Complexity Digest 2010.12

2010/06/04

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

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Content

  1. A synthetic creation story, Nature News
    1. Synthetic genome resets biotech goals, Nature
    2. Life after the synthetic cell, Nature
  2. Nearby galaxies as pointers to a better theory of cosmic evolution, Nature
  3. Inductive Game Theory and the Dynamics of Animal Conflict, PLoS Comput Biol
  4. Humans: Why They Triumphed, The Wall Street Journal
  5. Between a chicken and a grape: estimating the number of human genes, Genome Biology 2010, 11:206
  6. Spatial Pattern Enhances Ecosystem Functioning in an African Savanna, PLoS Biol
  7. Futurists and their schools: A response to Ziauddin Sardar's ‘the namesake’, Futures
  8. The difference of being human: Morality, PNAS
  9. The role of mentorship in protégé performance, Nature
  10. Image information content characterization and classification by physical complexity, arXiv
  11. Guiding the Self-organization of Random Boolean Networks, arXiv
    1. The effect of scale-free topology on the robustness and evolvability of genetic regulatory networks, arXiv
  12. Coordination of distributed energy resource agents, Applied Artificial Intelligence
  13. Voluntary participation and cooperation in a collective-good game, Journal of Economic Psychology
  14. Variable valuations and voluntarism under group selection: An evolutionary public goods game, J Theor Biol.
  15. Multiscale modeling of granular flows with application to crowd dynamics, arXiv
  16. Modeling the mobility of living organisms in heterogeneous landscapes: Does memory improve foraging success?, arXiv
  17. Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations, Proc. R. Soc. B
  18. Pavlovian Prisoner's Dilemma - analytical results, the quasi-regular phase and spatio-temporal patterns, J Theor Biol.
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Networks: An Introduction, Oxford University Press
    2. Complexity and Knowledge Management Understanding the Role of Knowledge in the Management of Social Networks, Information Age Publishing
    3. Robustness: Anticipatory and Adaptive Human Systems, ISCE Publishing
    4. Adjacent Opportunities: Sparking Emergent Social Action, Emergent Publications
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Event Announcements
    3. Webcast Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. A synthetic creation story, Nature News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Last week's announcement of the 'chemical synthesis of a living organism' by Craig Venter and his colleagues (...) heads up a very long tradition. Claims such as this have been made throughout history.
    That's not to cast aspersions on the new results. (...) set in a historical context, what the researchers have achieved is not so much a 'synthesis of life' as a semi-synthetic recreation of what we currently deem life to be. And, as with previous efforts, it should leave us questioning the adequacy of that view.

    1. Synthetic genome resets biotech goals, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary: The assembly of a genome that can 'reboot' cells of a closely related species is one step in a much longer path.

    2. Life after the synthetic cell, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary: Nature asked eight synthetic-biology experts about the implications for science and society of the “synthetic cell” made by the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). The institute's team assembled, modified and implanted a synthesized genome into a DNA-free bacterial shell to make a self-replicating Mycoplasma mycoides.

  2. Nearby galaxies as pointers to a better theory of cosmic evolution, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The great advances in the network of cosmological tests show that the relativistic Big Bang theory is a good description of our expanding Universe. However, the properties of nearby galaxies that can be observed in greatest detail suggest that a better theory would describe a mechanism by which matter is more rapidly gathered into galaxies and groups of galaxies. This more rapid growth occurs in some theoretical ideas now under discussion.

  3. Inductive Game Theory and the Dynamics of Animal Conflict, PLoS Comput Biol Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Persistent conflict is one of the most important contemporary challenges to the integrity of society and to individual quality of life. Yet surprisingly little is understood about conflict. (...) Here we develop a new method, Inductive Game Theory, and apply it to a time series gathered from detailed observation of a primate society. We are able to determine which types of behavior are most likely to generate periods of intense conflict, and we find that fights are not explained by single, aggressive individuals, but by complex interactions among groups of three or higher. Understanding how memory and strategy affect conflict dynamics is a crucial step towards designing better methods for prediction, management and control.

  4. Humans: Why They Triumphed, The Wall Street Journal Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Human evolution presents a puzzle. Nothing seems to explain the sudden takeoff of the last 45,000 years"the conversion of just another rare predatory ape into a planet dominator with rapidly progressing technologies. Once "progress" started to produce new tools, different ways of life and burgeoning populations, it accelerated all over the world, culminating in agriculture, cities, literacy and all the rest. Yet all the ingredients of human success"tool making, big brains, culture, fire, even language"seem to have been in place half a million years before and nothing happened. Tools were made to the same monotonous design for hundreds of thousands of years and the ecological impact of people was minimal. Then suddenly"bang!"culture exploded, starting in Africa. Why then, why there?
    The answer lies in a new idea, borrowed from economics, known as collective intelligence: the notion that what determines the inventiveness and rate of cultural change of a population is the amount of interaction between individuals.

  5. Between a chicken and a grape: estimating the number of human genes, Genome Biology 2010, 11:206 Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Many people expected the question 'How many genes in the human genome?' to be resolved with the publication of the genome sequence in 2001, but estimates continue to fluctuate.

  6. Spatial Pattern Enhances Ecosystem Functioning in an African Savanna, PLoS Biol Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Local interactions between organisms in nature can scale up to produce strikingly regular patterns across entire landscapes. With improvements in satellite imagery, such patterns are increasingly reported in the ecological literature. It remains unclear, however, whether the existence of such patterns actually matters for key ecosystem processes such as productivity. In semi-arid East Africa, below-ground mounds built by Odontotermes termites frequently occur in uniform, “polka-dot” arrangements. We show that, due to the ways in which termites modify the soil, these mounds are hotspots of plant and animal productivity (...)

  7. Futurists and their schools: A response to Ziauddin Sardar's ‘the namesake’, Futures Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: A ‘futurist’ is the generic term for someone seriously engaged in the consideration of future conditions. ‘Futures research’ has a systems science orientation with a planning horizon in excess of 10 years. ‘Futures studies’ has a social science connotation and ‘foresight’ is the most popular term within the management science and corporate sectors. Five schools of futures researchers are defined: 1. Environmental and geosciences. 2. Infrastructure systems and engineering technology. 3. Social, political and economic science. 4. Human life, mind and information science. 5. Business and management science. The academic route to a futures qualification is outlined with a list of futures orientated organisations. The inclusion of urbanisation in the next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment, would involve replacing the notion of economic equilibrium by the concept of far-from-equilibrium stability. Finally futures research is described as an evolutionary science, which will possibly become integrated within complexity science by 2050.

  8. The difference of being human: Morality, PNAS Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: I raise the question of whether morality is biologically or culturally determined. The question of whether the moral sense is biologically determined may refer either to the capacity for ethics (i.e., the proclivity to judge human actions as either right or wrong), or to the moral norms accepted by human beings for guiding their actions. I propose that the capacity for ethics is a necessary attribute of human nature, whereas moral codes are products of cultural evolution.

  9. The role of mentorship in protégé performance, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: Mentors influence the future success of their protégés, but to what extent do those protégés emulate their mentors? Here, one aspect of mentor emulation is studied, namely fecundity " the number of protégés a mentor trains. Analysis of data from the Mathematics Genealogy Project shows that although mentorship fecundity correlates with success, those mentors who maintain a small fecundity go on to train protégés with a larger fecundity. Moreover, the mentor's career stage influences the eventual fecundity of their protégés.

  10. Image information content characterization and classification by physical complexity, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: We present a method for estimating the complexity of an image based on the concept of logical depth. Unlike the application of the concept of algorithmic complexity by itself, the addition of the concept of logical depth results in a characterization of objects by organizational (physical) complexity. We use this measure to classify images by their information content. The method provides a means for evaluating and classifying objects by way of their visual representations.

  11. Guiding the Self-organization of Random Boolean Networks, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Random Boolean networks (RBNs) are models of genetic regulatory networks. It is useful to describe RBNs as self-organizing systems to study how changes in the nodes and connections affect the global network dynamics. This article reviews seven different methods for guiding the self-organization of RBNs. In particular, the article is focussed on guiding RBNs towards the critical dynamical regime, which is near the phase transition between the ordered and dynamical phases. The properties and advantages of the critical regime for life, computation, adaptability, evolvability, and robustness are revised. The guidance methods of RBNs can be used for engineering systems with the features of the critical regime, as well as for studying how natural selection evolved living systems, which are also critical.

    1. The effect of scale-free topology on the robustness and evolvability of genetic regulatory networks, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: We investigate how scale-free (SF) and Erdos-Renyi (ER) topologies affect the interplay between evolvability and robustness of model gene regulatory networks with Boolean threshold dynamics. In agreement with Oikonomou and Cluzel (2006) we find that networks with SFin topologies, that is SF topology for incoming nodes and ER topology for outgoing nodes, are significantly more evolvable towards specific oscillatory targets than networks with ER topology for both incoming and outgoing nodes.

  12. Coordination of distributed energy resource agents, Applied Artificial Intelligence Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: This article describes our research in technologies for the management and control of distributed energy resources. An agent-based management and control system is being developed to enable large-scale deployment of distributed energy resources. Local intelligent agents will allow consumers who are connected at low levels in the distribution network to manage their energy requirements and participate in coordination responses to network stimuli. Such responses can be used to reduce the volatility of wholesale electricity prices and assist constrained networks during summer and winter demand peaks. In our system, the coordination of energy resources is decentralized. Energy resources coordinate each other to realize efficient autonomous matching of supply and demand in large power distribution networks. The information exchange is through indirect (or stigmergic) communications between agents. The coordination mechanism is asynchronous and adapts to change in an unsupervised manner, making it intrinsically scalable and robust.

  13. Voluntary participation and cooperation in a collective-good game, Journal of Economic Psychology Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: We study the effect of voluntary participation in the context of a collective-good experiment. We investigate whether the freedom to participate in the game or not can affect contribution levels over time. The analysis of two voluntary participation treatments supports a noticeable effect of an attractive exit option on contribution levels. We conclude that voluntary participation can induce a recovery of cooperation levels when the payoff yielded by the exit option is high enough, so that the usually observed decay of average contribution levels can be counteracted.

  14. Variable valuations and voluntarism under group selection: An evolutionary public goods game, J Theor Biol. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: In biological systems, as in human society, competing social groups may depend heavily on a small number of volunteers to advance the group's prospects. This phenomenon can be understood as the solution to an evolutionary public goods game, in which a beneficent individual or a small number of individuals may place the highest value on group success and contribute the most to achieving it while profiting very little. Here we demonstrate that this type of solution, recently recognized in the social sciences, is evolutionarily stable and [...]

  15. Multiscale modeling of granular flows with application to crowd dynamics, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: In this paper a new multiscale modeling technique is proposed. It relies on a recently introduced measure-theoretic approach, which allows to manage the microscopic and the macroscopic scale under a unique framework. In the resulting coupled model the two scales coexist and share information. This allows to perform numerical simulations in which the trajectories and the density of the particles affect each other. Crowd dynamics is the motivating application throughout the paper.

  16. Modeling the mobility of living organisms in heterogeneous landscapes: Does memory improve foraging success?, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: We propose a foraging framework where a learning mobile agent uses a combination of memory-based and random steps. We investigate how advantageous it is to use memory for exploiting resources in heterogeneous and changing environments. An adequate balance of determinism and random exploration is found to maximize the foraging efficiency and to generate trajectories with an intricate spatio-temporal order. Based on this approach, we propose some tools for analysing the non-random nature of mobility patterns in general.

  17. Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations, Proc. R. Soc. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Social insects offer unique opportunities to test predictions regarding the evolution of cooperation, life histories and communication [...] Our results highlight the role of honest signalling in the evolution of cooperation: whenever cheaters can be reliably identified, they may incur sanctions that reduce the incentive to be selfish.

  18. Pavlovian Prisoner's Dilemma - analytical results, the quasi-regular phase and spatio-temporal patterns, J Theor Biol. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game is applied in several research fields due to the emergence of cooperation among selfish players. In this work the PD is studied in a one-dimensional lattice, where each cell represents a player, which in turn can interact with the neighbors playing the PD (cooperate or defect). The update of states adopts the Pavlovian Evolutionary Strategy (PES) or Darwinian Evolutionary Strategy (DES) [...]

  19. Book Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Networks: An Introduction, Oxford University Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      The scientific study of networks, including computer networks, social networks, and biological networks, has received an enormous amount of interest in the last few years. The study of networks is broadly interdisciplinary and important developments have occurred in many fields, including mathematics, physics, computer and information sciences, biology, and the social sciences. This book brings together for the first time the most important breakthroughs in each of these fields and presents them in a coherent fashion, highlighting the strong interconnections between work in different areas.
      • Source: Networks: An Introduction, Mark Newman, Oxford University Press, 2010/06/01
      • Contributed by Anton Joha - antonjohaagmail.com

    2. Complexity and Knowledge Management Understanding the Role of Knowledge in the Management of Social Networks, Information Age Publishing Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      In this book seventeen essays have been brought together from authors around the globe to explore the complex systems view of knowledge and its role in social networks. Contributors explore such topics as: the limitations to our knowledge of complex systems, the transfer of knowledge from local to global levels, collaborative knowledge generation, decision making in complex multi-stakeholder situations, organizational learning and innovation, all through the lens of the emerging field of complexity science. (...)

    3. Robustness: Anticipatory and Adaptive Human Systems, ISCE Publishing Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      We live our lives in spatio-temporal contexts, whether we are at work or at home. Yet, we hold on to the classical idea of fixed, permanent and acontextual truth. ROBUSTNESS argues that people are aware of and use a variety of spatio-temporal contexts to create specific contextual approaches that produce richer knowledge. Robustness binds together some of these approaches into a coherent theory that connects terms, concepts, theories and the actions of leaders. It does this with reference to real-life projects that have benefited from the use of appropriate spatio-temporal contexts. (...)

    4. Adjacent Opportunities: Sparking Emergent Social Action, Emergent Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Adjacent Opportunities are those possibilities that are just one step away from where we are right now. They're our ability to recognize change when it's right in front of us. And when we can act on those opportunities we can have a profound and lasting impact on our communities. As an author, consultant, and social entrepreneur, Ron Schultz has spent the greater part of a decade writing his often witty and engaging Adjacent Opportunities column for the international journal Emergence: Complexity & Organization.

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    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Synchronization of coupled limit cycles, Georgi S. Medvedev, 2010/05/21, arXiv:1005.4074
      2. A hypothesis on the role of transposons, Alessandro Fontana, 2010/05/26, arXiv:1005.4896
      3. Partner choice in Medicago Truncatula–Sinorhizobium symbiosis, Gubry-Rangin C, Garcia M, Béna G, May 2010, Proc. R. Soc. B v. 277, n. 1690: 1947-1951, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2072

    2. Event Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. NECSI Summer School 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2010/06/7-18
      2. International Workshop on Living Organisms in Flows: From Small-Scale Turbulence to Geophysical Flows, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2010/06/7-11
      3. ICAC 2010, the 7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, Washington, DC, USA, 2010/06/7-11
      4. Multi-disciplinary approach of complexity, networks, geosimulations , Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010/06/9-11
      5. 3rd Workshop on MAS in Biology at the meso or macroscopic scales, Bordeaux, France, 2010/06/16-18
      6. First International Workshop on the Shapes of Brain Dynamics, Paris, France, 2010/06/18
      7. The International Workshop on Computing with Spatio-Temporal Dynamics, Tokyo, Japan, 2010/06/21-25
      8. NKS Summer School, University of Vermont, USA, 2010/06/21-07/09
      9. First European Summer School on Life & Cognition, Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain, 2010/06/22-26
      10. Transportation Networks in Nature and Technology, Paris, France, 2010/06/24
      11. International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) , London, UK, 2010/06/28-30
      12. Tomorrow's Giants, London, UK, 2010/07/01
      13. 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2010), Beijing, China, 2010/07/7-9
      14. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010), Portland, Oregon, USA, 2010/07/7-11
      15. The 2010 Advanced Geographical Analysis and Modeling Workshop, Neve Ilan, Israel, 2010/07/8-10
      16. New Frontiers in Complex Networks: A Statphys24 Satellite Meeting, Seoul, Korea, 2010/07/12-16
      17. The First Australasian Workshop on Computation in Cyber-Physical Systems (CompCPS-2010), Sydney, Australia, 2010/07/15-16
      18. 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IJCNN 2010, FUZZ-IEEE 2010, and IEEE CEC 2010), Barcelona, Spain, 10/07/18-23
      19. The 2010 International Conference on Informatics Cypernetics, and Computer Applications (ICICCA2010), Bangalore, India, 2010/07/19-21
      20. 1st International Workshop on Complexity and Real World Applications: Using the Tools and Concepts from the Complexity Sciences to Support Real World Decision-making Activities, Southampton, England, UK, 2010/07/21-23
      21. 2010 International Conference on the Business and Digital Enterprises (ICBDE 2010), Bangalore, India, 2010/07/22-24
      22. Dynamics Days South America, São José dos Campos, Brazil, 2010/07/26-30
      23. Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School, Buea, Cameroon, 2010/08/2-13
      24. 4th Annual French Complex Systems Summer School, Paris, France, 2010/08/02-20
      25. ADVANCED COURSE IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, 15th Edition, Freiburg, Germany, 2010/08/2-27
      26. European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Copenhagen, Denmark, 10/08/09-20
      27. Singularity Summit, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2010/08/14-15
      28. Systems Biology of Development, Ascona, Switzerland, 2010/08/16-20
      29. Amorphous Computing and Complex Biological Networks, University of Sheffield, UK, 2010/08/17-20
      30. Artificial Life XII (ALife XII), Odense, Denmark, 10/08/19--23.
      31. The Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-2010): Enabling Computing, Services and Intelligence for Social Life, Minneapolis, USA, 2010/08/20-22
      32. Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science FIS 2010: Towards a New Science of Information, Beijing, China, 2010/09/20-23
      33. From animals to animats: the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'10), , Paris, France, 2010/08/24-28
      34. 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10), Toronto, Canada, 2010/08/31-09/03
      35. International Conference OPERATIONS RESEARCH "MASTERING COMPLEXITY", München, Germany, 2010/09/1-3
      36. SoNet-2010: SOCIAL NETWORKS: COMPUTING AND MINING, Brno, Czech Republic, 2010/09/3-5
      37. ANTS 2010, Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium, 10/09/8-10
      38. 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Cardiff, UK, 2010/09/8-10
      39. Artificial Economics, Treviso, Italy, 2010/09/9-10
      40. PPSN 2010: 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature, Krakow, Poland, 2010/09/11-15
      41. European Conference on Complex Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010/09/13-17
      42. 12th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2010), New York City, USA, 2010/09/20-22
      43. CASoN 2010 International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks, Taiyuan, China, 2010/09/26"28
      44. Data driven dynamical networks, Les Houches, France, 2010/09/26-10/01
      45. SASO 2010 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 2010/09/27-10/01
      46. 2nd Workshop on Complex Networks CompleNet 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010/10/13-15
      47. 1st International Conference on Bionics & Biomechanics, Venice, Italy, 2010/10/14-16
      48. Fifth National Conference on systems science, Fermo, Italy, 2010/10/16
      49. Business Complexity and the Global Leader Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2010/10/17-20
      50. Joint Colloquium of the Cochrane & Campbell Collaborations, Keystone, Colorado, USA 2010/10/18-22
      51. The 2010 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM'10) and the 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence (AICI'10), Sanya, China, 2010/10/23-24
      52. The 5th Int'l Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems, Boston, MA, USA, 2010/12/1-3
      53. 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science CACS 2010, Singapore, 2010/12/4-6
      54. IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010 (Embedded and ubiquitous computing), Hong Kong SAR, China, 2010/12/11-13
      55. 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011), Rome, Italy, 2011/01/28-30
      56. IJCAI 2011, the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 2011/07/19-22

    3. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Smarter Cities NYC. Posted on 2009/10/05

      2. ASSYST Digital Library. Since 09/09

      3. Complex Systems Teleconferences. Since 09/09

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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