COMPLEXITY


HISTORY

Complexity Theory Overview

Precursors to complexity theory

Complexity 1977-1997


RESEARCH PROJECTS

Fractals in African settlement architecture and design

Complexity theory in intelligent transportation systems

Complexity in Native American knowledge systems

"Chaos, Utopia, and Apocalypse: ideological readings of the nonlinear sciences" (Numc Sumus Vol. 1 No. 1 Summer 2000)


PRESENTATIONS

Possibilities for collaboration between ethnographers and modelers (RPI presentation on 4-7-00)

Participant Simulation (RPI presentation on 10-21-00)

Computational Ethnography (AAA presentation on 11-30-01)


SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS (listed in evolutionary order; ie single cells first)

Life32: This is the best software to download as a beginner; it is a simple but powerful implimentation of 2-state cellular automata

Mcell: more complex, multistate cellular automata

Video of Karl Sim's Virtual Creatures

BOIDS: artificial flocking behavior

Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma: game theory model for cooperation and conflict


RELATED WEB SITES

Santa Fe Institute

ACENet


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