Complexity, Volume 2

Volume 2, Number 1, September / October 1996

Complexity at Large

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  P.-M. Binder:
  Workshop on pseudorandom number generation June 2-21, 1996, centre de recherches mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 4
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  R. C. Westerman:
  Letters to the editor. 5

The Simply Complex

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  John L. Casti:
  The great Ashby: Complexity, variety, and information. 7-9

Essays and Commentaries

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  Douglas S. Robertson, Michael C. Grant:
  Feedback and chaos in Darwinian evolution: Part I. Theoretical considerations. 10-14

Surveys

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  Gregory J. Chaitin:
  How to run algorithmic information theory on a computer: Studying the limits of mathematical reasoning. 15-21
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  Peter Schuster:
  How does complexity arise in evolution: Nature's recipe for mastering scarcity, abundance, and unpredictability. 22-30

Book and Software Reviews

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  Walter Thirring:
  The interpretation of quantum mechanics. 31-32
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  Melanie Mitchell:
  Darwin's dangerous idea. 32-36

Research Articles

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  Paul Gitchoff, Günter P. Wagner:
  Recombination induced hypergraphs: A new approach to mutation-recombination isomorphism. 37-43
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  Murray Gell-Mann, Seth Lloyd:
  Information measures, effective complexity, and total information. 44-52
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  Robert Happel, Peter F. Stadler:
  Canonical approximation of fitness landscapes. 53-58

End Pages

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  Martin Shubik:
  Simulations, models and simplicity. 60

Volume 2, Number 2, November / December 1996

Complexity at Large

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  Jim Crutchfield, Ned Kahn:
  Turbulent landscapes. 3-7
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  Kai Nagel:
  Comment on: B. S. Kerner and H. Rehborn, experimental properties of complexity in traffic flow, physical review E 53(5) R4275 (1996). 8

The Simply Complex

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  Harold J. Morowitz:
  A closet epistemologist. 11-12

Essays and Commentaries

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  John Horgan:
  On complexity and the end of science: What's wrong with complexity. 13-15
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  Stuart A. Kauffman:
  Autonomous agents, self-constructing biospheres, and science. 16-17
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  Douglas S. Robertson, Michael C. Grant:
  Feedback and chaos in Darwinian evolution Part II. Numerical modeling. 18-30
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  Martin Greiner, Peter Lipa, Peter Carruthers:
  Wavelets. 31-36
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  Boris Ryabko, Zhanna Reznikova:
  Using Shannon entropy and Kolmogorov complexity to study the communicative system and cognitive capacities in ants. 37-42

Book and Software Reviews

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  Karl Sigmund:
  What is life? The next fifty years. 43-44
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  Steven Durlauf:
  Full house. 44-46
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  John L. Casti:
  Chaos data analyzer. 46-47
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  Michael Vulis:
  Agent/free agent newsreaders. 47-48
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  Ricard V. Solé, Jordi Delgado:
  Universal computation in fluid neural networks. 49-56

Volume 2, Number 3, January / February 1997

Complexity at Large

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  Maurício Vieira Kritz:
  Meeting report-colloquia on high performance scientific computing 1996. 3-4
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  Kenton K. Yee:
  Coevolution of law and culture: A coevolutionary games approach. 4

Simply Complex

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  John L. Casti:
  Computing the uncomputable. 7-12

Essays and Commentaries

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  Donald G. Saari:
  The symmetry and complexity of elections. 13-21
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  Larry J. Eriksson:
  How technology evolves. 23-30
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  Steven Durlauf:
  Limits to science or limits to epistemology? 31-37

Tutorials

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  Per Bro:
  Chemical reaction automata. 38-44

Book and Software Reviews

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  Gavan Lintern:
  Dynamic patterns: The self-organization of brain and behavior. 45-46
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  Steven Durlauf:
  Growing artificial societies. 47-49
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  John L. Casti:
  Pattern recognition workbench, version 2.30. 49-50

Research Articles

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  Adam Seiver, Stephen Daane, Ran Kim:
  Regular low frequency cardiac output oscillations observed in critically ill surgical patients. 51-55
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  Eduardo Mizraji, Juan Lin:
  A dynamical approach to logical decisions. 56-63

Volume 2, Number 4, March / April 1997

Complexity at Large

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  Neil E. Johnson:
  Physics and finance. 3-6

The Simply Complex

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  Harold J. Morowitz:
  Teilhard, complexity, and complexification. 7-8

Essays and Commentaries

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  Rick Ginsberg:
  Complexity science at the schoolhouse gate? 9-13

Tutorials

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  George Markowsky:
  An introduction to algorithmic information theory. 14-22

Book Reviews

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  Ronald C. Read:
  The knot book: An elementary introduction to the mathematical theory of knots. 23-25
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  David B. Fogel:
  Evolutionary algorithms in theory and practice. 26-27
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  Thomas Bäck:
  Evolutionary computation: Toward a new philosophy of machine intelligence. 28-30

Research Articles

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  George G. Szpiro:
  The emergence of risk aversion. 31-39
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  Giorgio A. Ascoli, Rebecca F. Goldin:
  Coordinate systems for dendritic spines: A somatocentric approach. 40-48
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  Dale R. Lockwood, Jeffrey A. Lockwood:
  Evidence of self-organized criticality in insect populations. 49-58

End Pages

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  George J. Gumerman:
  Understanding the evolution of human behavior. 59-60

Volume 2, Number 5, May / June 1997

Complexity at Large

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  Oscar Somsen, Rienk van Grondelle, Hans V. Westerhoff:
  Meeting report-BioComplexity and the essence of the living state. 3-4

The Simply Complex

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  John L. Casti:
  Can you trust it? 8-11

Essays and Commentaries

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  Anastasios A. Tsonis, C. Schultz, Panagiotis A. Tsonis:
  Zipf's law and the structure and evolution of languages. 12-13
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  Ted Lumley:
  Complexity and the "Learning organization". 14-22

Tutorials

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  Panagiotis A. Tsonis, Anastasios A. Tsonis:
  Simplicity and complexity in gene evolution. 23-30

Surveys

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  Francis Heylighen:
  Publications on complex, evolving systems: A citation-based survey. 31-36

Book and Software Reviews

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  Stanley N. Salthe:
  Darwinism evolving: Systems dynamics and the genealogy of natural selection. 37-39
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  Fred Nijhout:
  An introduction to genetic algorithms. 39-40
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  Arnold I. Miller:
  The major transitions in evolution. 40-41

Research Articles

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  Áurea R. Vasconcellos, Roberto Luzzi:
  Complex behavior in condensed matter: Morphological ordering in dissipative carrier systems. 42-49
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  Karen A. Selz, Arnold J. Mandell:
  The power of style: Differential operator scaling in the lexical compression of sequences generated by psychological, content-free computer tasks. 50-55

End Pages

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  George A. Cowan:
  Complexity? Who ordered that? 56-57

Volume 2, Number 6, July / August 1997

Complexity at Large

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  Tim Kohler:
  B. Skyrms, Evolution of the Social Contract, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1986. 6

The Simply Complex

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  Harold J. Morowitz:
  Continuing education: New information in a search for certainty on Puluj's method. 11-12

Essays and Commentaries

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  Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau:
  Interacting with artificial life: A-volve: Linking human design and interaction to the virtual world. 13-21
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  Michael Shermer:
  The crooked timber of history: History is complex and often chaotic. Can we use this to better understand the past? 23-29

Book and Software Reviews

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  David M. Raup:
  How nature works: The science of self-organized criticality. 30-33
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  Michael Shermer:
  Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies; Born to rebel: birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives. 33-38
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  Benedikt Hallgrímsson:
  Stella 4.0, Research version (Win or Mac). 38-40

Research Articles

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  Keijo Ruohonen:
  Decidability and complexity of event detection problems for ODEs. 41-53
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  Roberto P. J. Perazzo, Silvia L. Reich, Jorge Schvarzer, M. A. Virasoro:
  Dynamical models in economics: The case of inflation. 54-60