOP

  1. Stepping Away From the Trees For a Look at the Forest, Science
  2. There's Plenty of Time for Evolution, PNAS
  3. Mathematical modeling of evolution. Solved and open problems, Theory in Biosciences
  4. Work: The New Face of Retirement, Knowledge@Wharton
  5. Halla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash, TED.com
  6. Are biological systems poised at criticality?, arXiv
    1. Statistical Mechanics of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Evolutionary Ecology, arXiv
  7. Google Opens Books to New Cultural Studies, Science
  8. Exploring Links to Improve Health, Science
  9. Epidemic prediction and control in clustered populations, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  10. Preface: Is Logic Universal?, LOGICA UNIVERSALIS
  11. Static versus dynamic topology of complex communications network during organizational crisis, Complexity
  12. Sex Determination in the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, Science
  13. Emerging properties of animal gene regulatory networks, Nature
  14. Topological Traps Control Flow on Real Networks: The Case of Coordination Failures, PLoS ONE
  15. Evolution of cooperation on adaptively weighted networks, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. Evolution of cooperation mediated by limiting resources: Connecting resource based models and evolutionary game theory, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  16. Irrational decision-making in an amoeboid organism: transitivity and context-dependent preferences, Proc. R. Soc. B
  17. Topological stability criteria for synchronized coupled systems of non-identical oscillators, arXiv
  18. Role-based similarity in directed networks, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Crossing in Complexity: Interdisciplinary Application of Physics in Biological and Social Systems, Nova Science Pub Inc
    2. Modular Evolution: How Natural Selection Produces Biological Complexity, Cambridge University Press
    3. Complex Systems in Finance and Econometrics, Springer
    4. Nonlinear Dynamics in Human Behavior, Springer
    5. Complex Physical, Biophysical and Econophysical Systems, World Scientific Publishing Company
    6. Order and Chaos in Dynamical Astronomy, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2010.25 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus, Science
  2. From the Connectome to the Synaptome: An Epic Love Story, Science
  3. Swarm Intelligence in Animal Groups: When Can a Collective Out-Perform an Expert?, PLoS ONE
  4. Networks and the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, arXiv
    1. Infectious Disease Modeling of Social Contagion in Networks, PLoS Comput Biol
    2. Untangling the Interplay between Epidemic Spread and Transmission Network Dynamics, PLoS Comput Biol
    3. Network Analysis of Global Influenza Spread, PLoS Comput Biol
    4. Imitation dynamics of vaccination behaviour on social networks, Proc. R. Soc. B
  5. William Ury: The walk from "no" to "yes", TED.com
  6. Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies, Cliodynamics
  7. Secret US Embassy Cables, WikiLeaks
  8. Energy: Supergrid, Nature
  9. New Clues About What Makes the Human Brain Special, Science
  10. Hierarchy and information in feedforward networks, arXiv
  11. Evolution of games microbes play, arXiv
  12. Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans, Evolution and Human Behavior
  13. Environments that Induce Synthetic Microbial Ecosystems, PLoS Comput Biol
    1. Evolution of Cooperative Cross-Feeding Could Be Less Challenging Than Originally Thought, PLoS ONE
  14. Exuberant innovation: The Human Genome Project, arXiv
  15. Scaling and Universality in River Flow Dynamics, arXiv
  16. Traffic flow on realistic road networks with adaptive traffic lights, arXiv
    1. On the kinetic theory of vehicular traffic flow: Chapman-Enskog expansion versus Grad's moment method, arXiv
  17. Thermal soaring flight of birds and unmanned aerial vehicles, arXiv
  18. Outbreak properties of epidemic models: The roles of temporal forcing and stochasticity on pathogen invasion dynamics, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain, Pantheon
    2. Collective Animal Behavior, Princeton University Press
    3. The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done, Avery
    4. Quantitative Sociodynamics: Stochastic Methods and Models of Social Interaction Processes, Springer
    5. Advances in Dynamic Games: Theory, Applications, and Numerical Methods for Differential and Stochastic Games, Birkhäuser Boston
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Complexity Digest 2010.24 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complex dynamics of life at different scales, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A
    1. Complex dynamics of our economic life on different scales: insights from search engine query data, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A
  2. Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010), Nature
    1. Benoît B. Mandelbrot (1924–2010), Science
  3. Irremediable Complexity?, Science
  4. Exploiting temporal network structures of human interaction to effectively immunize populations, arXiv
  5. Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers, TED.com
    1. Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity, TED.com
    2. Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty, TED.com
  6. Society: The rise of the 'technium', Nature
  7. A Law by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet, Science
  8. Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges, Science
  9. The moment of truth for WIMP dark matter, Nature
  10. Life is physics: evolution as a collective phenomenon far from equilibrium, arXiv
  11. There will be blood, Nature
  12. Cooperation and the Commons, Science
    1. Conditional Cooperation and Costly Monitoring Explain Success in Forest Commons Management, Science
  13. Prosocial behaviour emerges independent of reciprocity in cottontop tamarins, Proc. R. Soc. B
  14. Interdependence of Cell Growth and Gene Expression: Origins and Consequences, Science
  15. "Meaning" as a sociological concept: A review of the modeling, mapping, and simulation of the communication of knowledge and meaning, arXiv
  16. The Uncertainty Principle Determines the Nonlocality of Quantum Mechanics, Science
  17. Identification of an ant queen pheromone regulating worker sterility, Proc. R. Soc. B
  18. Why a Grand Unified Theory Is Neither Feasible nor Desirable, Science
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
    2. Extreme Environmental Events: Complexity in Forecasting and Early Warning, Springer
    3. Nonlinear Science and Complexity, Springer
    4. Diversity and Complexity, Princeton University Press
    5. The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory, University Press of Colorado
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Complexity Digest 2010.23 Next Issue TOP

  1. What Is Epigenetics?, Science
  2. Diffusion of Competing Innovations: The Effects of Network Structure on the Provision of Healthcare, JASSS
  3. Is Life Impossible? Information, Sex, and the Origin of Complex Organisms, Evolution
    1. Higher rates of sex evolve in spatially heterogeneous environments, Nature
  4. A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing, Nature
    1. Diversity of Human Copy Number Variation and Multicopy Genes, Science
  5. Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain, TED.com
    1. David Bismark: E-voting without fraud, TED.com
    2. R.A. Mashelkar: Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products, TED.com
  6. Collective motion, arXiv
    1. Recognizing group cognition, Cognitive Systems Research
  7. Unbounding the Mind, Science
  8. Engineering of a synthetic electron conduit in living cells, PNAS
  9. Friends With Cognitive Benefits: Mental Function Improves After Certain Kinds of Socializing, ScienceDaily
  10. Genome size, self-organization and DNA's dark matter, Complexity
  11. Universal Robotic Gripper based on the Jamming of Granular Material, arXiv
  12. Contract theory for the evolution of cooperation: The right incentives attract the right partner, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. Effects of asynchronism on evolutionary games, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    2. A condition for cooperation in a game on complex networks, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    3. How Wealth Accumulation Can Promote Cooperation, PLoS ONE 5(10)
  13. The Origins Of Modern Biodiversity On Land, Phil. Trans. B
  14. Learning In A Game Context: Strategy Choice By Some Keeps Learning From Evolving In Others, Proc. B
  15. Only a dictatorship is efficient, Games and Economic Behavior
    1. A simple mechanism for resolving conflict, Games and Economic Behavior
  16. The Roundtable: An Abstract Model of Conversation Dynamics, JASSS
  17. Complex adaptive systems and game theory: An unlikely union, Complexity
  18. Quantum Game of Life, arXiv
    1. How the Dimension of Space Affects the Products of Pre-Biotic Evolution: The Spatial Population Dynamics of Structural Complexity and The Emergence of Membranes, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Network Science: Complexity in Nature and Technology, Springer
    2. Complex Networks: Structure, Robustness and Function, Cambridge University Press
    3. Lectures in Supercomputational Neuroscience: Dynamics in Complex Brain Networks, Springer
    4. The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty and Power of Fractals (Second Edition), Springer
    5. Brain-Computer Interfaces: Revolutionizing Human-Computer Interaction, Springer
    6. Algorithmic Randomness and Complexity, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2010.22 Next Issue TOP

  1. Finding the Right Match, nobelprize.org
  2. Synthetic biology: Living quarters, Nature
  3. Cities: The urban equation, Nature
    1. A unified theory of urban living, Nature
    2. Mathematics and Morphogenesis of the City, A Geometrical approach, arXiv
    3. Environment: Mexico's scientist in chief, Nature
  4. Twitter mood predicts the stock market, arXiv
    1. Spontaneous emergence of social influence in online systems, PNAS
  5. Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence, TED.com
    1. Heribert Watzke: The brain in your gut, TED.com
  6. The Darwin/Gray Correspondence 1857–1869: An Intelligent Discussion about Chance and Design, Perspectives on Science
  7. The energetics of genome complexity, Nature
  8. Benoît B Mandelbrot: the man who made geometry an art, guardian.co.uk
  9. Sex, drugs and moral goals: reproductive strategies and views about recreational drugs, Proc. R. Soc. B
  10. Europe's Migrants: 'The World Is a Smaller Place', Knowledge@Wharton
  11. Know thyself: Metacognitive networks and measures of consciousness, Cognition
  12. The Benefits of Multilingualism, Science
  13. Publish your computer code: it is good enough, Nature
  14. Evolutionary game theory in growing populations, arXiv
    1. Universality of weak selection, arXiv
    2. Cooperation in the snowdrift game on directed small-world networks under self-questioning and noisy conditions, Computer Physics Communications
  15. Saturation Probabilities of Continuous-Time Sigmoidal Networks, arXiv
  16. A Note on Rationalizability and Restrictions on Beliefs, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
  17. Two-dimensional ranking of Wikipedia articles, Eur. Phys. J. B
  18. Von Neumann's Methodology of Science: From Incompleteness Theorems to Later Foundational Reflections, Perspectives on Science
  19. Book Announcements
    1. It's a Nonlinear World, Springer
    2. Structural Analysis of Complex Networks, Birkhäuser Boston
    3. Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems: A Primer, Springer
    4. Academic Units in a Complex, Changing World: Adaptation and Resistance, Springer
    5. Biophysics of DNA-Protein Interactions: From Single Molecules to Biological Systems, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2010.21 Next Issue TOP

  1. Graphene: Carbon's New Face, nobelprize.org
    1. Molecule Makers, nobelprize.org
    2. The Father of the Test Tube Baby, nobelprize.org
    3. Mario Vargas Llosa, nobelprize.org
  2. Complex Systems View of Educational Policy Research, Science
    1. Garage biotech: Life hackers, Nature
  3. Arms and the Man: The Problem of Symmetric Growth, PLoS Biol
  4. Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From, Wired
  5. Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome, TED.com
    1. Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?, TED.com
  6. Quantifying social synergy in insect and human societies, BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
    1. A Mixture of “Cheats” and “Co-Operators” Can Enable Maximal Group Benefit, PLoS Biol
  7. Truthy.indiana.edu to search, identify smear tactics, Twitter-bombs through election runup, Physorg.com
  8. Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups, Science
    1. Animal behaviour: The wisdom of the bees, Nature
  9. The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle, Science
  10. How centered leaders achieve extraordinary results, McKinsey Quaterly
  11. Optimization in “Self-modeling” complex adaptive systems, Complexity
  12. Do topological models provide good information about electricity infrastructure vulnerability?, Chaos
  13. Approximating Mexican highways with slime mould, arXiv
  14. Capacity sharing in a network of independent factories: A cooperative game theory approach, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
    1. Imitation, internal absorption and the reversal of local drift in stochastic evolutionary games, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    2. Better living through physics, Nature
  15. An agent-based model of collective emotions in online communities, Eur. Phys. J. B
  16. Evolutionary Entropy Determines Invasion Success in Emergent Epidemics, PLoS ONE
  17. Phenotypic robustness can increase phenotypic variability after non-genetic perturbations in gene regulatory circuits, arXiv
  18. Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia, PLoS Comput Biol
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, Cambridge University Press
    2. Modeling Complex Systems, Springer
    3. When Free Markets Fail: Saving the Market When It Can't Save Itself, Wiley
    4. Physarum Machines: Computers from Slime Mould, World Scientific Publishing Company
    5. The Role of Model Integration in Complex Systems Modelling: An Example from Cancer Biology, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2010.20 Next Issue TOP

  1. Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know, MIT Press
  2. Complex systems: Foreseeing tipping points, Nature
    1. Early warning signals of extinction in deteriorating environments, Nature
  3. Education: Ten weeks to save the world, Nature
    1. Solutions beyond systems analysis, Nature
  4. To tame traffic, go with the flow, Science News
    1. Self-Stabilizing Decentralized Signal Control of Realistic, Saturated Network Traffic, SFI Working Papers
  5. Nicholas Christakis: How social networks predict epidemics, TED.com
    1. Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from, TED.com
  6. Information Driven Self-Organization: The Dynamical System Approach to Autonomous Robot Behavior, SFI Working Papers
  7. Stephen Hawking’s grand theory of what?, The National
  8. Social organization in a flatworm: trematode parasites form soldier and reproductive castes, Proc. R. Soc. B
  9. Peer-Review in a World with Rational Scientists: Toward Selection of the Average, SFI Working Papers
  10. Problem solving techniques in cognitive science, AI Rev
  11. Line graphs of weighted networks for overlapping communities, Eur. Phys. J. B
  12. Selfishness versus functional cooperation in a stochastic protocell model, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  13. Reaction-Diffusion Model as a Framework for Understanding Biological Pattern Formation, Science
  14. The Ecological Significance of Tool Use in New Caledonian Crows, Science
  15. Adaptive network models of swarm dynamics, arXiv
  16. Evolution towards oscillation or stability in a predator-prey system, Proc. R. Soc. B
  17. Complex networks derived from cellular automata, arXiv
  18. Mexico's Drug War: The Battle to Remain Safe, Low-cost and Competitive, Knowledge@Wharton
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Your Career Game: How Game Theory Can Help You Achieve Your Professional Goals, Stanford Business Books
    2. Dynamics of Machinery: Theory and Applications, Springer
    3. Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology, Wiley-Blackwell
    4. Econophysics and Companies: Statistical Life and Death in Complex Business Networks, Cambridge University Press
    5. Nonlinear Models for Economic Decision Processes, Imperial College Press
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Complexity Digest 2010.19 Next Issue TOP

  1. The nature of beauty, Prospect
  2. Biodiversity Conservation: Challenges Beyond 2010, Science
  3. Are large complex economic systems unstable?, arXiv
  4. Artificial Life XII Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, MIT Press
  5. Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education, TED.com
    1. Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index, TED.com
    2. The price of happiness, News@Nature
  6. Visualizing space–time dynamics in scaling systems, Complexity
  7. Chronicle of cybernetics pioneers, Nature
  8. Wanted: a new breeding ground for antibiotics, Prospect
  9. Buzzwords on their way to a tipping-point: A view from the blogosphere, Complexity
    1. The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment, Science
  10. Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution, Cognitive Science
  11. Spatial embedding and the structure of complex networks, Complexity
  12. Fundamental limits on the suppression of molecular fluctuations, Nature
  13. Cooperation enhanced by the ‘survival of the fittest’ rule in prisoner's dilemma games on complex networks, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. Evolutionary prisoners dilemma game with voluntary participation on regular lattices and scale-free networks, Physics Procedia
  14. A two level mutation-selection model of cultural evolution and diversity, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  15. Two-lane traffic-flow model with an exact steady-state solution, arXiv
  16. A quantitative measure for the organization of a system, Part 1: A simple case, arXiv
    1. A Statistical Measure of Complexity, arXiv
    2. Statistic Complexity: Combining Kolmogorov Complexity with an Ensemble Approach, PLoS ONE
    3. Beyond Lyapunov, arXiv
  17. The effect of gossip on social networks, Complexity
  18. Parasite Replication and the Evolutionary Epidemiology of Parasite Virulence, PLoS ONE
  19. Book Announcements
    1. 2030: technology that will change the world, Oxford University Press
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Complexity Digest 2010.18 Next Issue TOP

  1. The evolution of eusociality, Nature
  2. Optimally Interacting Minds, Science
  3. Promiscuity and the evolutionary transition to complex societies, Nature
  4. After the pandemic, Nature
  5. Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing, TED.com
    1. Sheena Iyengar on the Power of Choice -- and Why It Doesn't Always Bring Us What We Want, Knowledge@Wharton
    2. Why Making Our Own Choices Is More Satisfying When Pleasure Is the Goal, ScienceDaily
  6. Landscape Evolutionary Genomics, Biol. Lett.
  7. Cheaters In Mutualism Networks, Biol. Lett.
  8. Evolution under Fluctuating Environments Explains Observed Robustness in Metabolic Networks, PLoS Comput Biol
  9. Wither complexity?, Econophysics Forum
  10. Network Complexity of Foodwebs, arXiv
    1. A New Measure of Centrality for Brain Networks, PLoS ONE
  11. A Simple Self-Maintaining Metabolic System: Robustness, Autocatalysis, Bistability, PLoS Comput Biol
  12. Disasters widen the rich–poor gap, Nature
  13. Applying DNA computation to intractable problems in social network analysis, Biosystems
  14. Reconstruction of the Molecular Origin of Life, Journal of Cosmology
    1. How Life Began: The Emergence of Sparse Metabolic Networks, Journal of Cosmology
  15. Love kills: Simulations in Penna Ageing Model, arXiv
  16. Managing Uncertainty: A Review Of Food System Scenario Analysis And Modelling, Phil. Trans. B
  17. Organizations Learn More from Failure Than Success, Study Finds; Knowledge Gained from Failure Lasts Longer, ScienceDaily
  18. Frequency-Dependent Selection Predicts Patterns of Radiations and Biodiversity, PLoS Comput Biol
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Language, Usage and Cognition, Cambridge University Press
    2. Mathematical Modeling of Collective Behavior in Socio-Economic and Life Sciences, Birkhäuser Boston
    3. Mathematical Foundations of Neuroscience, Springer
    4. Law, Economics, and Morality, Oxford University Press
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Complexity Digest 2010.17 Next Issue TOP

  1. Agents of change, The Economist
  2. Link communities reveal multiscale complexity in networks, Nature
    1. Stability of Ecological Communities and the Architecture of Mutualistic and Trophic Networks, Science
  3. Emergence of Zipf's Law in the Evolution of Communication, arXiv
  4. Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch, McKinsey Quaterly
  5. Citizen science: People power, Nature
    1. Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game, Nature
  6. The makings of great leaders, Nature
  7. Meaning in a Quantum Universe, Science
  8. Getting Better To Get Bigger, Science
  9. Ecology: Close relatives are bad news, Nature
  10. Cancer biology: Blood vessel regulator, Nature
  11. Which Parental Gene Gets the Upper Hand?, Science
  12. Rewarding altruism, SFI Working Papers
  13. Microbial Biosynthesis of Alkanes, Science
  14. Salamander's egg surprise, Nature
  15. Timing matters: Lessons From The CA Literature On Updating, arXiv
  16. Phase synchronization in railway timetables, Eur. Phys. J. B
  17. Tracing Evolution's Recent Fingerprints, Science
  18. Performance, Not Control, Science
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Poetry of Physics and the Physics of Poetry, World Scientific Publishing Company
    2. Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World, AMACOM
    3. Applications of Mathematics in Models, Artificial Neural Networks and Arts: Mathematics and Society, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2010.16 Next Issue TOP

  1. The four hundred years of planetary science since Galileo and Kepler, Nature
  2. Controlling self-organized criticality in complex networks, Eur. Phys. J. B
    1. Contrasting Views of Complexity and Their Implications For Network-Centric Infrastructures, Systems, Man and Cybernetics
  3. Food: The growing problem, Nature
    1. Hans Rosling on global population growth, TED.com
  4. Limbs Made to Measure, PLoS Biol
  5. Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex, TED.com
    1. Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours, TED.com
  6. The Triple Helix Perspective of Innovation Systems, arXiv
  7. Dynamics of Person-to-Person Interactions from Distributed RFID Sensor Networks, PLoS ONE
  8. Making Smarter, Savvier Robots, Science
  9. Why music is good for you, Nature
  10. A colorful origin for the genetic code: Information theory, statistical mechanics and the emergence of molecular codes, Physics of Life Reviews
  11. Rethinking Ecosystem Resilience in the Face of Climate Change, PLoS Biol
  12. Incentives and opportunism: from the carrot to the stick, Proc. R. Soc. B
    1. Cooperation in two-person evolutionary games with complex personality profiles, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  13. Patrimony and the Evolution of Risk-Taking, PLoS ONE
    1. Coevolution of honest signaling and cooperative norms by cultural group selection, Biosystems
    2. Adaptive dynamics of cooperation may prevent the coexistence of defectors and cooperators and even cause extinction, Proc. R. Soc. B
  14. Bootstrapping the Mind: Analogical Processes and Symbol Systems, Cognitive Science
  15. Prediction, arXiv
  16. Stability as a natural selection mechanism on interacting networks, arXiv
  17. Neuroscience: Brain's traffic lights, Nature
  18. Ecology: A world without mosquitoes, Nature
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Nature of Change or the Law of Unintended Consequences: An Introductory Text to Designing Complex Systems and Managing Change, Imperial College Press
    2. Networks in Cell Biology, Cambridge University Press
    3. Discrete Calculus: Applied Analysis on Graphs for Computational Science, Springer
    4. Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change: Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future, Routledge
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Complexity Digest 2010.15 Next Issue TOP

  1. Inferring individual rules from collective behavior, PNAS
  2. Evolution: Dreampond revisited, Nature
    1. Does diversity always grow?, Nature
  3. Who should pay for the police?, Nature
    1. Social learning promotes institutions for governing the commons, Nature
    2. Punish, but not too hard: How costly punishment spreads in the spatial public goods game, arXiv
  4. Genomic Analysis of Organismal Complexity in the Multicellular Green Alga Volvox carteri, Science
  5. Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness, TED.com
  6. Comparing skills and attitudes of scientists, musicians, politicians and students, Interciencia
  7. Probing Culture's Secrets, From Capuchins to Children, Science
  8. HIV/AIDS, Nature
    1. HIV/AIDS: Eastern Europe, Science
  9. Particle Swarm Optimization, Swarm Intelligence
  10. Quantifying structure in networks, Eur. Phys. J. B
  11. Conservation science: Trade-in to trade-up, Nature
  12. Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont, Science
  13. For the love of learning science: Connecting learning orientation and career productivity in physics and chemistry, Phys. Rev. ST Physics Ed. Research 6, 010107
  14. Information explosion on complex networks and control, Eur. Phys. J. B
  15. Frontiers of Collaboration: The Evolution of Social Networking, Knowledge@Wharton
  16. Firefly Synchrony: A Behavioral Strategy to Minimize Visual Clutter, Science
  17. Invasion and expansion of cooperators in lattice populations: Prisoner's dilemma vs. Snowdrift games, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  18. Shared Social Responsibility: A Field Experiment in Pay-What-You-Want Pricing and Charitable Giving, Science
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary, Springer
    2. Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World, Morgan Kaufmann
    3. Modeling Biomolecular Networks in Cells: Structures and Dynamics, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2010.14 Next Issue TOP

  1. Language networks: Their structure, function, and evolution, Complexity
  2. Robustness versus evolvability: a paradigm revisited, HFSP J.
  3. Rapid Transition towards the Division of Labor via Evolution of Developmental Plasticity, PLoS Comput Biol
  4. Human genome at ten: Science after the sequence, Nature
  5. The Seductive Allure of Behavioral Epigenetics, Science
  6. Chagas disease, Nature
  7. Co-Operative Punishment Cements Social Cohesion, JASSS
  8. Almost-anywhere theories: Reductionism and universality of emergence, Complexity
  9. The Network of Mexican Cities, arXiv
    1. Generalised network clustering and its dynamical implications, arXiv
  10. Evolutionary design of oscillatory genetic networks, Eur. Phys. J. B
    1. Signal-regulated systems and networks, Complexity
  11. Why Bother with What Others Tell You? An Experimental Data-Driven Agent-Based Model, JASSS
  12. When Does a Newcomer Contribute to a Better Performance? A Multi-Agent Study on Self-Organising Processes of Task Allocation, JASSS
  13. Closing in on evaders, Nature
  14. Is high-frequency trading inducing changes in market microstructure and dynamics?, arXiv
    1. Accounting for risk of non linear portfolios, Eur. Phys. J. B
  15. The shadow of the future affects cooperation in a cleaner fish, Current Biology
    1. Elimination mechanism promotes cooperation in coevolutionary prisoner’s dilemma games, Physica A
  16. Chaotic Red Queen coevolution in three-species food chains, Proc. R. Soc. B
  17. An Agent-Based Model of Collective Emotions in Online Communities, arXiv
  18. Triadic Conceptual Structure of the Maximum Entropy Approach to Evolution, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Knowledge Diffusion and Innovation: Modelling Complex Entrepreneurial Behaviours, Edward Elgar Pub
    2. Complexity and the Nexus of Leadership: Leveraging Nonlinear Science to Create Ecologies of Innovation, Palgrave Macmillan
    3. Deep Complexity and the Social Sciences: Experience, Modelling and Operationality, Edward Elgar Pub
    4. The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future, Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Complexity Digest 2010.13 Next Issue TOP

  1. Putting organizational complexity in its place, McKinsey Quaterly
  2. Metrics: Do metrics matter?, Nature
  3. Metrics: A profusion of measures, Nature
  4. First replicating creature spawned in life simulator, New Scientist
  5. Predicting human activity, Nature
    1. Small But Slow World: How Network Topology and Burstiness Slow Down Spreading, arXiv
  6. The Prickly Side of Oxytocin, Science
  7. How to test your decision-making instincts, McKinsey Quaterly
  8. Darwinian Evolution of Cooperation via Punishment in the "Public Goods" Game, arXiv
    1. Anti-social punishment can prevent the co-evolution of punishment and cooperation, J Theor Biol.
  9. Cooperation in Large Networks: An Experimental Approach, SFI Working Papers
    1. What's in a crowd? Analysis of face-to-face behavioral networks, arXiv
  10. Plasticity, Nature
  11. Title: Evolution of Metabolic Networks: A Computational Framework, SFI Working Papers
  12. What’s driving Africa’s growth, McKinsey Quaterly
  13. A theory of leadership in human cooperative groups, J Theor Biol.
  14. Simulated epidemics in an empirical spatiotemporal network of 50,185 sexual contacts, arXiv
  15. Integrating fluctuations into distribution of resources in transportation networks, Eur. Phys. J. B
    1. Steady-state dynamics of the forest fire model on complex networks, Eur. Phys. J. B
  16. Regulatory networks and connected components of the neutral space: A look at functional islands, Eur. Phys. J. B
  17. Structural Drift: The Population Dynamics of Sequential Learning, SFI Working Papers
  18. Obituary: Martin Gardner (1914–2010), Nature
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Biology's First Law: The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems, Chicago University Press
    2. Game of Life Cellular Automata, Springer
    3. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, Harper
    4. The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future, University Of Chicago Press
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Complexity Digest 2010.12 Next Issue TOP

  1. A synthetic creation story, Nature News
    1. Synthetic genome resets biotech goals, Nature
    2. Life after the synthetic cell, Nature
  2. Nearby galaxies as pointers to a better theory of cosmic evolution, Nature
  3. Inductive Game Theory and the Dynamics of Animal Conflict, PLoS Comput Biol
  4. Humans: Why They Triumphed, The Wall Street Journal
  5. Between a chicken and a grape: estimating the number of human genes, Genome Biology 2010, 11:206
  6. Spatial Pattern Enhances Ecosystem Functioning in an African Savanna, PLoS Biol
  7. Futurists and their schools: A response to Ziauddin Sardar's ‘the namesake’, Futures
  8. The difference of being human: Morality, PNAS
  9. The role of mentorship in protégé performance, Nature
  10. Image information content characterization and classification by physical complexity, arXiv
  11. Guiding the Self-organization of Random Boolean Networks, arXiv
    1. The effect of scale-free topology on the robustness and evolvability of genetic regulatory networks, arXiv
  12. Coordination of distributed energy resource agents, Applied Artificial Intelligence
  13. Voluntary participation and cooperation in a collective-good game, Journal of Economic Psychology
  14. Variable valuations and voluntarism under group selection: An evolutionary public goods game, J Theor Biol.
  15. Multiscale modeling of granular flows with application to crowd dynamics, arXiv
  16. Modeling the mobility of living organisms in heterogeneous landscapes: Does memory improve foraging success?, arXiv
  17. Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations, Proc. R. Soc. B
  18. Pavlovian Prisoner's Dilemma - analytical results, the quasi-regular phase and spatio-temporal patterns, J Theor Biol.
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Networks: An Introduction, Oxford University Press
    2. Complexity and Knowledge Management Understanding the Role of Knowledge in the Management of Social Networks, Information Age Publishing
    3. Robustness: Anticipatory and Adaptive Human Systems, ISCE Publishing
    4. Adjacent Opportunities: Sparking Emergent Social Action, Emergent Publications
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Complexity Digest 2010.11 Next Issue TOP

  1. Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome, Science
    1. Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life", TED.com
    2. Molecular robots guided by prescriptive landscapes, Nature
  2. The FuturIcT Knowledge Accelerator: Unleashing the Power of Information for a Sustainable Future, arXiv
  3. Gene regulation: Breaking the second genetic code, Nature
    1. Deciphering the splicing code, Nature
    2. A formal test of the theory of universal common ancestry, Nature
  4. Selfish Games, Science
  5. Crisis, Contagion and Bailouts: What's Next for the European Union?, Knowledge@Wharton
  6. Principles and applications of swarm intelligence for adaptive routing in telecommunications networks, Swarm Intelligence
  7. Prestige Affects Cultural Learning in Chimpanzees, PLoS ONE
  8. First Person Experience of Body Transfer in Virtual Reality, PLoS ONE
  9. Network Diversity and Economic Development, Science
    1. Community Structure in Time-Dependent, Multiscale, and Multiplex Networks, Science
  10. Quantifying the Ease of Scientific Discovery, arXiv
  11. Animal Communication Helps Reveal Roots of Language, Science
  12. Landscapes of Infection, Science
  13. Punctuation effects in english and esperanto texts, Physica A
  14. Defector-accelerated cooperativeness and punishment in public goods games with mutations, arXiv
  15. Adaptive networks: coevolution of disease and topology, arXiv
  16. Structural Drift: The Population Dynamics of Sequential Learning, arXiv
  17. The Onset of Collective Behavior in Social Amoebae, Science
  18. Decentralize, adapt and cooperate, Nature
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Elegant Chaos, World Scientific Publishing Company
    2. Collective Decision Making: Views from Social Choice and Game Theory, Springer
    3. What's Luck Got to Do with It?: The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion, Princeton University Press
    4. From Physics to Control Through an Emergent View, World Scientific Publishing Company
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Complexity Digest 2010.10 Next Issue TOP

  1. Neanderthal genes 'survive in us', BBC News
  2. A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome, Science
  3. One Billion Euros to Unleash the Power of Information, ScienceDaily
    1. A telescope for spotting global crises, The Great Beyond
  4. Meaning-Making Neurons, Science
  5. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything, TED.com
    1. George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity, TED.com
    2. Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks, TED.com
  6. Comparing genomes to computer operating systems in terms of the topology and evolution of their regulatory control networks, PNAS
    1. Dynamics and Control of Diseases in Networks with Community Structure, PLoS Comput Biol
  7. Biological Systems Theory, Science
  8. The Envelope, Please: From Eight Great Innovative Tools, Which Ones Are the Winners?, Knowledge@Wharton
  9. The self-organization of genomes, Complexity
    1. Diversity, competition, extinction: the ecophysics of language change, arXiv
  10. Multi-scale Modularity in Complex Networks, arXiv
  11. The cause of universality in growth fluctuations, arXiv
  12. Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks, arXiv
  13. Poissonian bursts in e-mail correspondence, Eur. Phys. J. B
    1. Prediction of extreme events in the OFC model on a small world network, arXiv
    2. Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory, PLoS Biol
  14. How Cooperation Is Maintained in Human Societies: Punishment, Study Suggests, ScienceDaily
  15. Evolutionary Establishment of Moral and Double Moral Standards through Spatial Interactions, PLoS Comput Biol
    1. Cooperation and Punishment, Science
  16. Bacterial foraging algorithm with varying population, Biosystems
  17. The Quick And The Dead: When Reaction Beats Intention, Proc. R. Soc. B
  18. Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens, BBC News
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Thinking About Complexity: Grasping the Continuum through Criticism and Pluralism, ISCE Publishing
    2. Dynamics of Information Systems: Theory and Applications, Springer
    3. Disrupted Networks: From Physics to Climate Change, World Scientific Publishing Company
    4. Causal Models: How People Think About the World and Its Alternatives, Oxford University Press
    5. Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, The MIT Press
    6. Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating The Risk Intelligent Enterprise, Wiley
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Complexity Digest 2010.09 Next Issue TOP

  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
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Complexity Digest 2010.08 Next Issue TOP

  1. Human genome at ten, Nature
  2. Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks, Nature
    1. Pigeon 'backpacks' track flock voting, PhysOrg.com
  3. Flocking Behaviour: Agent-Based Simulation and Hierarchical Leadership, JASSS
  4. Complexity, arXiv
  5. Curvature in metabolic scaling, Nature
  6. In the Shadow of Jane Goodall, Science
  7. It Is Not The Entropy You Produce, Rather, How You Produce It, Phil. Tran. B
  8. Evolutionary games in the multiverse, arXiv
    1. Social Preference, Incomplete Information, and the Evolution of Ultimatum Game in the Small World Networks: An Agent-Based Approach, JASSS
  9. Global convergence of quorum-sensing networks, arXiv
  10. The Microbes Made Me Eat It, Science
    1. Metabolism: Fat from fructose, Nature
    2. Addiction: Junk-food junkies, Nature
  11. Under the Hood of Toyota's Recall: 'A Tremendous Expansion of Complexity', Knowledge@Wharton
  12. Grand Unified Theory of AI: New Approach Unites Two Prevailing but Often Opposed Strains in Artificial-Intelligence Research, ScienceDaily
  13. Evolutionary advantage of small populations on complex fitness landscapes, arXiv
  14. A message passing approach for general epidemic models, arXiv
    1. Influence of network dynamics on the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, arXiv
  15. A Vaccine Monkey Wrench?, Science
  16. Follow the Leader: How Those in Charge Make Themselves Known, ScienceDaily
  17. With His Memory Magnetically Erased, A Monkey Knows He Is Uncertain, Biol. Lett.
  18. Book Review: Complexity: A Guided Tour, JASSS
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Calculus of Selfishness, Princeton University Press
    2. Polystochastic Models for Complexity (Understanding Complex Systems), Springer
    3. Permutation Complexity in Dynamical Systems: Ordinal Patterns, Permutation Entropy and All That, Springer
    4. Nonlinear Oligopolies: Stability and Bifurcations, Springer
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Neuroscientists Show How Brain Stores Memories of Specific Fears, ScienceDaily
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Complexity Digest 2010.07 Next Issue TOP

  1. Ageing, Nature
  2. What's Old Is New: 1918 Virus Matches 2009 H1N1 Strain, Science
  3. Measuring Autonomy and Emergence via Granger Causality, Artificial Life
    1. Quantifying Emergence in term of Persistent Mutual Information, arXiv
  4. Looking Beyond Silicon, Science
    1. An Emergent Change of Phase for Electronics, Science
  5. Wireless Technology: The Birds and the Bees ... and 4G, Knowledge@Wharton
  6. Information dynamics shape the sexual networks of Internet-mediated prostitution, PNAS
  7. Spontaneous Synchrony Breaking, arXiv
  8. Codd's Self-Replicating Computer, Artificial Life
    1. Using Economy of Means to Evolve Transition Rules within 2D Cellular Automata, Artificial Life
  9. Science-Based Health Care, Science
  10. Patient Referral Patterns and the Spread of Hospital-Acquired Infections through National Health Care Networks, PLoS Comput Biol
  11. Evolutionary establishment of moral and double moral standards through spatial interactions, arXiv
    1. Emergence of Spatial Structure in Cell Groups and the Evolution of Cooperation, PLoS Comput Biol
    2. Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment, Science
  12. Characteristics of Pattern Formation and Evolution in Approximations of Physarum Transport Networks, Artificial Life
    1. Biomimetic Control Based on a Model of Chemotaxis in Escherichia coli, Artificial Life
  13. Epidemic prevalence on random mobile dynamical networks: individual heterogeneity and correlation, Eur. Phys. J. B
  14. Specialization Can Drive the Evolution of Modularity, PLoS Comput Biol
  15. Scaling Behaviors of Weighted Food Webs as Energy Transportation Networks, arXiv
  16. The Young, the Weak and the Sick: Evidence of Natural Selection by Predation, PLoS ONE
  17. The Suppression of Immune System Disorders by Passive Attrition, PLoS ONE
  18. 'Tarzan Economics': If Music Is Free, How Do Artists Get Paid?, Knowledge@Wharton
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Complex Time-Delay Systems: Theory and Applications (Understanding Complex Systems), Springer
    2. Causality, Meaningful Complexity and Embodied Cognition, Springer
    3. Evolutionary Algorithms and Chaotic Systems, Springer
    4. Exploration of a Nonlinear World: An Appreciation of Howell Tong's Contribution to Statistics, World Scientific Publishing Company
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Complexity Digest 2010.06 Next Issue TOP

  1. Quantum computers, Nature
  2. Why you shouldn't always follow the crowd, Nature
  3. Bioengineering: What to make with DNA origami, Nature
  4. Biodiversity Is Our Life, Science
  5. Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory, TED.com
    1. Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide, TED.com
    2. Joël de Rosnay: The Symbiotic Web, TEDxParis
  6. Is this the meaning of life?, guardian.co.uk
  7. Exotic matter, Nature
  8. Evolutionary game theory meets social science: Is there a unifying rule for human cooperation?, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. The paradox of cooperation benefits, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  9. On Rarity and Richness, Science
  10. Modeling complexity in musical rhythm, Complexity
  11. Altruism, Spite, and Greenbeards, Science
  12. Novel Cooperation Experimentally Evolved Between Species, Evolution
  13. The Ecological Relevance Of Sleep: The Trade-Off Between Sleep, Memory And Energy Conservation, Phil. Tran. B
  14. A micro-level simulation for the prediction of intention and behavior, Cognitive Systems Research
  15. Topological properties of commodities networks, Eur. Phys. J. B
  16. Evolution of Feedback Loops in Oscillatory Systems, arXiv
    1. Structural Sources of Robustness in Biochemical Reaction Networks, Science
  17. TV Ads May Be More Effective If We Pay Less Attention, ScienceDaily
  18. An Electrifying Discovery: New Material To Harvest Electricity From Body Movements, Innovations-report
    1. Water May Not Run Uphill, But It Practically Flies Off New Surface, Innovations-report
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Fractals and Multifractals in Ecology and Aquatic Science, CRC Press
    2. Ant Ecology, Oxford University Press
    3. Modeling Evolution: An Introduction to Numerical Methods, Oxford University Press
    4. Post Keynesian and Ecological Economics: Confronting Environmental Issues, Edward Elgar Publishing
    5. Community Ecology: Processes, Models, and Applications, Oxford University Press
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Complexity Digest 2010.05 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Hidden Fragility of Complex Systems: Consequences of Change, Changing Consequences, SFI Working Papers
  2. Systemic Risks in Society and Economics, SFI Working Papers
  3. Limits of Predictability in Human Mobility, Science
  4. Why We Conform, PLoS Biol
  5. Kevin Kelly tells technology's epic story, TED.com
  6. Under Microscope and Macroscope, Science
  7. An Investigation into the Cognition Behind Spontaneous String Pulling in New Caledonian Crows, PLoS ONE
  8. Evolution: Revenge of the hopeful monster, Nature
  9. Decoupling Environment-Dependent and Independent Genetic Robustness across Bacterial Species, PLoS Comput Biol
  10. Absolute Humidity and the Seasonal Onset of Influenza in the Continental United States, PLoS Biol
  11. El Farol Revisited, SFI Working Papers
  12. A Universal Trend of Reduced mRNA Stability near the Translation-Initiation Site in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes, PLoS Comput Biol
  13. Intelligent Infrastructure for Energy Efficiency, Science
  14. Evolution of ethnocentrism on undirected and directed Barabási–Albert networks, Physica A
  15. Effects of multiple gene control on the spread of altruism by group selection, arXiv
  16. Historical Costs of Coal-Fired Electricity and Implications for the Future, SFI Working Papers
  17. Mesoscopic Organization Reveals the Constraints Governing Caenorhabditis elegans Nervous System, PLoS ONE
  18. Identifying Prototypical Components in Behaviour Using Clustering Algorithms, PLoS ONE
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Complexity and Organizational Realities: Uncertainty and the Need to Rethink Management after the Collapse of Investment Capitalism, Routledge
    2. Nonlinear Science: The Challenge of Complex Systems, Springer
    3. Econophysics & Economics of Games, Social Choices and Quantitative Techniques, Springer
    4. Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probability on Everything You Do, McGraw-Hill
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Complexity Digest 2010.04 Next Issue TOP

  1. Networking: Four ways to reinvent the Internet, Nature
  2. Feeding the Future, Science
  3. Darwinian Evolution of Prions in Cell Culture, Science
  4. George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp, TED.com
  5. Simulation-Based Definitions of Emergence, JASSS
  6. The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment, Nature
  7. Gene Doping and Sport, Science
  8. Community detection in graphs, Physics Reports
    1. A Spatial Approach to Network Generation for Three Properties: Degree Distribution, Clustering Coefficient and Degree Assortativity, JASSS
  9. Competition drives cooperation among closely related sperm of deer mice, Nature
  10. The common patterns of nature, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  11. Complex networks: new trends for the analysis of brain connectivity, arXiv
  12. A Methodology for Complex Social Simulations, JASSS
    1. Bootstrapping Knowledge About Social Phenomena Using Simulation Models, JASSS
    2. Agent-Based Models and Simulations in Economics and Social Sciences: From Conceptual Exploration to Distinct Ways of Experimenting, JASSS
    3. What Do Agent-Based and Equation-Based Modelling Tell Us About Social Conventions: The Clash Between ABM and EBM in a Congestion Game Framework, JASSS
  13. The Effects of Landscape Modifications on the Long-Term Persistence of Animal Populations, PLoS ONE
  14. Cooperation and anisogamy, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. Altruism in Forest Chimpanzees: The Case of Adoption, PLoS ONE
    2. Feedback, punishment and cooperation in public good experiments, Games and Economic Behavior
    3. Evolution of cooperation in rotating indivisible goods game, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  15. The virtue of vagueness, Nature
  16. Local stability under evolutionary game dynamics, Theoretical Economics
    1. Orders of limits for stationary distributions, stochastic dominance, and stochastic stability, Theoretical Economics
    2. Experimental comparison of multi-stage and one-stage contests, Games and Economic Behavior
    3. Same-Sex Gaze Attraction Influences Mate-Choice Copying in Humans, PLoS ONE
  17. Can Power-Law Scaling and Neuronal Avalanches Arise from Stochastic Dynamics?, PLoS ONE
    1. Evidence of a general 2/3-power law of scaling leaf nitrogen to phosphorus among major plant groups and biomes, Proc. R. Soc. B
  18. Algorithmically independent sequences, Information and Computation
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Language as a Complex Adaptive System, Wiley-Blackwell
    2. Dynamics of Gambling: Origins of Randomness in Mechanical Systems, Springer
    3. Entropy, Search, Complexity, Springer Berlin Heidelberg
    4. Information and Complexity in Statistical Modeling, Springer New York
    5. Planning with Complexity: An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy, Routledge
    6. Cellular Automata Books Repository
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Complexity Digest 2010.03 Next Issue TOP

  1. Building a Cell, Nature
  2. Mutational robustness can facilitate adaptation, Nature
  3. A synchronized quorum of genetic clocks, Nature
  4. The Oxford Scenarios: Beyond the Financial Crisis, Oxford Saïd Business School
  5. Crisis in Haiti: Where Do We Go from Here?, Knowledge@Wharton
  6. Slime Mold Proves to Be a Brainy Blob, New York Times
    1. A life of slime, The Economist
    2. Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design, Science
  7. Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection, PLoS Biol
  8. Phylogenies reveal new interpretation of speciation and the Red Queen, Nature
  9. On the Universality of Zipf's Law, arXiv
  10. Computing Networks: A General Framework to Contrast Neural and Swarm Architectures, arXiv
  11. Protein Interaction Networks—More Than Mere Modules, PLoS Comput Biol
  12. The real holes in climate science, Nature
  13. How Synchronization Protects from Noise, PLoS Comput Biol
  14. Human strategy updating in evolutionary games, arXiv
    1. Promotion of cooperation induced by nonuniform payoff allocation in spatial public goods game, Eur. Phys. J. B
  15. Optimal Synchronization in Space, arXiv
  16. Differentiating information transfer and causal effect, Eur. Phys. J. B
  17. Altered microbe makes biofuel, Nature
  18. Live Coverage of Scientific Conferences Using Web Technologies, PLoS Comput Biol
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making, The MIT Press
    2. Control of Complex Systems: Structural Constraints and Uncertainty, Springer
    3. Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and the Earth, Oxford University Press
    4. Embracing Complexity in Design, Routledge
    5. Nonlinear Mesoscopic Elasticity: The Complex Behaviour of Rocks, Soil, Concrete, Wiley-VCH
    6. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, Yale University Press
    7. Recent Progress in Controlling Chaos, World Scientific
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Complexity Digest 2010.02 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Evolution and Development of the Universe, arXiv
  2. From the Semantic Web to social machines: A research challenge for AI on the World Wide Web, Artificial Intelligence
  3. From biological and clinical experiments to mathematical models, Philosophical Transactions A
  4. New year, new science, Nature
    1. 2020 visions, Nature
  5. Biological Aspects of Fundamental Reality, University of Cambridge Streaming Media Service
    1. Shifting Assumptions in Science, University of Cambridge Streaming Media Service
  6. The Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Emotions, HBR
  7. World view: Tomorrow never knows, Nature
    1. Are Leading Papers Of Better Quality? Evidence From A Natural Experiment, Oxford Econ. Papers
  8. 'Lifeless' Prions Capable of Evolutionary Change and Adaptation, ScienceDaily
  9. Coevolutionary games - A mini review, Biosystems
  10. Robustness in complex information systems: The role of information barriers in Boolean networks, Complexity
  11. Competing through organizational agility, McKinsey Quaterly
  12. Humans, Animals-It's One Health. Or Is It?, Science
    1. Questions Abound in Q-Fever Explosion in the Netherlands, Science
  13. Imitation explains the propagation, not the stability of animal culture, Proc. R. Soc. B
  14. Smart grids: The energy storage problem, Nature
  15. Quantum computation, quantum theory and AI, Artificial Intelligence
  16. The increased risk of predation enhances cooperation, Proc. R. Soc. B
    1. Cognitive and Motivational Requirements for the Emergence of Cooperation in a Rat Social Game, PLoS ONE
  17. Darwin And The Evolution Of Flowers, Phil. Tran. B
  18. New Evidence Of Culture In Wild Chimpanzees, ScienceDaily
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind, The MIT Press
    2. Stuff, Polity
    3. Simplifying Complex Networks: From a Clustering to a Coarse Graining Strategy, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
    4. Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior, Oxford University Press
    5. The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science, Simon & Schuster
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Complexity Digest 2010.01 Next Issue TOP

  1. BioLogistics and the strugge for efficiency: concepts and perspectives, Advances in Complex Systems
  2. News 2009, Nature
    1. 2009 Gallery: Images of the year, Nature
  3. Population Structure Induces a Symmetry Breaking Favoring the Emergence of Cooperation, PLoS Comput Biol
    1. Calculating Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations, PLoS Comput Biol
  4. Road planning with slime mould: If Physarum built motorways it would route M6/M74 through Newcastle, arXiv
  5. Group Chase and Escape, arXiv
  6. Reappraising Sexual Coevolution and the Sex Roles, PLoS Biol
  7. An Experiment on Prediction Markets in Science, PLoS ONE
  8. Ageing: Diet and longevity in the balance, Nature
  9. Evolutionary Plasticity and Innovations in Complex Metabolic Reaction Networks., PLoS Comput Biol
    1. Systematic Approximations for Genetic Dynamics, Advances in Complex Systems
  10. On the “Duel” Nature of History: Revisiting Contingency versus Determinism, PLoS Biol
  11. Predictive Analysis for Social Diffusion: The Role of Network Communities, arXiv
    1. Untangling the interplay between epidemic spreading and transmission network dynamic, arXiv
    2. Robustness of centrality measures under uncertainty: Examining the role of network topology, Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
  12. After Copenhagen, Nature
  13. Stochastic evolutionary dynamics of direct reciprocity, Proc. R. Soc. B
    1. Joint evolution of multiple social traits: a kin selection analysis, Proc. R. Soc. B
  14. Words as alleles: connecting language evolution with Bayesian learners to models of genetic drift, Proc. R. Soc. B
  15. “Deconstructing” Scientific Research: A Practical and Scalable Pedagogical Tool to Provide Evidence-Based Science Instruction, PLoS Biol
  16. ON/OFF and Beyond - A Boolean Model of Apoptosis, PLoS Comput Biol
  17. Reproducibility Distinguishes Conscious from Nonconscious Neural Representations, Science
  18. Complex dependencies in large software systems, Advances in Complex Systems
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics, Finance and the Social Sciences: Essays in Honour of John Barkley Rosser Jr, Springer
    2. Spatial Complexity, Informatics, and Wildlife Conservation, Springer
    3. Mathematical Analysis of Evolution, Information, and Complexity, Wiley-VCH
    4. Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, Harvard Business School Press
    5. What is Science?: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, University Press of America
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