Complexity Digest 2002.43

28-Oct-2002

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  1. Discounting: An Eye On The Future, Nature
  2. On The Joint Determination Of Biological And Economic Systems, Ecological Economics
  3. Profit Sharing As A Worker Discipline Device, Economic Modelling
  4. Rules For A Complex Quantum World, Scientific American
  5. The Computational Universe, Edge.org
  6. Non-Stationary Time Correlation In Complex Systems, Nonlin. Phenom In Complex Sys.
  7. Self­Reproduction in Asynchronous Cellular Automata, University of Hertfordshire
  8. Thinking Of Radio As Smart Enough To Live Without Rules, NYTimes
  9. Does Grammar Start Where Statistics Stop?, Science
  10. Increase in Autism Baffles Scientists, NYTimes
  11. Screensavers Crack Medical Puzzle, BBC News
  12. Evolution: The Good, The Bad And The Lonely, Nature
  13. Genomic Imprinting, Edge.org
  14. Immunology: Catch Us If You Can, Nature
  15. Scientists Reveal How CJD Kills Cells, BBC News
  16. Shifting Sands, Science News
  17. Materials Chemistry: Liquid Crystals Stack Up
    1. Stacking Of Conical Molecules With A Fullerene Apex Into Polar Columns, Nature
  18. Computer Fix Thyself Is Aim of I.B.M. Unit, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. British Concern to Help, U.S. Track Terrorists, NYTimes
    2. Terrorism's Missing Link, Australian Financial Review
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
      1. Public Conference  Calls
    4. Complexity: Art and Complex Systems, Art Exhibit

  1. Discounting: An Eye On The Future, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Suppose that a policy, if introduced today and maintained, would avoid significant damage to the environment and human welfare 100 years from now. The 'return on investment' is the avoidance of future damage to the environment and to people's well-being. Suppose that this policy costs $4 billion to implement, and that this cost is borne in its entirety today. Suppose also that the beneficial impacts - avoided damages to the environment - will be worth $800 billion to people alive 100 years from now. Should the policy be implemented?

  2. On The Joint Determination Of Biological And Economic Systems, Ecological Economics Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Scarce natural resources and our choices to protect or develop them make ecological and economic systems jointly determined human choices affect nature; nature affects human choices. This essay considers whether a dynamic model that integrates details of an economic system and an ecosystem with explicit feedback links between them yields significantly different results than does ignoring these links. The results suggest that integration does matter in each scenario, cutthroat trout populations differ in both magnitude and survival rates, depending on whether feedback is allowed between the two systems.

  3. Profit Sharing As A Worker Discipline Device, Economic Modelling Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: A synthesis of profit-sharing and efficiency wage models is constructed to provide a preliminary account of how a firm determines its pay parameters, and why it chooses to be a profit-sharing or a fixed-wage firm. We find that the properties of the worker's effort function crucially influence the firm's choices between different compensation systems, and that the adoption of a profit-sharing scheme cannot guarantee the attainment of full employment. Other findings of the paper also seem to be very different from those of Weitzman's share model.

  4. Rules For A Complex Quantum World, Scientific American Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The key to seeing truly quantum behavior in a complex system is to isolate the system extremely well from the rest of the world, preventing decoherence and preserving fragile quantum states. This isolation is relatively easy to achieve with small systems, such as atoms suspended in a magnetic trap in a vacuum, but is much more difficult with the larger ones in which complex behavior may be found. (…) These phenomena demonstrate that the simple rules of quantum mechanics can give rise to emergent principles governing complex behaviors.

     


  5. The Computational Universe, Edge.org Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: About a hundred and twenty years ago, Ludwig Boltzmann proposed an explanation for why the universe is complex. He said that it's just a big thermal fluctuation. His is a famous explanation: the monkeys-typing-on-typewriters explanation for the universe. (…)

    Now the monkeys are not typing into a typewriter, but into a computer keyboard. Let's suppose this computer is accepting what the monkeys are typing as instructions to perform computational tasks. (…) In the monkey-typing-into-the-computer universe, all sorts of complex things arise naturally by the natural evolution of the universe.


  6. Non-Stationary Time Correlation In Complex Systems, Nonlin. Phenom In Complex Sys. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: We develop the statistical theory of discrete non-stationary non-Markov random processes in complex systems. The objective of this paper is to find the chain of finite-difference non-Markov kinetic equations for time correlation functions (TCF) in terms of non-stationarity effects. The developed theory starts from careful analysis of time correlation through non-stationary dynamics of vectors of initial and final states and non-stationary normalized TCF. Another relevant result of our theory is a construction of a set of dynamic parameters of non-stationarity, which contains information on non-stationarity effects.

  7. Self­Reproduction in Asynchronous Cellular Automata, University of Hertfordshire Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Building on the work of Von Neumann, Burks, Codd, and Langton, among others, we introduce the first examples of asynchronous self­reproduction in cellular automata. Reliance on a global synchronous update signal has been a limitation of all solutions since the problem of achieving self­production in cellular automata was first attacked by Von Neumann half a century ago. Our results obviate the need for this restriction.

    We introduce a simple constructive mechanism to transform any cellular automata network with synchronous update into one with the same behavior but whose cells may be updated randomly and asynchronously. This is achieved by introduction of a synchronization substratum which locally keeps track of the passage of time in a local neighborhood in a manner that keeps all cells locally in­step.


  8. Thinking Of Radio As Smart Enough To Live Without Rules, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: (…) recent advances in a new technology called cognitive radio might make it possible to think about the spectrum as limitless. (…) networking ideas borrowed from the Internet - may someday eliminate radio's current hub-and-spoke model, in which high-powered transmitters blast signals to dumb receivers. Instead, intelligent radios - smart in that they are able to sense, respond to and work with other radios in their environment in order to transmit in the most efficient manner possible - would be linked in a web (…).

  9. Does Grammar Start Where Statistics Stop?, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Languages exhibit statistical structure--that is, they show inhomogeneities in the distribution of sounds, words, and phrases. (…)Whether statistical properties are important in language acquisition was largely set aside. Instead, research focused on how the child converges on the rules and other components of grammar using a combination of deductive (nonstatistical) reasoning and innate knowledge.

    (…) resurgence of interest in statistical learning, with evidence showing that infants and young children incorporate statistical cues when learning about the sounds of a language, vocabulary, and the structures in which words occur.


  10. Increase in Autism Baffles Scientists, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Trying to account for a drastic rise in childhood autism in recent years, a California study has found that it cannot be explained away by statistical anomalies or by a growing public awareness that might have led more parents to report the disorder.(...) As diagnoses of autism have increased throughout the nation, experts and parents have cast about for possible explanations, including genetics, birth injuries and childhood immunizations. The California study found that none of these factors could explain an increase of the magnitude reported there more than triple from 1987 to 1998. (...) "We know autism has a strong genetic component," said Portia Iversen, a founder of Cure Autism Now, a research and advocacy group in Los Angeles formed by parents of autistic children. "But we don't know what in the environment is interacting with genes to contribute to this huge increase in cases."

  11. Screensavers Crack Medical Puzzle, BBC News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The spare capacity of thousands of computers has helped scientists solve a complex problem - which could one day help them fight disease. It is one of the first occasions so-called "distributed computing", in which each volunteer machine is given a chunk of data to compute, has led to a research paper published in a top scientific journal. (...) Each long protein molecule is a sequence of amino acids folded into a complex, three-dimensional shape which is key to its particular role. Protein misfolding is thought to play a role in many diseases, including CJD and Alzheimer's.

  12. Evolution: The Good, The Bad And The Lonely, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: In game theory, 'loners' who choose not to participate in fact promote cooperation between players. The dynamics of the game show phase transitions and complex phenomena reminiscent of statistical physics. (…)

    Rather than allowing cooperation or defection as the only strategic alternatives, they added a third option - 'loners', who do not participate in the game but instead receive a small, independent pay-off corresponding to a modest income from some self-sufficient occupation. (…) Equivalently, one could regard the pay-off as the avoidance of a fixed cost for participating in the public-goods game.


  13. Genomic Imprinting, Edge.org Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: (…) genomic imprinting, which is a situation in which a DNA sequence can have conditional behavior depending on whether it is maternally inherited-coming from an egg-or paternally inherited-coming through a sperm. The phenomenon is called imprinting because the basic idea is that there is some imprint that is put on the DNA in the mother's ovary or in the father's testes which marks that DNA as being maternal or paternal, and influences its pattern of expression-what the gene does in the next generation in both male and female offspring.

  14. Immunology: Catch Us If You Can, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Tumors have ways of evading the body's immune system. A surprising example involves a mechanism that at first sight would seem to have the opposite effect and improve immune responsiveness.

    How can tumors develop when the immune system should instead attack and destroy them? Especially difficult to understand is the situation in which tumor cells display surface molecules that should identify them as abnormal . (…)describe a mechanism of tumor evasion that may also apply to the impairment of other immune defense systems, and which may well have clinical potential.


  15. Scientists Reveal How CJD Kills Cells, BBC News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Contirbuting Editor's note: It all started on February 11th 1985, when in Great Britain the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic began. These and other types of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) are caused by an infectious agents which (almost certainly) do not have a nucleic acid genome. Simply the infectious agent is just a protein (a prion). Until now it remains unclear which group these agent belongs to evolutionally and how does the disease develops. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is one of the forms of TSE which is deadly for humans. Some evidence of connections between BSE and CJD has been reported. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) belongs to this group of prion caused diseases. vCJD is a new disease which was first described in March 1996.

    Excerpts: Researchers may have uncovered why the "rogue" prion protein which causes BSE and vCJD is such an efficient destroyer of brain cells.(...) Every brain cell has methods to deal with proteins that have become faulty or simply too old to be trusted to do their job safely. One way is to "recycle them", by moving them to a part of the cell within the cytosol where they can be "degraded" and their parts used to make new proteins.(...) However, while the misfolded prion is efficiently dragged back into the cytosol, its particular shape makes it insoluble - extremely difficult for the cell to break down.


  16. Shifting Sands, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: (...)dune fields now trapped beneath grasses or other stabilizing vegetation speak of a drier past (...).

    A dearth of vegetation seems to be more important for dune formation than high winds, (...). That's because even breezes as slow as 16 kilometers per hour can move unanchored material, (...).

    Once sand piles up, dunes begin to form. (...) The spacing of small ripples that form on the windward face of a dune is related to the average distance that sand grains travel with each bounce.

    • Shifting Sands, Sid Perkins, Science News, Vol. 162, No. 16, p. 248, 02/10/19, also available in audible

  17. Materials Chemistry: Liquid Crystals Stack Up Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:  Many of the advances in LC research have been stimulated by fresh designs of molecules that form new LC phases. In their 'shuttlecock' molecules, Sawamura et al.2 have undoubtedly provided a new design principle for research teams to play with. (...)

    Many of the advances in LC research have been stimulated by fresh designs of molecules that form new LC phases. In their 'shuttlecock' molecules, Sawamura et al.2 have undoubtedly provided a new design principle for research teams to play with.


    1. Stacking Of Conical Molecules With A Fullerene Apex Into Polar Columns, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Polar liquid crystalline materials can be used in optical and electronic applications, and recent interest has turned to formation strategies that exploit the shape of polar molecules and their interactions to direct molecular alignment. (…) Here we show that the attachment of five aromatic groups to one pentagon of a C60 fullerene molecule yields deeply conical molecules that stack into polar columnar assemblies. (…) Our design strategy should be applicable to other molecules and yield a range of new polar liquid crystalline materials.

  18. Computer Fix Thyself Is Aim of I.B.M. Unit, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The devilish complexity of computers and - worse - networks of computers, has long been the bane of the engineers (…). And the complexity has exploded in recent years with the rise of the Internet.

    Computer scientists are tackling the challenge with new tools and fresh thinking. One approach is to borrow ideas from biology. The human body, after all, can be seen as a phenomenal processor of information complexity. (…)

    I.B.M. is taking a page from biology with a planned announcement today that it is creating an "autonomic computing" unit.


  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. British Concern to Help, U.S. Track Terrorists, NYTimes Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Autonomy's software uses statistical techniques to search for patterns of information across large masses of data. (…) require technology that will allow government agencies to share and analyze information, and that data-mining technologies will be a central part of the operation.

      The Autonomy software will make it possible to build automatically updated indexes of disparate databases that are now maintained separately by different government agencies.(…) "This system will be accessed by over 200,000 people ranging from experts on shipping to experts on North Korea."


    2. Terrorism's Missing Link, Australian Financial Review Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: It is one of President George Bush's regular arguments for ousting Saddam Hussein: the Iraqi dictator has ties to the Al Qaeda network, providing them with training and safe havens (…).

      Yet despite some intriguing leads, US intelligence officials say they haven't found the hard evidence of an active link.

      An intelligence report passed to the US from Czech Republic officials that one of the leaders of the September 11 hijackings, Mohamed Atta, may have met with an Iraqi intelligence agent last year in Prague has never been verified.


  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Contraceptive-Patch Worry: Disposal Concern Focuses On Wildlife, Science News, Vol. 162, No. 16, 02/10/19, also available in audible, Some scientists now worry that discarded contraceptive patches may leak synthetic estrogen into the environment, potentially harming wildlife.
      2. Spreading Consciousness, Science News, Vol. 162, No. 16, 02/10/19, also available in audible, A reanalysis of brain-imaging data links conscious visual experience to activity patterns throughout the brain, challenging the popular view that specific brain areas coordinate this mental state.
      3. Many-Layered Learning, Paul E. Utgoff and David J. Stracuzzi, Neural Comp. 2002 October 1; 14(10): p. 2497-2529
      4. Information-Geometric Measure for Neural Spikes, Hiroyuki Nakahara and Shun-ichi Amari, Neural Comp. 2002 October 1; 14(10): p. 2269-2316
      5. Coupling an aVLSI Neuromorphic Vision Chip to a Neurotrophic Model of Synaptic Plasticity: The Development of Topography, Terry Elliott and Jorg Kramer, Neural Comp. 2002 October 1; 14(10): p. 2353-2370
      6. Internet Access To Nature Sounds And Bird Videos At Cornell Lab Of Ornithology Made Possible By Gift From EMC Corp, Cornell University News Release, 02/10/21
      7. Radioactive Battery Provides Decades Of Power, NewScientist.com, 02/10/22
      8. Gene Network Sciences, Company Started And Funded By Cornell, Students, Gets $2 Million Federal Grant For Cancer Research, Cornell Press Release, 10/21/02, Relevant Web site:Gene Network Sciences
      9. Brain Tumour Causes Uncontrollable Paedophilia, Charles Choi, New Scientist, 02/10/21, Once the tumour had been removed, his sex-obsession disappeared, and he returned home to his wife.
      10. Powerful Attack Upset Global Internet Traffic, kurzweilai.net, 02/10/22, The "largest and most sophisticated assault on the servers in the history of the Internet" on Monday briefly crippled 9 of the 13 computer servers that manage global Internet traffic....
      11. Efficient Production By Sperm-Mediated Gene Transfer Of Human Decay Accelerating Factor (Hdaf) Transgenic Pigs For Xenotransplantation, Marialuisa Lavitrano, Maria Laura Bacci, Monica Forni, Davide , Lazzereschi, Carla Di Stefano, Daniela Fioretti, Paola Giancotti, Gabriella Marfe, Loredana Pucci, Luigina Renzi, Hongjun Wang, Antonella Stoppacciaro, Giorgio Stassi, Massimo Sargiacomo, Paola Sinibaldi, Valeria Turchi, Roberto Giovannoni, Giacinto Della Casa, Eraldo Seren, and Giancarlo Rossi, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA published 22 October 2002, 10.1073/pnas.222550299
      12. Near Strongly Resonant Periodic Orbits In A Hamiltonian System, Vassili Gelfreich, PNAS published 21 October 2002, 10.1073/pnas.212116699
      13. Experimental Evolution Of Learning Ability In Fruit Flies, Frederic Mery and Tadeusz J. Kawecki, PNAS published 21 October 2002, 10.1073/pnas.222371199
      14. Modularity, Individuality, And Evo-Devo In Butterfly Wings, Patricia Beldade, Kees Koops, and Paul M. Brakefield, PNAS published 21 October 2002, 10.1073/pnas.222236199
      15. Fractionating The Neural Substrate Of Cognitive Control Processes, Jean-Claude Dreher and Karen Faith Berman, PNAS published 21 October 2002, 10.1073/pnas.222193299
      16. Diverse Views Of 'Artificial Worlds' At Poptech Conference, kurzweilai.net, 02/10/20, "The real and the artificial are converging, becoming more intimate," said co-producer Bob Metcalfe. Speakers described wildly, diverse visions of this convergence.
      17. Tiny Optical Disc Could Store Five Movies, NewScientist.com, Oct. 18, 2002, Philips has been secretly developing the world's smallest optical disc, which will record, play back and erase data using the same precision blue lasers that are being developed for the next generation of high-definition video recorders.
      18. Microfluidic Large-Scale Integration, Todd Thorsen, Sebastian J. Maerkl, and Stephen R. Quake, Science, Vol. 298, Issue 5593, 02/10/18, p. 580
      19. Self-Assembly of Highly Phosphorylated Silaffins and Their Function in Biosilica Morphogenesis, Nils Kroger, Sonja Lorenz, Eike Brunner, Manfred Sumper, Vol. 298, Issue 5593, 02/10/18, p. 584
      20. New Insights into Neuron-Glia Communication, R. Douglas Fields and Beth Stevens-Graham, Vol. 298, Issue 5593, 02/10/18, p. 556
      21. System-Size Effects on the Collective Dynamics of Cell Populations with Global Coupling, Jun-nosuke Teramae, arXiv, Paper ID: nlin.AO/0210048, 2002-10-21
      22. Universal Power-law Decay in Hamiltonian Systems?. M. Weiss, L. Hufnagel, and R. Ketzmerick. arXiv.
      23. The Origin of Diffusion: the Case of Non Chaotic Systems. Fabio Cecconi, Diego del-Castillo-Negrete, Massimo Falcioni and Angelo. arXiv.
      24. Simple Model for the Dynamics of Correlations in the Evolution of Economic Entities Under Varying Economic Conditions. Marcel Ausloos, Paulette Clippe and Andrzej Pekalski. arXiv.
      25. Hierarchy of Chaotic Maps with an Invariant Measure and their Compositions. M. A. Jafarizadeh, S. Behnia. arXiv.
      26. An Intelligent Biological Information Management System, M. Palakal, S. Mukhopadhyay, J. Mostafa, R. Raje, M. N'Cho &  S. Mishra, Bioinformatics, Vol. 18, Issue 10, pp:1283-1288, Oct. 2002
      27. Finding Motifs In The Twilight Zone, U. Keich & P.A. Pevzner, Bioinformatics, Vol. 18, Issue 10, pp:1374-1381, Oct. 2002
      28. Newly Discovered Clouds Found Floating High Above Milky Way, ScienceDaily, Posted 10/21/2002
      29. Tiny Atomic Battery Could Run For Decades Unattended, ScienceDaily, Posted 10/18/2002
      30. Despite Lower CO2 Emissions, Diesel Cars May Promote More Global Warming Than Gasoline Cars, ScienceDaily, Posted 10/22/2002
      31. From Overshoot To Voltage Clamp, A. Huxley, Trends in Neurosc. , Vol. 25, No. 11, pp:553-558, Nov. 2002
      32. Playing The Devil's Advocate: Is The Hodgkin–Huxley Model Useful?, C. Meunier & I. Segev, Trends in Neurosc., Vol. 25, No 11, pp:558-563, Nov. 2002
      33. Many-Layered Learning, P. E. Utgoff & D. J. Stracuzzi, Neural Computation, Vol. 14, No 10, pp:2497-2529, Oct. 2002
      34. Chaos-Based Associative Retrieval And Identification Of Audio Information, A.M. Didovyk & K.V. Zakharchenko, Nonlin. Phenomena In Complex Sys., Vol.5, No.2, pp.196-203, June 2002

    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Genomics and the Future of Health and Society, Institute of Medicine, 02/10/14
      2. Organizational Change and Leadership, Institute of Medicine, 02/10/1
      3. 7th Experimental Chaos Conference, San Diego, Ca, 02/08/26-29, Video/Audio Report
      4. Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Edinburgh, UK, 02/08/04-11, Video/Audio Reports
      5. The Technology Frontier, Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation, 02/09/18
      6. Brookings Report Urges Congress to Revise President Bush's Homeland Security Proposal, A Brookings Press Briefing, 02/07/15, Event Video
      7. International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2002), Nashua, NH, 02/06/09-14 (video + mp3 downloadable audio)
      8. Understanding Complex Systems: Symposium Complexity in Physical and Biological Structures, Medicine & Ecology, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 02/05/13-15
      9. ROBOT: The Future of Flesh and Machine, Rodney A. Brooks, MIT AI Lab, Talk given at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences of the University of Sussex, May 14th, 2002.
      10. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998

       


    3. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Dynamical Neuroscience X: From Experiments and Models to Brain Theory, Orlando, Florida, 02/11/01-02
      2. Managing Complex Organizations In A Complex World, NECSI, Boston, MA, 02/11/14-15
      3. American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium on Chance Discovery: The Discovery and Management of Chance Events, North Falmouth, MA, USA, 02/11/15-17
      4. 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'02), 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'02), International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02), Singapore, 02/11/18-22
      5. Workshop on Modeling Complex Systems, University of Nevada, Reno, 02/11/20-21
        1. One-Day Course: Introduction to Complex Systems, Univ Nevada, Reno, 02/11/19
      6. Strengthening Your Capacity for Healthier Communities, PlexusInstitute, Los Angeles, 02/11/22-23
      7. International Conference on Systems, Development and Self-Organization (ICSDS'2002 ),Beijing, 02/11/30-12/01
      8. 23rd Army Science Conference (ASC): "Transformational Science & Technology for the Army....a race for speed and precision.", Orlando Fl, 02/12/02-05
      9. Managing the Complex IV, ISCE and FGCU, Fort Myers, FL, 02/12/07-10
      10. Artificial Life VIII, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 02/12/09-13
        1. 1st Workshop on the Modelling of Dynamical Hierarchies in Alife (WDH 2002)
      11. UK Special Interest Group on Multi-Agent Systems (UKMAS-02), Liverpool, UK, 02/12/18-19
      12. One-Week Intensive Course: Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems, NECSI, Cambridge, MA, 03/01
      13. Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS-36), Big Island, Hawaii, 03/01/06-09
      14. INSC 2003, International Nonlinear Sciences Conference Research and Applications in the Life Sciences,Vienna, Austria, 03/02/07-09
      15. 21st ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education, Hong Kong, 03/06/01-05
      16. 2003 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003), Chicago, IL,03/07/12-16
      17. 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Computational Synthesis: From Basic Building Blocks To High Level Functionality, Stanford, 03/03/24-27
      18. Uncertainty and Surprise: Questions on Working with the Unexpected, U. of Texas at Austin, Texas, 03/04/10-12
      19. SPIE's First International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, Santa Fe, NM, 03/06/01-04
      20. Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2003), Melbourne, Australia, 03/07/14-18
      21. 2003 IEEE/WIC Intl Joint Conf. Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Beijing, China, 03/10/13-17
      22. On the Prospects of Chaos Aware Traffic Modeling, A. Fekete, M. Marodi, G. Vattay, arXiv

      1. Public Conference  Calls Next Article Bookmark and Share

        1. Complicated and Complex Systems: What Would Successful National Health Care Reform Look Like?, PlexusCalls, 02/10/25, 1 - 2 pm EST
        2. Are Disease and Aging Information/Complexity Loss Syndromes?, PlexusCalls, 02/11/08, 1 - 2 pm EST
        3. The Complexity of Entrepreneurship: A Launchcyte Story, PlexusCalls, 02/11/22, 1 - 2 pm EST

    4. Complexity: Art and Complex Systems, Art Exhibit Bookmark and Share

      Complexity: Art and Complex Systems, SUNY, New Paltz, 02/09/14-11/24, COMPLEXITY is the second major museum exhibition about complex systems. It creates bridges across many branches of science and also offers a revolutionary intellectual vector that has ramifications for other disciplines such as art and philosophy.

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