Complexity Digest 2006.14

03-Apr-2006

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  1. Welcome to the Machine, NY Times
    1. Quantum Mechanics In The Brain, Nature
  2. Changing Sides Or Changing Minds? Party Identification And Policy Preferences In The American Electorate, Ameri. J. Polit. Sc.
  3. Market Efficiency and the Long-Memory of Supply and Demand: Is Price Impact Variable and Permanent or Fixed and Temporary?, SFI Working Papers
  4. Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL, ZDNet UK
    1. Chip Ramps Up Neuron-To-Computer Communication, New Scientist
  5. Strategic Sustainable Brain, KurzweilAI.net
    1. Is AI Near a Takeoff Point?, KurzweilAI.net
    2. Singularities and Nightmares
  6. Life Begins At N=40, New Scientist
  7. Chaos = Order: WUSTL Physicists Make Baffling Discovery - Pandemoniumm On Demand, Washington University in St. Louis News & Information
    1. Chaos Like You've Never Seen It Before, New Scientist
  8. In a Jumble of Grains, a Good Hard Shake Restores Order, Science
  9. Computer Model Maps Strengths, Weaknesses Of Nanotubes, ScienceDaily
    1. Semiconductor Advance May Help Reclaim Energy From 'Lost' Heat, Science
  10. Stem Cells and Their Niches, Science
    1. Stem Cells From Testes: Could It Work?, Nature
    2. Stem Cells And Cancer: Two Faces Of Eve, Cell
  11. An Antibody Paradox, Resolved, Science
  12. 'More Genes' Needed To Make Life, BBC News
    1. Hierarchical Self-Organization in the Finitary Process Soup, SFI Working Papers
    2. Eukaryotic Evolution, Changes And Challenges, Nature
    3. Chance And Necessity In The Evolution Of Minimal Metabolic Networks, Nature
  13. New Signs of Ancient Life in Another Martian Meteorite?, Science
  14. Ecosystems As Evolutionary Complex Systems: Network Analysis of Fitness Models, Environmental Modelling & Software
    1. Altruism Through Beard Chromodynamics, Nature
  15. How Does The Brain Know What The Right Hand Is Doing?, ScienceDaily
  16. Los Alamos, UW Research Paints Grim Picture Of Bird Flu Pandemic, Seattle Post Intelligencer/AP
  17. Lab-Grown Bladders 'A Milestone', BBC News
  18. Nano-Guns, Nano-Germs, and Nano-Steel, KurzweilAI.net
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Networks, Terrorism, and Global Insurgency, Antiwar.com
    2. Defense Leader Thanks Lawmakers for Support of Special Ops Forces, American Forces Press Service
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Call for Papers - Course/Book Announcements

  1. Welcome to the Machine, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Boris Kulikov
    Book report on: 'Programming the Universe,' by Seth Lloyd (...) tackles computer logic, thermodynamics, chaos theory, complexity, quantum mechanics, cosmology, consciousness, sex and the origin of life (...). Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering at M.I.T., takes as his topic the fundamental workings of the universe, which he thinks has been horribly misunderstood. Scientists have looked at it as a ragtag collection of particles and fields while failing to see what it is as a majestic whole: an enormous computer. Every physical event, everywhere, feeds information into it. And the output of the cosmic computer is nothing less than reality itself.

    1. Quantum Mechanics In The Brain, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Why should evolution have turned to quantum computation, so fickle and capricious, if classical neural-network computations are evidently entirely sufficient to deal with the problems encountered by nervous systems?

      The empirical demonstration of slowly decoherent and controllable quantum bits in neurons connected by electrical or chemical synapses, or the discovery of an efficient quantum algorithm for computations performed by the brain, would do much to bring these speculations from the 'far-out' to the mere 'very unlikely'. Until such progress has been made, there is little reason to appeal to quantum mechanics (...).

  2. Changing Sides Or Changing Minds? Party Identification And Policy Preferences In The American Electorate, Ameri. J. Polit. Sc. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Scholars have long debated the individual-level relationship between partisanship and policy preferences. We argue that partisanship and issue attitudes cause changes in each other, but the pattern of influence varies systematically. Issue-based change in party identification should occur among individuals who are aware of party differences on an issue and find that issue to be salient. Individuals who are aware of party differences, but do not attach importance to the issue, should evidence party-based issue change. Those lacking awareness of party differences on an issue should show neither effect. (...)

  3. Market Efficiency and the Long-Memory of Supply and Demand: Is Price Impact Variable and Permanent or Fixed and Temporary?, SFI Working Papers Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: In this comment we discuss the problem of reconciling the linear efficiency of price returns with the long-memory of supply and demand. We present new evidence that shows that efficiency is maintained by a liquidity imbalance that co-moves with the imbalance of buyer vs. seller initiated transactions.(...)

  4. Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL, ZDNet UK Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Work on machine intelligence started with chess, and Maniac 1, the first chess program to beat a human player, was demonstrated in 1956 by Stanislaw Ulam at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US. This was an early success in the quest for machine intelligence that started a long sequence of work on chess-playing computers by many researchers around the world.

    In 1966 Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT developed the first computer program capable of engaging in a conversation with a human ˇX Eliza. This clever program was able to hold a seemingly intelligent conversation with a human, and many felt that given enough computer power and a large enough vocabulary these algorithms would make it possible for a machine to meet Turing's test for intelligence.

    1. Chip Ramps Up Neuron-To-Computer Communication, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: A specialised microchip that could communicate with thousands of individual brain cells has been developed by European scientists.

      The device will help researchers examine the workings of interconnected brain cells, and might one day enable them to develop computers that use live neurons for memory.

      The computer chip is capable of receiving signals from more than 16,000 mammalian brain cells, and sending messages back to several hundred cells.

  5. Strategic Sustainable Brain, KurzweilAI.net Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The human brain faces a challenging future. To cope with accelerating nanotech- and biotech-based developments in an increasingly complex world, compete with emerging superintelligence, and maintain its performance and sustainability as people live longer, the fragile human brain will need major enhancements: a backup system, eliminating degenerative processes, direct mind-linkup to ubiquitous computing networks, error-correction for memory, and a global Net connection with remote neural access. (...)

    Executive Statement of the Brain

    1. Is AI Near a Takeoff Point?, KurzweilAI.net Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Computers built by nanofactories may be millions of times more powerful than anything we have today, capable of creating world-changing AI in the coming decades. But to avoid a dystopia, the nature (and particularly intelligence) of government (a giant computer program -- with guns) will have to change. (...)

      In the meantime, purely synthetic computer-based artificial intelligence has been proceeding apace, beating Kasparov at chess, proving a thorny new mathematical theorem that had eluded any human mathematician, and driving off-road vehicles 100 miles successfully, in the past decade.


    2. Singularities and Nightmares Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Options for a coming singularity include self-destruction of civilization, a positive singularity, a negative singularity (machines take over), and retreat into tradition. Our urgent goal: find (and avoid) failure modes, using anticipation (thought experiments) and resiliency -- establishing robust systems that can deal with almost any problem as it arises. (...)

      In times to come, the worst dangers to civilization may not come from clearly identifiable and accountable adversariesˇXwho want to win an explicit, set-piece competitionˇXas much as from a general democratization of the means to do harm.

  6. Life Begins At N=40, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Hollywood tends to portray mathematical geniuses as young, troubled and charismatic- (...). But this myth was blown apart last week with the award of the most prestigious prize in maths to a 78-year-old Swede. Mathematics is becoming ever more sophisticated, so that breakthroughs often require combining ideas from disparate areas of the mathematical canon. Mastering these techniques means experience is what really counts.

    In 1991, while in his sixties, he proved (...) the existence of something called a strange attractor in chaos theory. Strange attractors are the essence of chaos: (...).

  7. Chaos = Order: WUSTL Physicists Make Baffling Discovery - Pandemoniumm On Demand, Washington University in St. Louis News & Information Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: While working on their model - a network of interconnected pendulums, or "oscillators" - the researchers noticed that when driven by ordered forces the various pendulums behaved chaotically (...). This was unexpected - shouldn't synchronized forces yield synchronized pendulums?

    But then came the real surprise: When they introduced disorder - forces were applied at random to each oscillator - the system became ordered and synchronized.

    "The thing that is counterintuitive is that when you introduce disorder into the system - when the [forces on the pendulums] act at random - the chaos that was present before disappears and there is order," (...).

    1. Chaos Like You've Never Seen It Before, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Harvard chemist and physicist Eric Heller has created an mind-blowing image that simulates quantum chaos FEAST your eyes on quantum randomness. This image, called Random Sphere I, was created by Harvard University chemist and physicist Eric Heller. It shows waves randomly and repeatedly superposed on the surface of a sphere, simulating quantum chaos.

  8. In a Jumble of Grains, a Good Hard Shake Restores Order, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Whether they're chess pieces on a board or nuts in a jar, things usually move and mix when shaken. But vibrations can cause flowing beads to "freeze" into an orderly pattern like atoms in a crystal, a pair of physicists reports. The surprising observation could lead to deeper insights into disorderly solids such as glasses, in which the atoms or molecules are locked or "jammed" into a random state because they lack the energy to reach a more orderly one.

  9. Computer Model Maps Strengths, Weaknesses Of Nanotubes, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: In theory, carbon nanotubes are 100 times stronger than steel, but in practice, scientists have struggled make nanotubes that live up to those predictions, in part, because there are still many unanswered questions about how nanotubes break and under what conditions. Because nanotubes are single molecules - about 80,000 times smaller than a human hair - finding out what makes them break involves the study of molecular bonds, atomic dynamics and complex quantum phenomena. The fact that there are hundreds of different kinds of nanotubes, sometimes with radically different properties, adds to the complexity. (...)

    1. Semiconductor Advance May Help Reclaim Energy From 'Lost' Heat, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Harnessing even a fraction of the waste heat given off by engines, boilers, and other high-temperature machines could save billions of dollars a year in energy costs. Researchers are counting on thermoelectrics--semiconductor devices that turn heat into electricity--to perform that trick. First, however, these devices must do their job much more efficiently.

      Two years ago, a group led by Mercouri Kanatzidis, a chemist at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, took a huge stride in that direction by unveiling a thermoelectric semiconductor with higher energy-conversion properties than any such bulk material ever invented.

  10. Stem Cells and Their Niches, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: A constellation of intrinsic and extrinsic cellular mechanisms regulates the balance of self-renewal and differentiation in all stem cells. Stem cells, their progeny, and elements of their microenvironment make up an anatomical structure that coordinates normal homeostatic production of functional mature cells. Here we discuss the stem cell niche concept, highlight recent progress, and identify important unanswered questions. We focus on three mammalian stem cell systems where large numbers of mature cells must be continuously produced throughout adult life: intestinal epithelium, epidermal structures, and bone marrow.

    1. Stem Cells From Testes: Could It Work?, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Mice cells hint at potential for therapeutic strategy.

      On Friday 24 March, researchers at the Georg August University of Goettingen in Germany announced they had found a source of reprogrammable cells in the testes of adult mice. By Sunday morning, more than ten companies had e-mailed senior team member Gerd Hasenfuss about collaborating on future work.

    2. Stem Cells And Cancer: Two Faces Of Eve, Cell Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: Recent evidence suggests that a subset of cancer cells within some tumors, the so-called cancer stem cells, may drive the growth and metastasis of these tumors. Understanding the pathways that regulate proliferation, self-renewal, survival, and differentiation of malignant and normal stem cells may shed light on mechanisms that lead to cancer and suggest better modes of treatment.

  11. An Antibody Paradox, Resolved, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Lymphocytes are the epitome of migrant cells in the body, coursing through blood and lymphatic vessels, (...). Yet the numbers of these highly mobile populations of immune cells--B and T lymphocytes and natural killer cells--must be balanced and maintained to sustain lymphoid homeostasis. In the absence of such balance, autoimmunity or the failure to respond to an infection may result. (...). As it turns out, these antibodies paradoxically enhance the potency of the cytokine in vivo and disrupt lymphoid homeostasis.

  12. 'More Genes' Needed To Make Life, BBC News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Scientists trying to make artificial life forms in the lab may have more work ahead of them than they thought.

    The simplest life forms could require twice as many genes to survive than was previously believed, a research team claims in the journal Nature.

    The "minimal genome" is the least number of genes an organism needs to survive in its environment.

    The traditional way of identifying essential genes may label some as expendable when they are not.

    1. Hierarchical Self-Organization in the Finitary Process Soup, SFI Working Papers Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: Current analyses of genomes from numerous species show that the diversity of an organism’s functional and behavioral characters is not proportional to the number of genes that encode the organism. We investigate the hypothesis that the diversity of organismal character is due to hierarchical organization. We do this with the recently introduced model of the finitary process soup, which allows for a detailed mathematical and quantitative analysis of the population dynamics of structural complexity. Here we show that global complexity in the finitary process soup is due to the emergence of successively higher levels of organization, that the hierarchical structure appears spontaneously, and that the process of structural innovation is facilitated by the discovery and maintenance of relatively noncomplex, but general individuals in a population.

    2. Eukaryotic Evolution, Changes And Challenges, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The idea that some eukaryotes primitively lacked mitochondria and were true intermediates in the prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition was an exciting prospect. It spawned major advances in understanding anaerobic and parasitic eukaryotes and those with previously overlooked mitochondria. But the evolutionary gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes is now deeper, and the nature of the host that acquired the mitochondrion more obscure, than ever before.

    3. Chance And Necessity In The Evolution Of Minimal Metabolic Networks, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: It is possible to infer aspects of an organism's lifestyle from its gene content. Can the reverse also be done? Here we consider this issue by modelling evolution of the reduced genomes of endosymbiotic bacteria. The diversity of gene content in these bacteria may reflect both variation in selective forces and contingency-dependent loss of alternative pathways. Using an in silico representation of the metabolic network of Escherichia coli, we examine the role of contingency by repeatedly simulating the successive loss of genes while controlling for the environment.

  13. New Signs of Ancient Life in Another Martian Meteorite?, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: They're back. Ten years ago, astrobiologist David McKay of the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, and colleagues found potentially life-generated minerals, organic matter, and even wormy-looking relics in martian meteorite ALH84001. Now the mini-Martians have returned with a twist. At the meeting, much the same group presented new evidence of organic remains of life in another martian meteorite. And they're not alone. This week, another group published entirely independent, inorganic evidence of microbial life in the same meteorite.

  14. Ecosystems As Evolutionary Complex Systems: Network Analysis of Fitness Models, Environmental Modelling & Software Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Understanding and managing ecosystems as biocomplex wholes is the compelling scientific challenge of our times. Several different system-theoretic approaches have been proposed to study biocomplexity and two in particular, Kauffman's NK networks and Patten's ecological network analysis, have shown promising results. This research investigates the similarities between these two approaches (...)

    1. Altruism Through Beard Chromodynamics, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: However, recognition of altruists could provide an alternative route towards the evolution of altruism. Arguably the simplest recognition system is a conspicuous, heritable tag, such as a green beard. Despite the fact that such genes have been reported, the 'green beard effect' has often been dismissed because it is unlikely that a single gene can code for altruism and a recognizable tag. Here we model the green beard effect and find that if recognition and altruism are always inherited together, the dynamics are highly unstable, leading to the loss of altruism.

  15. How Does The Brain Know What The Right Hand Is Doing?, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: (...) how the brain knows where limbs are without looking at them. You don't have to watch your legs and feet when you walk. Your brain knows where they are. For decades scientists have debated two options for how the brain achieves this: (1) the outflow hypothesis says that the brain monitors signals it sends to the muscles telling them how strongly to contract, and uses this to predict where the limb has moved to; (2) the inflow hypothesis suggests that the brain relies on information from sensors within tissues (...) provides evidence that outflow is involved. (...)

  16. Los Alamos, UW Research Paints Grim Picture Of Bird Flu Pandemic, Seattle Post Intelligencer/AP Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Left unchecked, a global outbreak of bird flu could infect 54 percent of the U.S. population and peak in just over two months, while a less-contagious strain could affect a third of the population and peak after 117 days, a new report predicts.

    Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Washington used supercomputers to show the rapid spread of a mutated form of bird flu - a strain that currently does not exist. The research also looked into how to slow the spread to give the vaccine industry more time to respond.

  17. Lab-Grown Bladders 'A Milestone', BBC News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: US scientists have successfully implanted bladders grown in the laboratory from patients' own cells into people with bladder disease.

    The researchers, from North Carolina's Wake Forest University, have carried out seven transplants, and in some the organ is working well years later.

    The achievement, details of which have been published online by The Lancet, is being described as a "milestone".

    The team is now working to grow organs including hearts using the technique.

  18. Nano-Guns, Nano-Germs, and Nano-Steel, KurzweilAI.net Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Powered by molecular manufacturing, near-future wars may threaten our freedom, our way of life, and even our survival. Superior military technology allowed the Spanish to conquer the Incan empire in 1532. Could today's most powerful civilization, the United States, be just as easily conquered by a nano-enabled attacker? (...)

    These advantages can be categorized as follows (with items from 1532 in parentheses):

    • Battle technology (guns, steel weapons, and horses)
    • Physical fitness (infectious diseases)
    • Transportation technology (maritime)
    • Effective command and control (centralized organization)
    • Communications technology (writing)
    Originally published in Nanotechnology Perceptions: A Review of Ultraprecision Engineering and Nanotechnology, Volume 2, No. 1, March 27 2006.

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

    1. Networks, Terrorism, and Global Insurgency, Antiwar.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: A collection of essays from leading researchers in the fields of counterterrorism, insurgencies, and organized crime, Networks, Terrorism, and Global Insurgency is a revealing and sometimes provocative book that tackles these seminal issues from a variety of perspectives, concentrating on extremist groups from around the globe - everyone from al-Qaeda to the Chechens to the IRA - while also offering theoretical insights into the developing trends in collaboration between terrorists, criminals, and ideologues.

    2. Defense Leader Thanks Lawmakers for Support of Special Ops Forces, American Forces Press Service Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Ultimate victory in the Long War requires the U.S. military to adopt more unconventional and indirect approaches in the way it fights, and the Defense Department is doing just that, the Pentagon's top special operations official told a Senate panel here today.

      In testimony prepared for delivery to the emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee of the Senate Armed Service's Committee, Thomas W. O'Connell said the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review sets a course for continued special operations transformation from a reactive force with regional capabilities to a pre-emptive global force.


      Editor's Note: ''Long War'' is now what used to be the ''War Against Terror''? Does that imply that the main emphasis now is the indefinite extension of presidential powers during a time of war?

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    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Chemical Carnot Cycles, Landauer’s Principle, and the Thermodynamics of Natural Selection, D. Eric Smith, SFI Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP 06-03-011
      2. Qubit Complexity of Continuous Problems, A. Papageorgiou, J. F. Traub, SFI Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP 06-03-010
      3. A Model of the Ethylene Signaling Pathway and its Gene Response in Arabidopsis thaliana: Noise-Filtering Properties, José Diaz, Elena R. Alvarez-Buylla, SFI Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP 06-03-009
      4. Dynamic Patterns of Gene Regulation I: Simple Two Gene Systems, Stefanie Widder, Josef Schicho, Peter Schuster, SFI Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP 06-03-007
      5. Scans Suggest IQ Scores Reflect Brain Structure, Jim Giles, 06/03/30, Nature 440, 588-589. Research results reignite intelligence controversy. (...), suggests that performance in IQ tests is associated with changes in the brain during adolescence., DOI: 10.1038/440588b
      6. Neuroscience: Rewinding The Memory Record, Laura L. Colgin, Edvard I. Moser, 06/03/30, Nature 440, 615-617. How does the brain store sequences of experience? Clues come from brain recordings of rats running along a track. The animals' memories seem to be consolidated in an unexpected way as they rest between runs., DOI: 10.1038/440615a
      7. Materials Science: Nanostructures In A New League, John J. Rehr, 06/03/30, Nature 440, 618-619. Aperiodic materials do not surrender details of their structure as readily as do their crystalline counterparts. The latest computational solution to this problem brings aspects of 'the beautiful game' into play., DOI: 10.1038/440618a
      8. How Fast Was Wild Wheat Domesticated?, Ken-ichi Tanno, George Willcox, 06/03/31, Science: 1886. The abundance of wild shattered wheat spikelets in archaeological sites in the Near East implies that domestication of cereals started early but proceeded slowly.
      9. Changes in Surface Water Supply Across Africa with Predicted Climate Change, Maarten de Wit, Jacek Stankiewicz, 06/03/31, Science : 1917-1921. Published online 2 March 2006(in Science Express Reports) Simulations of future precipitation imply that reduced stream flow will further restrict water availability across much of sub-Saharan Africa over the next century., DOI: 10.1126/science.1119929
      10. Sleep Report Opens Eyes - A Lack Of Shut-Eye Is Costing Lives And Dollars., Helen Pearson, 06/04/05, Nature News
      11. Complex Population Dynamics And Complex Causation: Devils, Details And Demography, T. G. Benton, S. J. Plaistow, T. N. Coulson, 2006/03/24, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3495
      12. Nanotech Risks Opening Pandora's Box: Weapons Of Mass Destruction On An Unprecendented Scale, R. Jaques, 2006/03/27, vnunet.com
      13. Phishers Stick The Boot Into World Cup Fans: Beware Of Emails Bearing Gifts, R. Jaques, 2006/03/27, vnunet.com
      14. Physician Experience Related To Accurate Identification Of Third Heart Sound, 2006/03/28, ScienceDaily & University of California - San Francisco
      15. Researchers Get Neurons And Silicon Talking, 2006/03/28, ScienceDaily & IST Results
      16. Scientists Show That Children Think Like Scientists, 2006/03/29, Innovations-report & Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      17. Division Of Labour And Colony Efficiency In Social Insects: Effects Of Interactions Between Genetic Architecture, Colony Kin Structure And Rate Of Perturbations, M. Waibel, D. Floreano, S. Magnenat, L. Keller, 2006/03/29, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3513
      18. Building Reputation: Why Governments Fight Some Separatists But Not Others, B. F. Walter - bfwalteraucsd.edu, Apr. 2006, American Journal of Political Science, DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2006.00186.x
      19. The Internet And Civil Society: Environmental And Labour Organizations In Hong Kong, Y.-W. Chu, J. T.H. Tang, Dec. 2005, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2005.00625.x
      20. Application Of Chaos Game Representation To Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, T. Suzuki - suzukiad.dendai.ac.jp, T. Ikeguchi, M. Suzuki, Mar. 2006, Fractals [Complex Geometry, Patterns, and Scaling in Nature and Society], DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X06003064
      21. Who Controls The Internet? Illusions Of A Borderless World, J. Goldsmith, T. Wu, Mar. 2006, Book Announcement, Oxford Univ. Press
      22. Comparing Iraq To Vietnam: Recognition, Recall, And The Nature Of Cohort Effects, H. Schuman - hschumanaumich.edu, Amy D. Corning, Spring 2006, Public Opinion Quarterly, DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfj010

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      1. Spring School in Complexity Science, Southampton, UK, 06/03/29-04/12
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      19. FIAS Summer School - Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 06/08/05-27
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      27. 6th Intl Conf on Simulated Evolution and Learning , Hefei, China, 06/10/15-18
      28. 3rd International Workshop on Complexity and Philisophy, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 07/02/22-23
      29. Summer School In Complexity Science, London, UK, 07/07/08-17

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      1. Chaos and Complexity Resources for Students and Teachers, 06/03/01
      2. MSc Complexity Science: Systems Thinking from New Biology to Novel Computation, Southampton, UK
      3. Volume Four Complexity and Knowledge Management: Understanding the Role of Knowledge in the Management of Social Networks, ISCE Managing the Complex Book Series
      4. New Issue of Emergence: Complexity & Organization (E:CO), Volume 7 Numbers 3 & 4, 2005 Special Double Issue: Complexity and Storytelling Guest Editors: Ken Baskin & David Boje was published online.

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