Complexity Digest 2007.26

25-Jun-2007

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  1. Rapid Networking Is Key In New Economy, Albuquerque Tribune
    1. Xerox Rolls Out Semantics-Based Search, AP/Physorg,com
  2. Robotic Cars Could Take Pressure Off Nation's Highways, Los Angeles Times
  3. Bridging Between Information Literacy And Information Technology In Singapore Schools: An Exploratory Study, Edu., Knowledge & Econ.
  4. Immunology: Short-Term Memory, Nature
    1. Invertebrate Immune Systems Are Anything But Simple, Innovations-report
    2. Mathematics Reveals Genetic Pattern Of Tumor Growth, Innovations-report
  5. Stem Cells To Repair Damaged Heart Muscle: First Ever-Surgical Trial Gets The Go-Ahead, Innovations-report
  6. The Heart-Forming Fields: One Or Multiple?, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  7. Crossing The Line: Technique Could Treat Brain Diseases, Science News
  8. Replication And Protection Of Telomeres, Nature
  9. Wild-Life: Anarchy, Ecology, And Ethics, Env. Politics
    1. Aquatic Ecology: The Last of the Leviathans, Science
    2. The Impact Of An Alien Plant On A Native Plant-Pollinator Network: An Experimental Approach, Ecol. Lett.
  10. Vertical Farming In The Big Apple, BBC News
  11. Evolutionary Biology: Re-Crowning Mammals, Nature
  12. Storm Center - A Detailed Look Inside The Core Of A Hurricane, Science News
  13. Physics: Is There Glue in Cuprate Superconductors?, Science
  14. Brain's Voluntary Chain-of-command Ruled By Not One But Two Captains, ScienceDaily
  15. Virtual World Sharpens Mind-Control, New Scientist
  16. Individual Differences In Sleep Structure Are Biologically Determined, ScienceDaily
  17. Psychology: Birth Order and Intelligence, Science
  18. U.S. Science Policy: Congress Splits Over Plan to Consolidate Intelligence Research, Science
    1. Don't Privatize Our Spies, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. New Players in Terrorism Fight, AP/Guardian
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. Rapid Networking Is Key In New Economy, Albuquerque Tribune Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: [Brian, Ed.] Arthur defines the new economy as one employing new combinatorial networks, where the normal interpersonal connection barriers are overcome, rapidly speeding up conversations and the exchange of knowledge.

    Certainly the Internet and its most popular offspring, the World Wide Web, are the enablers of this sea change. The new economy is your Myspace.com page or your Linkedin.com profile, or the eBay/PayPal marketplace, if not InnoCentive.com.

    The analog for the old economy in Arthur's assessment is the radial model, or in common terms, the broker model, where information is communicated through more centralized processes.

    1. Xerox Rolls Out Semantics-Based Search, AP/Physorg,com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Xerox Corp. says its new search engine based on semantics will analyze the meaning behind questions and documents to help researchers find information more quickly.

      FactSpotter promises to help by returning a specific portion of a search document that is relevant to the query.

      Developing the search engine is similar to understanding how brains process information (...).

      FactSpotter was introduced in Grenoble on Wednesday and will launch next year, initially to help lawyers and corporate litigation departments plow through thousands of pages of legal documents.

  2. Robotic Cars Could Take Pressure Off Nation's Highways, Los Angeles Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    "Junior," the Stanford Racing Team's entry in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. "Junior" is a diesel powered Passat wagon. (PRNewsFoto / Volkswagen of America, Inc.)
    Engineers say driverless vehicles they are developing may be the way of the future.(...)

    "There are so many aspects of society you could change if you just make cars drive themselves."

    A robotic automotive vehicle - which, Thrun says, would "combine the convenience of a train with the convenience of a car" - is a long way from commercial viability. But the Stanford Racing Team will put a driverless Volkswagen Passat wagon named Junior to the test in November in the 2007 Urban Challenge, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon's research arm.

  3. Bridging Between Information Literacy And Information Technology In Singapore Schools: An Exploratory Study, Edu., Knowledge & Econ. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: With rapid developments in information technology (IT) and the increasingly sophisticated abilities of IT users, schools have the inevitable task of integrating IT in their school curriculum. Owing to the prevalent use of educational technology in schools, it is often questioned whether information literacy (IL) is necessary in the school curriculum, especially when it is widely perceived that IT literacy is equivalent to IL. This article gives an overview of IT initiatives as well as IL strategies that have been implemented in Singapore schools and addresses the gaps that exist in the Singapore school education system in assimilating these two areas. (...)

  4. Immunology: Short-Term Memory, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Chemical modification of histone proteins can affect the expression of their associated genes. Some immune cells seem to exploit this process to avoid excessive inflammation while fighting invading pathogens.

    The innate immune system has several essential roles: it must detect infectious pathogens, initiate antimicrobial mechanisms to remove them and trigger inflammation to activate additional immune responses such as fever. This last function is tricky because too little inflammation will lead to an ineffective response and too much can lead to septic shock and death.

    1. Invertebrate Immune Systems Are Anything But Simple, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: A hundred years since Russian microbiologist Elie Metschnikow first discovered the invertebrate immune system, scientists are only just beginning to understand its complexity. Presenting their findings (...) scientists showed that invertebrates have evolved elaborate ways to fight disease. By studying starfish, Metschnikow was the first to see cells digesting bacteria, a process he called phagocytosis (the eating of cells by other cells). Phagocytosis, it turns out, is an important immune defence in all living things. (...) scientists have studied the immune systems of simpler organisms (such as invertebrates) in the hope of understanding the immune systems of more complex organisms, like us. (...)

    2. Mathematics Reveals Genetic Pattern Of Tumor Growth, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Using mathematical theory, UC Irvine scientists have shed light on one of cancer's most troubling puzzles - how cancer cells can alter their own genetic makeup to accelerate tumor growth. The discovery shows for the first time why this change occurs, providing insight into how cancerous tumors thrive and a potential foundation for future cancer treatments. (...) looked at cancer from the point of view of a tumor and asked: What can a tumor do to optimize its own growth? They focused on the phenomenon of genetic instability, a common feature of cancer (...).

  5. Stem Cells To Repair Damaged Heart Muscle: First Ever-Surgical Trial Gets The Go-Ahead, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: In the first trial of its kind in the world, 60 patients who have recently suffered a major heart attack will be injected with selected stem cells from their own bone marrow during routine coronary bypass surgery. The Bristol trial will test whether the stem cells will repair heart muscle cells damaged by the heart attack, by preventing late scar formation and hence impaired heart contraction. (...) In a heart attack, part of the heart muscle loses its blood supply (usually due to furring up of the arteries with fatty material) and cells in that part of the heart die, leaving a scar. (...)

  6. The Heart-Forming Fields: One Or Multiple?, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: (...) In this review, we discuss the concept of the primary and secondary cardiogenic fields (...) and the subsequent temporal events involved in formation of the heart. We suggest that, during evolution, the heart developed initially only with the components required for a systemic circulation, namely a sinus venosus, a common atrium, a 'left' ventricle and an arterial cone, the latter being the myocardial outflow tract as seen in the heart of primitive fishes. These components developed in their entirety from the classic cardiac crescent. Only later in the course of evolution did the appearance of novel signalling pathways permit (...).
    • Source: The Heart-Forming Fields: One Or Multiple?, A. F.M. Moorman, V. M. Christoffels, R. H. Anderson, M. J.B. van den Hoff, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2113, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 2007/06/20
    • Contributed by Atin Das - dasatinayahoo.co.in

  7. Crossing The Line: Technique Could Treat Brain Diseases, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: For the first time, scientists have selectively ferried a drug across the blood-brain barrier to treat a neurological disease in mice. The new method could eventually make new treatments possible for a wide range of brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease. (...)

    However, some viruses, including rabies, have molecules that trick the barrier into allowing them to pass. Researchers attached a molecule from the rabies virus to a drug and found that the coupled molecules got through the capillary walls and into the brain.

  8. Replication And Protection Of Telomeres, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: During the evolution of linear genomes, it became essential to protect the natural chromosome ends to prevent triggering of the DNA-damage repair machinery and enzymatic attack. Telomeres - tightly regulated complexes consisting of repetitive G-rich DNA and specialized proteins - accomplish this task. Telomeres not only conceal linear chromosome ends from detection and inappropriate repair but also provide a buffer to counteract replication-associated shortening. Lessons from many model organisms have taught us about the complications of maintaining these specialized structures. Here, we discuss how telomeres interact and cooperate with the DNA replication and DNA-damage repair machineries.

  9. Wild-Life: Anarchy, Ecology, And Ethics, Env. Politics Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Certain forms of anarchism, especially those associated with primitivism, regard nature as a fundamental source of individual liberty, self-awareness, and self-responsibility. These distinctive varieties of 'ecological anarchism' often combine a wild(er)ness ethos with a polemical critique of the social constraints and environmental damage they identify, to varying degrees, with 'civilisation'. (...) Re-wilding understandings of self and nature offer diverse ethico-political possibilities but only if it is recognised that self-identities, idea(l)s of nature, and even conceptions of individual autonomy are partly constituted by the same social histories that primitivism dismisses.

    1. Aquatic Ecology: The Last of the Leviathans, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: A young biologist is teaming up with colleagues on six continents to document the world's biggest freshwater fishes--and, he hopes, help avert an extinction crisis

      Eddies and whirlpools, weak and evanescent, swirl water the color of milk chocolate in a narrow stretch of the Mekong River between Laos and Thailand. Zeb Hogan asks the longboat driver to steer toward a rocky island. As slate-gray thunderclouds bear down from the north, the boat eases alongside a small bamboo raft roped to shore in a tiny cove.

    2. The Impact Of An Alien Plant On A Native Plant-Pollinator Network: An Experimental Approach, Ecol. Lett. Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Studies of pairwise interactions have shown that an alien plant can affect the pollination of a native plant, this effect being mediated by shared pollinators. Here we use a manipulative field experiment, to investigate the impact of the alien plant Impatiens glandulifera on an entire community of coflowering native plants. Visitation and pollen transport networks were constructed to compare replicated I. glandulifera invaded and I. glandulifera removal plots. Invaded plots had significantly higher visitor species richness, visitor abundance and flower visitation. (...) Our data indicate that generalized native pollinators can provide a pathway of integration for alien plants into native visitation systems.

  10. Vertical Farming In The Big Apple, BBC News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Is this how farms will look in the future?
    Professor Despommier lists many advantages of this revolutionary kind of agriculture. They include:
    • Year round crop production in a controlled environment
    • All produce would be organic as there would be no exposure to wild parasites and bugs
    • Elimination of environmentally damaging agricultural runoff
    • Food being produced locally to where it is consumed
    And, says the professor, vertical farming would allow some existing traditional farms to be returned to natural forests. Good news in a time of global warming.

  11. Evolutionary Biology: Re-Crowning Mammals, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The evolutionary history of mammals is being tackled both through molecular analyses and through morphological studies of fossils. The 'molecules versus morphology' debate remains both vexing and vibrant. (...)

    Chronologically speaking, this new analysis1 is eye-popping because it places direct ancestry of today's mammals near the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundary about 65 million years ago. This is much younger than dates based on molecular biology - for example, a recent and comprehensive analysis by Bininda-Emonds et al.4 pushed that ancestry back more than twice as far into the geological past, to some 148 million years ago.

  12. Storm Center - A Detailed Look Inside The Core Of A Hurricane, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    STORMY VIEW. Red, yellow, and blue lines show the flight paths of hurricane-hunter aircraft inside Rita on Sept. 22, 2005 (top), with the hurricane's eyewalls shown in gold and brown. Arrows in bottom image depict flow of air, showing downward motion in the moat between those eyewalls, a previously unconfirmed phenomenon. Houze et al.
    Meteorologists know in general terms how hurricanes typically evolve. The thunderstorms that ring a hurricane's eye are usually more intense than storms elsewhere in the system. The warm, humid winds that fuel these thunderstorms spiral toward the center of the hurricane at low altitude, says Willoughby. When that soggy air reaches the eyewall, it rises and some of its moisture condenses out as rain. The energy released during that process heats the air further and causes it to rise even faster.

  13. Physics: Is There Glue in Cuprate Superconductors?, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Electrons only interact, to a very good approximation, via the Coulomb interaction. This is the elementary electrical force that causes two negative charges to repel each other. So how can this repulsion between electrons be eliminated in favor of electron pair binding? The possibilities are either "dynamic screening" or a mechanism suggested by Pitaevskii and by Brueckner et al. of putting the electron pairs in an anisotropic wave function (such as a d-wave), which vanishes at the repulsive core of the Coulomb interaction.

  14. Brain's Voluntary Chain-of-command Ruled By Not One But Two Captains, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: A probe of the upper echelons of the human brain's chain-of-command has found strong evidence that there are not one but two complementary commanders in charge of the brain, according to neuroscientists (...). Scientists exploring the upper reaches of the brain's command hierarchy were astonished to find not one but two brain networks in charge, represented by the differently-colored spheres on the brain image above. Starting with a group of several brain regions implicated in top-down control (the spheres on the brain), they used a new brain-scanning technique to identify which of those regions work with each other. (...)

  15. Virtual World Sharpens Mind-Control, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The two groups came together through a European consortium called PRESENCCIA. The goal is to create a virtual world through which a person can navigate using just their imagination.

    Electrodes are attached to a person's scalp and electroencephalogram (EEG) equipment is used to monitor electrical activity within their brain.

    In this way, the system can be trained to identify the distinctive patterns of neuronal activity produced when they imagine walking forwards, or think about moving either their left or right arm.

  16. Individual Differences In Sleep Structure Are Biologically Determined, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Sleeping pattern variability has long been attributed to differences in several non-biological factors. Now a study (...) has shown that these individual differences are in large part biologically determined and may even prove to be genetic in origin. Researchers have long observed significant differences in normal people's sleep. Some are light sleepers, whereas others sleep deeply. Some fall asleep right away, while others take their time. Such sleeping pattern variability has long been attributed solely to differences in circumstances, habits, and other non-biological factors. But now a study (...) has shown that these individual differences constitute traits (...).

  17. Psychology: Birth Order and Intelligence, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Research on birth order and intellectual performance is replete with contradictory findings and long-standing conceptual disagreements. In the wake of these ongoing controversies, a new study that has profited from past debates is especially welcome. In an elegantly designed analysis of 241,310 Norwegian 18- and 19-year-olds that appears on page 1717 of this issue, Kristensen and Bjerkedal show that older siblings have higher intelligence test scores than younger siblings. In addition, these two researchers demonstrate that how study participants were raised, not how they were born, is what actually influences their IQs.

  18. U.S. Science Policy: Congress Splits Over Plan to Consolidate Intelligence Research, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: U.S. intelligence agencies need new surveillance tools to fight global terrorism. But it's not clear how they should carry out the necessary research (...)

    Steyvers predicts that IARPA would spark "exciting new collaborations" between disciplines such as computer science, statistics, and the social sciences.

    IARPA [Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, Ed.] plans to seek exactly those kinds of interdisciplinary proposals, says Nixon, with an eye toward decoding chat-room conversations between terrorists and monitoring weapons and people in otherwise inaccessible regions.

    1. Don't Privatize Our Spies, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      In the intervening years a huge espionage-industrial complex has developed, as government spymasters outsourced everything from designing surveillance technology to managing case officers overseas. Today less than half of the staff at the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington are actual government employees, The Los Angeles Times reports; at the C.I.A. station in Islamabad, Pakistan, contractors sometimes outnumber employees by three to one. (...)

      The orthodoxy of privatization - that it's the government that's mired by inefficiency and a lack of competition - has been turned on its head in the intelligence industry.

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

    1. New Players in Terrorism Fight, AP/Guardian Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Almost six years after the worst attack ever on U.S. soil, special operations commanders believe that simply killing terrorists will not win a war against an ideologically motivated enemy. (...)

      Through the indirect route, support can be overt or covert. But it always is aimed at eliminating safe havens for terrorists. This is done by training foreign militaries, supporting surrogate forces or providing humanitarian, financial and civic backing to areas viewed as possible breeding grounds for terrorists.

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Influence Of Phylogeny On Fungal Community Assembly And Ecosystem Functioning, Hafiz Maherali, John N. Klironomos, 07/06/22, Science : 1746-1748. Communities of soil fungi contain a larger number of species and are more productive when the founding species are more distantly related.
      2. Ancient Beads Found In Northern Africa, 07/06/23, Science News, Perforated shells found in a Moroccan cave indicate that northern Africans made symbolic body ornaments 82,000 years ago, long before Europeans did.
      3. Moths Mimic 'Don't Eat Me' Sounds, 07/06/23, Science News, Moths that make clicking noises at predatory bats are mimicking a defensive signal made by other moths that click and also taste bad.
      4. Tree Rings Tell Tale Of Megadroughts, 07/06/23, Science News, Tree rings in ancient timber show that the Colorado Plateau experienced a 60-year drought in the 12th century.
      5. Heal Thyself¡XAgain And Again, 07/06/23, Science News, A new self-healing material can repeatedly repair damage at the same spot.
      6. Biological Matrices And Bionanotechnology, P. M. Taylor, 2007/06/20, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2117
      7. Zeroing In On The Brain's Speech 'Receiver', 2007/06/21, ScienceDaily & Cell Press
      8. Electronic Voting Gets Thumbs Down: Pencil And Paper Wins Out Over Computers, Says Official Electoral Observer, I. Thomson, 2007/06/22, vnunet.com
      9. Harvesting Prey To Boost Predator Fish, 2007/06/22, Innovations-report
      10. Applying Elastic Fibre Biology In Vascular Tissue Engineering, C. M. Kielty, S. Stephan, M. J. Sherratt, M. Williamson, C. A. Shuttleworth, 2007/06/22, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2134
      11. Putting Feelings Into Words Produces Therapeutic Effects In The Brain, 2007/06/22, ScienceDaily & University of California - Los Angeles
      12. Data Cloning: Easy Maximum Likelihood Estimation For Complex Ecological Models Using Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, S. R. Lele, B. Dennis - brianauidaho.edu, F. Lutscher, Jul. 2007 online 2007/05/30, Ecology Letters, DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01047.x

    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      2. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 07/01/24-28
      3. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      4. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      5. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      6. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      7. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      8. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      9. Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
      10. An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
      11. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      12. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      13. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      14. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      15. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      16. North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity 2005 Conference, Virtual Conference Network, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, 05/06/09-11
      17. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      18. Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Complexity, with a celebration of the 65th birthday of Gregoire Nicolis. , Complexity Session, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 05/03/16
      19. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      20. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      21. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      22. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      23. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      24. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      25. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      26. Edge Videos

    3. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. 7th conf SYMMETRY IN NONLINEAR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, Kiev, Ukraine, 07/06/24-30
      2. Symposium on Knowledge Domain Visualizations @ IV 2007, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 07/07/04-06
      3. Summer School In Complexity Science, London, UK, 07/07/08-17
      4. 2007 Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007), London, UK, 07/07/07-11
      5. 22nd European Conference on Operational Research EURO XXII, Prague, Czech Republic, 07/07/08-11
      6. 11th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, 07/07/08-11
      7. Enhancing Learning Through Technology-- Emerging Technologies And Pedagogies , Hong Kong SAR, 07/07/09-10
      8. SASO 2007 - First IEEE Intl Conf Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems , Boston, Mass., USA, 07/07/09-11
      9. STATPHYS 23, the 23rd Intl Conf on Statistical Physics of the Intl Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), Genova, Italy, 07/07/09-13
      10. XXVII Dynamics Days Europe 2007, Loughborough, UK, 07/07/09-13
      11. IEEE Intl Conf on Development and Learning 2007, Imperial College London, 07/07/11-13
      12. 2007 Unconventional Computing, Bristol, United Kingdom, 07/07/12-14
      13. UK Social Network Conference, London, UK, 07/07/13-14
      14. NKS 2007 Wolfram Science Conference, Burlington, VT, 07/07/13-15
      15. SMBI-07 - Statistical Mechanics and Biological Information - Satellite Conference of STATPHYS 2007, Torino, Italy, 07/07/16-18
      16. Complex Change Webinar: Planning in the Midst of Chaos, 07/07/17
      17. 22nd Conf on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07) and 19th Conf on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-07), Vancouver, British Columbia, 07/07/22-26
      18. FUZZ-IEEE 2007, London, UK, 07/07/23-26
      19. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences 17th Annual Intl Conf, Orange, Ca, USA, 07/07/27-29
      20. ICCM 2007 - 8th Intl Conf on Cognitive Modeling, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 07/07/27-29
      21. ICS PIF Summer School 2007 - First French Complex Systems Summer School, Paris, 07/07/30-08/26
      22. 2nd Summer school "Achievements and Applications of contemporary Mathematics, Informatics and Physics", Kyiv, 07/08/08-19
      23. 2007 Intl Joint Conf on Neural Networks, Orlando, Fl, 07/08/12-17
      24. Natural Complexity: Data and Theory in Dialogue, Cambridge, UK, 07/08/13-17
      25. Stochastic Resonance 2008, Perugia, Italy, 07/08/17-21
      26. 2nd Intl Summer School on Collective Intelligence and Evolution, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 07/08/20-24
      27. ECAL 2oo7 - 9th European Conference on Artificial Life , Lisbon, Portugal, 07/09/10-14
      28. Itl. Conf. on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics, Poipu Beach, Koloa (Kauai), Hawaii, 07/09/24-27
      29. 3rd Edition of the Econophysics Colloquium, Ancona, 07/09/27-29
      30. European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07) , Dresden, Germany, 07/10/01-05
      31. Processes Of Emergence Of Systems And Systemic Properties. Towards A General Theory Of Emergence. , Castel Ivano (Trento), 07/10/18-20
      32. 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intl Joint Conf on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'07), Silicon Valley, USA, 07/11/02-05
      33. Theory In Cognitive Neuroscience, Wildbad Kreuth (Bavaria), Germany, 07/11/04-07
      34. 7th Intl Conf on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems , Piscataway, NJ, 07/11/05-07
      35. KSS 2007 - 8th Intl Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, 07/11/05-07
      36. Australia New Zealand Systems Conference 2007 "Systemic development: Local solutions in a global environment", Auckland, New Zealand, 07/12/02-05
      37. The 3rd Indian Intl Conf on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07), Pune, INDIA, 07/12/17-19
      38. 19th European Meeting On Cybernetics And Systems Research, (EMCSR 2008), Vienna, Austria, 08/03/25-28

    4. Other Announcements Bookmark and Share

      1. Postdoc position in computational vision available immediately in London UK, 07/05/18
      2. National Humanities Center Launches Humanities/Sciences Website, 07/04, As part of its ongoing "Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human & The Humanities" project (ASC), the National Humanities Center makes public a new website for the initiative which significantly expands the potential pool of humanists and scientists engaged in the exploration and examination of topics surrounding the question of human being.

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