complexitystudies

Gisagents review Swarm, Mason and Repast. Plus: a load of references, most of them linked (to PDF files of the papers). Have fun.
GIS and Agent-Based Modelling: Open Source Simulation / Modelling Systems for ABM

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ABM models primate behaviour:
ScienceDaily: Primate Behavior Explained By Computer ‘Agents’

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Good Math Bad Math talks about how order arises naturally out of disorder and a simple way of seeing it via Ramsey’s Theorem. He uses the Theorem as an argument against creationism. As good a refutation of creationism as one can desire, I would say, as it is really evident and nicely transferable to the [...]

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This result is widely reported on the net lately, and while we can’t yet be sure it actually occurs in plants at normal temperatures (so there is room for speculation - it shows one thing for sure - something I have been advocating for a long time: that the boundaries between the scientific disciplines [...]

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Here is a nice example of what systems that exhibit non-linear dynamic behaviour “do”:
Cornstarch - Phenomena
Walk on cornstarch
Non-Newtonian fluid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(This was discussed on the Rosen List recently.)

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Making sense of data requires visualization methods - here is an ingenious overview:
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

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A new book has come out which casts into serious doubt some of the models which have influenced policy-makers so far. This further convinces me that it is time to lay a serious philosophy of science foundation for modelling; especially the semantics of models, which have not yet received due attention (interpretation is more of [...]

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Buckminster Fuller seems to have been a very remarkable person, so I would like to introduce him here on my blog. I like his word creations (text from Wikipedia, retrieved 18 Feb 2007):
Use of language and neologisms
Buckminster Fuller spoke and wrote in a unique style and thought it crucial to describe the world as accurately [...]

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This is a very nice paper, especially well suited for a first introduction:
Heylighen F. (2001): “The Science of Self-organization and Adaptivity”, in: L. D. Kiel, (ed.) Knowledge Management, Organizational Intelligence and Learning, and Complexity, in: The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems ((EOLSS), (Eolss Publishers, Oxford)
@INCOLLECTION {Heylighen2001,
title = {The science of self-organization and adaptivity},
author = {Heylighen, [...]

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I’m starting a new category: paper of the week. Here, I want to introduce papers important to complexity science and my research, together with related weblinks. Please note that paper of the week means neither at minimum nor at maximum a paper a week, it’s just more of a moniker with a hint to the [...]

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