Complexity Digest 2011.08

2011/04/22

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

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Content

  1. The Evolution and Structure of Sustainability Science, SFI Working Papers
  2. Moral assessment in indirect reciprocity, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  3. Education: The PhD factory, Nature
  4. A Single Historical Continuum, Cliodynamics
  5. David Christian: Big history, TED.com
    1. Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization, TED.com
  6. Information storage and transfer in the synchronization process in locally-connected networks, SSCI 2011
  7. How mutation affects evolutionary games on graphs, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. Strength of Social Tie Predicts Cooperative Investment in a Human Social Network, PLoS ONE
  8. Self-organizing traffic lights at multiple-street intersections, arXiv
  9. The geometry of chaotic dynamics â€" a complex network perspective, Eur. Phys. J. B
  10. Emergent Criticality Through Adaptive Information Processing in Boolean Networks, arXiv
  11. Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals, Nature
  12. The Dynamics of Generalized Market Exchange, SFI Working Papers
  13. On the interaction of the stick and the carrot in social dilemmas, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. The joker effect: Cooperation driven by destructive agents, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  14. Evidence of Strategic Periodicities in Collective Conflict Dynamics, SFI Working Papers
    1. The Emergence of Homogeneous Norms in Heterogeneous Populations, SFI Working Papers
  15. Polyethism in a colony of artificial ants, arXiv
  16. Ravens Reconcile after Aggressive Conflicts with Valuable Partners, PLoS ONE
  17. Statistical physics approach to graphical games: local and global interactions, Eur. Phys. J. B
  18. The contribution of statistical physics to evolutionary biology, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature, Basic Books
    2. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, Pantheon
    3. Mathematics of Life: Unlocking the Secrets of Existence, Profile
    4. In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, Simon & Schuster
    5. Transient Chaos: Complex Dynamics on Finite Time Scales, Springer
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Event Announcements
    3. Webcast Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. The Evolution and Structure of Sustainability Science, SFI Working Papers Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The concepts of sustainable development have experienced extraordinary success since their advent in the 1980s. They are now an integral part of the agenda of governments and corporations and their goals have become central to the mission of research laboratories and universities worldwide. However, it remains unclear how far the field has progressed as a scientific discipline, especially given its ambitious agenda of integrating theory, applied science and policy, making it relevant for development globally and generating a new interdisciplinary synthesis across fields as diverse as ecology, the social sciences and engineering. (...) We show that sustainability science has been growing explosively since the late 1980s (...)

  2. Moral assessment in indirect reciprocity, Journal of Theoretical Biology Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Indirect reciprocity is one of the mechanisms for cooperation, and seems to be of particular interest for the evolution of human societies. A large part is based on assessing reputations and acting accordingly. This paper gives a brief overview of different assessment rules for indirect reciprocity, and studies them by using evolutionary game dynamics. Even the simplest binary assessment rules lead to complex outcomes and require considerable cognitive abilities.

  3. Education: The PhD factory, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: In some countries, including the United States and Japan, people who have trained at great length and expense to be researchers confront a dwindling number of academic jobs, and an industrial sector unable to take up the slack. Supply has outstripped demand and, although few PhD holders end up unemployed, it is not clear that spending years securing this high-level qualification is worth it for a job as, for example, a high-school teacher.
    • Source: Education: The PhD factory, David Cyranoski , Natasha Gilbert , Heidi Ledford , Anjali Nayar & Mohammed Yahia, DOI: 10.1038/472276a, Nature 472, 276-279, 2011/04/20

  4. A Single Historical Continuum, Cliodynamics Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: In the middle of the twentieth century our understanding of the past underwent a quiet revolution whose full implications have yet to be integrated into modern historical scholarship. At the heart of the revolution were new chronometric techniques, new ways of dating past events. For the first time, these techniques allowed the construction of reliable chronologies extending back before the first written documents, before even the appearance of the first humans, back to the early days of our planet and even to the birth of the Universe as a whole. This expanded timeline provided the foundation for the “Single Historical Continuum” of my title. This paper describes the chronometric revolution and the creation of a single historical continuum. It then discusses some of the implications of these changes for our understanding of “history.” (...)

  5. David Christian: Big history, TED.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    About this talk: Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.

    1. Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization, TED.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      About this talk: Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000).

  6. Information storage and transfer in the synchronization process in locally-connected networks, SSCI 2011 Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Synchrony is a phenomenon where a group of weakly interacting oscillators demonstrate the ability of mutual entrainment, organizing themselves to reach a highly ordered state. The study of synchrony has been hindered by the inherent nature of complex systems requiring the system be studied at a global level. To create new insights here, we use information-theoretical techniques to view the synchronization process as a distributed computation, and to measure the information storage and transfer at each node in the system at each time step. These application-independent measures provide results that can be compared to other systems, and also study the local dynamics of synchronization within the system. (...)

  7. How mutation affects evolutionary games on graphs, Journal of Theoretical Biology Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Evolutionary dynamics are affected by population structure, mutation rates and update rules. Spatial or network structure facilitates the clustering of strategies, which represents a mechanism for the evolution of cooperation. Mutation dilutes this effect. Here we analyze how mutation influences evolutionary clustering on graphs. We introduce new mathematical methods to evolutionary game theory,...

    1. Strength of Social Tie Predicts Cooperative Investment in a Human Social Network, PLoS ONE Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Network structure may be especially relevant to the study of cooperation, because the action of mechanisms which affect the cost:benefit ratio of cooperating (e.g. reciprocity, punishment, image scoring) is likely to be mediated by the relative position of actor and recipient in the network. Social proximity could thus affect cooperation in a similar manner to biological relatedness.

  8. Self-organizing traffic lights at multiple-street intersections, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: Traffic light coordination is a complex problem. In this paper, we extend previous work on an abstract model of city traffic to allow for multiple street intersections. We test a self-organizing method in our model, showing that it is close to theoretical optima and superior to a traditional method of traffic light coordination.

  9. The geometry of chaotic dynamics â€" a complex network perspective, Eur. Phys. J. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Recently, several complex network approaches to time series analysis have been developed and applied to study a wide range of model systems as well as real-world data (...) In this paper we demonstrate that the well known graph theoretical properties local clustering coefficient and global (network) transitivity can meaningfully be exploited to define two new local and two new global measures of dimension in phase space: local upper and lower clustering dimension as well as global upper and lower transitivity dimension. (...) Our results demonstrate that Ï”-recurrence networks exhibit an important link between dynamical systems and graph theory.

  10. Emergent Criticality Through Adaptive Information Processing in Boolean Networks, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: We study information processing in populations of Boolean networks with evolving connectivity and systematically explore the interplay between the learning capability, robustness, the network topology, and the task complexity. We solve a long-standing open question and find computationally that, for large system sizes $N$, adaptive information processing drives the networks to a critical connectivity $K_{c}=2$. For finite size networks, the connectivity approaches the critical value with a power-law of the system size $N$. (...)

  11. Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: First, contrary to the generative account of parameter setting, we show that the evolution of only a few word-order features of languages are strongly correlated. Second, contrary to the Greenbergian generalizations, we show that most observed functional dependencies between traits are lineage-specific rather than universal tendencies. These findings support the view thatâ€"at least with respect to word orderâ€"cultural evolution is the primary factor that determines linguistic structure, with the current state of a linguistic system shaping and constraining future states.

  12. The Dynamics of Generalized Market Exchange, SFI Working Papers Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: This paper develops a dynamical price and quantity adjustment process for a fully decentralized market economy, and shows for the first time, using agent-based modeling techniques, that in the long-run, prices and quantities approximate their equilibrium states. The resulting dynamical system is also highly resilient in the face of exogenous shocks.

  13. On the interaction of the stick and the carrot in social dilemmas, Journal of Theoretical Biology Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Recent developments in the study of social dilemmas have revealed various cooperative solutions of the “tragedy of the commons” problem. If the public goods game, i.e. the experimental paradigm of the tragedy of the commons, offers the opportunity to punish (the ‘stick’), contributions to the public pool usually increase. Direct rewarding (the ‘carrot’) has been shown to be less effective. If, however,...

    1. The joker effect: Cooperation driven by destructive agents, Journal of Theoretical Biology Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Previous results have shown that introducing reputation, allowing for volunteer participation, punishing defectors, rewarding cooperators or structuring agents, can enhance cooperation. Here we present a model which shows how the introduction of rare, malicious agents - that we term jokers - performing just destructive actions on the other agents induce bursts of cooperation. The appearance of jokers promotes a rock-paper-scissors dynamics,...

  14. Evidence of Strategic Periodicities in Collective Conflict Dynamics, SFI Working Papers Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: We analyze the timescales of conflict decision-making in a primate society. We present evidence for multiple, periodic timescales associated with social decision-making and behavioral patterns. We demonstrate the existence of periodicities that are not directly coupled to environmental cycles or known ultraridian mechanisms. Among specific biological and socially-defined demographic classes, periodicities span timescales between hours and days, and many are not driven by exogenous or internal regularities. Our results indicate that they are instead driven by strategic responses to social interaction patterns (...)

    1. The Emergence of Homogeneous Norms in Heterogeneous Populations, SFI Working Papers Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: Social norms are known to establish social order and cohesion if actors commonly agree on them. In heterogeneous populations, however, normative conflict may result and social order may collapse. In this article, we show by means of a computational simulation model that homogeneous social norms may even come about in heterogeneous societies consisting of groups with competing interests. We demonstrate that punishment oriented at conformity can set off enforcement cascades leading to one generally accepted norm. In our model, agents put pressure on others to perform the same public behavior as they show themselves, even if they privately disapprove it. Interestingly, this type of punishment is more effective to form norms than pressuring others to meet their own private preferences. We conclude that group pressure and punishment may be interrelated phenomena, which can lead to homogeneous behaviors even in well diversified societies.

  15. Polyethism in a colony of artificial ants, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: We explore self-organizing strategies for role assignment in a foraging task carried out by a colony of artificial agents. Our strategies are inspired by various mechanisms of division of labor (polyethism) observed in eusocial insects like ants, termites, or bees. Specifically we instantiate models of caste polyethism and age or temporal polyethism to evaluated the benefits to foraging in a dynamic environment. Our experiment is directly related to the exploration/exploitation trade of in machine learning.

  16. Ravens Reconcile after Aggressive Conflicts with Valuable Partners, PLoS ONE Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Here, we demonstrate the occurrence of reconciliation in a group of captive subadult ravens (Corvus corax) and show that it is more likely to occur after conflicts between partners who share a valuable relationship. Furthermore, former opponents were less likely to engage in renewed aggression following reconciliation, suggesting that reconciliation repairs damage caused to their relationship by the preceding conflict.

  17. Statistical physics approach to graphical games: local and global interactions, Eur. Phys. J. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: In a graphical game agents play with their neighbors on a graph to achieve an appropriate state of equilibrium. Here relevant problems are characterizing the equilibrium set and discovering efficient algorithms to find such an equilibrium (solution). We consider a representation of games that extends over graphical games to deal conveniently with both local a global interactions and use the cavity method of statistical physics to study the geometrical structure of the equilibria space. The method also provides a distributive and local algorithm to find an equilibrium. For simplicity we consider only pure Nash equilibria but the methods can as well be extended to deal with (approximated) mixed Nash equilirbia.

  18. The contribution of statistical physics to evolutionary biology, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Evolutionary biology shares many concepts with statistical physics: both deal with populations, whether of molecules or organisms, and both seek to simplify evolution in very many dimensions. Often, methodologies have undergone parallel and independent development, as with stochastic methods in population genetics. We discuss aspects of population genetics that have embraced methods from physics: amongst others, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, travelling waves, and Monte-Carlo methods have been used to study polygenic evolution, rates of adaptation, and range expansions. These applications indicate that evolutionary biology can further benefit from interactions with other areas of statistical physics, for example, by following the distribution of paths taken by a population through time.

  19. Book Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature, Basic Books Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      In this book, social psychologist Douglas Kenrick exposes the selfish animalistic underside of human nature, and shows how it is intimately connected to our greatest and most selfless achievements. Masterfully integrating cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and complexity theory, this intriguing book paints a comprehensive picture of the principles that govern our lives. As Kenrick divulges, beneath our civilized veneer, human beings are a lot like howling hyenas and barking baboons, with heads full of homicidal tendencies and sexual fantasies. This book is an exploration of our mental biases and failures, and our mind’s great successes. (...)

    2. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, Pantheon Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why do you hear your name being mentioned in a conversation that you didn’t think you were listening to? What do Ulysses and the credit crunch have in common? Why are people whose names begin with J more likely to marry other people whose names begin with J? Why is it so difficult to keep a secret? And how is it possible to get angry at yourselfâ€"who, exactly, is mad at whom? (...)

    3. Mathematics of Life: Unlocking the Secrets of Existence, Profile Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Mathematicians and biologists confront nature's enigmas. A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw fresh light on the behaviour of entire organisms, how they interact, and how changes in biological diversity affect the planet's ecological balance. "Mathematics" offers new and sometimes startling perspectives on evolution and how patterns of inheritance and population work out over time-scales ranging from millions to hundreds of years - as well as what's going on to change us right now. (...)

    4. In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, Simon & Schuster Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Thoroughly versed in technology reporting, Wired senior writer Levy deliberates at great length about online behemoth Google and creatively documents the company’s genesis from a 'feisty start-up to a market-dominating giant.' The author was afforded an opportunity to observe the company’s operations, development, culture and advertising model from within the infrastructure for two years with full managerial cooperation. From there, he performed hundreds of interviews with past and current employees and discovered the type of 'creative disorganization' that can either make or break a business. (...)

    5. Transient Chaos: Complex Dynamics on Finite Time Scales, Springer Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of Transient Chaos. It gives an overview of the subject based on three decades of intensive research. One special emphasis is on applications, and the fact that certain interesting dynamical phenomena can be understood only in the framework of transient chaos. Specific topics treated include basic concepts and characterization of transient chaos, crises, fractal basin boundaries, chaotic scattering, noise-induced chaos, chaotic advections and the spreading of pollutants in fluid flows, quantum chaotic scattering, spatiotemporal chaotic transients and turbulence, controlling transient chaos, and analysis of transient chaotic time series, etc. (...)

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    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Measuring the Relative Importance of Reusing, Recombining and Creating Technologies in the Process of Invention, Deborah Strumsky, José Lobo, Sander van der Leeuw, SFI Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP 11-02-003
      2. Vesicle computers: Approximating Voronoi diagram on Voronoi automata, Andrew Adamatzky, Ben de Lacy Costello, Julian Holley, Jerzy Gorecki and Larry Bull, 2011/04/09, arXiv:1104.1707
      3. Competition for Trophies Triggers Male Generosity, Pan XS, Houser D, April 2011, PLoS ONE 6(4): e18050, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018050

    2. Event Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. EVOSTAR 2011, Torino, Italy, 2011/04/27-29
      2. Science Beyond Fiction: European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary, 2011/05/4-6
      3. 1st European Conference of Microbiology and Immunology, Budapest, Hungary, 2011/05/12-14
      4. Advances in Applied Physics and Materials Science Congress, Antalya, Turkey, 2011/05/12-15
      5. Exploring Complexity in Science and Engineering from a Santa Fe Institute Perspective, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 2011/05/23-25
      6. Chaos, Complexity and Transport (CCT'11), Marseilles, France, 2011/05/23-27
      7. Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011/05/31-06/01
      8. IV International Biennial Symposium “Complexity 2011 â€" for a Sustainable Development”, CamagĂŒey, Cuba, 2011/10/9-11
      9. 7th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Athens, Greece, 2011/06/13-16
      10. NECSI Summer School on Complex Systems, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011/06/13-24
      11. International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2011), Cergy, France, 2011/06/14-15
      12. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, 2011/06/20-25
      13. 10th International Conference of Sociocybernetics, Cracow, Poland, 2011/06/20-25
      14. International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2011), Boston, MA, USA, 2011/06/26-07/01
      15. International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), London, UK, 2011/06/27-29
      16. Origins 2011 ISSOL and Bioastronomy Joint International Conference, Montpellier, France, 2011/07/3-8
      17. The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2011), Istanbul, Turkey, 2011/07/4-8
      18. Lipari School on the Game Theoretic Approach to Computational Complex Systems, Lipari Island, Italy, 2011/07/9-16
      19. Applications of Self-Organization in Technology (Research Days 2011, Lakeside Labs), Klagenfurt, Austria, 2011/07/11-15
      20. GECCO 2011: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2011/07/12-16
      21. IJCAI 2011, the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 2011/07/16-22
      22. The 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, Cambridge, UK, 2011/07/18-21
      23. 29th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Washington, DC, USA, 2011/07/24-28
      24. The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'11, Nottingham, UK, 2011/07/25-26
      25. Third International Workshop on nonlinear Dynamics and Synchronization -- INDS'11 Sixteenth International Symposium on Theoretical Electrical Engineering -- ISTET'11, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria, 2011/07/25-27
      26. International Workshop on Game Theory and Society: Models of Social Interaction in Sociological Research, Zurich, 2011/07/27-30
      27. Summer School Course: Emergence, Explanation and Complexity. Prof. Alan Baker, Aarhus, Denmark, 2011/08/1-26
      28. ECAL 11: European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris, France, 2011/08/8-12
      29. 1st Annual Conference on Integral Biomathics, Stirling, Scotland, 2011/08/29-31
      30. TAROS 2011: 12th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Sheffield, UK, 2011/08/31-09/02
      31. The 2011 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'11, Klagenfurt, Austria, 2011/09/06-08
      32. ICMC 2011 - 2nd International Conference on Morphological Computation, Venice, Italy, 2011/09/12-14
      33. European Conference on Complex Systems 2011, Vienna, Austria, 2011/09/12-16
      34. The 15th WOSC INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS on CYBERNETICS and SYSTEMS, Nanjing, China, 2011/09/15-18
      35. Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems, Halkidiki, Greece, 2011/09/19-25
      36. ICCCI 2011 3rd International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence: Technologies and Applications, Gdynia, Poland, 2011/09/21-23
      37. World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, 2011/09/26-30
      38. SSS 2011 - 13th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Grenoble, France, 2011/10/10-12
      39. SCIENCE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT - ENVIRONMENT FOR SOCIETY, Aarhus, Denmark, 2011/10/5-6
      40. The Third International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011), Singapore, 2011/10/6-8
      41. EPIA2011 - 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011/10/10-13
      42. XII Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena (LAWNP-2011), San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 2011/10/10-15
      43. AMBIENT 2011: The First International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies and SIMUL 2011: The Third International Conference on Advances in System Simulation, Barcelona, Spain, 2011/10/23-28
      44. 3rd International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, Paris, France, 2011/10/24-26
      45. VI Congreso Bienal Internacional Complejidad 2012, Havana, Cuba, 2012/01/10-13
      46. 38th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Ć pindlerĆŻv MlĂœn, Czech Republic, 2012/01/21â€"27
      47. 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 2012/02/6-8

    3. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Complex Systems: The Challenge of Prediction, Yaneer Bar-Yam, NECSI and MIT/ESD Seminar, 2011/04/08
      2. Lakeside Research Days 2010.
      3. Smarter Cities NYC. Posted on 2009/10/05
      4. ASSYST Digital Library. Since 09/09
      5. Complex Systems Teleconferences. Since 09/09
      6. Symmetry Festival 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 09/08/1-4.
      7. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, 09/06/8-12
      8. Memorial Service for Dr Gottfried Mayer, Founding Editor Complexity Digest, Taipei, Taiwan (1954-2009). Video [RM], 09/02/13
      9. Making Connections: In Memory and Celebration of the Life of Dr. Gottfried Mayer (1954-2009). Video [RM] [MPG], 09/02/13
      10. Eulogy for Gottfried Mayer by Dean LeBaron [WMV, 25 Mb], [RM, 10 Mb], 09/02/10
      11. Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?, Danielle Parsons, Slatev.com, 08/07/22
      12. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      13. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 08/01/22-27
      14. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      15. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      16. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      17. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      18. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      19. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      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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