The emergence of new viruses is often unpredictable, jumping as they might from infecting one species to another. A November ...

Processual archaeologists began employing some of the vocabulary now current in complexity studies in the 1960s and 1970s, inspired by cybernetics, general systems theory, and contemporary ...

The presentation will review core concepts of a theory of network robustness, initially proposed together with David Krakauer. This theory is concerned with the robustness of function, for instance ...

Melanie MosesProfessor of Computer Science, University of New Mexico; External Professor at SFI C. Brandon OgbunuSFI External Professor & Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at ...

Wang, W. L.,Machta, J.,Katzgraber, H. G. A theoretical description of the low-temperature phase of short-range spin glasses has remained elusive for decades. In particular, it is unclear if theories ...

With recent support secured from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Santa Fe Institute will formally embark upon a three-year research theme, “Using Emergent Engineering for Integrating Complex ...

NetSeed is a web tool and Perl module for analyzing the topology of metabolic networks and calculating the set of exogenously acquired compounds. NetSeed is based on the seed detection algorithm, ...

Bowles, S.,Sethi, R.,Loury, G.

Yoder, M. R.,Turcotte, D. L.,Rundle, J. B. For the purposes of this study, an interval is the elapsed time between two earthquakes in a designated region; the minimum magnitude for the earthquakes is ...

Haslinger, R.,Klinkner, K. L.,Shalizi, C. R. Neurons perform computations, and convey the results of those computations through the statistical structure of their output spike trains. Here we present ...

Hubler, M. J.,Buchman, T. G. Objective: To model the effects of system connectedness on recovery of dysfunctional tissues. Design: One-dimensional elementary cellular automata models with small-world ...