In an electoral framework of unidimensional two-candidate spatial competition with probabilistic voting, special interest groups present candidates with schedules that give the level of campaign contribution they will make for each feasible candidate policy location. Candidates, motivated by the...

A large body of literature documents that returns from currency speculation are highly volatile and possess a predictable component, which is itself highly volatile and serially correlated. Explaining the returns from currency speculation through the presence of a risk premium has proven...

Self-organizing maps (SOM) are unsupervised, competitive neural networks used to project high-dimensional data onto a low-dimensial space. In this article we show how SOM can be sued to draw graphs in the plane. The SOM-based approach to graph drawing, which belongs to the general class of...

We show that a wide variety of nonlinear cellular automata can be written as a semidirect product of linear ones, and that these CAs can be predicted in parallel time [cal O](log[super 2] t). This class includes any CA whose rule, when written as an algebra, is a solvable group. <p> We also show,...</p>

This paper describes the dynamics of adaptation in a two-country, overlapping generations economy with no restrictions on foreign currency holdings. Governments of both countries finance their deficits via seignorage. Agents in this economy are boundedly rational. They use the genetic algorithm...

We study the simple evolutionary process in which we repeatedly find the least fit agent in a population of agents and give it a new fitness which is chosen independently at random from a specified distribution. We show that many of the average properties of this process can be calculated...

The distinction between continuous and discontinuous transitions is a long-standing problem in the theory of evolution. Continuity being a topological property, we present a formalism that treats the space of phenotypes as a (finite) topological space, with a topology that is derived from the...

At its first meeting in 1986 the Computer Science and Technology Board, National Research Council, identified six critical national issues. <p> I discuss these six issues as they appeared in 1986 and how they appear for my 1996 vintage. <p> There was a seventh critical issue which I did not want to...</p></p>

We propose definitions of QAC^0, the quantum analog of the classical class AC^0 of constant-depth circuits with AND and OR gates of arbitrary fan-in, and QACC^0[q], where n-ary Mod-q gates are also allowed. We show that it is possible to make a `cat' state on n qubits in constant depth if and...

In many complex systems control situations, searching for solutions or alternatives is involved. Searching for solutions can be modeled by a search on a fitness landscape. Knowing the structure of the underlying landscape can help in explaining or predicting aspects of an actual seach on it, and...