Unifying Themes in Complex Systems (eBook)

Methods.- Emergence, Intrinsic Structure of Information, and Agenthood.- Deep and Broad are the Laws of Emergence?.- On an irreducible theory of complex systems.- Measuring and Tracking Complexity in Science.- Data-Driven Modeling of Complex Systems.- Modelling Complex Systems by Integration of Agent-Based and Dynamical Systems Models.- On Elementary and Algebraic Cellular Automata.- Dual phase evolution — a mechanism for self-organization in complex systems.- A new measure of heterogeneity of complex networks based on degree sequence.- Are technological and social networks really different?.- Evolutional family networks generated by group-entry growth mechanism with preferential attachment and their features.- Estimating the dynamics of kernel-based evolving networks.- Consensus Problems on Small World Graphs: A Structural Study.- Complex Knowledge Networks and Invention Collaboration.- Complexity, Competitive Intelligence and the “First Mover” Advantage.- Mobility of Innovators and Prosperity of Geographical Technology Clusters: A longitudinal examination of innovator networks in telecommunications industry.- Adaptive capacity of geographical clusters: Complexity science and network theory approach.- Corporate Strategy an Evolutionary Review.- Towards an evaluation framework for complex social systems.- Operational Synchronization.- The Complexity of Terrorist Networks.- Complexity Studies and Security in the Complex World: An Epistemological Framework of Analysis.- Complexities, Catastrophes and Cities: Emergency Dynamics in Varying Scenarios and Urban Topologies.- Systems Biology via Redescription and Ontologies (II): A Tool for Discovery in Complex Systems.- Biotic Population Dynamics: Creative Biotic Patterns.- Models.- The Growing Canvas of Biological Development: Multiscale Pattern Generation on an Expanding Lattice of Gene Regulatory Nets.- Compound clustering and consensus scopes of metabolic networks.- Endocannabinoids: Multi-scaled, Global Homeostatic Regulators of Cells and Society.- Different Neurons Population Distribution correlates with Topologic-Temporal Dynamic Acoustic Information Flow.- Modeling the Dynamics of Task Allocation and Specialization in Honeybee Societies.- An agent-based model for Leishmania major infection.- To be or twice to be? The life cycle development of the spruce bark beetle under climate change.- A Formal Analysis of Complexity Monotonicity.- Complex Features in Lotka-Volterra Systems with Behavioral Adaptation.- A Dynamic Theory of Strategic Decision Making applied to the Prisoner’s Dilemma.- Animal network phenomena: insights from triadic games.- Endogenous Cooperation Network Formation.- Mathematical model of conflict and cooperation with non-annihilating multi-opponent.- Simulation of Pedestrian Agent Crowds, with Crisis.- Traffic flow in a spatial network model.- Augmented Network Model for Engineering System Design.- Network Models of Mechanical Assemblies.- Complex dynamic behavior on transition in a solid combustion model.- Modeling the Structural Dynamic of Industrial Networks.- Can Models Capture the Complexity of the Systems Engineering Process?.- Biological Event Modeling for Response Planning.- Principles of self-organization and sustainable development of the world economy are the basis of global security.- Evolutionary Paths to Corrupt Societies of Artificial Agents.- Path Dependence, Transformation and Convergence-A Mathematical Model of Transition to Market.- Emergence of Networks in Distance-Constrained Trade.- Toward Agent-Based Models of the Development And Evolution of Business Relations and Networks.- Dynamic Modeling of New Technology Succession: Projecting the Impact of Macro Events and Micro Behaviors On Software Market Cycles.- Hypercompetitive Environments: An Agent-based model approach.- Precursors of a phase transition in a simple model system.- Universality away from critical points in a thermostatistical model.- Quantum Nash Equilibria and Quantum Computing.- Applications.- Teaching emergence and evolution simultaneously through simulated breeding of artificial swarm behaviors.- An Exploration into the Uses of Agent-Based Modeling to Improve Quality of Healthcare.- Self-Organized Inference of Spatial Structure in Randomly Deployed Sensor Networks.- Obtaining Robust Wireless Sensor Networks through Self-Organization of Heterogeneous Connectivity.- Self-organizing Text in an Amorphous Environment.- Self-Learning Intelligent Agents for Dynamic Traffic Routing on Transportation Networks.- Distributed Resource Exploitation for Autonomous Mobile Sensor Agents in Dynamic Environments.- Interconnecting Robotic Subsystems in a Network.- Estimating Complex System Robustness from Dual System Architectures.- Inquiry and Enterprise Transformation.- Capabilities-Based Engineering Analysis (CBEA).- Stakeholder Analysis To Shape the Enterprise.- Systems Thinking for the Enterprise: A Thought Piece.- Representing the Complexity of Engineering Systems: A Multidisciplinary Perceptual Approach.- Policy Scale-free Organizational Network: Artifact or Phenomenon?.- Application of Complex Systems Research To Efforts of International Development.- About the bears and the bees: Adaptive responses to asymmetric warfare.- Improving Decision Making in the Area of National and International Security—the Future Map methodology.- Comparison of chaotic biomagnetic field patterns recorded from the arrhythmic heart and stomach.- Complex Networks in Different Languages: A Study of an Emergent Multilingual Encyclopedia.- Possible Chaotic Structures in the Turkish Language with Time Series Analysis.