Archive 2012

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Complexity Digest 2012.06 Next Issue TOP

  1. Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance, Science
  2. From Local to Global Dilemmas in Social Networks, PLoS ONE
  3. Universal Theory on Growth and Mixing, PNAS
  4. Using Protein Interaction Networks to Understand Complex Diseases, Computer
  5. Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government, TED.com
    1. Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence, TED.com
    2. Our Place in the Cosmos, Google Tech Talks
    3. Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work, TED.com
  6. The Future of Complexity Engineering, Central European Journal of Engineering
  7. Learning, Social Intelligence and the Turing Test - why an "out-of-the-box" Turing Machine will not pass the Turing Test, arXiv
  8. Experimental verification of Landauer’s principle linking information and thermodynamics, Nature
  9. The Logic of Fashion Cycles, PLoS ONE
    1. Adaptive strategies for cumulative cultural learning, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  10. Self-Organization at the Nanoscale Scale in Far-From-Equilibrium Surface Reactions and Copolymerizations, arXiv
  11. Complexity science and theory development for the futures field, Futures
  12. Entropy and equilibrium state of free market models, Eur. Phys. J. B
  13. Removing spurious interactions in complex networks, Phys. Rev. E
  14. Exploring complex networks by means of adaptive walkers, arXiv
  15. Identifying influential spreaders and efficiently estimating the number of infections in epidemic models: a path counting approach, arXiv
  16. The role of strong and weak ties in Facebook: a community structure perspective, arXiv
  17. Evolutionary game dynamics in populations with different learners, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  18. Win-Stay-Lose-Learn Promotes Cooperation in the Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma Game, PLoS ONE
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Noisy Information and Computational Complexity, Cambridge University Press
    2. Complexity, Analysis and Control of Singular Biological Systems, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2012.05 Next Issue TOP

  1. Alan Turing at 100, Nature
  2. Early Warning Signals for Critical Transitions: A Generalized Modeling Approach, PLoS Comput Biol
  3. Stability criteria for complex ecosystems, Nature
  4. A measure of individual role in collective dynamics, Scientific Reports
  5. Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future, TED.com
    1. Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate, TED.com
    2. Shlomo Benartzi: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow, TED.com
  6. Modeling the Adoption of Innovations in the Presence of Geographic and Media Influences, PLoS ONE
  7. The Robustness and Restoration of a Network of Ecological Networks, Science
  8. The case for open computer programs, Nature
  9. Encouraging Behavioral Diversity in Evolutionary Robotics: An Empirical Study, Evolutionary Computation
  10. Fly out-smarts man, arXiv
    1. Spread of Social Information and Dynamics of Social Transmission within Drosophila Groups, Current Biology
  11. Econophysics of a religious cult: the Antoinists in Belgium [1920-2000], arXiv
  12. Identification of the Social and Cognitive Processes Underlying Human Cumulative Culture, Science
  13. Evolution of the Earliest Horses Driven by Climate Change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Science
  14. Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization Related to Modest Reduction in Precipitation, Science
  15. Interaction Histories and Short Term Memory: Enactive Development of Turn-taking Behaviors in a Childlike Humanoid Robot, arXiv
  16. State concentration measure of quickness in Kauffman-type networks, arXiv
  17. Quantitative analyses of empirical fitness landscapes, arXiv
  18. Complexity of networks II: The set complexity of edge-colored graphs, Complexity
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, Pantheon
    2. Imagine: How Creativity Works, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    3. Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling, O'Reilly Media
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Complexity Digest 2012.04 Next Issue TOP

  1. How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Downloads, Twitter Mentions, and Citations, arXiv
    1. The Pulse of News in Social Media: Forecasting Popularity, arXiv
    2. An Exploration of Social Identity: The Geography and Politics of News-Sharing Communities in Twitter, NECSI
  2. Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire, Wired
    1. The mathematical equation that caused the banks to crash, The Observer
  3. Critical Truths About Power Laws, Science
  4. Evolution: Adapted to culture, Nature
  5. Stone Age Distributed Computing, arXiv
  6. The Dynamics of Internet Traffic: Self-similarity, Self-organization and Complex Phenomena, Advances in Complex Systems
  7. A Logic-Gated Nanorobot for Targeted Transport of Molecular Payloads, Science
  8. Health policy: Regulate alcohol for global health, Science
  9. A Tiny Window Opens Into Lake Vostok, While a Vast Continent Awaits, Science
  10. Effects of time window size and placement on the structure of aggregated networks, arXiv
  11. The smallest refrigerators can reach maximal efficiency, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor.
  12. Prions are a common mechanism for phenotypic inheritance in wild yeasts, Nature
  13. Peek into Isaac Newton's theology papers, New Scientist
  14. The Statistics of Urban Scaling and their Connection to Zipf's Law, SFI Working Papers
  15. Quantifying the complexity of random Boolean networks, arXiv
  16. Nonequilibrium phase transition of contact processes with the Kauffman NK model, Phys. Rev. E
  17. Tipping Points, SFI Working Papers
  18. Scaling Behavior of Threshold Epidemics, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age: An Overview with Implications to Urban Planning and Design, Springer
    2. Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive, Wiley
    3. Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    4. This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking, Harper Perennial
    5. Sociophysics: A Physicist's Modeling of Psycho-political Phenomena, Springer
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Complexity Digest 2012.03 Next Issue TOP

  1. Impossible reactions: Five chemistry rules broken, New Scientist
  2. Experimental evolution of multicellularity, PNAS
  3. Public health: The toxic truth about sugar, Nature
  4. Education of a model student, PNAS
  5. Ariel Garten: Know thyself, with a brain scanner, TED.com
    1. Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing, TED.com
  6. Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers, Nature
    1. Sex differences in intimate relationships, arXiv
  7. Collective motion, arXiv
    1. Multi-scale Inference of Interaction Rules in Animal Groups Using Bayesian Model Selection, PLoS Comput Biol
    2. Consensus in networks of mobile communicating agents, arXiv
  8. From Social Networks to Collaboration Networks: The Next Evolution of Social Media for Business, Forbes
    1. From Social Business To Superlinear Corporation, Information Week
  9. Evolving cooperation, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  10. Mixed Messages on Prices and Food Security, Science
  11. Knowledgeable individuals lead collective decisions in ants, J Exp Biol
  12. A review of evolutionary graph theory with applications to game theory, Biosystems
  13. Noise-induced volatility of collective dynamics, Phys. Rev. E
  14. Traffic Jam Economics, NYTimes
  15. The Role of Coevolution, Science
  16. Conditional strategies and the evolution of cooperation in spatial public goods games, arXiv
  17. The Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory, Cliodynamics
    1. War Games: Simulating Collins’ Theory of Battle Victory, Cliodynamics
    2. A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia, Cliodynamics
  18. 8 Wild Proposals to Relocate Endangered Species, Wired
    1. Animals get arty, New Scientist
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization, Doubleday
    2. I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World, Harper Perennial
    3. The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique, A Bradford Book
    4. The New Quantum Age: From Bell's Theorem to Quantum Computation and Teleportation, Oxford University Press
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Complexity Digest 2012.02 Next Issue TOP

  1. No entailing laws, but enablement in the evolution of the biosphere, arXiv
  2. Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security, Science
  3. Five technologies to watch, McKinsey Quaterly
  4. What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?, edge.org
  5. Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea, TED.com
    1. Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology, TED.com
    2. Sheena Iyengar: How to make choosing easier, TED.com
  6. Natural selection: A concept in need of some evolution?, Complexity
  7. Frontiers in biology, Nature
  8. Evolution of increased complexity in a molecular machine, Nature
  9. The h-index, or the academic equivalent of the stag's antlers, guardian.co.uk
  10. Characterizing Interdisciplinarity of Researchers and Research Topics Using Web Search Engines, arXiv
  11. Schelling, Hegel, and Evolutionary Progress, Perspectives on Science
  12. The evolutionary basis of human social learning, Proc. R. Soc. B
  13. Neuropsychological constraints to human data production on a global scale, Eur. Phys. J. B
  14. Complexity of networks (Reprise), Complexity
    1. The influence of assortativity on the robustness of signal-integration logic in gene regulatory networks, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  15. A correlational study assessing the relationships among information technology project complexity, project complication, and project success, Capella University
    1. A Network Perspective on Software Modularity, arXiv
  16. Evolution of public cooperation on interdependent networks: The impact of biased utility functions, arXiv
  17. The earthquakes network: the role of cell size, Eur. Phys. J. B
  18. Ubiquitousness of link-density and link-pattern communities in real-world networks, Eur. Phys. J. B
    1. Community overlays upon real-world complex networks, Eur. Phys. J. B
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners, Free Press
    2. Nonlinearity, Complexity and Randomness in Economics: Towards Algorithmic Foundations for Economics, Wiley-Blackwell
    3. Posthuman International Relations: Complexity, Ecologism and Global Politics, Zed Books
    4. The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World, Broadway
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Complexity Digest 2012.01 Next Issue TOP

  1. Crisis response: The new history, Nature
  2. Stop Signals Provide Cross Inhibition in Collective Decision-Making by Honeybee Swarms, Science
  3. The Open Knowledge Foundation: Open Data Means Better Science, PLoS Biol
  4. To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data, The Atlantic
  5. Paddy Ashdown: The global power shift, TED.com
  6. A Human Development Framework for CO2 Reductions, PLoS ONE
  7. Failure of Adaptive Self-Organized Criticality during Epileptic Seizure Attacks, PLoS Comput Biol
  8. The Economic Productivity of Urban Areas: Disentangling General Scale Effects from Local Exceptionality, SFI Working Papers
  9. Effective Theories for Circuits and Automata, SFI Working Papers
  10. Predictability of Evolutionary Trajectories in Fitness Landscapes, PLoS Comput Biol
  11. Unraveling the Obesity-Cancer Connection, Science
  12. Ohm’s Law Survives to the Atomic Scale, Science
  13. Causal Effects for Prediction and Deliberative Decision Making of Embodied Systems, SFI Working Papers
  14. Cooperation, structure, and hierarchy in multiadaptive games, Phys. Rev. E
  15. Computer Runtimes and the Length of Proofs: On an Algorithmic Probabilistic Application to Waiting Times in Automatic Theorem Proving, arXiv
  16. Incentives and regulations in bike-sharing systems with stations of finite capacity, arXiv
  17. Chemotaxis when Bacteria Remember: Drift versus Diffusion, PLoS Comput Biol
  18. How comedy audiences learned to laugh with science, rather than at it, The Guardian
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Coherence in the Midst of Complexity: Advances in Social Complexity Theory, Palgrave Macmillan
    2. Networks, Complexity and Internet Regulation: Scale-Free Law, Edward Elgar Pub
    3. Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities, Oxford University Press
    4. Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done, Perigee Trade
    5. Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need to Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy, Little, Brown and Company
    6. Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics, Wiley
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