Complexity Digest 2010.21

2010/10/08

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Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

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Content

  1. Graphene: Carbon's New Face, nobelprize.org
    1. Molecule Makers, nobelprize.org
    2. The Father of the Test Tube Baby, nobelprize.org
    3. Mario Vargas Llosa, nobelprize.org
  2. Complex Systems View of Educational Policy Research, Science
    1. Garage biotech: Life hackers, Nature
  3. Arms and the Man: The Problem of Symmetric Growth, PLoS Biol
  4. Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From, Wired
  5. Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome, TED.com
    1. Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?, TED.com
  6. Quantifying social synergy in insect and human societies, BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
    1. A Mixture of “Cheats” and “Co-Operators” Can Enable Maximal Group Benefit, PLoS Biol
  7. Truthy.indiana.edu to search, identify smear tactics, Twitter-bombs through election runup, Physorg.com
  8. Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups, Science
    1. Animal behaviour: The wisdom of the bees, Nature
  9. The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle, Science
  10. How centered leaders achieve extraordinary results, McKinsey Quaterly
  11. Optimization in “Self-modeling” complex adaptive systems, Complexity
  12. Do topological models provide good information about electricity infrastructure vulnerability?, Chaos
  13. Approximating Mexican highways with slime mould, arXiv
  14. Capacity sharing in a network of independent factories: A cooperative game theory approach, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
    1. Imitation, internal absorption and the reversal of local drift in stochastic evolutionary games, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    2. Better living through physics, Nature
  15. An agent-based model of collective emotions in online communities, Eur. Phys. J. B
  16. Evolutionary Entropy Determines Invasion Success in Emergent Epidemics, PLoS ONE
  17. Phenotypic robustness can increase phenotypic variability after non-genetic perturbations in gene regulatory circuits, arXiv
  18. Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia, PLoS Comput Biol
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, Cambridge University Press
    2. Modeling Complex Systems, Springer
    3. When Free Markets Fail: Saving the Market When It Can't Save Itself, Wiley
    4. Physarum Machines: Computers from Slime Mould, World Scientific Publishing Company
    5. The Role of Model Integration in Complex Systems Modelling: An Example from Cancer Biology, Springer
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Event Announcements
    3. Webcast Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. Graphene: Carbon's New Face, nobelprize.org Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Imagine a sheet of material that's just one atom thick, yet super-strong, highly conductive, practically transparent and able to reveal new secrets of fundamental physics. That's graphene, isolated by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, 2010 Nobel Laureates in Physics.

    1. Molecule Makers, nobelprize.org Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki share the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing new, more efficient ways of linking carbon atoms together to build the complex molecules that are improving our everyday lives.

    2. The Father of the Test Tube Baby, nobelprize.org Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Robert G. Edwards, the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, battled societal and establishment resistance to his development of the in vitro fertilization procedure, which has so far led to the birth of around 4 million people.

    3. Mario Vargas Llosa, nobelprize.org Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Peruvian by birth and a truly international citizen, the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature embraces multiple genres (novels, plays, essays), and politics too, in his commitment to social change.

  2. Complex Systems View of Educational Policy Research, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Education researchers have struggled for decades with questions such as "why are troubled schools so difficult to improve?" or "why is the achievement gap so hard to close?" We argue here that conceptualizing schools and districts as complex adaptive systems, composed of many networked parts that give rise to emergent patterns through their interactions (1), holds promise for understanding such important problems. Although there has been considerable research on the use of complex systems ideas and methods to help students learn science content (2), only recently have researchers begun to apply these tools to issues of educational policy.

    1. Garage biotech: Life hackers, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary: Amateur hobbyists are creating home-brew molecular-biology labs, but can they ferment a revolution?

  3. Arms and the Man: The Problem of Symmetric Growth, PLoS Biol Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The external features of our bodies are specified in the embryo and then grow for some 16 years, yet many are remarkably symmetrical. Just consider how similar in size and shape your two ears are. And if you extend your arms, you will likely find that they, too, are similar in length, even though they grew independently from tiny buds in the embryo. Their length matches with an accuracy of about 0.2% yet there is no known communication between the limbs during growth. You'll find the same holds for your two forefingers as it does for the size of internal body organs such as the kidneys and lungs. How is such coordination achieved? While we have a reasonably good understanding of how our limbs grow, we know relatively little about how their growth is so reliably controlled.

  4. Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From, Wired Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    In Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation , Johnson draws on seven centuries of scientific and technological progress, from Gutenberg to GPS, to show what sorts of environments nurture ingenuity. He finds that great creative milieus, whether MIT or Los Alamos, New York City or the World Wide Web, are like coral reefs"teeming, diverse colonies of creators who interact with and influence one another.
    Seven centuries are an eyeblink in the scope of Kelly’s book, What Technology Wants , which looks back over some 50,000 years of history and peers nearly that far into the future. His argument is similarly sweeping: Technology, Kelly believes, can be seen as a sort of autonomous life-form, with intrinsic goals toward which it gropes over the course of its long development. Those goals, he says, are much like the tendencies of biological life, which over time diversifies, specializes, and (eventually) becomes more sentient.

  5. Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome, TED.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    About this talk: Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our "connectome," and it's as individual as our genome -- and understanding it could open a new way to understand our brains and our minds.

    1. Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade?, TED.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      About this talk: Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news: We're winning the war against child mortality. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories.

  6. Quantifying social synergy in insect and human societies, BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: What are the benefits of society? What are the adaptive advantages of social behavior? The fact that societies exist suggest that society favors synergies in the interactions between individuals. One such synergy or adaptive advantage might be the increased efficiency in the use of scarce resources. This has been postulated to occur in the “metabolic scaling law”, where larger organisms with more cells consume less energy per unit mass than smaller organisms. Here, I develop a similar scale-free index for social synergy applicable to energy consumption, and apply it to social insect colonies and human cities. The results show that all societies studied increase the efficiency of energy consumption with increased sizes.

    1. A Mixture of “Cheats” and “Co-Operators” Can Enable Maximal Group Benefit, PLoS Biol Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: The world is best off, it is usually presumed, when everyone co-operates. However, we discovered in a laboratory experiment involving yeasts that a population can grow more and faster when there is a mix of “cheats” and “co-operators.” (...) We find three conditions required to recover the unexpected result: (1) the “co-operators” should get more food than “cheats” (e.g. if the two aren't perfectly mixed together), (2) food is used more efficiently when there is a famine than when there is a feast, and (3) the amount of “co-operation” given should not accurately match the amount needed. We argue that all three are likely not to be peculiar to yeast, suggesting that “cheats” may be good for a group in many cases.

  7. Truthy.indiana.edu to search, identify smear tactics, Twitter-bombs through election runup, Physorg.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading Indiana University information and computer scientists today unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu, a sophisticated new Twitter-based research tool that combines data mining, social network analysis and crowdsourcing to uncover deceptive tactics and misinformation leading up to the Nov. 2 elections.

  8. Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Psychologists have repeatedly shown that a single statistical factor"often called "general intelligence""emerges from the correlations among people's performance on a wide variety of cognitive tasks. But no one has systematically examined whether a similar kind of "collective intelligence" exists for groups of people. In two studies with 699 individuals, working in groups of two to five, we find converging evidence of a general collective intelligence factor that explains a group's performance on a wide variety of tasks. This "c factor" is not strongly correlated with the average or maximum individual intelligence of group members but is correlated with the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group.

    1. Animal behaviour: The wisdom of the bees, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt:
      You can never tell when apparently blue-sky science will be useful, as biologist Thomas Seeley's career shows. His knowledge of honeybees, for example, helped to defuse a cold-war confrontation in the 1980s, when he showed that yellow dots on Thai jungle foliage were not residues of Soviet chemical weapons but bee shit. And he has run his own department by the rules that swarms use to select a new home. Honeybee Democracy describes Seeley's quest to understand collective decision-making in social insects and humans.

  9. The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Atmospheric reactions and slow geological processes controlled Earth’s earliest nitrogen cycle, and by ~2.7 billion years ago, a linked suite of microbial processes evolved to form the modern nitrogen cycle with robust natural feedbacks and controls. Over the past century, however, the development of new agricultural practices to satisfy a growing global demand for food has drastically disrupted the nitrogen cycle. This has led to extensive eutrophication of fresh waters and coastal zones as well as increased inventories of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). Microbial processes will ultimately restore balance to the nitrogen cycle, but the damage done by humans to the nitrogen economy of the planet will persist for decades, possibly centuries, if active intervention and careful management strategies are not initiated.

  10. How centered leaders achieve extraordinary results, McKinsey Quaterly Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: For the past six years, we have been on a journey to learn from leaders who are able to find the best in themselves and in turn inspire, engage, and mobilize others, even in the most demanding circumstances. And the business environment has become more demanding: the global financial crisis and subsequent economic downturn have ratcheted up the pressure on leaders already grappling with a world in transformation. More than half of the CEOs we and our colleagues have spoken with in the past year have said that their organization must fundamentally rethink its business model.

  11. Optimization in “Self-modeling” complex adaptive systems, Complexity Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: When a dynamical system with multiple point attractors is released from an arbitrary initial condition, it will relax into a configuration that locally resolves the constraints or opposing forces between interdependent state variables. However, when there are many conflicting interdependencies between variables, finding a configuration that globally optimizes these constraints by this method is unlikely or may take many attempts. Here, we show that a simple distributed mechanism can incrementally alter a dynamical system such that it finds lower energy configurations, more reliably and more quickly. (...)

  12. Do topological models provide good information about electricity infrastructure vulnerability?, Chaos Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: In order to identify the extent to which results from topological graph models are useful for modeling vulnerability in electricity infrastructure, we measure the susceptibility of power networks to random failures and directed attacks using three measures of vulnerability: characteristic path lengths, connectivity loss, and blackout sizes. The first two are purely topological metrics. (...) While the topological metrics and the power grid model show some similar trends, the vulnerability metrics for individual simulations show only a mild correlation. We conclude that evaluating vulnerability in power networks using purely topological metrics can be misleading.

  13. Approximating Mexican highways with slime mould, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a single cell visible by unaided eye. During its foraging behavior the cell spans spatially distributed sources of nutrients with a protoplasmic network. Geometrical structure of the protoplasmic networks allows the plasmodium to optimize transport of nutrients between remote parts of its body. Assuming major Mexican cities are sources of nutrients how much structure of Physarum protoplasmic network correspond to structure of Mexican Federal highway network? To find an answer undertook a series of laboratory experiments with living Physarum polycephalum. We represent geographical locations of major cities by oat flakes, place a piece of plasmodium in Mexico city area, record the plasmodium's foraging behavior and extract topology of nutrient transport networks. Results of our experiments show that the protoplasmic network formed by Physarum is isomorphic, subject to limitations imposed, to a network of principle highways. Ideas and results of the paper may contribute towards future developments in bio-inspired road planning.

  14. Capacity sharing in a network of independent factories: A cooperative game theory approach, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The possibility to cooperate in a network allows companies to stay competitive. This paper proposes a game theory coordination mechanism for a network of independent plants; the approach is based on the OWEN’s theorem properly simulated in order to investigate different performances in various environmental conditions.

    1. Imitation, internal absorption and the reversal of local drift in stochastic evolutionary games, Journal of Theoretical Biology Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations is typically subject to noise, inducing effects which are not present in deterministic systems, including fixation and extinction. In the first part of this paper we investigate the phenomenon of drift reversal in finite populations, taking into account that drift is a local quantity in strategy space. Secondly, we study a simple imitation dynamics, and show that it can lead to fixation at internal mixed-strategy fixed points even in finite populations.

    2. Better living through physics, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Nowak and colleagues' explanation of the evolution of altruism (Nature 466, 1057"1062; 2010) in terms of individual-level selection might be reconciled with the views of their kin-selection opponents by striking an analogy with statistical mechanical and thermodynamic treatments in physics.

  15. An agent-based model of collective emotions in online communities, Eur. Phys. J. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: We develop an agent-based framework to model the emergence of collective emotions, which is applied to online communities. Agent's individual emotions are described by their valence and arousal. Using the concept of Brownian agents, these variables change according to a stochastic dynamics, which also considers the feedback from online communication.

  16. Evolutionary Entropy Determines Invasion Success in Emergent Epidemics, PLoS ONE Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Standard epidemiological theory claims that in structured populations competition between multiple pathogen strains is a deterministic process which is mediated by the basic reproduction number (Ro) of the individual strains. In this article we show that when population size is finite the dynamics of infection by multi-strain pathogens is a stochastic process whose outcome can be predicted by evolutionary entropy, S, an information theoretic measure which describes the uncertainty in the infectious age of an infected parent of a randomly chosen new infective.

  17. Phenotypic robustness can increase phenotypic variability after non-genetic perturbations in gene regulatory circuits, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Non-genetic perturbations, such as environmental change or developmental noise, can induce novel phenotypes. If an induced phenotype confers a fitness advantage, selection may promote its genetic stabilization. Non-genetic perturbations can thus initiate evolutionary innovation. Genetic variation that is not usually phenotypically visible may play an important role in this process. Populations under stabilizing selection on a phenotype that is robust to mutations can accumulate such variation. After non-genetic perturbations, this variation can become a source of new phenotypes. We here study the relationship between a phenotype's robustness to mutations and a population's potential to generate novel phenotypic variation. (...)

  18. Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia, PLoS Comput Biol Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Wikipedia is the world's most successful online encyclopedia, now containing over 3.3 million English language articles. It is probably the largest collection of knowledge ever assembled, and is certainly the most widely accessible. Wikipedia can be edited by anyone with Internet access that chooses to, but does it provide reliable information? A 2005 study by Nature found that a selection of Wikipedia articles on scientific subjects were comparable to a professionally edited encyclopedia, suggesting a community of volunteers can generate and sustain surprisingly accurate content.

  19. Book Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, Cambridge University Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread with surprising speed and intensity. This book takes an interdisciplinary look at economics, sociology, computing and information science, and applied mathematics to understand networks and behavior. It describes the emerging field of study that is growing at the interface of these areas.

    2. Modeling Complex Systems, Springer Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book explores the process of modeling complex systems, providing examples from such diverse fields as ecology, epidemiology, sociology, seismology, and economics. It illustrates how models of complex systems are built and provides indispensable mathematical tools for studying their dynamics. It starts with a definition of the systems under consideration and how to build up a model to describe the complex dynamics. The subsequent chapters are devoted to various categories of mean-field type models (differential and recurrence equations, chaos) and of agent-based models (cellular automata, networks and power-law distributions).

    3. When Free Markets Fail: Saving the Market When It Can't Save Itself, Wiley Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Complinet New York Managing Editor Scott McCleskey explains the nuts and bolts of financial regulation"how it's made and how it works"to examine how the collapse happened and how we can avoid a future crisis. McCleskey, a leading authority on financial regulation, discusses a wide range of issues underlying the debate on reforming the financial markets. He sheds light on the structure of regulation and the roles of various agencies, including discussion of the role of credit rating agencies and their central role in the markets. (...)

    4. Physarum Machines: Computers from Slime Mould, World Scientific Publishing Company Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      A Physarum machine is a programmable amorphous biological computer experimentally implemented in the vegetative state of true slime mould Physarum polycephalum. It comprises an amorphous yellowish mass with networks of protoplasmic veins, programmed by spatial configurations of attracting and repelling gradients. This book demonstrates how to create experimental Physarum machines for computational geometry and optimization, distributed manipulation and transportation, and general-purpose computation. Being very cheap to make and easy to maintain, the machine also functions on a wide range of substrates and in a broad scope of environmental conditions. As such it is a green and environmentally friendly unconventional computer.

    5. The Role of Model Integration in Complex Systems Modelling: An Example from Cancer Biology, Springer Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Model integration " the process by which different modelling efforts can be brought together to simulate the target system " is a core technology in the field of Systems Biology. In the work presented here model integration was addressed directly taking cancer systems as an example. An in-depth literature review was carried out to survey the model forms and types currently being utilised. This was used to formalise the main challenges that model integration poses, namely that of paradigm (the formalism on which a model is based), focus (the real-world system the model represents) and scale. (...)

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    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. On Possible Implications of Self-Organization Processes through Transformation of Laws of Arithmetic into Laws of Space and Time, Victor Korotkikh, 2010/09/16, arXiv:1009.5342
      2. Chaos control in random Boolean networks by reducing mean damage percolation rate, Nan Jiang, Shijian Chen, 2010/09/25, arXiv:1009.5010
      3. Sandpile cascades on interacting tree-like networks, Charles D. Brummitt, Raissa M. D'Souza, Elizabeth A. Leicht, 2010/10/02, arXiv:1010.0279
      4. Fuzzy modularity and fuzzy community structure in networks, Jian Liu, 2010/10/1, Eur. Phys. J. B (2010), DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2010-00290-3
      5. Reproducing the Cyclic Tag System Developed by Matthew Cook with Rule 110 Using the Phases fi_1, GENARO J. MARTÍNEZ, HAROLD V. MCINTOSH, JUAN C. SECK TUOH MORA AND SERGIO V. CHAPA VERGARA, 2011, Journal of Cellular Automata Volume 6, Number 2-3

    2. Event Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. 2nd Workshop on Complex Networks CompleNet 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2010/10/13-15
      2. 1st International Conference on Bionics & Biomechanics, Venice, Italy, 2010/10/14-16
      3. Fifth National Conference on systems science, Fermo, Italy, 2010/10/16
      4. Chemistry: at the crossroads of Physics and Biology, Brussels, Belgium, 2011/10/17
      5. Business Complexity and the Global Leader Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2010/10/17-20
      6. Joint Colloquium of the Cochrane & Campbell Collaborations, Keystone, Colorado, USA 2010/10/18-22
      7. CONNECTING THE DOTS: A Network Visualization Symposium, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2010/10/22
      8. 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
      9. The 2010 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications (IWNICA'10), Hefei, Anhui, China, 2010/10/23-27
      10. First International Conference on Complex Systems Design and Management (CSDM 2010), Paris, France, 2010/10/27-29
      11. International Workshop on Statistical Physics and Biology of Collective Motion, Dresden, Germany, 2010/11/8-12
      12. 2nd Annual Complexity in Business Conference, Washington, DC, USA, 2010/11/12
      13. Science and Innovation Week 2010, Mexico City, Mexico, 2010/11/22-26
      14. JMS2010 Modeling and Simulation Symposium 2010, Mérida, Venezuela, 2010/11/24-26
      15. IPG '10 (Integrative Post-Genomics), Lyon, France, 2011/11/25-26
      16. The 5th Int'l Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems, Boston, MA, USA, 2010/12/1-3
      17. 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science CACS 2010, Singapore, 2010/12/4-6
      18. IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010 (Embedded and ubiquitous computing), Hong Kong SAR, China, 2010/12/11-13
      19. The 14th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2010), Tozeur, Tunisia, 2010/12/14-17
      20. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY Bottom-up, Top-down and Cell-free approaches, Intellectual Property issues, Evry, France, 2010/12/15-16
      21. The Second World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC2010), Kitakyushu, Japan, 2010/12/15-17
      22. Winter Meeting on Statistical Physics, Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico, 2011/1/4-7
      23. International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Beppu, Oita, Japan, 2011/01/27-29
      24. 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011), Rome, Italy, 2011/01/28-30
      25. IWSOS 2011, Fifth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems , Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011/02/23-25
      26. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - SSCI 2011, Paris, France, 2011/04/11-15
      27. EVOSTAR 2011, Torino, Italy, 2011/4/27-29
      28. 7th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Athens, Greece, 2011/06/13-16
      29. International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2011), Boston, MA, USA, 2011/06/26-07/01
      30. The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2011), Istanbul, Turkey, 2011/07/4-8
      31. GECCO 2011: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2011/07/12-16
      32. IJCAI 2011, the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 2011/07/16-22
      33. ECAL 11: European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris, France, 2011/08/8-12
      34. The 15th WOSC INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS on CYBERNETICS and SYSTEMS, Nanjing, China, 2011/09/15-18
      35. World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, 2011/09/26-30

    3. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Lakeside Research Days 2010.
      2. Smarter Cities NYC. Posted on 2009/10/05
      3. ASSYST Digital Library. Since 09/09
      4. Complex Systems Teleconferences. Since 09/09
      5. Symmetry Festival 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 09/08/1-4.
      6. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, 09/06/8-12
      7. Memorial Service for Dr Gottfried Mayer, Founding Editor Complexity Digest, Taipei, Taiwan (1954-2009). Video [RM], 09/02/13
      8. Making Connections: In Memory and Celebration of the Life of Dr. Gottfried Mayer (1954-2009). Video [RM] [MPG], 09/02/13
      9. Eulogy for Gottfried Mayer by Dean LeBaron [WMV, 25 Mb], [RM, 10 Mb], 09/02/10
      10. Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?, Danielle Parsons, Slatev.com, 08/07/22
      11. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      12. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 08/01/22-27
      13. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      14. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      15. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      16. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      17. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      18. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      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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