Unifying Themes in Complex Systems IV (eBook)

Methods.- A Complex Systems Perspective on Collaborative Design.- RAn (Robustness Analyser).- Invariant Subsets of the Search Space, and the Universality of a Generalized Genetic Algorithm.- Models.- Cell-like space charge configurations formed by self-organization in laboratory.- Local Complexity and Global Nonlinear Modes in Large Arrays of Elastic Rods in an Air Cross-Flow.- Self-organization in Navier-Stokes turbulence.- The Game (Introduction to Digital Physics).- Epsilon-Pseudo-Orbits and Applications.- On the “mystery” of differential negative resistance.- Dissipative Structures and the Origins of Life.- Reverse Engineering Neurological Disease.- A Multi-Level Synthesis of Dyslexia.- Emergent computation in CA: A matter of visual efficiency?.- Emergent Probability.- Virtual Stability: A Principle of Complex Systems.- Fungal Colony Patterning as an Example of Biological Self-Organization.- Production-rule complexity of recursive structures.- Iterons: the emergent coherent structures of IAMs.- Criticality of the Brain and Criticality of Art.- The Visual Complexity of Pollock’s Dripped Fractals.- Emergent Patterns in Dance Improvisation and Choreography.- A Stochastic Dynamics for the Popularity of Websites.- Design Patterns for the Generation and the Analysis of Chemical Reaction Networks.- On the adaptive value of Sex.- Optimal Sampling for Complexity in Soil Ecosystems.- Predator-Prey Dynamics for Rabbits, Trees, and Romance.- The Evolution of an Ecosystem: Pleistocene Extinctions.- The Accuracy of Auto-adaptive Models for Estimating Romanian Firms’ Cost of Equity.- Self-Organizing Geography.- City of Slums: self-organisation across scales.- Applications.- Programmable Pattern-Formation and Scale-Independence.- Amorphous Predictive Nets.- Multidimensional Network Monitoring for Intrusion Detection.- Co-operative Agents in Network Defence.- An Algorithm for Bootstrapping Communications.- Intelligent Broadcast For Large-Scale Sensor Networks.- Self-Organization of Connectivity and Geographical Routing in Large-Scale Sensor Networks.- Managed Complexity in An Agent-based Vent Fan Control System Based on Dynamic Re-configuration.- Neural Net Model for Featured Word Extraction.- The distribution of agents to resources in a networked multi-player environment.- Customer Relationship Management in Banking Sector and A Model Design for Banking Performance Enhancement.- How Complex Systems Studies Could Help in Identification of Threats of Terrorism?.