What's New at CALResCo ?
Ongoing Additions/Updates to 4 April 2011
New Links 
Wolfram Demonstrations - science & more
Updates 4.83 March 2011:
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Emergence: Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management - limited online (new URL)
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Fractint (new URL)
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Ecosystem Simulation - Windsor Univwersity
Online Schools - much free
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Beauty of Chaos - Uwe Krüger (new URL)
Karl Sims Creatures - (new URL)
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Attractor Spaces as Modules - Teed Rockwell (rewrite)
Fractals - Paul N. Lee (new URL)
Updates 4.83 August 2010:
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Best Math Art on the Web - guide to online schools
Complex Agent-Based Dynamic Networks - University of Oxford
Complex Systems - University of Oxford
That Is That: Essays About True Nature - Nirmala
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Developmental Replay in Neural Servo Networks - Mervyn van Kuyen (new URL)
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Best Math Art on the Web - guide to onlineschools
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Art by Math Fractals - gallery & products (new URL)
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AI as an Arena for Magical Thinking Among Skeptics - Jonathan Hayward
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Online PhD programs - around the world
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SystemsWiki - enabling a systems thinking world
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Intute: Education and research methods - free links
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The Demotion of Consciousness: From HOTs to BRRs - Kent Van Cleave
New Links
Fractal Science Kit - Ross Hilbert (Windows XP2)
Updates 4.83 July 2009:
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Altreva Adaptive Modeler - agent-based market simulation models
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Ecosystem Network Analysis - Robert E. Ulanowicz (new URL)
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Biospheric Theory and Report on Overall Biosphere 2 Design and Performance - John Allen
Inspirational Chaos: Executive Coaching and Tolerance of Complexity
- Peter J. Webb
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Frederick Soddy and The Doctrine of Virtual Wealth - J. Martin Hattersley
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Genetic Algorithms - Nature's Way - small addition
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Updates 4.83 September 2008:
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Artificial Life MSc Course - Hertfordshire U.K.
Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems: A Primer - Claudius Gros
Updates 4.83 September 2008:
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Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems
- Carlos Gershenson
Is Chaos Theory Postmodern Science ? - J. Linn Mackey
Samuel Johnson and the Aesthetics of Complex Dynamics - Mark E. Wildermuth
The Cybernetic Cut: Progressing from Description to Prescription in Systems Theory - David L. Abel
Updated Pages
Setting The Scene - Science, Humanity and Interaction - Chris Lucas (new/updated sections)
Self-Organizing Systems FAQ - Chris Lucas (version 3.0)
Updates 4.83 August 2008:
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An Introduction to Complexity in Social Science - Bernard Pavard & Julie Dugdale
Artificial-Life Ecosystems: What are they and what could they become ? - Alan Dorin, Kevin B. Korb & Volker Grimm
Complexity and Chaos - State-of-the-Art; Overview of Theoretical Concepts - Robert F. Hadley
Emergence and Self-Organisation: A Statement of Similarities and Differences - Tom De Wolf and Tom Holvoet
Exploiting Open-Endedness to Solve Problems Through the Search for Novelty - Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley
Principles of the Self-Organizing System - W. Ross Ashby
The Emergence of Specialization - Hugues Bersini
Updates 4.83 July 2008:
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A Systems Perspective on the Interrelations between Natural, Human-made and Cultural Capital - Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke
Four Challenges Of Sustainability - David W. Orr
Increased Complexity Leads to Greater Stability - Edward Goldsmith
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Evolution of Complex Behaviour - Rekesh John & C.R. Muthukishnan (new URL)
Life-time Selection and Self-Organization in Tree Growth - Rekesh John (new URL)
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Representation and Change - Francis Heylighen
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eMergy Evaluation - Howard Odum
The Idea of Complexity in Ecology - R.H. Bradbury, J.D. Van Der Laan and D. G. Green
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Evolution of Complex Behaviour - Rekesh John & C.R. Muthukishnan (new URL)
Life-time Selection and Self-Organization in Tree Growth - Rekesh John (new URL)
Updates 4.83 March 2008:
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Exploring the Science of Complexity: Ideas and Implications for Development and Humanitarian efforts - Ben Ramalingam
Journal of Social Issues - complexity special issue
The Second Cybernetics: Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes - Margoroh Maruyama
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Artificial Intuition - Monica Anderson
Complexity and Education - Univ. Alberta
Human Complex Systems Degree Program - UCLA
The Tree of Philosophy - introductory course
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Fractal Music - Harlan Brothers
Sociology and Complexity Science - Brian Castellani & Frederic Hafferty
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About Social Morality and Law - Steven Foulds
Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory - pdf available
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Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice - Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury
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Toward a Science of Qualities in Organizations: Lessons from Complexity Theory & Postmodern Biology - Peter Reason and Brian Goodwin (new online URL)
Updates 4.83 September 2007:
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Bertalanffy's General Systems Theory: The Topology of Mind Development - Gregory Mitchell
Complexity and Ecosystem Management: the Theory and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems by Marco A. Janssen (ed.), - reviewed by Pietro Terna
Doctoral Training Centres in Complexity Science - EPSRC
General Systems Theory: The Skeleton of Science (1956) - Kenneth Boulding
General System Theory (1968) - Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Innovation, Evolution and Complexity Theory by Koen Frenken - reviewed by Piergiuseppe Morone
MSc Complexity Science - University of Southampton
Multi-Agent Systems and Applications by M. Luck, V. Marik, O. Štrpánková and R. Trappl - reviewed by Julia Frolova
On The Emerging Future of Complexity Sciences - Kemal A. Delic & Ralph Dum
Science and Complexity - Warren Weaver
Weak Links: Stabilizers of Complex Systems from Proteins to Social Networks by Peter Csermely - reviewed by Makany Tamas
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A Philosophy of the Emotions - Steven Foulds
Complex Adaptive Systems and Organizational Understanding in the Royal Australian Air Force - Callum S. Brown
Self-Organization and Romantic Crossings - Jon Klancher
What is Teleonics ? - Gyorgy Jaros
Updated Links
Post-Normal Science: Considerations from a Poietic Systems Perspective - Beth Dempster (new URL)
A Self-Organizing Systems Perspective on Planning For Sustainability - M. Beth L. Dempster (new URL)
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Feedback Loops in Clinical Practice: An Integrative Framework - Andrew Gunner
Peirce’s Conception of Teleology - Menno Hulswit
Science, Scientism & Anti-Science in the Age of Preposterism - Susan Haack
Updates 4.83 April 2007:
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Fractal Art Explorer - Milan Dobrojevic
The Psycho-Structural Cybernetic Model, Feedback and Problem Gambling: A New Theoretic Approach - M.Zangeneh and E. Haydon
The Ten Oxherding Pictures - Kakuan Zenji
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On the Limits of Bottom-Up Computer Simulation: Towards a Nonlinear Modelling Concept - Kurt A. Richardson
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A Summary Of The Principles Of Hierarchy Theory - Timothy F. Allen
Complexity and the Social - Will Medd and Paul Haynes
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball - reviewed by Bruce Edmonds
Economics As A Moral Science - Kenneth E. Boulding
Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems by Keith R. Sawyer - reviewed by Edmund Chattoe
Syntactic Autonomy - Luis Rocha
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Homeokinetics - the physics of complex systems (new URL)
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
Valuation as a Social Process - C.H. Cooley
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Updates 4.83 July 2006:
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Qualitative Living and Thinking - essay on fuzzy living
New Links
The Ecology of Money - Richard Douthwaite
Updated Links
Developmental Replay in Neural Servo Networks - Mervyn van Kuyen (new URL)
The Known, the Unknown & the Unknowable - Jonathan J. Dickau (new URL)
Updates 4.83 June 2006:
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Integral Intersubjectivity - essay on cultural learning
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Spiral Complexity Dynamics - essay on social behaviours
New Links
Symmetry and Complexity-Fundamental Concepts of Research in Chemistry - Klaus Mainzer
Visualbots - visual programming for agent-based simulation
Updates 4.83 April 2006:
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Complex Living Tensegrities - essay on balance
Synergy and Complexity Science - essay on the insights given
New Links
Drawing Outside the Lines: Value Systems, Memetics & Education in the 3rd Millennium - Caleb Rosado
General Systems Theory: The Skeleton of Science - Kenneth E. Boulding
Idiagram - art of complex problem solving
Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Complexity Science - Buck Lawrimore
Pratitya Samutpada: The Foundation for a Buddhist Environmentalism - Lokabandhu
Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck & Chris Cowan - reviewed by Steve Dinan
Updates 4.83 March 2006:
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Glimpsing Heaven, Oh So Close - essay on experiencing
New Links
The Group Development Process seen through the Lens of Complexity Theory- John Campbell, J. David Flynn & James Hay
Toward Systemic Educational Change: Questions from a Complex Systems Perspective - Jay Lemke et. al
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Questioning Our Methodologies - essay on WH questions
New Links
Origin of the Natural Laws in a Binary Universe - Milo Wolff
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Journey Into Infinity - William C. Gough
Updates 4.83 December 2005:
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Applying Social Artistry to Decentralized Governance for Human Development - Jean Houston
Collective Book on Collective Process - egalitarian consensus
Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations. Learning and Knowledge Creation by Ralph D. Stacey - reviewed by Koen Frenken
Epistemology and Fourth Order Consciousnesss, & the Subject-Object Relationship - Robert Kegan & Elizabeth Debold
Human Consciousness: From Intersubjectivity to Interbeing - Evan Thompson
Is God All in Your Head ? - Craig Hamilton
Systemantics: How Systems Work... and Especially How They Fail by John Gall - reviewed by Anthony Judge
The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self - Alan Sponberg
The Four Domains Of Systems Inquiry - Bela H. Banathy
The Systemic Theory of Living Systems and Relevance to CAM - Olalde Rangel
Toward a Buddhist Philosophy of Science - Jim Kukula
Toward a Culture of Responsibility - Yasuhiko Genku Kimura
Toward a New Paradigm for Life - Beyond Genetic Determinism - Richard Strohman
Toward a Subject-Oriented Worldview of Information - Carole Groleau & James R. Taylor
Vision in Action - thought provoking reading
What is Real ? Conscious Experience Seen as Basic to Ontology - Axel Randrup
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Updates 4.83 October 2005:
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Basics of Consensus - Rob Sandelin
How Can We Think the Complex ? - Carlos Gershenson and Francis Heylighen
Introducing Emotions into the Computational Study of Social Norms - Alexander Staller and Paolo Petta
Present-Day Islam Between its Tradition and Globalisation - Mohammed Arkoun
The Competitive Advantages of Stakeholder Mutuals - Shann Turnbull
The Informative Content of Education - H.G.Wells
Worldwide Knowledge Leadership - Debra M. Amidon and Jan Wyllie
Updates 4.83 September 2005:
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Anticipatory Systems and the Processing of Meaning - Loet Leydesdorff
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Beyond Science - Robert C. Priddy (new URL)
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Updates 4.83 July 2005:
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Complexity and Postmodernism by Paul Cilliers - reviewed by David Byrne
Sociocracy: Democracy as it Might Be - Kees Boeke
Spirituality as the Fourth Bottom Line - Sohail Inayatullah
Updates 4.83 June 2005:
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Connecting the Fractal City - Nikos A. Salingaros
Defining Ortegrity - Timothy Wilken
Ecosocieties: Societal Aspects of Biological Self-Production - Milan Zeleny
Feeling William James's But - Mark Johnson
Metaxis and Recovery: Towards a New Vision of Health - Jeremiah D. McAuliffe, Jr & Jeffrey C. Wilson
Plectics: The Study of Simplicity and Complexity - Murray Gell-Mann
Wholeness : Why I am no longer a Believer - Anthony Judge
Updated Pages
Autopoiesis and Coevolution - extended coevolution section
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Archetypes: Interaction Structures of the Universe - Gene Bellinger
Autopoiesis and Life - Margaret A. Boden
Kurt Lewin's Change Theory in the Field & in the Classroom - Edgar H. Schein
The Ecology of Leadership - Peter M. Senge
Updated Pages
Attractor Map Images - extended with additions
CALResCo Software - Release 8, updates & 3 new programs (now including a functional AgentNet)
Updates 4.83 April 2005:
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Strange Attractors and Society - essay on human dynamics
What Difference Does It Make ? - essay on holarchic society
New Links
Deleuze and the Genesis of Form - Manuel DeLanda
Introduction to Random Boolean Networks - Carlos Gershenson
Updates 4.83 March 2005:
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Collective Insanity - John J. Moelaert
Evolutionary Robotics by Stefano Nolfi & Dario Floriano - reviewed by Horatiu Voicu
Integral Science Institute - substance, integrity & real word applications
jECHO: A new implementation of Holland's Complex Adaptive Systems Model - Brian McIndoe
Mind and Labour - Ben Kutz
Myths about Learning - Judy Yero
Psychological Entropy - Nicholas Williams
The Horrors of the Twentieth Century - Mack Tanner
Why the Sun seems to be Dimming - David Sington
Updated Links
Autopoiesis and Sprituality - Vladimir Dimitrov and Bob Hodge (new URL)
Strange Attractors of Meaning - Vladimir Dimitrov (new URL)
Updates 4.83 February 2005:
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Incentives and Disincentives - Organizational Dynamics - systems thinking essay
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Applications of the Science of Axiology - Robert S. Hartman
Emile, or On Education
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Function of Reason - Alfred North Whitehead
Towards a Theory of Autonomous, Optimising Agents - Vince Darley
Updated Links
Beyond the Limits: Executive Summary - Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows & Jorgen Randers (new URL)
Emergent Phenomena and Complexity - Vince Darley (new URL)
Places to Intervene in a System - Donella Meadows (new URL)
Updates 4.83 January 2005:
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Global Civil Society v Totalitarianism - new essay
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Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days - Michael Umphrey
The Shape of Life: Genes, Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form by Rudolf A. Raff - reviewed by Walter Cressler
Two Roles for Complex Systems in Education - Jim Kaput, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Michael Jacobson, Eric Jakobsson, Jay Lemke, Uri Wilensky & Collaborators
Updated Links
Music, Mind, Machine - computational modelling of temporal structure (new URL)
NICO - ANN Toolkit (new URL)
Updates 4.83 December 2004:
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The Will To Power - new essay on Nietzsche
Self-Organization and Human Robots - new paper
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Bio-Inspired Computing Tissues: Towards Machines that Evolve, Grow, and Learn - C. Teuscher, D. Mange, A. Stauffer & G. Tempesti
Harnessing Morphogenesis- Nick Jakobi
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense - Friedrich Nietzsche
Three Ways to Grow Designs:
A Comparison of Embryogenies for an Evolutionary Design Problem - Peter Bentley and Sanjeev Kumar
Updates 4.83 November 2004:
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The Corporate State - new critical essay
2004 - An Odyssey into Insanity - new essay
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Co-Operation and Self-Organization - Christian Fuchs
Non-Standard Computation : An Overview - Susan Stepney
Post-Modular Systems: Architectural Principles for Cognitive Robotics - Lynn Andrea Stein
The Need for an Integrated Systemic-cybernetic Language for Concepts and Models in Complex and Vague Subject Areas - Charles François
The Self and Spirituality: A Variation
- Tim Dutcher-Wells
Updated Pages
Emergence and Evolution - enhanced introduction
Updates 4.83 October 2004:
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Intrinsic and Holarchic Education - new comprehensive essay
New Links
A Developmental Model for the Evolution of Artificial Neural Networks - J. C. Astor & C. Adami
Achieving High-Level Functionality through Complexification - Kenneth O. Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen
An Introduction to Lindenmayer Systems - Gabriela Ochoa
Artificial Chemistries - A Review - Peter Dittrich, Jens Ziegler, and Wolfgang Banzhaf
Caring as a Democratic Virtue
- Maughn Gregory
Cellular Evolution in a 3D Lattice Artificial Chemistry - Duraid Madina, Naoaki Ono and Takashi Ikegami
Discourse, Dynamics and Social Change - Jay Lemke
Evolutionary Emergence: The Struggle for Existence in Artificial Biota - Alastair Channon
Foundations of Genetic Algorithms by Wolfgang Banzahf & Colin Reeves - reviewed by Brett Fishburne
ICREA Complex Systems Lab - GRIB
Natures Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind by Peter Corning - reviewed by James Brody
On the State of the Art of POEtic Machines - Christof Teuscher
Organization Theory and Ethics - Eric Bredo
Shifting the Patterns: Breaching the Memetic Codes of Corporate Performance by If Price and Ray Shaw - reviewed by Paul Marsden (authors' reply)
The Hidden Connections – Integrating the Biological, Cognitive and Social Dimensions of Life into a Science of Sustainability by Frijtof Capra - reviewed by Philip S. Wenz
The Value of Reason: Why Not a Sardine Can Opener ? - Emily Robertson
The Web of Life by Frijtof Capra - reviewed by Philip S. Wenz
Updated Links
Neural Networks Tutorial - Vikram Pudi (new URL)
Updates 4.83 September 2004:
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30 Years of Computational Autopoiesis: A Review - Barry McMullin
Complex Systems - University of Alaska
Gene Expression Programming - Candida Ferreira
Sustainable Evolutionary Algorithms and Scalable Evolutionary Synthesis of Dynamic Systems - Jianjun Hu
The Origin of Animal Body Plans. A Study in Evolutionary Developmental Biology by Wallace Arthur - reviewed by Gert Korthof
The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution by Stuart Kauffman - reviewed by Reilly Jones
The Origin of Species Revisited by Donald Forsdyke - reviewed by Gert Korthof
The Principles of Life by Tibor Gánti - reviewed by Gert Korthof
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed by Gert Korthof
Updated Links
From Artificial Evolution to Artificial Life - Tim Taylor (new URL)
Updates 4.83 August 2004:
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A 21st Century View of Evolution - James A. Shapiro
A Brief Critique of Evolution from the Developmental Perspective - Robert F. DeHaan
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick - reviewed by Shaun Calhoun
Evolutionary Perspectives on Simulations of Social Sytems - Carl Henning Reschke
MetaSystems as Constraints on Variation: A Classification and Natural History of Metasystem Transitions - Francis Heylighen
Mutualism, Parasitism, and Evolutionary Adaptation - Richard A. Watson, Torsten Reil & Jordan B. Pollack
Strong Reciprocity, Human Cooperation and the Enforcement of Social Norms - Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher & Simon Gächter
Sudden Origins by Jeffrey Schwartz - reviewed by Carl Resler
Symmetry in Evolution - Phillip L. Engle
The Chaos ThinkSite - chaordic business practices
The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Set Out to Beat Wall Street by Thomas A. Bass - reviewed by H. Van Dyke Parunak
Worlds Within Worlds: Perspectives and Awareness in Science and Spirit - Robert Neil Boyd
Updates 4.83 July 2004:
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Complexity Related Book Reviews - Over 100 for starters...
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A Theory of the Cultural Evolution of the Firm: The Intra-Organizational Ecology of Memes - John Weeks and Charles Galunic
Compositional Evolution: Interdisciplinary Investigations in Evolvability, Modularity, and Symbiosis - Richard A. Watson
Evolultionz - Dimitri Marinakis (Windows 3D card)
Exploring Emergence - a Java tutorial by Mitchel Resnick and Brian Silverman
Modular Interdependency in Complex Dynamical Systems - Richard A. Watson
Play Locally, Learn Globally: The Structural Basis of Cooperation - Jung-Kyoo Choi
Recent Work on the Levels of Selection Problem - Samir Okasha
Selection of Organization at the Social Level: Obstacles and Facilitators of Metasystem Transitions - Francis Heylighen and Donald T. Campbell
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 a Definition of Dynamical Hierarchies - Dominique Groß and Tom Lenaerts
Toward the Physics of Death - David M. Keirsey
Updated Pages
Breaking Our Mental Chains - essay updated
Updated Links
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society - pdf is online (new URL)
Fractal Music Project - papers, software, music (new URL)
The Creative Learning Exchange - system dynamics in education (new URL)
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Adaptive Dynamics Network - environmental dynamics
Artificial Societies and the Social Sciences - J. Stephen Lansing
Different Levels of Selection in Artificial Evolutionary Systems: Analysis and Simulation of Selection Dynamics - Tom Lenaerts
Enformy and Enformed Systems - holistic systems
Prosocial Emotions - Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
Systemics: The Most Basic Science - Donald E. Watson
What's in a Meme? - John S. Wilkins
Updated Pages
Autopoiesis and Coevolution - added section
Emergence and Evolution - Constraints on Form - revisions
Fitness and Synergy - revisions and new sections added
Glossary - revisions
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An Introduction to Agent Based Modelling and Simulation of Social Processes - Armano Srbljinovic and Ognjen Skunka
Evolution, Culture and Theology: A Critical Evaluation of Applicability of Evolutionary Epistemology for Theological Reasoning - Tomás Hancil
Holism and Reductionism in Biology and Ecology: The Mutual Dependence of Higher and Lower Level Research Programmes- Richard Christiaan Looijen
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - pdf available
Three Approches to Cultural Psychology: A Critique - Carl Ratner
Updates 4.83 March 2004:
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A Philosophy for Complexity - C. West Churchman
A Taste of Systemics - Bela Banathy
An Aid to Navigation Through an Intellectual Fog Bank - Peter Corning
Complex Systems: Science for the 21st Century - U.S. Department of Energy
Methods and Techniques of Complex Systems Science: An Overview - Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
Systems Science - George J. Klir
The History and Status of General Systems Theory - Ludvig von Bertalanffy
Update Newsletter - The Center for Systems Science
What is the Philosophy of Science ? - C. West Churchman
Updates 4.83 February 2004:
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A New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram
Activity as A Key Concept for Cultural Psychology - Carl Ratner
Energy Talk - Larry Dossey
The Electric Cosmos - Donald E. Scott
The Fractal Universe - Colin Hill
The Plasma Universe - Anthony Peratt
Towards a Cultural Psychology of the Self - Scott S. Blake
Updates 4.83 January 2004:
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A Complexity based Model of Schizophrenia - Nicholas Williams
Bitozoa2 - Marcin Borkowski (Windows)
Is Humanity Destined to Self-Destruct ? - Lynton Keith Caldwell
Matters of Consequence - transformational solutions to the world problematique
Process Theory and the Concept of Substance - Ian J. Thompson
The Creation of Novelty in Artificial Chemistries - Dominique Gross and Barry McMullin
The Sciences of Complexity: A Kuhnian Revolution in Science ? - Reiner Hedrich
Updates 4.83 December 2003:
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E.W.Powell Exhibition - 8 new paintings and commentaries added
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Ethics and Artificial Life - Will Harwood
Fractal Geometry - course by Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot & Nial Neger
Image Processing & Neural Networks Laboratory - University of Texas, Arlington
Insitute for Complex Adaptive Matter - emergent behaviour
ProtoTista - Alder Fuller
Updated Pages
Isn't It Nice to Be Us! - painting finished
Updates 4.83 November 2003:
An Anti-Adaptationist Genetic Algorithm for Evolving Neural Networks - Mark L. Juric
Autocatakinetics, the Minimal Ontology & the Constitutive Logic of Ecological Relations - Rod Swenson
Autonomy, Function, and Representation - Mark Bickhard
Beyond E=mc2 - Bernard Haisch, Alfonso Rueda & Harold Puthoff
Facilitated Systems - publications
Nonlinear Dynamics as a Dialectic Logic - Hector Sabelli
Society for Art of Imagination - it's surreal...
Updated Links
Framsticks - (new URL)
Updates 4.83 October 2003:
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A One-Scale Model of Holarchical Existence - Andrew P. Smith
Brain, Language and the Origin of Human Mental Functions - Humberto Maturana, Jorge Mpodozis & Juan Carlos Letelier
Buddhist Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Thinking about 'Thoughts without a Thinker' - William S. Waldron
Chaos, Emergence, and the Mind-Body Problem - David V. Newman
Goal Processing in Autonomous Agents - Luc Beaudoin
How to Make Decisions: Coherence, Emotion, and Practical Inference - Paul Thagard
Aaron Sloman - cognition & affect
The Computer Revolution in Philosophy - Aaron Sloman
The Self as a Nonlinear Dynamical Structure-Process - Helena Knyazeva
Towards A New Kind of Social Science: Study of Self-organization of Human Dynamics - Vladimir Dimitrov
Variations in Variation and Selection - Mark H. Bickhard & Donald T. Campbell
Updated Pages
Evolving an Integral Ecology of Mind - final further expanded version
Updated Links
Sci.Bio.Evolution Homepage - Josh Hayes (new URL)
Updates 4.83 September 2003:
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e-Business For Managers - book by Jiri Donat
New Links
Action Selection Methods Using Reinforcement Learning - Mark Humphrys
AIRG Multi-Agent Systems Webliography - links
Cormas - multi-agent systems
Multi-Agent Systems - tools for building MASs
Multiagent Systems Research Group - Washington University
NII-REO Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - abstracts
Social Order in Artificial Worlds - Michael W. Macy
The Multi-Agent Systems Lab - UMASS
Updates 4.83 August 2003:
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Layered Learning in Multi-Agent Systems - Peter Stone
The Concept of Self-Organization in Cellular Architecture - Tom Misteli
The Economy of Discourses: A Third Order Cybernetics ? - Philip Boxer & Vincent Kenny
The Logical Modelling of Computational Multi-Agent Systems - Michael John Wooldridge
Updated Pages
Evolving an Integral Ecology of Mind - paper greatly expanded and revised
Updates 4.83 July 2003:
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Coordination of Group Behaviour through Stigmergy: Past, Present and Future Work - Adam Russell
Coordination without Communication - Stan Franklin
From Is to Ought: Another Way - John F. Post
Self-Organized Criticality and Stochastic Resonance in the Human Brain - Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen
Syntactic Measures of Complexity - Bruce Edmonds
Telenomic Agency: Toward a Proper Functions Theory of Normativity - William Harms
Training Recurrent Neural Networks - a mathematical tutorial by Herbert Jaeger (pdf)
End of Ongoing Additions/Updates
Updates 4.82 June 2003:
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An Energy/Awareness/Information Interpretation of Physical and Mental Reality - Copthorne Macdonald
Aspects of Complexity in Life and Science - Claus Emmeche
DarwinBots - Carlo Comis (Windows/VB)
Dynamic Symbol Systems - Herbert Jaeger
Is Human Information Processing Conscious ? - Max Velmans
Life32 - Johan Bontes (Windows)
NetLogo - Uri Wilensky (cross platform)
On the Implicit and on the Artificial - Vitorino Ramos
Daniel Polani - alife, SOMs and information theory
Stigmergic Systems - Peter Small
Winlife32 - John Harper (Windows)
Updated Pages
Glossary - revisions and additions
Self-Organizing Systems FAQ - updated to version 2.9
Updated Links
Avida - Digital Life Lab (Linux/Mac/Windows) (new URL)
Updates 4.82 May 2003:
New Links
Beyond the Work Ethic - Nicholas Abel
Corporate Culture and Complexity: Part 1 , 2A , 2B , 2C , 2D - Marilyn Herasymowych & Henry Senko
Economic Theory, Anticipatory Systems & Artificial Adaptive Agents - Sérgio Luiz de Medeiros Rivero, Bernd Heinrich Storb & Raul Sidnei Wazlawick
Ethics and Second-order Cybernetics - Heinz von Foerster
Evolvable Self-Replicating Molecules in an Artificial Chemistry - Tim J. Hutton
Fractal Gallery - Paul Derbyshire
GA Hotlist - people/links
Global Problems, Local Solutions - Wendell Berry
Information and Consciousness: A Critique of the Mechanistic Concept of Information - Sřren Brier
Levels, Emergence and Three Versions of Downward Causation - Claus Emmeche, Simo Křppe & Frederik Stjernfelt
Multifractals - Jacques Lévy
Véhel
Redesigning Corporate Law - Robert Hinkley
That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen - Frederic Bastiat
The Evolutionary Origin of Complex Features - Richard E. Lenski, Charles Ofria, Robert T. Pennock & Christoph Adami
The Law - Frederic Bastiat
The New Sciences and the Learning Organization: Part 1 , 2A , 2B , 3A , 3B , 4A , 4B - Marilyn & Sonia Herasymowych
The New Sciences and the Learning Organization: Part 5A , 5B , 5C , 6A , 6B , 6C - Marilyn & Sonia Herasymowych
Visions of Chaos Gallery - Jason Rampe
Zarmi's Fractals Page - brief illustrated intro
Updated Links
Fractal Forrest - Ruth Johns (new URL)
Mandelbrot Gallery - Kees van der Doel (new URL)
Sine Art - Brian N.Hershey (new URL)
3D Fractal Art - raytraced (new URL)
Updates 4.82 April 2003:
New Links
Beyond Greed & Scarcity - Bernard Lietaer
Complexity Science Research Centre - Open University
Complexity Society - openness, equality and diversity
Corporate Culture and Complexity: Part 3A , 3B , 3C - Christine Oliver, Marilyn Herasymowych & Henry Senko
Epistemology and Rosen's Modeling Relation - William B. Dress
Exceptional Mental Health - Al Siebert
General Systems Theory - David S. Walonick
Governance In The Planetary Age - Catherine Burton
In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell
Knowledge as a Complex Evolutionary System: An Educational Imperative - Derek Cabrera
Memory Evolutive Systems - Andrée C. Ehresmann and Jean-Paul Vanbremeersch
MHA Institute InfoMine - personal development & productivity
Paths Of Learning: An Introduction to Educational Alternatives - Robin Ann Martin
Patterns, Flows, and Interrelationship - Molly Young Brown
Patterns of Wholeness: Introducing Holistic Science - Brian Goodwin
Robert Rosen: The Well Posed Question and Its Answer - Why are Organisms Different from Machines ? - Donald C. Mikulecky
Synergetics on the Web - Kirby Urner
The Abolition of Work - Bob Black
The Nature of Government - Frederick Mann
Toward a Science of Qualities in Organizations: Lessons from Complexity Theory & Postmodern Biology - Peter Reason and Brian Goodwin
Towards Anticipatory Agents - Bertil Ekdahl, Eric Astor and Paul Davidsson
What are Complex Adaptive Systems ? - a brief description by Peter Fryer
Updated Links
Anatomy of Teleology - Julian Cole (new URL)
Chaos Introduction - by Andrew Ho (new URL)
Complexity, Chaos and Creativity - Internet Masters programme (new URL)
Complexity, Chaos and Creativity: A Journey beyond System Thinking - Vladimir Dimitrov (new URL)
Cybernetics and Human Knowing - self-organizing processes (new URL)
Exploring Chaos & Fractals - a web Book by Informit (new URL)
Vladimir Dimitrov - social complexity and fuzziology (new URL)
Updates 4.82 March 2003:
New Links
Beyond the Limits: Executive Summary - Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows & Jorgen Randers
Culture, Spirituality, and Economic Development: Opening a Dialogue - William F. Ryan
Education As Real Life - Douglas S. Johnson
Frederick Soddy and The Doctrine of Virtual Wealth - J. Martin Hattersley
Holistic Management - sustainable decision-making
Novum Organum or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature - Francis Bacon
Places to Intervene in a System - Donella Meadows
Pragmatism - William James
Principles of Morals and Legislation - Jeremy Bentham
Social Psychology - Edward Alsworth Ross
The Behavior of Crowds - Everett Dean Martin
The Concept of Nature - Alfred North Whitehead
The Development Hypothesis - Herbert Spencer
The Man versus the State - Herbert Spencer
Using Synergy, Diversity and Wholeness to Create a Wisdom Culture - Tom Atlee
Updated Links
Gene Genie: Making DNA Computers - Thomas Bass (new URL)
Updates 4.82 February 2003:
New Links
A Plea for Pure Democracy - Catherine Helen Spence
Foundations of Morality - Henry Hazlitt
Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin R. Barber
Life as the Standard of Value - Eyal Mozes
Rocky Mountain Institute - whole systems technology
Scientists for Global Responsibility - promoting ethical science & technology
Social Dynamics - Eric Butler
The New Civic Virtue of the Internet: A Complex Systems Model for the Governance of Cyberspace - David R. Johnson & David G. Post
Transformational Politics - Tom Atlee
Worldwatch Institute - monitoring vital signs...
Updates 4.82 January 2003:
New Links
Biological Complexity
- Peter R. Wills
EasyNN Plus - multi-layer (Windows)
Everything For Nothing - Harold Puthoff
NeuralMachine - MLP/RBF (Windows/Web)
Optimization Online - an eprint site
Progressive Humanism - a science & common sense worldview
Redundant Complexity: A Critical Analysis of Intelligent Design in Biochemistry - Niall Shanks and Karl H. Joplin
Social Credit - Clifford Hugh Douglas
Swedenborg and the Holographic Paradigm - Michael Talbot
The Artis Project - synthesizing evolution with self-reproducing CAs
The Complexity Network - University of Liverpool
The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics - conferences
Updated Pages
Home - Top of Everything award added
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