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COMPLEXITY
2007
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Prisoner's dilemma and clusters on small-world networks
Xavier Thibert-Plante, Lael Parrott
COMPLEXITY
2007
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Using self-dissimilarity to quantify complexity
David H. Wolpert, William G. Macready
COMPLEXITY
2007
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From complex conflicts to stable cooperation: Cases in environment and security
: Conflict is a dynamic and complex form of human interaction, often emerging from incompatible actions, values and goals, and consuming a considerable amount of resources. Conflic...
Jürgen Scheffran, Bruce Hannon
COMPLEXITY
2007
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Why complex systems engineering needs biological development
Wolfgang Banzhaf, Nelishia Pillay
COMPLEXITY
2007
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Life, information, entropy, and time: Vehicles for semantic inheritance
abstractions provides an additional supra-phenotypic vehicle for semantic inheritance, which supports the cultural heritages around which civilizations revolve. The following three...
Antony R. Crofts
COMPLEXITY
2007
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Guiding a self-adjusting system through chaos
: We study the parametric controls of self-adjusting systems with numerical models. We investigate the situation where the target dynamics changes slowly and passes through a chaot...
Alfred W. Hübler, Kirstin C. Phelps
COMPLEXITY
2007
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Emergence is coupled to scope, not level
Since its application to systems, emergence has been explained in terms of levels of observation. This approach has led to confusion, contradiction, incoherence and at times mysti...
Alex J. Ryan
COMPLEXITY
2007
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Putting complex systems to work
A primary objective of this paper (as well as of this symposium) is to examine concepts from the field of complex systems that can be applied to systems engineering. In this paper ...
Russ Abbott
COMPLEXITY
2007
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What is the complexity of a distributed computing system?
Distributed computing systems are becoming bigger and more complex. While the complexity of large-scale distributed systems has been acknowledged to be an important challenge, the...
Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Campbell