Complexity, Volume 1

Volume 1, Number 1, September / October 1995

Editorial

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  Harold J. Morowitz:
  The emergence of complexity. 4-5

The Simply Complex

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  John L. Casti:
  Bell curves and monkey languages: When do empirical relations become a law of nature?. 12-15

Essays & Commentaries

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  Murray Gell-Mann:
  What is complexity? Remarks on simplicity and complexity by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Quark and the Jaguar. 16-19
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  W. Brian Arthur:
  Complexity in economic and financial markets: Behind the physical institutions and technologies of the marketplace lie the beliefs and expectations of real human beings. 20-25

Tutorials

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  Gregory J. Chaitin:
  The Berry paradox. 26-30
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  Melanie Mitchell:
  Genetic algorithms: An overview. 31-39

Survey

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  Karl Sigmund:
  Darwin's "circles of complexity": Assembling ecological communities. 40-44

Book & Software Reviews

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  Randall Tagg:
  A field guide to chaos. 45-46
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  Harvey Shepard:
  Why the world is simple. 46-48
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  Alexander Scheeline, Yeou-Teh Liu:
  Chaos limited. 48

Research Articles

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  Shuguang Zhang, Martin Egli:
  A proposed complementary pairing mode between single-stranded nucleic acids and β-stranded peptides: A possible pathway for generating complex biological molecules. 49-56
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  Aviv Bergman, Sarah P. Otto, Marcus W. Feldman:
  On the evolution of recombination in haploids and diploids: I. Deterministic models. 57-67

Volume 1, Number 2, November / December 1995

Editorial

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  John L. Casti:
  Complexity and simplicity, in the eye of the beholder. 2-3

The Simply Complex

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  Harold J. Morowitz:
  The simplicity odyssey: The simplest genome may be the place to begin looking at complex phenomena. 7-8

Essays & Commentaries

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  David A. Lane:
  Models and aphorisms: Making sense of our worlds of experience. 9-13
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  E. Atlee Jackson:
  No provable limits to "scientific knowledge": There's more to scientific "understanding" than logical reasoning. 14-17

Tutorials

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  Lee A. Segel:
  Grappling with complexity: Problems in physics and biology yield general principles for understanding complex systems. 18-25

Survey

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  Stuart A. Kauffman, William G. Macready:
  Technological evolution and adaptive organizations: Ideas from biology may find applications in economics. 26-43

Book & Software Reviews

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  E. Atlee Jackson:
  Great expectations. 44-46
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  Joseph D. Bryngelson:
  Provocative questions, problematic answers. 46-47
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  Benjamin Luce:
  Power-packed dynamical systems software. 47-48
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  Alexander Scheeline, Nicholas Weber:
  Send in the clones. 48

Research Articles

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  Aviv Bergman, Sarah P. Otto, Marcus W. Feldman:
  On the evolution of recombination in haploids and diploids: II. Stochastic models. 49-57
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  Randall Morck, Harold J. Morowitz:
  Value and information: A profit maximizing strategy for Maxwell's demon. 58-63

End Page

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  Wojciech H. Zurek:
  The many faces of information. 64

Volume 1, Number 3, January / February 1995

Editorial

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  Harold J. Morowitz:
  Classified complexity. 2

The Simply Complex

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  John L. Casti:
  If d'Arcy had only had a computer: How computers have changed the face of science. 5-8

Essays & Commentaries

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  George A. Cowan:
  The emergence of the Santa Fe Institute: A complex, adaptive system: In 1984, a group of scientists embarked on a bold new approach to science. 9-13
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  Harald Atmanspacher, Gerda Wiedenmann, Anton Amann:
  Descartes revisited: The endo-exo-distinction and its relevance for the study of complex systems. 15-21

Tutorials

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  Jeffrey Johnson:
  A language of structure in the science of complexity. 22-29

Survey

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  Burton Voorhees:
  Gödel's theorem and the possibility of thinking machines: "Do androids dream of electric sheep?". 30-34

Book & Software Reviews

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  Blake LeBaron:
  Confusion and misinformation on financial chaos. 35-37
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  Steven Durlauf:
  Remembrance of things past. 37-38
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  Terry Jones:
  In praise of simplicity. 39

Research Articles

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  Newton C. A. da Costa, Francisco A. Doria:
  Gödel incompleteness, explicit expressions for complete arithmetic degrees and applications. 40-55
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  Octavio Miramontes:
  Order-disorder transitions in the behavior of ant societies. 56-60

Volume 1, Number 4, March / April 1996

The Simply Complex

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  Harold J. Morowitz:
  What's in a name?: One place to look for "complexity" is in the dictionary. 7-8

Essays & Commentaries

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  Murray Gell-Mann:
  Nature conformable to herself: Some arguments for a unified theory of the universe. 9-12

Survey

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  Ricard V. Solé, Susanna C. Manrubia, Bartolo Luque, Jordi Delgado, Jordi Bascompte:
  Phase transitions and complex systems: Simple, nonlinear models capture complex systems at the edge of chaos. 13-26

Book & Software Reviews

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  Stephen Lucci, Izidor Gertner:
  Getting started in mathematics. 27-28

Research Articles

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  Bernard Testa, Lemont B. Kier:
  Complex systems in drug research: I. The chemical levels. 29-36
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  Lemont B. Kier, Bernard Testa:
  Complex systems in drug research: II. The ligand - active site - water confluence as a complex system. 37-42
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  Karl Svozil:
  How real are virtual realities, how virtual is reality? - Constructive re-interpretation of physical undecidability. 43-54
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  Gregory J. Chaitin:
  A new version of algorithmic information theory. 55-59

Volume 1, Number 5, May / June 1996

Complexity at Large

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  Murray Gell-Mann:
  Complexity at large. 3-5

The Simply Complex

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  John L. Casti:
  Seeing the light at El Farol: A look at the most important problem in complex systems theory. 7-10

Essays & Commentaries

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  Brian C. Goodwin:
  Emergent form: Evolving beyond darwinism: Understanding diversity requires dynamic theories of development and behavior. 11-15

Survey

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  Howard Gutowitz:
  Cellular automata and the sciences of complexity (part I): A review of some outstanding problems in the theory of cellular automata. 16-22

Tutorials

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  Anastasios A. Tsonis:
  Dynamical systems as models for physical processes. 23-33

Book & Software Reviews

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  Vince Darley:
  Learning to live on the edge. 34
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  George Johnson:
  Romancing the brain. 35-36
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  Daniel W. McShea:
  A post-modern vision of artificial life. 36-38
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  James Kakalios:
  Fractals: More than just a pretty picture. 38-39

Research Articles

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  William G. Macready, David H. Wolpert:
  What makes an optimization problem hard? 40-46
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  Cristian Calude, Cezar Câmpeanu:
  Are binary codings universal? 47-50
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  Herbert Dawid, Alexander Mehlmann:
  Genetic learning in strategic form games. 51-59

Volume 1, Number 6, July / August 1996

The Simply Complex

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  Harold J. Morowitz:
  Why complexity theory? Charting the future of medical modeling. 7-8

Essays & Commentaries

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  Daniel C. Dennett:
  Hofstadter's quest: A tale of cognitive pursuit. 9-12

Tutorials

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  Jeffrey Johnson, Phil D. Picton:
  How to train a neural network: An introduction to the new computational paradigm. 13-28

Survey

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  Howard Gutowitz:
  Cellular automata and the sciences of complexity (part II). 29-35

Book & Software Reviews

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  Tom Kepler:
  In the eye of the beholder. 36-37
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  Harold J. Morowitz:
  Back to the future. 37-38
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  Gavan Lintern:
  Complexity stimulates theories of cognition and action. 38-39

Research Articles

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  Ricard V. Solé:
  On macroevolution, extinctions and critical phenomena. 40-44

Resarch Articles

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  Roland Somogyi, Carol Sniegoski:
  Modeling the complexity of genetic networks: Understanding multigenic and pleiotropic regulation. 45-63