Unifying Themes in Complex Systems (eBook)

CONTENTS 8
INTRODUCTION 12
Third International Conference on Complex Systems: Organization and Program 14
Complex Behavior of Simple Systems 33
Thresholds, Bifurcations and Mental Control: An Application of Nonlinear Dynamics to Psychotherapy 42
Study of Pattern Formation by Peafowl using LEM Multi- Agent Simulator 53
The Contribution Of Complexity Theory To The Study Of Socio- Technical Cooperative Systems 66
Complexity Theory of Art: Recent Investigations 76
Complexity, Emergence and Pathophysiology: Using Non- Adaptive Inflammatory Response 84
Self- Organization of Population Structure in Biological Systems 97
Spatial Periodicity in Mycelial Fungi Growth with Respect to Their Life Strategies 106
In Search of Scaling in Brain 117
Co- operation in the Brain in Higher Cognitive Functioning 126
A Complex System for the Visualization of Music 134
Plasma Experiments with Relevance for Complexity Science 141
Ball Lightning as a Self- Organized Complexity 150
Self- Organisation in Metabolic Pathways 159
Modelling Bacterial Hyperstructures with Cellular Automata 166
Environmental Complexity: Information For Human- Environment Well- Being 176
Complexity of Predictive Neural Networks 199
Locating Self- Organization at the Edge of Chaos 210
Strategic Planning Amidst Massive Uncertainty in Complex Adaptive Systems: the Case of Defense Planning 218
Formalizing the Gene Centered View of Evolution 232
The Structure of Instantaneous Phase Resetting in a Neural Oscillator 240
On Analysis of the Periodicity Attributes of the Photo- Plethysmograph Signal to Assess the Cardiovascular State 249
Pattern Formation by Autonomous Mobile Robots 257
Punctuated equilibrium, modularity, and A- Life 265
Agent- based Modeling of Disrupted Market Ecologies: A Strategic Tool to Think and Learn With 275
Considerations about universality in phase- ordering of binary liquids 284
Complexity and Simplicity in Ecosystems: The case of forest management 293
Cell State Dynamics and Tumorigenesis in Boolean Regulatory Networks 307
The role of spontaneous pattern formation in the creation and maintenance of biological diversity 320
Developing Understanding of Ecological- Economic Systems 328
Self- Healing Structures in Amorphous Computing 338
Phase Transitions in the Computational Complexity of " Elementary'' Cellular Automata 349
Chaotic Dynamics of Tumor Growth and Regeneration 361
Language as a Model of Biocomplexity 367
Social Constraints and Cybernetic Explanations 379
INDEX OF AUTHORS 389