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Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, Volume 1 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Complex Systems

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ISBN-10: 0813341221

ISBN-13: 9780813341224

Edition: 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Yaneer Bar-yam

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These proceedings papers are taken from the first conference on complex systems convened by the New England Complex Systems Institute and include more than 100 papers from some of the world's most outstanding scientists working in the field.
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List price: $90.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 8/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 694
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Introduction
"Significant points" in the study of complex systems
Organization and Program
Transcripts
Can there be a science of complex systems?
General systems theory?
Some principles of complex system design
Organizations and markets
Conclusion
Evolution
Selection and production
Variation
Psychology and corporations: A complex systems perspective
Genome complexity (Session introduction: Emergence)
Emergent properties and behavior of the atmosphere
Systems properties of metabolic networks
A hypothesis about hierarchies
Session introduction: Informatics
Whole genome bioinformatics
Session introduction: Computational methods
Papers
Theories in (inter) action: A complex dynamic system for theory evaluation in Science Studies
Modeling fractal patterns with Genetic Algorithm solutions to a variant of the inverse problem for Iterated Function Systems (IFS)
Introduction
Encoding the IFS on a GA
The GA search
Applications
Conclusions
An artificial life model for investigating the evolution of modularity
Introduction
The model
Preliminary results
Conclusions
From inductive inference to the fundamental equation of measurement
Introduction
The evolution of a model during learning
Shannon entropy
Conclusion
Controlling chaos in systems of coupled maps with long-range interactions
Introduction
Model and results
Discussion
Assessing software organizations from a complex systems perspective
Introduction
The software process and its evaluation
A metaphor for the software process: Morphogenesis
Conclusion
Hazards, self-organization, and risk compensation: A view of life at the edge
Introduction
Self-organized criticality
Risk compensation
Hazards and the balancing act
Statistics and indicators
Multifactor disasters
Risk compensation and progress
Summary
Structure formation by Active Brownian particles with nonlinear friction
Introduction
Self-moving particles
Systems properties of metabolic networks
Introduction
Steady state of a metabolic network
Metabolic control analysis
Feedback regulation
Large changes in metabolic rate
Hierarchical organisation of metabolism
Complex dynamics of molecular evolutionary processes
Introduction
Biomolecules
Evolutionary dynamics
Catalytic reaction networks
Conclusion
Genetic network inference
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Abbreviations
Socioeconomic systems as complex self-organizing adaptive holarchies: The dynamic exergy budget
Introduction
Efficiency and adaptability (hypercyclic and purely dissipative compartment)
The dynamic exergy budget
The scale issue: Environmental loading and need for adaptability
Conclusion
Socioeconomic systems as nested dissipative adaptive systems (holarchies) and their dynamic energy budget: Validation of the approach
Setting up the data base
BEP as an indicator of development for socioeconomic systems
Existence of an internal set of constraints on the evolutionary pattern of socio-economic systems
Establishing links across levels to check the feasibility of future scenarios
The demographic transition as a shift between two metastable equilibrium points of the dynamic energy budget
Psychology and corporations: A complex systems perspective
Introduction
Organizations as currently organized
Using organizations to study complex systems
Leadership as an emergent phenomenon
Conclusion: The need for a sufficiently rich complex systems perspective
Symmetry breaking and the origin of life
Thermodynamics and dissipative systems
Statistical mechanics
Cellular automata
Complexity and functionality: A search for the where, the when, and the how
Complexity with an attitude--but which one?
Reductionism
In search for new laws
Where and when and how
From where to when
From where and when to how
Conclusion and outlook
Biological design principles that guide self-organization, emergence, and hierarchical assembly: From complexity to tensegrity
Introduction
Complexity in living systems
Cellular tensegrity
Mechanochemical control of biochemistry and gene expression
The architecture of life
The evolution of form
Conclusion: Simplicity in complexity
Information transfer between solitary waves in the saturable Schrodinger equation
Introduction
Information transfer
Computational power
The NLS equation and its solutions
Information transfer in collisions of NLS solitary waves
Radiation
Physical realization
Conclusions
An integrated theory of nervous system functioning embracing nativism and constructivism
Introduction
Fundamentals of an integrated theory
The case of language
Diagrammatic representation of relationships discussed
Summary
Toward the physics of "death"
Introduction
Death
Levels of major complexity
Involution and levels of selection
Ragnar Frisch at the edge of chaos
Will capitalism collapse or equilibrate?
A shared judgement
Conclusions
Programming complex systems
Introduction
The lambda calculus
The lambda-p calculus
The lambda-q calculus
Simulation to quantum computers
Conclusion
Towards the global: Complexity, topology and chaos in modelling, simulation and computation
Introduction
Hierarchical efficiency
Topology induces complexity
Finite topology
Economics and politics
Complexity and chaos
Consequences
An effect of scale in a non-additive genetic model
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Parallel computational complexity in statistical physics
Introduction
Parallel complexity theory
Example: Parallel algorithm and dynamic exponent for DLA
Summary
Statistical models of mass extinction
Introduction
The fossil data
Models of extinction
Conclusions
A dual processing theory of brain and mind: Where is the limited processing capacity coming from?
Introduction
Mapping in neural networks
Oscillations and synchrony in neural firing
Controlled and automatic processes in the brain
Is dynamical neural activity responsible for controlled processes?
Derived hypothesis
Conclusions
Evolutionary strategies of optimization and the complexity of fitness landscapes
Introduction
Evolutionary strategies
The density of states
Examples
Secondary RNA structures
Conclusions
Conformational switching as assembly instructions in self-assembling mechanical systems
Introduction
Related work
A case study
A formal model
Summary
Aggregation and the emergence of social behavior in rat pups modeled by simple rules of individual behavior
Introduction
Basic strategy
Aggregation in autonomous individuals
The emergence of synchronized social behavior
Mechanisms of aggregation
Conclusions
The role of information in simulated evolution
Introduction
The information hierarchy
The population level
The individual level
Discussion
Emergence of complex ecologies in ECHO
Motivation and context
The statistics
The ECHO model
Individual ECHO runs
Conclusion
Spatial correlations in the contact process: A step toward better ecological models
Introduction
Introduction to the contact process
Simulation details
Measures of heterogeneity
Theoretical predictions
Discussion
Many to one mappings as a basis for life
Criteria for life
The principle of many to one mapping
Many to one mappings in the origins of life and evolution of complex networks
Outlook
Generic mechanisms for hierarchies
Introduction
What is 'discrete scale invariance'
Properties
Mechanisms leading to DSI and examples
Emergence in earthquakes
Introduction
Role of water and phase transformations
Consequences and predictions
Chemical oscillation in symbolic chemical system and its behavioral pattern
Introduction
Model
Classification of behavioral pattern of ARMS
Condition of cycles emergence
Related work
Extinction dynamics in a large ecological system with random interspecies interactions
Introduction
Model
Results
Estimation of induction time
Discussion
Functional differentiation in developmental systems
Association and dissociation of system elements
Compatibility model
What parameters describe functions?--Life on the flow
Development of a system is a specialization of its elements
Tuning complexity on randomly occupied lattices
Introduction
Diversity and complexity
Tuning effect and critical probabilities
Scaling relations
Conclusion
Socioeconomic organization on directional resource landscapes
Introduction and motivation
Background and methodology
Spatially distributed agent model
Results and discussion
"Continuous time" in Feigenbaum's model
Introduction
Expressions with continuous parameter
The functions IF[subscript lambda] for [lambda] = 2, 4
An application to fractals: Mandelbrot set
Conclusion and possible applications
Ordering chaos in a neural network with linear feedback
Introduction
System and analysis
Summary and conclusions
Self-organisation and information-carrying capacity of collectively autocatalytic sets of polymers: Ligation systems
Introduction
Dynamics of autocatalysis
Ligation/cleavage systems
Conclusion
Self-dissimilarity: An empirically observable complexity measure
Introduction
Self-dissimilarity
Probabilistic measures of self-dissimilarity
Discussion
Complexity and order in chemical and biological systems
Introduction
Order
Structural complexity of point systems
The simple molecules
Wing patterns of the butterfly Bicyclus anynana
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