Complexity, Volume 3

Volume 3, Number 1, September / October 1997

Fundamental Sources of Unpredictability The Simply Complex

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  John L. Casti:
  The borderline. 5-7
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  James B. Hartle, Piet Hut, Joseph F. Traub:
  Editorial. 8
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  Murray Gell-Mann:
  Fundamental sources of unpredictability. 9-13
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  Philip W. Anderson:
  Is measurement itself an emergent property? 14-16
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  Martin J. Rees:
  Anthropic reasoning. 17-21
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  James B. Hartle:
  Sources of predictability. 22-25
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  David Ruelle:
  Chaos, predictability, and idealization in physics. 26-28
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  Joseph F. Traub:
  Do negative results from formal systems limit scientific knowledge? 29-31
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  Seth Lloyd:
  Universe as quantum computer. 32-35
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  Gerard 't Hooft:
  Complexity in quantum gravity. 36-37
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  Piet Hut:
  Gravitational thermodynamics. 38-45
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  Carlton M. Caves, Rüdiger Schack:
  Unpredictability, information, and chaos. 46-57

Book and Software Reviews

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  Timothy H. Keitt:
  Population dynamics in ecological space and time. 58
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  John E. Myers:
  Discrete dynamics lab (DDLAB). 59-60

Volume 3, Number 2, November / December 1997

The Simply Complex

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  Harold J. Morowitz:
  The simplistic roots of complexity. 9-10

Essays and Commentaries

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  Cristian S. Calude:
  A genius's story: Two books on Gödel. 11-15
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  Robert Axelrod:
  Advancing the art of simulation in the social sciences. 16-22
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  D. A. Coley, D. Winters:
  Genetic algorithm search efficacy in aesthetic product spaces. 23-27
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  James N. Gardner:
  Mastering chaos at history's frontier: The geopolitics of complexity. 28-32
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  Wentian Li:
  The complexity of DNA. 33-38

Tutorials

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  Martin Shubik:
  Game theory, complexity and simplicity part 1: A tutorial. 39-46

Book and Software Reviews

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  Jeffrey Ihara:
  Climbing mount and improbable and the blind watchmaker. 47-48
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  Martin Shubik:
  Where wizards stay up late. 48-49
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  Philip W. Anderson:
  Nonlinear dynamics, mathematical biology, and social science. 50-51

Research Articles

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  Arjen Schoneveld, Jan F. de Ronde, Peter M. A. Sloot:
  On the complexity of task allocation. 52-60

Volume 3, Number 3, January / February 1998

The Simply Complex

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  John L. Casti:
  "Byteing" back. 8-11

Essays and Commentaries

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  Jonathan Haas:
  A brief consideration of cultural evolution: Stages, agents, and tinkering. 12-21
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  Cesare Marchetti:
  Notes on the limits to knowledge explored with Darwinian logic. 22-35

Surveys

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  Martin Shubik:
  Game theory, complexity, and simplicity part II: Problems and applications. 36-45

Book and Software Reviews

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  Andrew M. Colman:
  The complexity of cooperation: Agent-based models of competition and collaboration. 46-48
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  Eric Bonabeau:
  The handicap principle. 48-49

Research Articles

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  Vivek S. Borkar, Sanjay Jain, Govindan Rangarajan:
  Dynamics of individual specialization and global diversification in communities. 50-56
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  Freddy Bugge Christiansen, Marcus W. Feldman:
  Algorithms, genetics, and populations: The schemata theorem revisited. 57-64

Volume 3, Number 4, March / April 1998

Complexity and Business Complexity at Large

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  Leigh Tesfatsion, Dan Ashlock:
  Complexity at large. 3-18

The Simply Complex

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  Harold J. Morowitz:
  Metaphysics, metaphor, meta-metaphor, and magic. 19-20
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  Christopher Meyer:
  An introduction to complexity and business. 21-22
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  Carl H. Petrich:
  Organization science: Oxymoron or opportunity? 23-26
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  Mitchel Resnick:
  Unblocking the traffic jams in corporate thinking. 27-30
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  Beau Roy:
  Using agents to make and manage markets across a supply web. 31-35
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  Roger Lewin, Teresa Parker, Birute Regine:
  Complexity theory and the organization: beyond the metaphor. 36-40
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  Lawrence Kai Shih, David Greene:
  Simulating acquisition on the economic web. 41-45
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  Ross Little, Bruce K. Sawhill:
  Market feedback replaces regulation: Adaptation in the electric power industry. 46-50

Essays and Commentaries

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  Ben Goertzel:
  The complex mind/brain - The psynet model of mental structure and dynamics. 51-58

Book and Software Reviews

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  J. Leo van Hemmen:
  Circuit complexity and neural networks: By Ian Parberry. 59-60

Volume 3, Number 5, May / June 1998

Complexity at Large

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  Leigh Tesfatsion, Dan Ashlock:
  Complexity at large. 3-10

The Simply Complex

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  John L. Casti:
  Complexity and aesthetics. 11-16

Essays and Commentaries

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  Edward O. Wilson:
  Consilience and complexity. 17-21
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  Alessandro Giuliani, Joseph P. Zbilut:
  The relevance of physical and mathematical modes of thought on complex systems behavior in biological systems. 23-24
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  Thomas S. Ray:
  Selecting naturally for differentiation: Preliminary evolutionary results. 25-33
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  Martin Shubik:
  Game theory, complexity, and simplicity Part III: Critique and prospective. 34-46

Book and Software Reviews

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  Yaneer Bar-Yam:
  The sciences of the artificial, 3rd edition: By Herbert A. Simon. 47-48
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  Stanley N. Salthe:
  Ecology, the ascendent perspective by R.E. Ulanowicz. 48-49
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  Jeremy C. Ahouse:
  The web of life: A new understanding of living systems by Fritjof Capra. 50-52

Research Articles

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  Sergio Rinaldi, Gustav Feichtinger, Franz Wirl:
  Corruption dynamics in democratic societies. 53-64

Volume 3, Number 6, July / August 1998

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  Leigh Tesfatsion, Dan Ashlock:
  Complexity at large. 3-11

The Simply Complex

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  Harold J. Morowitz:
  Evolutionary complexity. 12-14

Essays and Commentaries

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  Guy Theraulaz, Eric Bonabeau, Jean-Louis Deneubourg:
  The origin of nest complexity in social insects. 15-25
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  Lee McIntyre:
  Complexity: A philosopher's reflections. 26-32
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  Piet Hut, David Ruelle, Joseph F. Traub:
  Varieties of limits to scientific knowledge. 33-38

Surveys

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  Barry Horwitz:
  Using functional brain imaging to understand human cognition. 39-52
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  Kunihiko Kaneko:
  Life as complex systems: Viewpoint from intra-inter dynamics. 53-60

Book and Software Reviews

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  Gavan Lintern:
  Encountering the world: Toward an ecological psychology by Edward S. Reed. 61-63
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  Karl Svozil:
  The limits of mathematics by Gregory J. Chaitin. 63