Complexity Digest 2009.22

2009/10/23

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

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Content

  1. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2009, nobelprize.org
    1. Economic Networks: What Do We Know And What Do We Need To Know?, Adv. Complex Sys.
  2. The Ecology Of Social Transitions In Human Evolution, Phil. Trans. B
    1. The Evolutionary And Ecological Roots Of Human Social Organization, Phil. Trans. B
  3. Origins And Resolution Of Financial Crises: Lessons From The Current And Northern European Crises, Asian Econ. Papers
    1. Financial Crisis American Style, Asian Econ. Papers
  4. A Fresh Theoretical Framework, Science
  5. Tom Ray on Twenty Years of Tierra, Biota Live
  6. Not So Useless, Science
  7. Multi-Market Minority Game: Breaking The Symmetry Of Choice, Adv. Complex Sys.
  8. Adaptation And The Genetics Of Social Behaviour, Phil. Trans. B
  9. Information causality as a physical principle, Nature
  10. Why did life emerge?, arXiv
  11. Massively collaborative mathematics, Nature
  12. UA Scientists Discover Quantum Fingerprints Of Chaos, Innovations-report
  13. Solar System: Saturn's colossal ring, Nature
  14. Resolving social dilemmas on evolving random networks, arXiv
  15. Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental, Fast Company
  16. The Impact of Past Epidemics on Future Disease Dynamics, arXiv
  17. Chimpanzees Help Each Other upon Request, PLoS ONE
    1. Social Stability And Helping In Small Animal Societies, Phil. Trans. B
  18. Biological Clocks Discovery Overturns Long-Held Theory, ScienceDaily
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution, Oxford University Press
    2. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Little, Brown and Company
    3. Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, Oxford University Press
    4. Emergence, Analysis and Evolution of Structures: Concepts and Strategies Across Disciplines, Springer
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Conference Announcements
    3. Webcast Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2009, nobelprize.org Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Elinor Ostrom has demonstrated how common property can be successfully managed by user associations. Oliver Williamson has developed a theory where business firms serve as structures for conflict resolution. Over the last three decades these seminal contributions have advanced economic governance research from the fringe to the forefront of scientific attention.

    1. Economic Networks: What Do We Know And What Do We Need To Know?, Adv. Complex Sys. Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: We examine the emergent field of economic networks and explore its ability to shed light on the global and volatile economy where credit, ownership, innovation, investment, and virtually every other economic activity is carried at a scale and scope that respects no geographical, organizational, or political boundaries. In this context, the study of economic networks and their dynamics must reflect the vast complexity of the interaction patterns (�). (�) Meeting this exciting scientific challenge requires a combination of time-series analysis, complexity theory, and simulation with the analytical tools that have been developed by game theory, as well as graph and matrix theories. (�)

  2. The Ecology Of Social Transitions In Human Evolution, Phil. Trans. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: We know that there are fundamental differences between humans and living apes, and also between living humans and their extinct relatives. It is also probably the case that the most significant and divergent of these differences relate to our social behaviour and its underlying cognition, as much as to fundamental differences in physiology, biochemistry or anatomy. In this paper, we first attempt to demarcate what are the principal differences between human and other societies in terms of social structure, organization and relationships, so that we can identify what derived features require explanation. We then consider the evidence of the archaeological and fossil record, (�).

    1. The Evolutionary And Ecological Roots Of Human Social Organization, Phil. Trans. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Social organization among human foragers is characterized by a three-generational system of resource provisioning within families, long-term pair-bonding between men and women, high levels of cooperation between kin and non-kin, and relatively egalitarian social relationships. In this paper, we suggest that these core features of human sociality result from the learning- and skill-intensive human foraging niche, (�). We present an explanatory framework for understanding variation in social organization across human societies, highlighting the interactive effects of four key ecological and economic variables: (i) the role of skill in resource production; (ii) the degree of complementarity in male and female inputs into production; (iii) economies of scale (�).

  3. Origins And Resolution Of Financial Crises: Lessons From The Current And Northern European Crises, Asian Econ. Papers Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Since July 2007, the world economy has experienced a severe financial crisis that originated in the U.S. housing market. Subsequently, the crisis has spread to financial sectors in European and Asian economies and led to a severe worldwide recession. The existing literature on financial crises rarely distinguishes between factors that create the original strain on the financial sector and factors that explain why these strains lead to system-wide contagion and a possible credit crunch. (�) We argue that a financial crisis with its contagion within the system is caused by failures of legal, regulatory, and political institutions.

    1. Financial Crisis American Style, Asian Econ. Papers Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: This paper reviews some of the research on the causes of the financial crisis of 2008�09, highlights the key events that triggered a financial panic in September 2008, and summarizes the key policy actions that the United States has taken to ameliorate the crisis. We document the characteristics and growth of the sub-prime mortgage market, and the distorted incentives and flawed regulatory structure surrounding the secondary market for mortgage-backed securities. We also assess the role for macroeconomic determinants of the crisis that serve to explain the bubble in U.S. asset prices, most notably low global interest rates attributed to either loose monetary policy or excess global saving. (�)

  4. A Fresh Theoretical Framework, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    Peter Godfrey-Smith's Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection is a dense and deep work on the foundations of evolutionary biology. (...) A Darwinian population "is a populationâ€"a collection of particular thingsâ€"that has the capacity to undergo evolution by natural selection. A ‘Darwinian individual’ is any member of such a population."

  5. Tom Ray on Twenty Years of Tierra, Biota Live Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Editor's Note: Tierra is a software system developed by Tom Ray. It is one of the first examples of artificial life, where computer programs compete for CPU ('energy') time and memory ('resources'). The programs evolve, multate, replicate and recombine, simulating evolutionary and ecological dynamics.

  6. Not So Useless, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: For humans, the value of having an appendix seems to be negligible and, given the prevalence of appendicitis, having an appendix can even be dangerous. (...) Smith et al. now contend that the appendix is a specialized organ for harboring symbiotic bacteria essential for health. Diarrhea was a common hazard during hominid evolution. Because the opening to the appendix is constricted, it may escape colonization by bacterial pathogens. Bacterial symbiont reconstitution after diarrhea can be achieved rapidly from the populations harbored in the appendix. Thus, far from being useless, positive selection may well have acted to maintain the appendix.
    See Also: J. Evol. Biol. 22, 1984 (2009).
    • Source: Not So Useless, Caroline Ash, Science Volume 326, Number 5952, 2009/10/23

  7. Multi-Market Minority Game: Breaking The Symmetry Of Choice, Adv. Complex Sys. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Generalization of the minority game to more than one market is considered. At each time step, every agent chooses one of its strategies and acts on the market related to this strategy. If the payoff function allows for strong fluctuation of utility then market occupancies become inhomogeneous with preference given to this market where the fluctuation occurred first. There exists a critical size of agent population above which agents on bigger market behave collectively. In this regime, there always exists a history of decisions for which all agents on a bigger market react identically.

  8. Adaptation And The Genetics Of Social Behaviour, Phil. Trans. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: In recent years much progress has been made towards understanding the selective forces involved in the evolution of social behaviour including conflicts over reproduction among group members. Here, I argue that an important additional step necessary for advancing our understanding of the resolution of potential conflicts within insect societies is to consider the genetics of the behaviours involved. First, I discuss how epigenetic modifications of behaviour may affect conflict resolution within groups. Second, I review known natural polymorphisms of social organization to demonstrate that a lack of consideration of the genetic mechanisms involved may lead to erroneous explanations of the adaptive significance of behaviour. (�)

  9. Information causality as a physical principle, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: A broad class of theories exist which share the distinguishing characteristics of quantum mechanics, but allow even stronger correlations. Therefore a criterion that could be used to distinguish physical theories from non-physical ones would be of considerable value. The principle of 'information causality', introduced here by Marcin Pawlstrokeowski et al., may provide just this. The principle states that communication of m classical bits causes information gain of at most m bits. The authors show that it is respected by classical and quantum physics, but violated by other models that resemble quantum mechanics but with stronger correlations. The principle is a generalization of the no-signalling condition (information cannot be transmitted faster than light) and may be a foundational property of nature.
    • Source: Information causality as a physical principle, Marcin Pawlstrokeowski, Tomasz Paterek, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Valerio Scarani, Andreas Winter, Marek Zdotukowski, DOI: 10.1038/nature08400, Nature 461, 1101-1104, 2009/10/22

  10. Why did life emerge?, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Many mechanisms, functions and structures of life have been unraveled. However, the fundamental driving force that propelled chemical evolution and led to life has remained obscure. The 2nd law of thermodynamics, written as an equation of motion, reveals that elemental abiotic matter evolves from the equilibrium via chemical reactions that couple to external energy toward complex biotic non-equilibrium systems. Each time a new mechanism of energy transduction emerges, e.g., by random variation in syntheses, evolution prompts by punctuation and settles to a stasis when the accessed free energy has been consumed. The evolutionary course toward an increasingly larger energy transduction system accumulates a diversity of energy transduction mechanisms, i.e., species. The rate of entropy increase is identified as the fitness criterion among the diverse mechanisms which places the theory of evolution by natural selection on the fundamental thermodynamic principle with no demarcation line between inanimate and animate.
    • Source: Why did life emerge?, Arto Annila and Erkki Annila, arXiv:0910.2621 [International Journal of Astrobiology, 7: 293-300 (2008)], 2009/10/14

  11. Massively collaborative mathematics, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The Polymath Project had a conventional scientific goal: to attack an unsolved problem in mathematics. But it also had the more ambitious goal of doing mathematical research in a new way. Inspired by open-source enterprises such as Linux and Wikipedia, it used blogs and a wiki to mediate a fully open collaboration. Anyone in the world could follow along and, if they wished, make a contribution. The blogs and wiki functioned as a collective short-term working memory, a conversational commons for the rapid-fire exchange and improvement of ideas.

  12. UA Scientists Discover Quantum Fingerprints Of Chaos, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Chaotic behavior is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics. Even tiny, easily overlooked events can completely change the behavior of a complex system, to the point where there is no apparent order to most natural systems we deal with in everyday life. Scientists who study "chaos" - which they define as extreme sensitivity to infinitesimally small tweaks in the initial conditions - have observed this kind of behavior only in the deterministic world described by classical physics. (�)

  13. Solar System: Saturn's colossal ring, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    This diagram depicts the newly discovered1 'Phoebe ring' around Saturn, which spans at least 25 million kilometres and is the largest ring known to be orbiting a planet. The ring corresponds closely to the orbit of Phoebe, the largest of Saturn's outer 'irregular moons', and apparently the source of most of the ring's material. The ring is tilted owing to the influence of the Sun. Dust in the ring probably spirals inward and hits the leading hemisphere of the moon Iapetus, triggering that moon's distinctive two-toned coloration. Also shown are the orbit of Saturn's largest moon Titan, the planet itself and its other rings.
    IMAGES COURTESY NASA/JPL-CALTECH
    On page 1098 of this issue, Verbiscer and colleagues1 report the discovery of an enormous ring around Saturn. The authors found this most tenuous of Saturn's known rings, which covers some 10,000 times as much area as the planet's photogenic main rings.

  14. Resolving social dilemmas on evolving random networks, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: We show that strategy independent adaptations of random interaction networks can induce powerful mechanisms, ranging from the Red Queen to group selection, that promote cooperation in evolutionary social dilemmas. These two mechanisms emerge spontaneously as dynamical processes due to deletions and additions of links, which are performed whenever players adopt new strategies and after a certain number of game iterations, respectively. The potency of cooperation promotion, as well as the mechanism responsible for it, can thereby be tuned via a single parameter determining the frequency of link additions. We thus demonstrate that coevolving random networks may evoke an appropriate mechanism for each social dilemma, such that cooperation prevails even by highly unfavorable conditions.

  15. Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental, Fast Company Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: A co-founder of Flickr argues that hard work often doesn't amount to much--and neuroscience offers some backing for the claim.

  16. The Impact of Past Epidemics on Future Disease Dynamics, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Many pathogens spread primarily via direct contact between infected and susceptible hosts. Thus, the patterns of contacts or contact network of a population fundamentally shapes the course of epidemics. While there is a robust and growing theory for the dynamics of single epidemics in networks, we know little about the impacts of network structure on long term epidemic or endemic transmission. For seasonal diseases like influenza, pathogens repeatedly return to populations with complex and changing patterns of susceptibility and immunity acquired through prior infection. Here, we develop two mathematical approaches for modeling consecutive seasonal outbreaks of a partially-immunizing infection in a population with contact heterogeneity.

  17. Chimpanzees Help Each Other upon Request, PLoS ONE Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: These results provide further evidence for altruistic helping in chimpanzees in the absence of direct personal gain or even immediate reciprocation. Our findings additionally highlight the importance of request as a proximate mechanism motivating prosocial behavior in chimpanzees...

    1. Social Stability And Helping In Small Animal Societies, Phil. Trans. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: In primitively eusocial societies, all individuals can potentially reproduce independently. The key fact that we focus on in this paper is that individuals in such societies instead often queue to inherit breeding positions. Queuing leads to systematic differences in expected future fitness. We first discuss the implications this has for variation in behaviour. For example, because helpers nearer to the front of the queue have more to lose, they should work less hard to rear the dominant's offspring. However, higher rankers may be more aggressive than low rankers, even if they risk injury in the process, if aggression functions to maintain or enhance queue position. (�)

  18. Biological Clocks Discovery Overturns Long-Held Theory, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: University of Michigan mathematicians and their British colleagues say they have identified the signal that the brain sends to the rest of the body to control biological rhythms, a finding that overturns a long-held theory about our internal clock. Understanding how the human biological clock works is an essential step toward correcting sleep problems like insomnia and jet lag. New insights about the body's central pacemaker might also, someday, advance efforts to treat diseases influenced by the internal clock, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease and mood disorders, said University of Michigan mathematician Daniel Forger. (�)

  19. Book Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution, Oxford University Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Why do we age? Why cooperate? Why do so many species engage in sex? Why do the tropics have so many species? When did humans start to affect world climate? This book provides an introduction to a range of fundamental questions that have taxed evolutionary biologists and ecologists for decades. This is a book aimed at informing and inspiring anybody with an interest in ecology and evolution. It reveals to the reader the immense scope of the field, its fundamental importance, and the exciting breakthroughs that have been made in recent years.

    2. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Little, Brown and Company Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? "Good writing," Gladwell says in his preface, "does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

    3. Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, Oxford University Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Godfrey-Smith draws on new developments in biology, philosophy of science, and other fields to give a new analysis and extension of Darwin's idea. The central concept used is that of a "Darwinian population", a collection of things with the capacity to undergo change by natural selection. From this starting point, new analyses of the role of genes in evolution, the application of Darwinian ideas to cultural change, and "evolutionary transitions" that produce complex organisms and societies are developed. Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection will be essential reading for anyone interested in evolutionary theory.

    4. Emergence, Analysis and Evolution of Structures: Concepts and Strategies Across Disciplines, Springer Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      The study of structures and structure generating processes is a common concern of all scientific and technical disciplines. The present volume presents an interdisciplinary investigation of the different methods of analysis and modelling which, while differing considerably in detail, usually have evolutionary adaption or development schemes at their core. The book naturally falls into three parts - a first part summarizing the transdisciplinary fundamentals, a second part discussing in detail case studies from various fields (production engineering, medicine, management, molecular biology, energy engineering, civil engineering, logistics, sociology, physics) and a shorter outlook on the transdisciplinary perspective.

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. A Road Of No Return: MIT Team Implements The First '1-Way Roads' For Light That Could Lead To Simpler Lightwave Technology, 2009/09/04, Innovations-report
      2. UN Warns The Next World War Will Be Online: Loss Of Vital Networks Would Quickly Cripple Any Nation, Says ITU Chief, I. Thomson, 2009/10/07, V3.co.uk
      3. Toward Better Solar Cells: Chemists Gain Control Of Light-Harvesting Paths, 2009/10/09, Innovations-report
      4. U.S. Must Focus On Protecting Critical Computer Networks From Cyber Attack, Experts Urge, 2009/10/09, ScienceDaily & RAND Corporation
      5. Human Brain, Like Google Maps, Creates Multiple Independent Maps While Finding The Way In Physical World, 2009/10/09, ScienceDaily & The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
      6. One Small Step For Neurons, One Giant Leap For Nerve Cell Repair, 2009/10/09, ScienceDaily & McGill University
      7. On the Feldman-Karlin Conjecture for the Number of Equilibria in an Evolutionary System, Lee Altenberg, 2009/10/12, arXiv:0910.1892
      8. Degeneracy: a link between evolvability, robustness and complexity in biological systems, James Whitacre, Axel Bender, 2009/10/14, arXiv:0910.2586
      9. Systemic Risk in the International System, Ingo Piepers, 2009/10/15, arXiv:0910.2797
      10. Lacunarity Analysis: A Promising Method for the Automated Assessment of Melanocytic Naevi and Melanoma, Gilmore S, Hofmann-Wellenhof R, Muir J, Soyer HP, October 13, 2009, PLoS ONE 4(10): e7449, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007449
      11. Empirical Bayes Analysis of Quantitative Proteomics Experiments, Margolin AA, Ong S-E, Schenone M, Gould R, Schreiber SL, Carr SA, Golub TR, October 14, 2009, PLoS ONE 4(10): e7454, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007454
      12. Evolution with Stochastic Fitness and Stochastic Migration, Rice SH, Papadopoulos A, October 9, 2009, PLoS ONE 4(10): e7130, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007130

    2. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Econophysics Colloquium 2009, Erice, Sicily, Italy, 09/10/25-31
      2. Natural and Biomimetic Mechanosensing, Dresden, Germany, 09/10/26-28
      3. Lyapunov analysis, from theory to geophysical applications, Paris, France, 09/10/26-30
      4. The 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009) , Lyon, France, 09/11/03-06
      5. International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS 2009) , Barcelona, Spain, 09/11/4-6
      6. the 9th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference Complex'09 How to Manage Complexity? , Tokyo, Japan, 09/11/4-7
      7. CAS in the Natural and Social Sciences, AAAI Fall Symposium Arlington, VA, USA, 09/11/5-7
      8. Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Venice, Italy, 09/11/12-14
      9. 1st Global Peter F. Drucker Forum, ‘Managing the Future’, Vienna, Austria, 09/11/19-20
      10. Darwin09, International Workshop on 150 Years after Darwin: From Molecular Evolution to Language, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 09/11/23-27
      11. Health and Complex Systems Workshop, Lyon, France, 09/11/30-12/01
      12. 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Pisa, Italy, 09/11/30-12/02
      13. World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009), Coimbatore, India, 09/12/9-11
      14. IWSOS 2009, the Fourth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, 2009/12/9-11
      15. Dynamics Days 2010, Evanston, IL, USA, 10/01/04-07
      16. 5th Biennial Convention about the philosophical, epistemological, and methodological implications of the Theory of Complexity, Havana, Cuba, 10/01/6-8
      17. 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2010), Valencia, Spain, 10/01/22-24
      18. 4th International Nonlinear Science Conference, University of Palermo, Sicily, 2010/03/15-17
      19. 20th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, EMCSR 2010, University of Vienna, Austria, 10/04/6-9
      20. EvoStar 2010 , Istanbul, Turkey, 10/04/7-10
      21. International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Valencia, Spain, 10/04/7-10
      22. The IV International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization - NICSO 2010, Granada, Spain, 10/05/12-14
      23. ICEIS 2010 (12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, 10/06/6-10
      24. International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) , London, UK, 2010/06/28-30
      25. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010), Portland, Oregon, USA, 2010/07/7-11
      26. 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 10/07/18-23
      27. European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Copenhagen, Denmark, 10/08/09-20
      28. Artificial Life XII (ALife XII), Odense, Denmark, 10/08/19--23
      29. ANTS 2010, Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium, 10/09/8-10
      30. European Conference on Complex Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010

    3. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. ASSYST Digital Library. Since 09/09

      2. Complex Systems Teleconferences. Since 09/09

      3. Symmetry Festival 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 09/08/1-4.

      4. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, 09/06/8-12

      5. Memorial Service for Dr Gottfried Mayer, Founding Editor Complexity Digest, Taipei, Taiwan (1954-2009). Video [RM], 09/02/13

      6. Making Connections: In Memory and Celebration of the Life of Dr. Gottfried Mayer (1954-2009). Video [RM] [MPG], 09/02/13

      7. Eulogy for Gottfried Mayer by Dean LeBaron [WMV, 25 Mb], [RM, 10 Mb], 09/02/10

      8. Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?, Danielle Parsons, Slatev.com, 08/07/22

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

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