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Collections of Papers

These links give access to researchers whose material is at least partly available online, for other people see also our Offline page.

AI and the Humanities - ed. Franchi & Güzeldere
Artificial Life: Scientific Status - ECAL V
Chaos, Self-Emergence, Evolution, Alife - links by Umur Ozkul
Self-Organising Systems - various, plus some postscript, gopher and links
Lee Altenberg - evolution and ecology
Peter Bentley - genetic evolutionary design
Mark Bickhard - symbolic emergence
Brint collection - management and organisation
William Calvin - brain and mind
Vladimir Dimitrov - social complexity and fuzziology
Claus Emmeche - alife, emergence and philosophy
Ben Goertzel - complexity and mind
David Green - ecological complexity
Stephen Grossberg - biological neural networks
Stuart Hameroff - microtubule automata
Francis Heylighen - various
Chris Hillman - ergodic and dynamic systems
Yasusi Kanada - CCM, GAs and NNs
Stuart Kauffman - self-organization
James Kay - ecological complexity
William Langton - genetic programming
Don Mikulecky - various
Marvin Minsky - artificial intelligence
MIT - epistemology and learning
Cris Moore - computational complexity
Nova Genetica - genetic algorithms
Kent Palmer - autopoiesis and meta-systems theory
Howard Pattee - evolutionary biology
Daniel Polani - alife, SOMs and information theory
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz - L-systems
Tom Ray - digital evolution
Luis Rocha - artificial life
Jack Sarfatti - mind, matter and quantum mechanics
Alexander Spirov - self-organisation in biology
Clint Sprott - chaos and dynamics
Russell Standish - ecolab
Paul Thagard - coherence and analogy
Tim van Gelder - dynamical cognitive science
Franciso Varela - neurophenomenology and autopoiesis
Nick Vriend - economics
Stephen Wolfram - cellular automata
Robert Worden - evolution

Selected Individual Papers

These papers are an eclectic collection containing useful summaries of complexity 'lore', interesting new approaches in the specialist areas and relevant complexity philosophy discussions.

30 Years of Computational Autopoiesis: A Review - Barry McMullin
A Close Look at a New Science: Chaos as Science or Science in Chaos ? - Don C. Mikulecky
A Defense of Emergent Downward Causation - Teed Rockwell
A Multiagent Based Prediction of the Evolution of Knowledge with Multiple Points of View - Franck Lesage, Alain Cardon & Pierrick Tranouez
A Philosophy for Complexity - C. West Churchman
A Summary Of The Principles Of Hierarchy Theory - Timothy F. Allen
A Taste of Systemics - Bela Banathy
A Theoretical Framework for Abundance Distributions in Complex Systems - Stephan R.P. Halloy
An Adaptive Novelty Detector - Robert Saunders
An Aid to Navigation Through an Intellectual Fog Bank - Peter Corning
Antichaos and Adaptation - Stuart A. Kauffman
Anticipatory Systems - Robert Rosen
Anticipatory Systems and the Processing of Meaning - Loet Leydesdorff
Archetypes: Interaction Structures of the Universe - Gene Bellinger
Artificial Life Needs a Real Epistemology - Howard Pattee
Artificial Life: What Divides Living from Non-Living - Kai Wu
Aspects of Complexity in Life and Science - Claus Emmeche
Attractor Spaces as Modules - Teed Rockwell
Autopoiesis: The Organization of the Living - Preface by Stafford Beer
Background: Classifier Systems & Genetic Algorithms - Robert A. Richards
Beyond the Centralised Mindset - Mitchel Ressnik
Biosemiotics: Functional-Evolutionary Approach to the Analysis of the Sense of Information - Alexei A. Sharov
Broadcast Networks, Temporal Codes & Global Integration - Peter Cariani
Building a Science of Complexity - Francis Heylighen
Building Block Fallacy - Chris Thornton
Category ART: A variation on adaptive resonance theory neural networks - David Weenink
Causation, Control and the Evolution of Complexity - Howard Pattee
Collective Problem Solving: Functionality beyond the Individual - Norman L. Johnson
Complexity and Functionality: A Search for the Where, the When, and the How - Piet Hut, Brian Goodwin and Stuart Kauffman
Complexity and Semiosis of Human Life - Vladimir Dimitrov
Complexity Rising: From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile - Yaneer Bar-Yam
Complexity, Chaos and Creativity: A Journey beyond System Thinking - Vladimir Dimitrov
Conditions That Support Self-Organization in A Complex Adaptive System - Glenda Eoyang & Doris Jane Conway
Conscious Events as Orchestrated Space-Time Selections - Hameroff & Penrose
Control Information: A Meaningful Alternative to Information Theory - Peter Corning
Coordination without Communication - Stan Franklin
Cybernetics and the Art of Living - Ernst von Glasersfeld
Discourse: Patterns of Complex Adaptation - Glenda H. Eoyang & Brenda Fiala Stewart
Dynamical Symmetries and Golden Mean - Nigel Reading
Emergence - Mark H. Bickhard with Donald T. Campbell
Evolution of Complex Behaviour - Rekesh John & C.R. Muthukishnan
Evolution of Complex Systems - Umur Ozkul
Evolutionary Dynamics - Erica Jen
Evolutionary Optimization of Dynamic Fitness Functions - Alessio Gaspar
Evolutionary Transitions and Artificial Life - John Stewart
Excavating the Emergent Levels of Cybersystemics - Gary Boyd
Explaining Emergence: Towards an Ontology of Levels - Claus Emmeche, Simo Køppe & Frederik Stjernfelt ( appendix )
General Systems Theory: The Skeleton of Science (1956) - Kenneth Boulding
General System Theory (1968) - Ludwig von Bertalanffy
General Systems Theory - David S. Walonick
Holarchies - The Metapattern of the Self-Organizing Universe - Bob Debold
Holons, Heaps and Artifacts and Their Corresponding Hierarchies - Fred Kofman
Intrapersonal Autopoiesis - Vladimir Dimitrov & Robert Ebsary
Introducing a New Connectionist Model: The Spreading Waves of Activation Network - Scott Gazzard
Is Life as a Multiverse Phenomenon ? - Claus Emmeche
Is the Primordial Soup Done Yet - Quantifying Self-Organisation - Cosma Shalizi
Iterations and the Feigenbaum Diagram - Mathew Tepel
Learning How to Control Complex Systems - Seth Lloyd
Levels, Emergence and Three Versions of Downward Causation - Claus Emmeche, Simo Køppe & Frederik Stjernfelt
Life as an Abstract Phenomenon: Is ALife Possible - Claus Emmeche
Logical vs. Analogical or Symbolic vs. Connectionist or Neat vs. Scruffy - Marvin Minsky
Memory Evolutive Systems - Andrée C. Ehresmann and Jean-Paul Vanbremeersch
Modeling Life: A Note on the Semiotics of Emergence and Computation in Artificial and Natural Living Systems - Claus Emmeche
Modularity - A Concept for New Neural Network Architectures - Albrecht Schmidt and Zuhair Bandar
Mother Nature vs. the Walking Encyclopedia - Daniel C. Dennett
Narratives of Artificial Life - Katherine Hayles
Neural Networks and the Computational Brain - Stephen Jones
Neural Networks That Autonomously Create and Discover - Stephen Thaler
New Science, New Vision - F. David Peat
On Emergence and Explanation - Nils A. Baas & Claus Emmeche
On The Emerging Future of Complexity Sciences - Kemal A. Delic & Ralph Dum
Opening Up Closure: Semiotics Across Scales - Jay Lemke
Patterns of Wholeness: Introducing Holistic Science - Brian Goodwin
Places to Intervene in a System - Donella Meadows
Plectics: The Study of Simplicity and Complexity - Murray Gell-Mann
Post-Normal Science: Considerations from a Poietic Systems Perspective - Beth Dempster
Quantum Consciousness is Cybernetic - Gordon Globus
Robert Rosen: The Well Posed Question and Its Answer - Why are Organisms Different from Machines ? - Donald C. Mikulecky
Science and Complexity - Warren Weaver
Selected Self-Organization from Eigenbehaviour to Descriptions - Luis Rocha
Semantic & Associative Priming in a Distributed Attractor Network - David Plaut
Significant Points in the Study of Complex Systems - Yaneer Bar-Yam
Simulation - A Way Forward ? - David Byrne
Six Levels of Complexity: A Typology of Processes & Systems - Dietrich Fliedner
Some Myths of Connectionism - István S. N. Berkeley
Spatio-temporal Connectionist Networks: A Taxonomy and Review - Stefan C. Kremer
Synergism Hypothesis: On the Concept of Synergy and it's Role in the Evolution of Complex Systems - Peter Corning
Synergy of Complements in Living System - Gyorgy G Jaros
Systemics: The Most Basic Science - Donald E. Watson
Systems Science - George J. Klir
The Connectionist Modeler's Toolkit: A Review of Some Basic Processes Over Distributed Memories - Janet Wiles
The Economy of Discourses: A Third Order Cybernetics ? - Philip Boxer & Vincent Kenny
The Four Domains Of Systems Inquiry - Bela H. Banathy
The General System - Thomas Mandel
The Geology of Morals - Manuel De Landa
The Need for an Integrated Systemic-cybernetic Language for Concepts and Models in Complex and Vague Subject Areas - Charles François
The Non-Aristotelian Systemic Thinking about "Causation" in Complex Systems - L. Michael Hall
The Sciences of Complexity: A Kuhnian Revolution in Science ? - Reiner Hedrich
The Theory of Enformed Systems: A Paradigm of Organization and Holistic Systems - Donald E. Watson, Gary E. R. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek
Toward an evolvable model of development for autonomous agent synthesis - Frank Dellaert & Randall Beer
Use of Multiploidy in Evolutionary Computation - Paul Carr
Variations in Variation and Selection - Mark H. Bickhard & Donald T. Campbell
Virtues of Laziness in AI: Adaptive Logic Nets - William Armstrong
What is Teleonics ? - Gyorgy Jaros
What's in a Meme? - John S. Wilkins
What's It All About, ALife ? - Robert J. Crawford
Wholeness : Why I am no longer a Believer - Anthony Judge
Zones of Cooperation in Demographic Prisoner's Dilemma - Joshua M. Epstein

These papers comprise multiple HTML pages, usually with an indexed contents section and an introductory abstract. The pages can usually be viewed in sequence. Again we concentrate here on conceptual issues and overviews rather than specialist work.

A Brief History of Connectionism - David A. Medler ( .ps version with formulae/figures )
A Neural Networks Construction Method based on Boolean Logic - Georg Thimm & Emile Fiesler
Artificial Life - Tom Ray
Artificial Life Simulators and their Applications - Howard Gutowitz
Artificial Neural Network Technology - a review by Rome Labs
Backpropagators Review - Donald Tveter
Cellular Automata as models of Complexity - Stephem Wolfram
Complexity Seeking Ants - Howard Gutowitz
Dynamics of Deterministic Data Networks - Deane, Jeffries, Smythe
Effects of Randomness in Asynchronous 1D CA - Yasusi Kanada
Emergent Phenomena and Complexity - Vince Darley
Evolution in Complex Systems - David Green
Evolution, Learning and Popper's Epistemology - N. Cristianini
Fuzzy Inferencing Systems : Problems and Some Solutions - Bob John
Games of Proto-Life in Masked Cellular Automata - Ali & Zimmer
Gecko - A Continuous 2D World for Ecological Modelling - Ginger Booth
Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms: Principles, Methods and Algorithms - Hartmut Pohlheim
Genetic Network Inference in Computational Models & Applications to Large-Scale Gene Expression Data - Roland Somogyi
Genetic Programming Bloat with Dynamic Fitness - William Langdon and Riccardo Poli
Growing Self-Organizing Networks - Bernd Fritzke
Heinz von Foerster, the Scientist, the Man - Stefano Franchi, Güven Güzeldere, and Eric Minch
Incremental Neuro-Fuzzy Systems - Bernd Fritzke
Investigating and Visualizing the Dynastic Cycle - Helmut Doleisch
Mean Field Theory of the Edge of Chaos - Howard Gutowitz
Metadesign - Humberto Maturana
On an Efficient Implementation of Tierra - Russell Standish
On the Implicit and on the Artificial - Vitorino Ramos
Organising Simply for Complexity: Beyond Metaphor Towards Theory Synthesis - Michael Church
Parallelization of Variable-Sized Self Organizing Maps: A Development Tool - Travis Minke and Jason Reicheneker
Phase Transitions and the Search Problem - Hogg, Huberman & Williams
Reinforcement Learning: A Survey - Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael L. Littman & Andrew W. Moore
Sexual Swimmers: Emergent Morphology and Locomotion - Jeffrey Ventrella
Stochastic Problem Solving by Local Computation based on Self-organization - Yasusi Kanada
Structure and Change in Complex Systems - Wallace H. Provost
The Concept of Emergence - Paul E. Meehl and Wilfrid Sellars
The Systems View of Life - from The Turning Point - Fritjof Capra
Toward a Science of Qualities in Organizations: Lessons from Complexity Theory & Postmodern Biology - Peter Reason and Brian Goodwin
Towards Combining Artificially Alive and Artificially Intelligent Agents - Neven T. Tomov
Toward the Physics of Death - David M. Keirsey
Transients, Cycles & Complexity in Cellular Automata - Howard Gutowitz
What is Complexity ? - Bruce Edmonds

Dissertations and Theses

Mostly presented as part of a Masters or Doctoral degree, these recent length research reports typically contain extremely good overviews of the state of the art in the relevant fields with detailed citations, plus innovative thinking indicative of the sort of research currently being undertaken worldwide. Due to the mathematical complexity many of these documents are only available complete in Postscript or PDF format, although the author's HTML overviews or contents are sometimes available and if so these are referenced here.