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Applications of Complexity Methods to Academic and Business fields

NOTE: Application papers have now moved to our Related Application Papers page.

Arts Biology Business Chemistry Cognition
Conflict Design Drama Ecology Economics
Education Evolution Games Genetics Linguistics
Management Maths Medicine Music Neurobiology
Physics Psychology Sociology Technology War

(some more technical applications can be found within the links listed on the Online and Offline Paper pages and within the CA, EC & NN FAQs. Additional suggestions for this page would be most welcome.)


Artistic & Dramatic Resources

Fractal Alphabet Art by Math Fractals - gallery & products
Beauty of Chaos - Uwe Krüger
Creating Art by means of Natural Selection - genetic pictures & music
Descriptions of Evolutionary Art Programs - Andrew Rowbottom
Earl's Computer Art Gallery - fractals
Emergent Systems - Kenneth E. Rinaldo
Evolutionary Art - Steven Rooke
Flux Aeterna Project - Gerald O'Connell
Fractal Alhambra - Philip Northover
Fractal Alphabet - A-Z
Fractal Art Explorer - Milan Dobrojevic
Fractals, Fractals, Fractals - images
Fractal Gallery - Paul Derbyshire
Fractal Images on the Internet - Illustrated site list
Fractal Landscapes - Ken Musgrave
Vector Automata Fractalus - Damien M. Jones
Glimpses of a Fugitive Universe - fractal gallery
Homage to Greenaway - 100 views on symmetry
HOP - fractals in motion
Implicate Beauty - computational art by Brian Evans
Interactive Genetic Art - vote on the gallery Dead
Kerry Mitchell - fractal computer artist
Lifesmith Classic Fractals - lots of pics & products
Latham Organic Art Mandelbrot Gallery - Kees van der Doel
Radiolarians - 3D Golubitsky Icons
SBART : Let's Breed Images - Tatsuo Unemi
Sine Art - Brian N.Hershey
Third Apex to Fractovia - Juan Luis Martínez
Turbulent Landscapes - The Exploratorium
Vector Automata - John S. Stokes
Visions of Chaos Gallery - Jason Rampe
Warunek - Complexity: Art, Science, and Technology
William Latham's Organic Art - genetically evolved phenotypes
3D Fractal Art - raytraced

Nerve Garden

Biology & Neurobiology Resources

Bacterial Cybernetics Group - Eshel Ben-Jacob
Biota.org - digital biology project
Cellular Automata Models in Evolutionary Morphology: - Diego Rasskin-Gutman
Center For Neurodynamics - UMSL
Digital Biology - alife technology
Laboratory of Biological Modelling - George N. Reeke
Morphogenesis and Development - bibliography by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Virtual Plant Images - CRC for Tropical Pest Management
Xmorphia - Morphogenesis from a Reaction-Diffusion System

Chemistry Resources

Polymer Studies Alchemy Project - algorithmic chemistry by Walter Fontana
Artificial Chemistry - Peter Dittrich
Center for Polymer Studies - water & molecular networks
Chemo Web - chemometrics & GAs
Ilya - Brusselator model

Conflict & War Resources

Game Theory - Roger A. McCain
ISAAC - an artificial life approach to land warfare
War, Chaos and Business - Strategy: the art and science of winning

Ecology & Evolution Resources

Ecotaoism Adaptive Dynamics Network - environmental dynamics
Artificial Culture: Experiments in Synthetic Anthropology - Nicholas Gessler
Computational Ecology and Visualization Laboratory - Stuart H. Gage
Ecosystem Network Analysis - Robert E. Ulanowicz
Ecotaoism: Holism, Ecology & Evolution - Laurence Evans
Frontiers in Ecology: Building the Links - ESA97
Sci.Bio.Evolution Homepage - Josh Hayes
Talk Origins Archive - evolution and life matters

Economics, Business & Management Resources

Complexity & Management Advanced Investment Technologies Center - books
Agent Based Computational Economies (ACE) - links
Applying Complex Adaptive System's Theory to Organizations & Management - Uri Merry
Application Of Evolutionary Thinking To Brand Marketing - Martin Oxley
Biononomics - evolutionary economics
Brint - organisations as complex systems
Complexity and Management - Michael Lissack's extensive information
Complexity Research Project - London School of Economics
Economics Working Paper Archive at WUSTL - Game Theory and Information
Game Theory - HET
Generator GA problem solver - New Light Industries
Humanistic Economics - links and works
Knowledge Based Development - entrepreneurial organization
Laws of the Fifth Discipline - reference guide
Learning Organizations - Peter Senge resources
MHA Institute InfoMine - personal development & productivity
Nonlinear Finance - Blake LeBaron
Simple yet Complex - Megan Santosus' CIO review
Redefining Progress - GPI v GDP
Syllabus of Readings for Complex Adaptive Systems and Agent-Based Computational Economics - Leigh Tesfatsion
The Chaos ThinkSite - chaordic business practices
Useful books and articles about complexity theory - Philip Anderson
Tedesco Analytics - complexity science for understanding consumers
Vortex Simulation - Building Organizational Agility in Complex Knowledge Environments

Educational Resources (see also Tutorials)

Chaos & Complexity Chaos & Complexity in Education - AERA Special Interest Group
Chaos and the World Wide Web - experimental teaching page Dead
Chaos Theory, Dynamic Systems & Fractal Geometry - fun learning
Cognition, Technology, and Complex Systems + Knowledge Mediator - Michael J. Jacobson
Complexity, Chaos and Creativity - Internet Masters programme
Complexity and Education - Univ. Alberta
CROP: Communities Resolving Our Problems - Robert S. Houghton
Cybernetics, Systems and Complexity - study programs
Doctoral Training Centres in Complexity Science - EPSRC
Human Complex Systems Degree Program - UCLA
Interface Project - fractal and chaos education
MSc Complexity Science - University of Southampton
New Horizons for Learning - connecting people and resources
Patterns in Nature - fractal student activity guide
School of the Web - chaos and dynamics
System Dynamics in Education - Sloan School of Management
Systemics and Education - resources
Teaching, Parenting, Managing - Alfie Kohn
The 21st Century Learning Initiative - education, work and community worldwide
The Character Education Pages - Craig A. Cunningham
The Creative Learning Exchange - system dynamics in education

Games Resources

Project von Neumann Artificial Life Games Homepage - people & demos
Artificial Life, Inc - smart bots
Artificial Pet Shop - Rick Rutt
Creatures & Norns - Cyberlife Research
Cybug-Space - robots & games
Dancer DNA - evolving life to music
Devonian Garden - VRML ecosystem
Game AI Page - for developers
Genetic Othello - Itamar Faybish
Little Computer People - artificial pets
Octavius - neural network chess program by Luke Pellen
Project Von Neumann - international alife game
TRON : Experiments in Machine Learning - Pablo Funes
World Game Institute - planetary management

Molecular Physiology

Genetics Resources

Molecular Information Theory - molecular machines
Molecular Information Processing - IMB Jena
Molecular Physiology home page - genetic networks in CNS

Linguistics Resources

European Society for General Semantics - resources
Human Symbolizing - Hilgartner & Associates
Institute of General Semantics- non-Aristotelian language
International Society of General Semantics - knowledge & inquiry into non-Aristotelian systems
LEARN Institute - Neuro-Semantics, Meta-States & NLP
The Society of Neuro-Semantics - neuro-linguistic programming
ThisIsNotThat - general semantics information

Mathematical Resources

Ant Colony Optimization - Marco Dorigo
Computational Complexity - people links
Computational Complexity Theory - Univ. Massachusets
Conference on Structure in Complexity Theory - bibliography
Dynamical Systems Homepage - SUNY preprint servers
Gallery of Mathematics - images
Maths Forum: Cellular Automata - links
Math Forum Maths Forum: Chaos - links
Maths Forum: Dynamical Systems - links
Maths Forum: Fractals - links
Maths Forum: Nonlinear Dynamics - links
Topics in Mathematics: Cellular Automata - links
Topics in Mathematics: Dynamical Systems - links
Topics in Mathematics: Fractals - links
Topics in Mathematics: Genetic Algorithms - links
Topics in Mathematics: Nonlinear Dynamics - links

Medicine Resources

Complexity & Chaos in Nursing - journal
Complexity Resources for Health Care Professionals - Edgeware

Fractal Music Lab

Music Resources

Art Song - music from fractal images
Chua's Oscillator - applications of Chaos to sound & music
Cognitive Musicology - connectionism, physicalism, representation
Compositional Algorithms as Cyberspirit Attractors - Ron Pellegrino
Fractal Music - Harlan Brothers
Fractal Music Gallery - algorithmic midi sequences
Fractal Music Lab - comprehensive
Fractal Music Project - papers, software, music
Fractal Sequencer - Shawn Bulen
GenBeBop - Lee Spector
GenJam - genetic jazz soloist
Gingerbread - Mandelbrot music generator
LMUSe Grammidity - generating music from grammars
Hearing the Mandelbrot Set - Dave Spondike
LMUSe - L-systems to Midi music
Music, Mind, Machine - computational modelling of temporal structure
Music of José Oscar Marques - fractal midi compositions
MusiNum - the music is in the numbers by Lars Kindermann
Organised Chaos - Phil Thompson's Fractal Music
Transmusic - cellular automata music by Isle Ex

Physics Resources

Center for Complex System Dynamics - plasma and complex system synergies
Center for Evolutionary Physics - social science division
Cellular Automata and Random Fields - live simulations
Particle Systems Digital Physics - discrete time and space
Entropy in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems - Chris Hillman
Fractal Cosmology - Robert L. Oldershaw
GRASP - Statistical Physics Ličge
Homeokinetics - the physics of complex systems
Insitute for Complex Adaptive Matter - emergent behaviour
Lattice Gas Automata - papers
Non-Linear Physics Group - Naval Research Laboratory
Physics Around the World - complexity links
Quantum Chaos Homepage - introduction & links
Quantum Chaos at Humboldt - papers
Quasicrystals - at CALTech
The Plasma Universe - Anthony Peratt

Psychology & Cognition Resources

Blueberry Brain Institute & Chaos Cooperative - Fred Abraham
Chaos & Meaning Chaos and Meaning - Derrel Blain Dead
Connectionism and Social Psychology - Christophe Labiouse
Mind/Brain Resources - cognitive science/philosophy of mind
Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science - links
Science of Psychology - resources
Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & the Life Sciences - resources

Sociology Resources

Sugarscape Bifurcation Properties of Dynamic Urban Models - Thomas Buchendorfer
Chaos & Complexity in Social Systems - Clemson University
Complexity & Nonlinear Social Systems Home Page - human systems
CRESS - computer simulation of societies
Evolution, Complexity & Philosophy - social/ecological aspects
Evolutionary Models in Social Science (EMSS) - web bibliography
Growing Artificial Societies - Sugarscape
Project "Analysis of Social Self-Organization" - Sigmar Papendick
Sociology and Complexity Science - Brian Castellani & Frederic Hafferty
Social Science Gateway - comprehensive information
Sociocybernetics - International Sociological Association
The Arlington Institute - tracking social change
The Chaordic Alliance - new concepts of organization

Technology & Design Resources

Nanotechnology Agent Oriented Design of Control Systems - University of Twente
Flight Control and Visual Navigation - Mike Fouche
Future Technologies - biological computing at BT
Genetic Algorithm Approaches to Telecommunication Network Design - Luke Welling
Generic Evolutionary Design System - Peter Bentley
Hyphos - self-organizing wireless network
Manufacturing Complexity Network - industry meets academia
Nanotechnology - introduction and links
Nanotechnology and Complexity: Consequences for Computing - Susan Stepney


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