Complexity, Volume 12

Volume 12, Number 1, September/October 2006

• Eric Smith, Harold J. Morowitz, Vijayasarathy Srinivasan:
  Experimental search for minimal organisms and the last universal common ancestor: Reconstructing the Ur-Organism. 11-12
  

• Russ Abbott:
  Emergence explained: Abstractions: Getting epiphenomena to do real work. 13-26
  

• Minglei Wang, Simina Maria Boca, Rakhee Kalelkar, Jay E. Mittenthal, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés:
  A phylogenomic reconstruction of the protein world based on a genomic census of protein fold architecture. 27-40
  
• Hossein Mobahi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar Araabi:
  Swarm contours: A fast self-organization approach for snake initialization. 41-52
  
• Christopher J. May, Jeffrey C. Schank, Sanjay Joshi, Jonathan Tran, R. J. Taylor, I-Esha Scott:
  Rat pups and random robots generate similar self-organized and intentional behavior. 53-66
  
• William S. Bush, Hava T. Siegelmann:
  Circadian synchrony in networks of protein rhythm driven neurons. 67-72
  

Volume 12, Number 2, November/December 2006

• Alfred W. Hübler:
  Information engines: Converting information into energy. 10-12
  

• Todd Rowland:
  Xor on one-defect systems. 13-29
  
• Raissa M. D'Souza:
  BML revisited: Statistical physics, computer simulation, and probability. 30-39
  
• Gottfried Mayer-Kress, Yeou-Teh Liu, Karl M. Newell:
  Complex systems and human movement. 40-51
  
• Sean Devine:
  The application of algorithmic information theory to noisy patterned strings. 52-58
  
• Dan Braha, Yaneer Bar-Yam:
  From centrality to temporary fame: Dynamic centrality in complex networks. 59-63
  

• C. Michael Barton:
  Emergent simplicity: The social and cultural complexity of irrigation networks in Bali. 64-66
  

Volume 12, Number 3, January/February 2007

• Complexity at large. 3-9
  

• Alfred W. Hübler, Glenn C. Foster, Kirstin C. Phelps:
  Managing chaos: Thinking out of the box. 10-13
  

• Venkat Venkatasubramanian:
  A theory of design of complex teleological systems: Unifying the Darwinian and Boltzmannian perspectives. 14-21
  
• Alvin M. Saperstein:
  Chaos in models of arms races and the initiation of war: Crisis stability and instability in an international system. 22-26
  

• David E. Goldberg, Kumara Sastry, Xavier Llorà:
  Toward routine billion-variable optimization using genetic algorithms. 27-29
  

• Todd Holloway, Miran Bozicevic, Katy Börner:
  Analyzing and visualizing the semantic coverage of Wikipedia and its authors. 30-40
  
• Christina Stoica-Klüver, Jürgen Klüver:
  Interacting neural networks and the emergence of social structure. 41-52
  
• Haifeng Du, Marcus W. Feldman, Shuzhuo Li, Xiaoyi Jin:
  An algorithm for detecting community structure of social networks based on prior knowledge and modularity. 53-60
  
• Eugene Savov:
  Dynamic fractal unifying interaction confirmed with magnetospheric behavior and orbital data. 61-76
  
• David H. Wolpert, William G. Macready:
  Using self-dissimilarity to quantify complexity. 77-85
  

Volume 12, Number 4, March/April 2007

• Peter Schuster:
  Nonlinear dynamics from physics to biology. 9-11
  

• Wm. C. McHarris:
  Chaos meets quantum mechanics: Possible nonlinear vindication of Einstein's arguments: Paradoxes of the Copenhagen Interpretation: Nonlinear Parallels. 12-18
  

• Ping Ao, Chulan Kwon, Hong Qian:
  On the existence of potential landscape in the evolution of complex systems. 19-27
  
• Monica L. Smith:
  Territories, corridors, and networks: A biological model for the premodern state. 28-35
  
• Masaharu Kuroda, Francis C. Moon:
  Experimental reconsideration of spatio-temporal dynamics observed in fluid-elastic oscillator arrays from complex system viewpoint: From vibrating pipes in heat exchangers to waving plants in agricultural fields. 36-47
  
• John E. Mayfield:
  Minimal history, a theory of plausible explanation. 48-53
  
• William P. Millhiser, Daniel Solow:
  How large should a complex system be? An application in organizational teams. 54-70
  

Volume 12, Number 5, May/June 2007

• Alfred W. Hübler:
  Understanding complex systems: Defining an abstract concept. 9-11
  

• Nicola Scafetta, Richard E. Moon, Bruce J. West:
  Fractal response of physiological signals to stress conditions, environmental changes, and neurodegenerative diseases. 12-17
  

• A. R. McGurn:
  Nonlinear optical media in photonic crystal waveguides: Intrinsic localized modes and device applications. 18-32
  
• Wang-Ping Chen, Michael R. Brudzinski:
  Repeating earthquakes, episodic tremor and slip: Emerging patterns in complex earthquake cycles? 33-43
  

Volume 12, Number 6, July/August 2007

• Lokesh Joshi, Eric Smith, Harold J. Morowitz:
  Glycobiology: The sweet language of life, complexity, and morphogenesis: Syntax for Intermolecular and Intercellular Communication. 9-10
  

• Eric Smith:
  Intensive entropy? 11-13
  

• Susanna M. Messinger, Keith A. Mott, David Peak:
  Task-performing dynamics in irregular, biomimetic networks. 14-21
  
• Xavier Thibert-Plante, Lael Parrott:
  Prisoner's dilemma and clusters on small-world networks. 22-36
  
• Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Campbell:
  What is the complexity of a distributed computing system? 37-45
  

• William S. Bush, Hava T. Siegelmann:
  Circadian synchrony in networks of protein rhythm driven neurons. 46