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Page, Scott E. - Santa Fe Institute - 1998

This paper contains a description of a general class of city formation models. Individual economic agents have preferences for locations that depend on the population distribution. A location's attractiveness depends upon some combination of its population and its average distance to other...

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On Emergence and Explanation

Baas, Nils A.; Emmeche, Claus - Santa Fe Institute - 1997

Emergence is a universal phenomenon that can be defined mathematically in a very general way. This is useful for the … the observation mechanisms are considered within the general framework. Two notions of emergence are defined, and specific …

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Exploring the Evolution of Complexity in Signaling Networks

Holland, John H. - Santa Fe Institute - 2001

discussion of some general characteristics of signaling networks, this paper explores the adaptive evolution of complexity in a …

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Designing a University for the Millenium: A Santa Fe Institute Perspective

Pines, David - Santa Fe Institute - 1998

I consider the research university from a complex adaptive systems perspective, and offer some modest proposals for the university of the future-a student-based complex adaptive learning community in which both feedback and transdisciplinary problem-oriented Centers play central roles. <p> <p> To...</p></p>

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Computational Mechanics: Pattern and Prediction, Structure and Simplicity

Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla; Crutchfield, James P. - Santa Fe Institute - 1999

Computational mechanics, an approach to structural complexity, defines a process's causal states and gives a procedure … representations. Further results relate measures of randomness and structural complexity obtained from e-machines to those from …

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Complexity: A Philosopher's Reflections

McIntyre, Lee - Santa Fe Institute - 1997

. There are, however, two philosophical ideas that seem crucial in considering the very definition of complexity. The first is …

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Uncertainty, Difficulty, and Complexity

Page, Scott E. - Santa Fe Institute - 1998

In this paper, I formally define uncertainty, difficulty, and complexity both as measures of problems and environments …

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Stability and Complexity on a Lattice: Coexistence of Species in an Individual-Based Food Web Model

Keitt, Timothy H. - Santa Fe Institute - 1997

Theoretical studies of the stability of food webs have generally not incorporated space as a contingency affecting coexistence of species. Here, I considered the importance of spatial heterogeneity on the stability of an individual-based food web model. Individual agents diffused on a lattice of...

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Cultural Complexity

Fikentscher, Wolfgang - Santa Fe Institute - 1998

complexity. As a minimum, the terms, system, complexity, and adaptation as used in this paper need an explanation. The second … section (II.) is a sketch of cultural complexity in the real world. I will use Pueblo tribal laws and other ethnographic … material as examples of that complexity. This part draws on anthropological fieldwork on the customary laws of Southwestern …

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Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in New Media Projects

Girard, Monique; Stark, David - Santa Fe Institute - 2001

This paper examines how web design firms in the emergent new media industry probe and experiment with possible forms and sources of value giving shape to the new economy. Focussing on the collaborative engineering of cross-disciplinary web-design project teams, we examine how websites emerge as...

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