Complexity Digest 2011.09

2011/05/06

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

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Content

  1. Launching “The Evolution of Cooperation”, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  2. An interview with Melanie Mitchell: Melanie Mitchell on complexity, Ubiquity
  3. Stability of the World Trade Web over Time - An Extinction Analysis, arXiv
  4. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick " review, The Observer
  5. Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries, TED.com
    1. Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse, TED.com
    2. Black Holes: Attractors for Intelligence?, arXiv
  6. Red in Tooth and Claw Among the Literati, Science
  7. Network Archaeology: Uncovering Ancient Networks from Present-Day Interactions, PLoS Comput Biol
  8. Using the Psychology of Evil To Do Good, Science
  9. Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task, PNAS
  10. European researchers chase billion-euro technology prize, News@Nature
  11. Four lessons for transforming African agriculture, McKinsey Quaterly
    1. Transforming U.S. Agriculture, Science
  12. Minimum Information About a Simulation Experiment (MIASE), PLoS Comput Biol
  13. Agency and structure: a social simulation of knowledge-intensive industries, CMOT
  14. Finding Statistically Significant Communities in Networks, PLoS ONE
  15. Systems immunology: Complexity captured, Nature
  16. Learning to cooperate via indirect reciprocity, Games and Economic Behavior
  17. Is cooperation viable in mobile organisms? Simple Walk Away rule favors the evolution of cooperation in groups, Evolution and Human Behavior
  18. Landscape encoding: faster optimization in larger spaces, arXiv
  19. Book Announcements
    1. The Chaos Theory of Careers, Routledge
    2. Crashes, Crises and Calamities, Basic Books
    3. The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization: The Origins of Human Thought, Language, and Civilization, Princeton University Press
    4. Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds, Princeton University Press
    5. Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us, Crown Archetype
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Event Announcements
    3. Webcast Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. Launching “The Evolution of Cooperation”, Journal of Theoretical Biology Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: This article describes three aspects of the author's early work on the evolution of the cooperation. First, it explains how the idea for a computer tournament for the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma was inspired by the artificial intelligence research on computer checkers and computer chess. Second, it shows how the vulnerability of simple reciprocity of misunderstanding or misimplementation can be eliminated with the addition of some degree of generosity or contrition. Third, it recounts the unusual collaboration between the author, a political scientist, and William D. Hamilton, an evolutionary biologist.

  2. An interview with Melanie Mitchell: Melanie Mitchell on complexity, Ubiquity Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: One informal (and somewhat circular) definition of complex system is the following: A system with large numbers of interacting components, in which the components are relatively simple compared with the system as a whole, in which there is no central control or global communication among the components, and in which the interactions among the components gives rise to complex behavior. Here, "complex behavior" refers to the informal terms (e.g., adaptive, emergent) that I listed above.

  3. Stability of the World Trade Web over Time - An Extinction Analysis, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The World Trade Web (WTW) is a weighted network whose nodes correspond to countries with edge weights reflecting the value of imports and/or exports between countries. In this paper we introduce to this macroeconomic system the notion of extinction analysis, a technique often used in the analysis of ecosystems, for the purposes of investigating the robustness of this network. In particular, we subject the WTW to a principled set of in silico "knockout experiments", akin to those carried out in the investigation of food webs, but suitably adapted to this macroeconomic network. Broadly, our experiments show that over time the WTW moves to a "robust yet fragile" configuration where is it robust under random attacks but fragile under targeted attack. (...)

  4. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick " review, The Observer Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    Too much information: the complaint du jour, but also toujours. Alexander Pope quipped that the printing press, "a scourge for the sins of the learned", would lead to "a deluge of Authors [that] covered the land". Robert Burton, the Oxford anatomist of melancholy, confessed in 1621 that he was drowning in books, pamphlets, news and opinions. All the twittering and tweeting today, the blogs and wikis and apparent determination to archive even the most ephemeral and trivial thought has, as James Gleick observes in this magisterial survey, something of the Borgesian about it. Nothing is forgotten; the world imprints itself on the informatosphere at a scale approaching 1:1, each moment of reality creating an indelible replica.

  5. Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries, TED.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    About this talk: Inspired by an abalone shell, Angela Belcher programs viruses to make elegant nanoscale structures that humans can use. Selecting for high-performing genes through directed evolution, she's produced viruses that can construct powerful new batteries, clean hydrogen fuels and record-breaking solar cells. At TEDxCaltech, she shows us how it's done.

    1. Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse, TED.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      About this talk: At TEDxCaltech, cosmologist Sean Carroll attacks -- in an entertaining and thought-provoking tour through the nature of time and the universe -- a deceptively simple question: Why does time exist at all? The potential answers point to a surprising view of the nature of the universe, and our place in it.

    2. Black Holes: Attractors for Intelligence?, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has so far been unsuccessful and needs additional methods. We introduce a two-dimensional metric for civilization development, using the Kardashev scale of energy increase and the Barrow scale of inward manipulation. To support Barrow's scale limit, we contend with energetic, societal, scientific, computational, and philosophical arguments that black holes are attractors for intelligence. An application of the two-dimensional metric leads to a simple, consistent and observable hypothesis to test the existence of very advanced civilizations.

  6. Red in Tooth and Claw Among the Literati, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Some literary scholars have begun incorporating neuroscience, cognitive science, anthropology, and"most prominently and controversially"evolutionary psychology into their work. Their work explores how evolution might have shaped aspects of literature, the potential adaptive benefits of storytelling for our Pleistocene ancestors, and the mystery of why humans spend so much time immersed in it. Evolution provides a framework for understanding human behavior; evolutionary psychology explores the origins of mental phenomena and can bridge evolutionary biology and the humanities.

  7. Network Archaeology: Uncovering Ancient Networks from Present-Day Interactions, PLoS Comput Biol Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Many questions about present-day interaction networks could be answered by tracking how the network changed over time. We present a suite of algorithms to uncover an approximate node-by-node and edge-by-edge history of changes of a network when given only a present-day network and a plausible growth model by which it evolved.

  8. Using the Psychology of Evil To Do Good, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Forty years after presiding over the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, Phil Zimbardo has reinvented himself as a social entrepreneur, leading a new project that will attempt to turn the Stanford Prison Experiment and other studies of the dark side of the human psyche into a force for good. Last year, Zimbardo founded the Heroic Imagination Project, which operates out of a former Army post in San Francisco's Presidio park. Its goal is to use lessons learned from social psychology research to teach ordinary people"from high school students to office workers"to recognize the influences that can make people stand idly by when they see a person in need and embolden them to commit what Zimbardo calls acts of everyday heroism.

  9. Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task, PNAS Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Here, we show that elephants can learn to coordinate with a partner in a task requiring two individuals to simultaneously pull two ends of the same rope to obtain a reward. Not only did the elephants act together, they inhibited the pulling response for up to 45 s if the arrival of a partner was delayed. They also grasped that there was no point to pulling if the partner lacked access to the rope. Such results have been interpreted as demonstrating an understanding of cooperation. Through convergent evolution, elephants may have reached a cooperative skill level on a par with that of chimpanzees.

  10. European researchers chase billion-euro technology prize, News@Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: As well as the Human Brain Project, the six shortlisted projects include Graphene, which will develop the thinnest conducting material known for data storage and processing platforms; and Guardian Angels, a project to develop nanoscale sensors and interfaces for detecting and responding to environmental danger.
    The others are Robot Companions, which will develop soft-bodied 'perceptive' robots as companions for the lonely; FuturICT, for planetary-scale modelling of human activities and their impact on the environment; and ITFoM (IT Future of Medicine), which will develop ways to apply research data more efficiently in health care.

  11. Four lessons for transforming African agriculture, McKinsey Quaterly Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: African agriculture is at a turning point, and a long-awaited “green revolution” may be within reach. Many of the continent’s governments are adopting market-friendly policies and committing more resources to the sector.

    1. Transforming U.S. Agriculture, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Agriculture in the United States and many other countries is at a critical juncture. Public investments and policy reforms will inform landscape management practices to be used by farmers and ranchers for sustaining food and ecosystem security. Although U.S. farms have provided growing supplies of food and other products, they have also been major contributors to global greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss, natural resource degradation, and public health problems (...)

  12. Minimum Information About a Simulation Experiment (MIASE), PLoS Comput Biol Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Reproducibility of experiments is a basic requirement for science. Minimum Information (MI) guidelines have proved a helpful means of enabling reuse of existing work in modern biology. The Minimum Information Required in the Annotation of Models (MIRIAM) guidelines promote the exchange and reuse of biochemical computational models. However, information about a model alone is not sufficient to enable its efficient reuse in a computational setting. Advanced numerical algorithms and complex modeling workflows used in modern computational biology make reproduction of simulations difficult. It is therefore essential to define the core information necessary to perform simulations of those models. (...)

  13. Agency and structure: a social simulation of knowledge-intensive industries, CMOT Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Modern knowledge-intensive economies are complex social systems where intertwining factors are responsible for the shaping of emerging industries: the self-organising interaction patterns and strategies of the individual actors (an agency-oriented pattern) and the institutional frameworks of different innovation systems (a structure-oriented pattern). In this paper, we examine the relative primacy of the two patterns in the development of innovation networks, and find that both are important.

  14. Finding Statistically Significant Communities in Networks, PLoS ONE Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Community structure is one of the main structural features of networks, revealing both their internal organization and the similarity of their elementary units. [...] In this paper we present OSLOM (Order Statistics Local Optimization Method), the first method capable to detect clusters in networks accounting for edge directions, edge weights, overlapping communities, hierarchies and community dynamics.

  15. Systems immunology: Complexity captured, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Until a few years ago, systems biology was dominated by the study of yeast cells and tumours, which have a manageable number of components. The immune system, with its dozens of different cell types and hundreds of intersecting molecular pathways and signals, has proved more difficult to model. But now, researchers are taking up the challenge.
    A systems approach can help immunologists to predict, for example, how the immune system will respond to a particular vaccine or drug " will it react in a way that will ease disease? Or will a drug that is under development cause undesirable side effects?

  16. Learning to cooperate via indirect reciprocity, Games and Economic Behavior Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Cooperating in the Prisoner's Dilemma is irrational and some supporting mechanism is needed to stabilize cooperation. Indirect reciprocity based on reputation is one such mechanism [...] Tolerant scoring, a first-order assessment rule with built-in tolerance against single defections, can lead a society to stable cooperation.

  17. Is cooperation viable in mobile organisms? Simple Walk Away rule favors the evolution of cooperation in groups, Evolution and Human Behavior Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The evolution of cooperation through partner choice mechanisms is often thought to involve relatively complex cognitive abilities. Using agent-based simulations, I model a simple partner choice rule, the “Walk Away” rule, where individuals stay in groups that provide higher returns (by virtue of having more cooperators), and “Walk Away” from groups providing low returns. [...] These results suggest that the very simple “Walk Away” rule of leaving uncooperative groups can favor the evolution of cooperation and that cooperation can evolve in populations in which individuals are able to move in response to local social conditions.

  18. Landscape encoding: faster optimization in larger spaces, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Hard combinatorial optimisation problems deal with the search for the ground state of discrete systems under strong frustration such as spin glasses. A transformation of state variables may enhance computational tractability. It has been argued that these state encodings are to be chosen invertible to retain the original size of the state space. Here we show how redundant non-invertible encodings enhance optimisation by enriching the density of low-energy states. In addition, smooth landscapes may be established on encoded state spaces to guide local search dynamics towards the ground state.

  19. Book Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. The Chaos Theory of Careers, Routledge Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book outlines the application of chaos theory to the field of career development. It draws together and extends the work that the authors have been doing over the last 8 to 10 years. This text represents a new perspective on the nature of career development. It emphasizes the dimensions of careers frequently neglected by contemporary accounts of careers such as the challenges and opportunities of uncertainty, the interconnectedness of current life and the potential for information overload, career wisdom as a response to unplanned change, new approaches to vocational assessment based on emergent thinking. (...)

    2. Crashes, Crises and Calamities, Basic Books Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Why do certain civilizations, societies, and ecosystems collapse? How does the domino effect relate to the credit crunch? When can mathematics help explain marriage? And how on earth do toads predict earthquakes? The future is uncertain. But science can help foretell what lies ahead. Drawing on ecology and biology, math and physics, this book offers four fundamental tools that scientists and engineers use to forecast the likelihood of sudden change: stability, catastrophe, complexity, and game theories. In accessible prose, Len Fisher demonstrates how we can foresee and manage events that might otherwise catch us by surprise. (...)

    3. The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization: The Origins of Human Thought, Language, and Civilization, Princeton University Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. Recursion enables us to conceive of our own minds and the minds of others. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and archaeology, Corballis demonstrates how these recursive structures led to the emergence of language and speech, which ultimately enabled us to share our thoughts, plan with others, and reshape our environment to better reflect our creative imaginations.

    4. Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds, Princeton University Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories, ecological niches, and physical attributes. How do these differences influence animal thinking and behavior? Removing our human-centered spectacles, Louise Barrett investigates the mind and brain and offers an alternative approach for understanding animal and human cognition. (...)

    5. Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us, Crown Archetype Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Drawing on the surprising results of the clever experiments concocted in their own laboratory, DeSteno and Valdesolo shed new scientific light on so many of the puzzling behaviors that regularly grace the headlines. Have you ever wondered why a trumpeter of family values would suddenly turn around and cheat on his wife? Why jealousy would send an otherwise level-headed person into a violent rage? And why even you are secretly tempted, to lie, cheat, or steal? This book answers these questions and more, and in doing so, turns the prevailing wisdom about who we are upside down. (...)

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Optimizing evacuation flow in a two-channel exclusion process, Tobias Galla, 2011/04/24, arXiv:1104.4634
      2. Computational Aspects of Asynchronous CA, Jérôme Chandesris, Alberto Dennunzio, Enrico Formenti, and Luca Manzoni, 2011/04/30, arXiv:1105.0065
      3. Two-way multi-lane traffic model for pedestrians in corridors, Cécile Appert-Rolland, Pierre Degond, Sébastien Motsch, 2011/05/01, arXiv:1105.0203

    2. Event Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. 1st European Conference of Microbiology and Immunology, Budapest, Hungary, 2011/05/12-14
      2. Advances in Applied Physics and Materials Science Congress, Antalya, Turkey, 2011/05/12-15
      3. Exploring Complexity in Science and Engineering from a Santa Fe Institute Perspective, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 2011/05/23-25
      4. Chaos, Complexity and Transport (CCT'11), Marseilles, France, 2011/05/23-27
      5. Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011/05/31-06/01
      6. COLLIN2011 - 2nd Symposium on Collective Intelligence, Seoul, South-Korea, 2011/06/9-10
      7. IV International Biennial Symposium “Complexity 2011 " for a Sustainable Development”, Camagüey, Cuba, 2011/06/9-11
      8. 7th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Athens, Greece, 2011/06/13-16
      9. NECSI Summer School on Complex Systems, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011/06/13-24
      10. International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2011), Cergy, France, 2011/06/14-15
      11. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, 2011/06/20-25
      12. 10th International Conference of Sociocybernetics, Cracow, Poland, 2011/06/20-25
      13. International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2011), Boston, MA, USA, 2011/06/26-07/01
      14. International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), London, UK, 2011/06/27-29
      15. Origins 2011 ISSOL and Bioastronomy Joint International Conference, Montpellier, France, 2011/07/3-8
      16. The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2011), Istanbul, Turkey, 2011/07/4-8
      17. Lipari School on the Game Theoretic Approach to Computational Complex Systems, Lipari Island, Italy, 2011/07/9-16
      18. Applications of Self-Organization in Technology (Research Days 2011, Lakeside Labs), Klagenfurt, Austria, 2011/07/11-15
      19. GECCO 2011: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2011/07/12-16
      20. IJCAI 2011, the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 2011/07/16-22
      21. The 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, Cambridge, UK, 2011/07/18-21
      22. 29th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Washington, DC, USA, 2011/07/24-28
      23. The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'11, Nottingham, UK, 2011/07/25-26
      24. 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
      25. International Workshop on Game Theory and Society: Models of Social Interaction in Sociological Research, Zurich, 2011/07/27-30
      26. Summer School Course: Emergence, Explanation and Complexity. Prof. Alan Baker, Aarhus, Denmark, 2011/08/1-26
      27. ECAL 11: European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris, France, 2011/08/8-12
      28. 1st Annual Conference on Integral Biomathics, Stirling, Scotland, 2011/08/29-31
      29. TAROS 2011: 12th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Sheffield, UK, 2011/08/31-09/02
      30. The 2011 International Conference on Adaptive & Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'11, Klagenfurt, Austria, 2011/09/06-08
      31. ICMC 2011 - 2nd International Conference on Morphological Computation, Venice, Italy, 2011/09/12-14
      32. European Conference on Complex Systems 2011, Vienna, Austria, 2011/09/12-16
      33. The 15th WOSC INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS on CYBERNETICS and SYSTEMS, Nanjing, China, 2011/09/15-18
      34. Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems, Halkidiki, Greece, 2011/09/19-25
      35. ICCCI 2011 3rd International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence: Technologies and Applications, Gdynia, Poland, 2011/09/21-23
      36. World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, 2011/09/26-30
      37. SCIENCE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT - ENVIRONMENT FOR SOCIETY, Aarhus, Denmark, 2011/10/5-6
      38. The Third International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011), Singapore, 2011/10/6-8
      39. SSS 2011 - 13th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Grenoble, France, 2011/10/10-12
      40. EPIA2011 - 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011/10/10-13
      41. XII Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena (LAWNP-2011), San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 2011/10/10-15
      42. Third World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC2011), Salamanca, Spain, 2011/10/19-21
      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, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic, 2012/01/21"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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