Unifying Themes In Complex Systems, Volume 1

Yaneer Bar-yam

• Introduction , “Significant points” in the study of complex systems , International Conference on Complex Systems: Organization and Program , Transcripts , Can there be a science of complex systems? , Evolution , 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 , Whole genome bioinformatics , Session introduction , Papers , Theories in (inter)action , Modeling fractal patterns with Genetic Algorithm solutions to a variant of the inverse problem for Iterated Function Systems (IFS) , An artificial life model for investigating the evolution of modularity , From inductive inference to the fundamental equation of measurement , Controlling chaos in systems of coupled maps with long-range interactions , Assessing software organizations from a complex systems perspective , Hazards, self-organization, and risk compensation , Structure formation by Active Brownian particles with nonlinear friction , Systems properties of metabolic networks , Complex dynamics of molecular evolutionary processes , Genetic network inference , Socioeconomic systems as complex self-organizing adaptive holarchies , Socioeconomic systems as nested dissipative adaptive systems (holarchies) and their dynamic energy budget , Psychology and corporations , Symmetry breaking and the origin of life , Complexity and functionality , Biological design principles that guide self-organization, emergence, and hierarchical assembly , Information transfer between solitary waves in the saturable Schrodinger equation , An integrated theory of nervous system functioning embracing nativism and constructivism , Toward the physics of “death” , Ragnar Frisch at the edge of chaos , Programming complex systems , Towards the global , An effect of scale in a non-additive genetic model , Parallel computational complexity in statistical physics , Statistical models of mass extinction , A dual processing theory of brain and mind , Evolutionary strategies of optimization and the complexity of fitness landscapes , Conformational switching as assembly instructions in self-assembling mechanical systems , Aggregation and the emergence of social behavior in rat pups modeled by simple rules of individual behavior , The role of information in simulated evolution , Emergence of complex ecologies in ECHO , Spatial correlations in the contact process , Many to one mappings as a basis for life , Generic mechanisms for hierarchies , Emergence in earthquakes , Chemical oscillation in symbolic chemical system and its behavioral pattern , Extinction dynamics in a large ecological system with random interspecies interactions , Functional differentiation in developmental systems , Tuning complexity on randomly occupied lattices , Socioeconomic organization on directional resource landscapes , “Continuous time” in Feigenbaum’s model , Ordering chaos in a neural network with linear feedback , Self-organisation and information-carrying capacity of collectively autocatalytic sets of polymers , Self-dissimilarity , Complexity and order in chemical and biological systems