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Updates 4.81 to December 2002:

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An Earth-Based Ethic for Humanity - Stan Rowe
An Introduction to Neural Networks - Textbook by Ben Kröse and Patrick van der Smagt (postscript)
Conditions for Self-Organizing in Human Systems - Glenda Holladay Eoyang
Ecospheric Ethics - the ecosphere as the source of life
Genetic Algorithm as Decision Support Tool - Glenda Eoyang
How Julie's Brain Learns - Eric Jensen
Meme-Gene Coevolution - Susan Blackmore
Principles for Implicit Learning - Axel Cleeremans
Quantum Jumps, EEQT and the Five Platonic Fractals - Ark Jadczyk and R. Oberg
Satisficing and Optimality - Michael Byron
The Vacuum, Light Speed and the Redshift - Barry Setterfield
Towards a Physics of Subjectivity - Stephen Jones

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Introductions and Essays - quotations added.

Updates 4.81 to November 2002:

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Aros Magic - large fractals (Win/Mac)
Artificial Chemistry - Peter Dittrich
Aspects of Modelling and Simulation of Genetic Algorithms: A Formal Approach - Sam Sandqvist
Living Ethics: The Way of Wholeness - Donivan Bessinger
Metaphysics - investigating systems ontology
Neural Network Software for Classification - KDnuggets
Psychotherapy Integration: An Assimilative, Psychodynamic Approach - George Stricker and Jerold R. Gold
Sociocracy - governance by consent not consensus
Systems Thinking - animated overview by Clinton Andrews and Carl Henn
The Nature of the Judicial Process - Benjamin N. Cardozo
The Spirit of Jung - Rodney Ravenswood
The Trend Cellular Automata Programming Environment - Hui-Hsien Chou

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Fractal Awareness Governance Model - Jules Ruis (DOS) new URL
Science of Psychology - resources (new URL)

Updates 4.81 to October 2002:

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Cultural Creatives - the new progressives
Ethics: A General Semantics Perspective - Bruce Kodish
From Evolutionary Epistemology Via Selection Theory to a Sociology of Scientific Validity - Donald T. Campbell
From Genetic Algorithms to Efficient Optimization - Deniz Yuret
Making Up the Mind - Oliver Sacks
Psychodynamics of Political Correctness - Howard S. Schwartz
Seeking Common Ground: Piaget and Skinner on the Nature of Learning - Pat Duffy Hutcheon

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Home - Internet Scout Report award added

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Cellang - J. Dana Eckart (new URL)
Emptying Your Cup: Non-Verbal Awareness and General-Semantics - Bruce I. Kodish (new URL)

Updates 4.81 to September 2002:

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An Emerging Modelling Method for Artificial Neural Networks - Jari Vaario
Assessment of Personal Goal Hierarchies - Marlene Winell and Donald H. Ford
Complexity and Functionality: A Search for the Where, the When, and the How - Piet Hut, Brian Goodwin and Stuart Kauffman
Computational Mechanics of Cellular Automata - James E. Hanson
Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity - Steven Phillips
Constructivist Neural Network Models of Cognitive Development - Gert Westermann
Extended Concept of Knowledge for Evolutionary Epistemology and Biosemiotics - Tommi Vehkavaara
Life as a Laboratory - Piet Hut
Markets and Antimarkets in the World Economy - Manuel De Landa
Polyarchy : A Paradigm - beyond dysfunctional statism
Self-Organizing Maps in Natural Language Processing - Timo Honkela
The Geology of Morals - Manuel De Landa
Uniformity and Variability - Manuel De Landa
Various Aspects of Artificial and Biological Neural Networks - Iris Ginzburg

Updates 4.81 to August 2002:

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A Farm Boy's Testament to the United Nations - Larry Barnhart
Application of a Living Systems Perspective on Human Experience - Elaine R. Parent
Cellular Automata and Other Cellular Systems: Design & Evolution - Mathieu Capcarrere
Evolutionary Alogrithms for Dynamic Optimzation Problems - Jürgen Branke
Excavating the Emergent Levels of Cybersystemics - Gary Boyd
From Simple Associations to Systematic Reasoning - Lokendra Shastri and Venkat Ajjanagadde
Genetic Algorithms Warehouse - Applications
On the Evolutionary and Behavioral Dynamics of Social Coordination: Models and Theoretical Aspects - Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Opening Up Closure: Semiotics Across Scales - Jay Lemke
Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead - Christopher Chase
Sociocultural Approaches to Learning and Development: A Vygotskian Framework - Vera John-Steiner and Holbrook Mahn
Systems and Systemic Theory - course notes by Gary Boyd

Updates 4.81 to July 2002:

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Evolving an Integral Ecology of Mind - paper on mental coevolution

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A Developmental Contextual View of Human Devcelopment - Richard M. Lerner
Basins of Attraction in Network Dynamics: A Conceptual Framework for Biomolecular Networks - Andrew Wuensche
Buddhist Virtue Ethics and the Oneness of Practice and Attainment - KnutJohan Øen
Cellular Automata - Tim Tyler
Full Circle: The Moral Force of Unified Science - Edward Haskell
Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism - Martha Nussbaum
Partners in Life: Syntony at Work - Kathia and Alexander Laszlo
Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline - Bernard Williams
Self-Organization and the Dreaming Brain - David Kahn and J. Allan Hobson
Structural Cybernetics: An Overview - N. Dean Meyer
The Biological Basis of Morality - Edward O. Wilson
The Demotion of Consciousness: From HOTs to BRRs - Kent Van Cleave
The Need to Belong: Rediscovering Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Norman Kunc

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Emergence and Evolution - Constraints on Form (illustrations added)

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Cellular Automata - comp.theory.cell-automata newsgroup (new URL)

Updates 4.81 to June 2002:

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Holarchic Meta-Ethics and Complexity Science - essay on normative behaviour

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Cafun Simulator - complexity toolkit by André Homeyer
Virtue Ethics as a Foundation for Business Ethics: A MacIntyre-Based Critique - John Dobson

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Vector Automata - John S. Stokes (new URL)

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Update 4.8 May 2002:

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An Introduction to Complex Systems - Torsten Reil
Better Than The Best: The Power of Cooperation - Tad Hogg and Bernardo A. Huberman
Downward Causation: The Consciousness Revolution in Science - Roger Sperry
On the Implicit & on the Artificial: Morphogenesis & Emergent Aesthetics in Autonomous Collective Systems - Vitorino Ramos
Reworking Success: Tools for Creating New Communities - Robert Theobald
Reasons, Robots and the Extended Mind - Andy Clark
Seeing Around Corners: The New Science of Artificial Societies - Jonathan Rauch
The Machine and Dysergy Prime - N. Arthur Coulter

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Self-Organizing Systems FAQ - version 2.8
Complex Systems Glossary - additions and revisions

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Noetica - cognitive psychology (new URL)

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Update 4.73 April 2002:

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A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development - Nicholas Jennings, Katia Sycara and Michael Wooldridge
Ant Algorithms for Discrete Optimization - Marco Dorigo and Gianni Di Caro
Computer Models of Cultural Evolution - Nicholas Gessler
Cooperative Coevolution: An Architecture for Evolving Coadapted Subcomponents - Mitchell A. Potter and Kenneth A. De Jong
Dynamics of Complex Systems - Yaneer Bar-Yam
Dynamics With Expectations - Natalie Sandrine Glance
Early Warning and Conflict Prevention: Minerva's Wisdom - Ruddy Doom
Emotional Agents - fuzzy based
Just How (Un)realistic are Evolutionary Algorithms as Representations of Social Processes ? - Edmund Chattoe
Kanpur Genetic Algorithm Lab - Kalyanmoy Deb
Learning Classifier Systems Group - University of the West of England
Modeling Emotion Dynamics in Intelligent Agents - Magy Seif El-Nasr
Natural Being and a Coherent Society - Mae-Wan Ho
Natural Niching for Evolving Cooperative Classifiers - Jeffrey Horn and David Goldberg
On Theorizing the Complexity of Economic Systems - Jean Louis Le Moigne
On-Line Bibliography on Learning Classifier Systems and Genetic Algorithms - Andrea Murru
Jan Paredis - coevolutionary GAs
Mitchell A. Potter - coevolutionary algorithms
Re-Introducing Group Selection to the Human Behavioural Sciences - David Sloan Wilson and Elliott Sober
Swarm Development Group - swarm simulation system & user community
Swarm Intelligence Resources - distributed problem solving
The Design and Analysis of a Computational Model of Cooperative Coevolution - Mitchell A. Potter
Transpersonal Psychology and the Paradigm Of Complexity - Sean M. Kelly
What Does Mysticism Have to Teach Us About Consciousness ? - Robert K.C. Foreman

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Boolean Networks - Dynamic Organisms - illustrations added
CALResCo Software - Release 7 (new program MIDNET)
Nonlinear Science - Chaos Tamed - illustrations added
All pages - paragraphs reformatted as justified for later browsers

End of Update 4.73


Updates 4.72 to March 2002:

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Practical Multiobjective Optimisation - new introduction

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A Generative Approach to the Understanding of Cognitive Skills - Brian D. Josephson and Nils A. Baas
Abstract State Machines - formal modelling languages
After Genoa: Asking the Right Questions - suppressing democracy...
AgentLink - news and information on agent technology
Center for Evolutionary Physics - social science division
An Empirical Study of Evolutionary Techniques for Multiobjective Optimization in Engineering Design - Carlos Coello Coello
Carlos Coello Coello - evolutionary multiobjective optimisation
Evolutionary Algorithms for Multiobjective Optimization: Methods and Applications - Eckart Zitzler
Evolutionary Multi-Objective Decision Support Systems for Conceptual Design - Dragan Cvetkovic
Genetic Algorithms as a Computational Tool for Design - Sushil J. Louis
How Cellular Models of Urban Systems Work - Paul M. Torrens
How to Make a Decision Without Making a Decision - Tom Atlee
Improving the Behaviour of the Genetic Algorithm in a Dynamic Environment - Mark Wineberg
Joshua D. Knowles - evolutionary multiobjective optimisation
Local-Search and Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms for Pareto Optimization - Joshua D. Knowles
Memetic Algorithms' Home Page - heuristic search in optimization
Modeling Complexity: The Limits to Prediction - Michael Batty & Paul M. Torrens
Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms with Applications to Control Engineering Problems - Carlos Fonseca
Multiple Criteria Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Design and Operation - David S. Todd
Multiple Objective Metaheuristic Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization - Andrzej Jaszkiewicz
Niching Methods for Genetic Algorithms - Samir W. Mahfoud
Predictive Deduction: Expanding the Arsenal of Science - Chris Lang
Statistics on Poverty and Inequality - the rich stealing from the poor
The Alliance for Sustainability - meeting everyone's needs
The Greening of Identity: Three Environmental Paths - Simon Gottschalk
The Wandwaver Solution - John N. Warfield
Transdisciplinarity - Stimulating Synergies, Integrating Knowledge
Two Dogmas of Empiricism - Willard Quine
Eckart Zitler - evolutionary multiobjective optimisation

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Artificial Culture: Experiments in Synthetic Anthropology - Nicholas Gessler (new URL)

Updates 4.72 to February 2002:

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Integrating Knowledge With Needs - essay on teleology
A Logic of Complex Values - research paper

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Creatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment - Stephen Grand, Dave Cliff & Anil Malhotra
Essays in Experimental Logic - John Dewey
Fractal Alhambra - Philip Northover
Integrating Phenomenology and Cognitive Science - Evan Thompson
Language as a Dynamical System - Jeffrey L. Elman
Kent Palmer - autopoiesis and meta-systems theory
Substance, Change and Event - Wilfrid Sellars
The Dynamical Systems Hypothesis in Cognitive Science - Robert F. Port
The Science Blues - Larry Dossey
Zen and the Art of Debunkery - Daniel Drasin

Updates 4.72 to January 2002:

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Creatures & Norns - Cyberlife Research
Digital Physics - discrete time and space
Holistic Mathematics - Peter Collins
Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Set, Probability and Statistics - Florentin Smarandache
Normative Structures in Natural and Artificial Systems - Christen Krogh
Syntony Quest - sustainable evolutionary futures
The Concept of Emergence - Paul E. Meehl and Wilfrid Sellars

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Value Logic & Simplicity Theory - Stephen Phillip (new URL)

Updates 4.72 to December 2001:

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The Ecosystemic Life Hypothesis - Dan Fiscus's paper

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A Common Structure for Concepts of Individuals, Stuffs and Real Kinds - Ruth Garrett Millikan
Biological Metaphors and the Design of Modular Artificial Neural Networks - Egbert J.W. Boers and Herman Kuiper
Complex Organization and Niklas Luhmann's Sociology of Law - Wallace H. Provost
Coping with Uncertainty: The Self-Organisation of Social Systems - Günter Kueppers
Creating Learning Communities - a coalition for self-learning
Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics - Francis Heylighen and Cliff Joslyn
Dimensions of Consciousness Development: A Preliminary Framework - Thomas Jordan
Framing the Postmodern: Language, Culture, Commerce and Consciousness - David Peckinpaugh
Genes, Memes and Megathemes - Mike Mack D and Naked Monk
Interconnectedness - the web of the world
Modularity - A Concept for New Neural Network Architectures - Albrecht Schmidt and Zuhair Bandar
Nurture, Nature, Structure: A Computational Approach to Cognition - Bas Rokers
People in Action - for a better world
Physics, Mysticism and the New Holographic Paradigm - Ken Wilber
Stewards Planetary House - uniting poor people worldwide
Structure and Change in Complex Systems - Wallace H. Provost
The Beer Can Theory of Creativity - Liane Gabora
The Center for Personal Sovereignty - take charge of your life !
Theory and History: The Challenge of Scientism - Ludvig von Mises
When the School Doors Close: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Linda Dobson
Whitehead's Even More Dangerous Idea - Peter Farleigh
Wordsworth and The Composition of Knowledge - Brad Sullivan
Worship as Anti-Structure: The Contribution of Victor Turner - J. Randall Nichols

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CALResCo Info - new member, ecologist Dan Fiscus, included

Updates 4.72 to November 2001:

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A-Design - Adaptive, Agent-Based Method of Conceptual Design
A Functional Approach to Mysticism - Arthur J. Deikman
Aesthetically Evolved Virtual Pets - Thomas S. Ray
Ardue - personal liberty in the practical exercise of spirituality
Aristotle, Connectionism and the Morally Excellent Brain - David DeMoss
Artificial Intelligence and Connectionism: Some Philosophical Implications - Ivan M.Havel
Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents - Carlos Gershenson García
Between Order And Chaos - David Spangler
Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science - Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Beyond Science - Robert C. Priddy
Biology of Cognition - Humberto Maturana
Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology - Douglas M. Burns
Chaos and the Drama of Social Change - T.R.Young
Coherent Cultures - growing a peaceful, sustainable Earth through communications
Connectionism & the Study of Change - Elizabeth A. Bates & Jeffrey L. Elman
Esoteric Anthropology: Devolutionary & Evolutionary Orientations in Perennial Philosophy - Sheldon R. Isenberg and Gene R. Thursby
Evolutionary Connectionism and Mind/Brain Modularity - Raffaele Calabretta and Domenico Parisi
David Green - ecological complexity
How to Evolve Rationality & Something Better - Peter Danielson
Infinite Wealth - social transformation for a win-win world
Operationalizing Self-Organization Theory for Social Science Research - David J. Krieger
Polanyi's Overcoming of the Dichotomy of Fact and Value - Richard T. Allen
Programmed for Win/Lose: Low Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence - Barry Carter
Reality: The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument - Humberto Maturana
Repluralising the Policy Process: Complexity Theory & Democratic process - Karin Geiselhart
Science Limited - the cultural crisis due to scientistic beliefs
Symbolic Sculpture - the art of mathematics
The 5 Levels of the Feeling Function: A Brief Phenomenological Description - John Fudjack & Patricia Dinkelaker
The Co-Intelligence Institute - evolving together in partnership with nature
The Constitution of Society - Anthony Giddens
The Future Evolution of Man - Sri Aurobindo
The Human Whole: The Higher Psychology & Metapsychology - Robert C. Priddy
The Modularity of Dynamic Systems - Teed Rockwell
The New Connectionism: Developing Relationships Between Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence - Jacob T. Schwartz
The New Frontier in Democratic Theory and Practice - Andrew Dinkelaker
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science - Ludwig von Mises
Traps Of Formal Logic & Dialectics: What They Are and How to Avoid Them - Robert E. Horn
Variability in Brain Function and Behavior - Paul Grobstein
What's It All About, ALife ? - Robert J. Crawford
World As Lover; World As Self - Joanna Macy

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CALResCo Software - Release 6, speed-ups plus executables

Updates 4.72 to October 2001:

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Artificial Life: A Technoscience Leaving Modernity ? - Lars Christian Risan
Evolving Neural Networks Through Augmenting Topologies - Kenneth O. Stanley and Risto Miikkulainen
Heidegger, Emotions, Truth - Lawrence M. Hinman
The Concept of Poiesis and Its Application in a Heideggerian Critique of Computationally Emergent Artificiality - Syed Mustafa Ali

End of Update 4.72


Updates 4.71 to 30 September 2001:

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A Common Framework for the Ethics of the 21st Century - Yersu Kim
A Quiet Revolution In Welfare Economics - Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel
Evolving Artificial Moral Ecologies - Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC
Evolving Artificial Moral Ecologies - Peter Danielson
Lifework of David Bohm - River of Truth - Will Keepin
Post Normal Science, Environmental Policy under Conditions of Complexity - Silvio Funtowicz and Jerry Ravetz
Social Capital and Civil Society - Francis Fukuyama
The Virtues Project - recognising our strengths...
Values and Lifestyle Program - VALS Group, SRI International

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Complexity Theory: Actions for a Better World - page completed at last !

Updates 4.71 to August 2001:

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The Collected Poems of Chris Lucas - complexity inspired social comment

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A Moderate Communitarian Proposal - Amitai Etzioni
A Science of Harmony and Gentle Action - F. David Peat
A Self-Organizing Systems Perspective on Planning For Sustainability - M. Beth L. Dempster
Autopoiesis and a Biology of Intentionality - Francisco J. Varela
Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem - Michael Rothschild
Building with the Breath of Life - Tom Bender
Comparison between Karl Pribram's Holographic Brain Theory & More Conventional Models of Neuronal Computation - Jeff Prideaux
Ecosystems, Science and Sustainability - James Kay
Fragmentary Perception of Thought - Ruben Feldman Gonzalez
From the Head to the Heart: Some Thoughts on Similarities between Brain Function & Morphogenesis - Paul Grobstein
Gaia and the Evolution of Coherence - Mae-Wan Ho and Fritz-Abert Popp
Interspecific Justice and Intrinsic Value - Donald VanDeVeer
Intrinsic Value in Nature: A Metaethical Analysis - J. Baird Callicott
I've Got a Map in My Head - F. David Peat
Multisimplex - evolutionary operation (EVOP)
New Science, New Vision - F. David Peat
Self-Organization within Complex Quantum States - Andrej Detela
Social Construction and Identity Politics - Kenneth J. Gergen
Stepping Stones in the Mist - Paul Brown
Sustainability, Stability, and Resilience - Donald Ludwig, Brian Walker & Crawford S. Holling
System Dynamics Methods: A Quick Introduction - Craig W. Kirkwood
The Concept of Coherence Considered as a Systems Isomorphism - Zbigniew William Wolkowski
The Economy of Discourses: A Third Order Cybernetics ? - Philip Boxer & Vincent Kenny
The Fourth Wave: The Ethics of Corporate Downsizing - John Orlando
The Place of Psyche in a Constructed World - Kenneth J. Gergen
The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life - Robert D. Putnam
Three Principles Behind All Tools for Creative Thinking - Paul E. Plsek
Time Dollar Network - family, neighborhood & community without money
Whiteheadian Process and Quantum Theory of Mind - Henry P. Stapp

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Complexity Theory: Actions for a Better World - completed value interaction/fitness sections
Developmental Replay in Neural Servo Networks - Mervyn van Kuyen (was Cyclomorphosis: Novelty Reducing NNs)
Ecotaoism: Holism, Ecology & Evolution - Laurence Evans (new URL)
Encore - Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation (new URL)
Evolutionary Computation FAQ - comp.ai.genetic newsgroup (new URL)
Zooland - the ultimate ALife resource, perhaps...(new URL)

Updates 4.71 to July 2001:

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Axiology: The Science of Decision Making - Robert Kinsel Smith
Axiology as a Science - Robert S. Hartman
Changing Paradigms of Public Policy - Chris Wilson
Civil Society - The Third Global Power - Nicanor Perlas
Deep Understanding: Wisdom for an Integral Age - Copthorne Macdonald
Designing Effective Learning Environments: Cognitive Apprenticeship Models - Sue E. Berryman
Equilibration of Cognitive Structures, Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence - Jean-Jacques Ducret
Foundations of Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems - Alex Viskovatoff
How the World Works and How We Can Change It - Richard K. Moore
Integrating The Big Bang: An Interview with Michael Murphy - Andrew Cohen
Kevin Kelly's Complexity Theory: The Politics & Ideology of Self-Organizing Systems - Steve Best & Douglas Kellner
Multiple Personality, Altered States and Virtual Reality: The World Simulation Process Approach - Charles T. Tart
Post-Normal Science: Considerations from a Poietic Systems Perspective - Beth Dempster
Quality of Life: Issues and Questions - Hazel Hendeson
Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences - Abraham H. Maslow
Review of Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason & the Human Brain - Daniel C. Dennett
Second Order Cybernetics as Cognitive Methodology - Bernard Scott
Social Norms: Internalization, Persuasion & History - Amitai Etzioni
Social Psychology as Social Construction: The Emerging Vision - Kenneth J. Gergen
The Complete Newspeak Dictionary from Orwell's 1984 - against totalitarian thought control
The Development Of Systems Thinking Skills Using System Dynamics Modeling Tools - Günther Ossimitz
The Man with Two Heads: Sheikh Ragip/Robert Frager - Craig Hamilton
The Necessity for Developing Skill at Mind-Process Observation - Copthorne Macdonald
Up In Arms About Being Put Down - Christian de Quincey
Vensim - systems dynamics (Win3.1/98/Mac)
Vico, Wittgenstein & Bakhtin: Practical Trust in Dialogical Communities - John Shotter
What does Research on Political Attitudes & Behaviour tell Us about the Need for Improving Education for Democracy ? - Margaret Stimmann Branson
What Is Enlightenment ? - magazine
What is Social Ecology ?- Murray Bookchin

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Complexity Theory: Actions for a Better World - Gaianauts are 'go' for launch...

Updates 4.71 to June 2001:

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A Personal PsychoSpiritual Analysis using 'Conference of the Birds' - Gary Crawford
A Psychosynthesis 12-Step Program for Transforming Consciousness - Michael Brown
An Evolutionary Architecture - Robert Saunders
Anarchism and Cybernetics - John D. McEwan
Applied Systems Thinking - Curt McNamara
Bibles Do Not Equal Wisdom - Matthew Webb
Center for Integral Science - outer plus inner experience
Complex Adaptive Systems Research - Mark Voss
Cosmism: Nano Electronics & 21st Century Global Ideological Warfare - Hugo de Garis
Cosmosofy - the internet universal religion
Dynamic Learning Communities: An Alternative to Designed Instructional Systems - Brent Wilson and Martin Ryder
Enlightenment.Com - many paths, one site
European Society for General Semantics - resources
Holons, Heaps and Artifacts and Their Corresponding Hierarchies - Fred Kofman
How the Mechanics of Thought and Memory Structure Human Development - Susan Vegors
Humanistic Psychology: From Maslow to the 21st Century - Maureen O' Hara
In Quest of Uncommon Ground - Anthony Judge
Integral Science: Toward a Comprehensive Science of Inner & Outer Experience - Thomas J. McFarlane
Language Theory: Consensual Selection of Dynamics - Charles Henry & Luis Rocha
Layered Cognitive Networks - Ian J. Thompson
LEARN Institute - Neuro-Semantics, Meta-States & NLP
Learning Organizations - Peter Senge resources
LEM - logic based approach to general systems theory
Lucid Dreaming - conscious guiding of dreams
Making Ecology Make Sense: The Six Disciplines of All Species Project - Chris Wells
Multi-Agent Systems - AAAI
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution - Paul Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins
Neuro-Linguistic Programming - run your own brain
New Science Makes us Question our Assumptions - Jonathan Dickau
Nondual Ecology: A Study in Deep Ecology - John McClellan
Nonlinear Sciences - e-print archive
Organisations as Co-evolving Complex Adaptive Systems - Eve Mitleton-Kelly
Patterns That Connect:: Rethinking our Approach to Learning & Teaching - Jeffrey W. Bloom
Personal Transformation - Peter Senge
Perspectives in Transpersonal Theory -Gerry Goddard
Post-Fortean Meta-Complexity - speculations on the weirder fringes of science and culture
Principles and Guidelines for Sustainable Community Design - Robert Hsin
Requisite Cognitive Skills for Decisions About Systems- Gary Chicoine-Piper
Science, Religion and God: A Story about Stories - Milton Dawes
Self-Replicating Worms That Increase Structural Complexity through Gene Transmission - Hiroki Sayama
Six Levels of Complexity: A Typology of Processes & Systems - Dietrich Fliedner
Stafford Beer - team syntegrity
Systemics and Education - resources
The Induction - Franklin Merrell-Wolff
The Known, the Unknown & the Unknowable - Jonathan J. Dickau
The Missing Context in Science Education: Science - Jay Lemke
The Natural Philosophy of Ecology: Developmental Systems Ecology (Infodynamics) - Stanley Salthe
The QLN Network - improving the quality of life
The Role of Language in the Perceptual Processes - Alfred Korzybski
The Systems Perspective: Methods and Models for the Future - Allena Leonard and Stafford Beer
The Survivalist's Guide for the New Millennium - Matthew Webb
The World Mind Society - progressive enlightenment of our species
ThisIsNotThat - general semantics information
Toward a New Continuing Higher Education - Irene Karpiak and Bill Kops
Transcending Duality through Tensional Integrity: From Systems-versus-Networks to Tensegrity Organization - Anthony Judge
Transpersonal Realities or Neurophysiological Illusions - Charles T. Tart
Union of International Associations- world problems, resources and strategies
Wisdom and Wilderness - Joseph W. Meeker
Wisdom: A First Approximation - Don Cochrane

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Complexity Theory: Actions for a Better World - extended

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Evolution, Complexity & Philosophy - social/ecological aspects (new URL)

Updates 4.71 to May 2001:

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A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller - Amy C. Edmondson
All Academic - the guide to free academic resources online
BUBL Information Service - for the higher education community
Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence - to heal, empower and revitalize our lives
Embracing Complexity: The Challenge of the Ecosystem Approach - James Kay and Eric Schneider
Emptying Your Cup: Non-Verbal Awareness and General-Semantics - Bruce I. Kodish
Fuzzy Logic & General Semantics in Everyday Life - Susan Presby Kodish and Bruce I. Kodish
Fuzzy Logic vs. Niched Pareto Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Optimization: Part I. Schaffer's F2 Problem - Brian J. Reardon
General Semantics: A Critical and Meta-Critical System - Milton Dawes
General Semantics and the Practice of Awareness - Milton Dawes
Global Alliance for Intelligent Arts - artists dedicated to human development
Global Ideas Bank - socially innovative non-technological ideas and projects
HighWire Press - free full-text science archives
Human Symbolizing - Hilgartner & Associates
Idealist.org - actions without borders
International Society of General Semantics - knowledge & inquiry into non-Aristotelian systems
Ishmael and General Semantics Theory - Andy Hilgartner on Daniel Quinn's novel
Lies of the Mind: The Psychology Of Behavioural Evolution - Carlo Suanno
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms: Classifications, Analyses, and New Innovations. - David A. Van Veldhuizen
Nonviolence in the 21st Century: Challenges and Choices - Arun Gandhi
Order from Disorder: The Thermodynamics of Complexity in Biology - Eric D. Schneider and James J. Kay
Peace Room - the foundation for conscious evolution
Scirus - search for scientific information
Situationism (The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Difference) - Cass R. Sunstein
Spiral Dynamics - Ken Wilber
Tedesco Analytics - complexity science for understanding consumers
Testing Guesses - Martha Bartter
The Evolution of Ethics - Sarah Bromberg
The Human Basis Of Laws And Ethics - Frederick Edwords
The Nature of Niching: Genetic Algorithms and the Evolution of Optimal, Cooperative Populations - Jeffrey Horn
The Nonviolence Web - a guide to the contemporary peace movement
The Peace On Earth Millennium - guide to a dream
The "Semantics'' of Evolution: Trajectories and Trade-offs in Design Space and Niche Space - Aaron Sloman
TIme-Binding Ethics - Steven Lewis
United Communities of Spirit - global interfaith network
Visions of the New Millennium: Global Peace through Meditation - Sant Rajinder and Singh Ji Maharaj
What the World Wants Project - The World Game Institute
World Transformation - cornucopia of ideas for a world that works better for all of us

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Complex Systems Virtual Library - comprehensive A-Z annotated links (new URL)
Fractal Sequencer - Shawn Bulen (new URL)
Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & the Life Sciences - resources (new URL)
The Nature of Fractals - intro by Juan Luis Martínez (new URL)
Third Apex to Fractovia - Juan Luis Martínez (new URL)

End of Update 4.71


Update 4.7 April 2001:

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Complexity Theory: Actions for a Better World - putting the ideas into practice

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A General Statement of the Tragedy of the Commons - Herschel Elliott
Action Coalition for Global Change - peace, justice, human rights & non-violence
Ant Colony Optimization - Marco Dorigo
Brain Food - taking a full look at the worst
Buckminster Fuller & the Game of the World - Medard Gabel
Buckminster Fuller Institute - humanity’s option for success
Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) - University of Michigan
Cog as a Thought Experiment - Daniel C. Dennett
Dialogues with Sun - Vladimir Dimitrov
Environmentalism: The Triumph of Politics - Doug Bandow
Forgiving Ourselves and Healing the Inner Child - Edith Stauffer & Guy A. Pettitt
Future Positive - all we have to do is change our minds...
In Defense of Property Rights and Capitalism - Tibor R. Machan
Institute of General Semantics- non-Aristotelian language
L-arbor - Marco Grubert (Win95/OpenGL)
Manhood of Humanity - Alfred Korzybski
Modeling Motivations & Emotions as a Basis for Intelligent Behaviour - Dolores Canamelo
Modernity and the African Experience - A.O. Balcomb
New England Complex Systems Institute - interdisciplinary studies
Oxfam - connecting with the disadvantaged
Pragmatism & the Question of Truth - Emile Durkheim
Public Action to Remedy Hunger - Amartya Sen
Security and the Peace Dividend: Prospects in South Asia - Amartya Sen
Simulation - A Way Forward ? - David Byrne
Social Structures and Chaos Theory - R.David Smith
Spiritual Paths for the Evolution to Higher Consciousness - resources
Steady-State Economics: A Catechism of Growth Fallacies - Herman Daly
Synergic Consumption - Timothy Wilken
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life - Robert Alun Jones on Emile Durkheim
The Non-Aristotelian Systemic Thinking about "Causation" in Complex Systems - L. Michael Hall
The Society of Neuro-Semantics - neuro-linguistic programming
The Time-Binding Trust - uncommon sense and science through synergy
United Nations Online - a virtual model of the UN
Vladimir Dimitrov - social complexity and fuzziology
What I Believe - Alfred Korzybski
World Game Institute - planetary management

Updated Links Updated

Autopoiesis and Sprituality - Vladimir Dimitrov and Bob Hodge (new URL)
Chaos and Complexity + Creativity and Contemplation - Intermet Masters programme (new URL)
Complexity, Chaos and Creativity: A Journey beyond System Thinking - Vladimir Dimitrov (new URL)
Strange Attractors of Meaning - Vladimir Dimitrov (new URL)
The Ceptual Institute - integrity & perspectives (expansion)

Updates 4.62 to March 2001:

New Links New

Cellular Automata Models in Evolutionary Morphology: - Diego Rasskin-Gutman
Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies - various authors
Ecological Footprints of Nations - our unsustainable consumerism
Evolving the Architecture of a Multi-Part Program in Genetic Programming Using Architecture-Altering Operations - John Koza
Gene Expression Programming - Candida Ferreira
General Semantics: The Next Generation - Nicholas Johnson
Global Vision - a systems view of sustainability
In Search of Creativity: Beyond Individualism and Collectivism - Ronald E. Purser and Alfonso Montuori
Leila Kubba Kawash Cybergallery - east meets west
Logical vs. Analogical or Symbolic vs. Connectionist or Neat vs. Scruffy - Marvin Minsky
Massively Parallel Simulations of Complex, Large Scale, High ResolutionEcosystem Models - Randy Gimblett, George Ball, Vince Lopes, Bernard Zeigler, Bill Sanders & Michael Marefat
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity - Gregory Bateson
Marvin Minsky - artificial intelligence
On Becoming a Personal Anarchist - Spencer A. McWilliams
Plasticity, Evolvability and Modularity in RNA - Lauren W. Ancel and Walter Fontana
Positioning Sustainability as a Global Goal - Michael O'Callaghan
Tom Ray - digital evolution
Reinforcement Learning: A Survey - Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael L. Littman & Andrew W. Moore
Science and the Sacred: On Fundamentalism - Michael O'Callaghan
Simulating Collective Misbelief - Jim Doran
Social Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Conception of Social Groups - James Moody and Douglas R. White (separate Fig5)
The Centre of the Circle - mandalas on the web
The Complementary Brain: Unifying Brain Dynamics and Modularity - Stephen Grossberg
The Humanistic Science of Man - Erich Fromm
The Imbalanced Brain: From Normal Behaviour to Schizophrenia - Stephen Grossberg
The Two Voices of Erich Fromm: The Prophetic and the Analytic - Michael Maccoby
Through the Labyrinth Evolution Finds a Way: A Silicon Ridge - Inman Harvey and Alan Thompson

Updated Links Updated

Artificial Life - Tom Ray (new URL)
Tierra - Tom Ray (new URL)
The Crowning - Leila Kubba Kawash (retitled)
Nomads - Leila Kubba Kawash (retitled)
Inanna and the Hulluppu Tree - Leila Kubba Kawash (retitled)
Labyrinth - Leila Kubba Kawash (retitled)
Dumuzi and Inanna - Leila Kubba Kawash (retitled)
His Descent - Leila Kubba Kawash (retitled)

Updates 4.62 to February 2001:

New Links New

Cybertation - 3D Alife (Win3.1+)
Evo - artificial life framework
Incorporating Complexity in Ecosystem Modelling - Lael Parrott & Robert Kok
Life Spacies - text to alife
Life 3d - Thomas Feldbauer and Markus Doetsch
Simulating Physics using Virtual Atoms - Tim Tyler
Stephen Grossberg - biological neural networks
The GOLEM Project - automatic design and manufacture of robotic lifeforms
The Integrating Modelling Toolkit - interoperable agents
Towards A Mathematics Of Complexity - David Green

End of Updates 4.62/4.7


Update 4.61 17 February 2001

New Pages New

Breaking Our Mental Chains - essay on complexity study
Value Metascience and Synergistic Choice - research paper
Corporate Disintegration and Product Virtualisation - essay on brand dilution
Connecting Synergistically - essay on social emergence

New Links New

Application Links

Blueberry Brain Institute & Chaos Cooperative - Fred Abraham
Chaos and Complexity + Creativity and Contemplation - Intermet Masters programme
Cybernetics, Systems and Complexity - Study Programs
Humanistic Economics - links and works
New Horizons for Learning - connecting people and resources
Redefining Progress - GPI v GDP
Teaching, Parenting, Managing - Alfie Kohn
The 21st Century Learning Initiative - education, work and community worldwide
The Character Education Pages - Craig A. Cunningham
The Arlington Institute - tracking social change
The Chaordic Alliance - new concepts of organization

Resource Links

Artificial Life - Jean-Philippe Rennard
Complexity Digest - recent papers and news
The Self-Organization of the European Information Society - EU TSER project

Online Papers

Complexity, Chaos and Creativity: A Journey beyond System Thinking - Vladimir Dimitrov
Evolutionary Transitions and Artificial Life - John Stewart
Thinking About Thought: Paradigm Shifts in Modern Science & the New Science of Mind - Piero Scaruffi

Related Applications

A Citizen Agenda to Tame Corporate Power, Reclaim Citizen Sovereignty & Restore Economic Sanity - David C. Korten
A Critique of the Chicago School: Ronald Coase & the Coase Theorem - Steve Kangas
A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animats and Humans - Anthony Chemero
Airing Our Transpersonal Differences - Gerry Goddard
An Appeal to the Young - Peter Kropotkin
Artifical Evolution for Computer Graphics - Karl Sims
Artificial Life as Philosophy - Daniel C. Dennett
Autopoiesis and Sprituality - Vladimir Dimitrov and Bob Hodge
Autopoiesis in Organisations - Vladimir Dimitrov and Lloyd Fell
Beyond Right and Left: A Humanist Approach to Politics - Pat Duffy Hutcheon
Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators - Hazel Henderson, Jon Lickerman, and Patrice Flynn
Challenging Behaviorist Dogma: Myths About Money and Motivation - Alfie Kohn
Chaos, Bifurcations & Self-Organization:
Dynamical Extensions of Neurological Positivism & Ecological Psychology
- Fred Abraham
Consequences of Pragmatism - Richard Rorty
Environmental Justice: Some Ecofeminist Worries About a Distributive Model - Karren J. Warren
Evolution: An Epigenetic Approach - Mae-Wan Ho
Evolution's Arrow - John Stewart
Evolutionary Psychology and the Emotions - Leda Cosmides & John Tooby
From Theory to Practice: Classroom Application of Outcome-Based Education - Janet Battistini
Genuine Progress Indicator - Jonathan Rowe and Mark Anielski
Globalization, Spiritual Living & Gandhian Economics - Romesh Diwan
Hayek's Evolutionary Epistemology, AI and the Question of Free Will - Gary T. Dempsey
Homage to Jean Piaget - Ernst von Glasersfeld
Homo Reciprocans: Political Economy and Cultural Evolution - Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
Introduction to Decision Making - Robert Harris
Many Damn Things Simultaneously: Complexity Theory and World Affairs - James N. Rosenau
Memetics and the Multiple Futures of Racism - Caleb Rosado
Metaphor, Morality, and Politics: Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust - George Lakoff
Moral Decision Making - An Analysis - Chris MacDonald
Motivation and Emotion: An Interactive Process Model - Mark Bickard
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Peter Kropotkin
Patriotism, a Menace to Liberty - Emma Goldman
Perfecting Democracy's Tools - Hazel Henderson
Planetary Survival and Consciousness Evolution: Psychological Roots of Human Violence and Greed - Stanislav Grof
Psychology in Perspective - Huw Price
Propaganda in a Democratic Society - Aldous Huxley
Quality and Intelligence - John Beasley
Radical Perspectivism: Chapter on Education - Alexander Makedon
Research Problems in the Use of a Shallow AI Model of Personality and Emotion - Clark Elliott
Scientific Ideas and Education in the 21st Century - Ash Hartwell
Seeing The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism - David T. Ratcliffe
Shufflebrain: The Quest of Hologramic Mind - Paul Pietsch
Socio-Cybernetics and the New Alienations - Felix Geyer
Strategies for Studying Causation in Complex Ecological Political Systems - Thomas Homer-Dixon
System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life, Review by - Scott E. Page
Tao and the Aperspectival World - Eiichi Shimomisse
The Architecture of Life - Donald E. Ingber
The Art of Chaordic Leadership - Dee Hock
The Betrayal of Adam Smith - David C. Korten
The Biology of Globalization - Elisabet Sahtouris
The Capitalist Threat - George Soros
The Case Against Competition - Alfie Kohn
The Chaordic Organization: Out of Control and Into Order - Dee Hock
The Coming Anarchy - Robert D. Kaplan
The Developing Ideas Interview - Herman Daly
The Education of the Complete Moral Person - Marvin W. Berkowitz
The Internet and Political Transformation: Populism, Community, and Accelerated Pluralism - Bruce Bimber
The Morality of Competition - Frederick M. Gordon
The Quantum Inquisition - Michael Brooks
The Role of Moral Psychology in Theories of Practical Reason - Timothy J. Taylor
The Sense of Values - Raymond Boudon
Three Views of the Agentic Self: A Developmental Synthesis - Todd D. Little, Patricia H. Hawley, Christopher C. Henrich & Katherine W. Marsland
Transpersonal Inspiration - Roberto Assagioli
Virtue Ethics without Character Traits - Gilbert Harman
Was Democracy Just A Moment ? - Robert D. Kaplan
What is it Like to be a Bat - Thomas Nagel

Miscellaneous & Fun

An Anarchist FAQ - the state on trial
Awakening Earth - knowledge for a sustainable and compassionate future
Critiques Of Libertarianism - freedom to control ?
cy.Rev Journal - cybernetic revolution, sustainable socialism & radical democracy
Gaia Nation - ecophilosophy
HoloWorld - blueprint for a synergistic society
Institute for Anarchist Studies - critical discussion
Island Web - a psychadelic culture
Liberalism Resurgent II - The Second Surge - a response to the Right
New Civilisation Network - visualizing a better world
Political Corrections - America as police state
School for Social Entrepreneurs - innovative public benefit
Seizing The Media - Immediast Underground
The Global Citizens Plan - nine strategies for global change
The Institute of Noetic Sciences - archives
The Institute of Science In Society - science, sustainability, society
The People Centered Development Forum - just, inclusive, and sustainable human societies
The Simple Living Network - a more conscious, simple, healthy & restorative lifestyle
The Wisdom Page - texts, references, organizations
ThryWoman's Irrational Rationalist HomePage - charming propaganda
Transcendental Perspectivism: The Third Enlightentment - Werner Krieglstein
Worker Owned and Operated - cooperative living

Updated Pages Updated !

Search Page - improved with Google and WWW search added
Multidimensional Economics - minor changes and links added
Book Icon added to highlight web books

Updated Links Updated !

Chaos & Complexity in Education - AERA Special Interest Group (new URL)
Non-Linearity & Complexity - links from Greece (new URL)
Radical Constructivism - Alex Riegler (new URL)
Robotics in Japan - comprehensive list (new URL)
Sonic Fractal - ambient music (new URL)

End of Update 4.61


Update 4.6 August 2000

New Pages New

Setting The Scene - Science, Humanity and Interaction - introduction
Related Application Papers - interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation
Global Power Networks - essay on forces

New Sections New

Cybernetics and Systems Dynamics
Humanity as it Is

New Links New

Applications

Center for Complex System Dynamics - plasma and complex system synergies
Center For Neurodynamics - UMSL
Cognition, Technology, and Complex Systems + Knowledge Mediator - Michael J. Jacobson
Connectionism and Social Psychology - Christophe Labiouse
Economics Working Paper Archive at WUSTL - Game Theory and Information
Emergent Systems - Kenneth E. Rinaldo
Frontiers in Ecology: Building the Links- ESA97
Game Theory - HET
Laboratory of Biological Modelling - George N. Reeke
Laws of the Fifth Discipline - reference guide
Non-Linear Physics Group - Naval Research Laboratory
GRASP - Statistical Physics Liège
Syllabus of Readings for Complex Adaptive Systems and Agent-Based Computational Economics - Leigh Tesfatsion
The Creative Learning Exchange - systems education in primary & secondary school

Resources

International Journal of Chaos Theory and Applications - abstracts online
Biosemiotics - Alexei A. Sharov
Chilean School of Biology of Cognition - Humberto Maturana
Complex Systems: Policy and Decision Making - workshop at Cortina D'Ampezzo
Cybernetics - Random Steps to Serious Insight
NLP and Systems Thinking - Joseph O'Connor
System Dynamics / Systems Thinking - Günther Ossimitz's Mega Link List
System Dynamics Resource Page- Arizona State University
System Dynamics Society - policy analysis & design

Tutorials

Chaos Theory: A Brief Introduction - by Greg Rae
Systems Thinking: Simplified Overview - by Rod Draheim, Mike Henderson, Gus Neverman, Duane Schwartz & Mike Wenzlick
The Art of Systems Thinking - Joseph O'Connor and Ian McDermott
Complexity and Organisation Development - by Richard Seel
Guide to Complex Systems - NECSI
Applied Systems Thinking - Curt McNamara
Artificial Neural Networks - an introduction by the Helsinki Cognitive Science Group

Online Papers

Mark Bickhard - symbolic emergence
Paul Thagard - coherence and analogy
Franciso Varela - neurophenomenology & autopoiesis
Tim van Gelder - dynamical cognitive science
A Defense of Emergent Downward Causation - Teed Rockwell
Biosemiotics: Functional-Evolutionary Approach to the Analysis of the Sense of Information - Alexei A. Sharov
Contributions of Humberto Maturana to the Sciences of Complexity and Psychology - Alberto B. Ruiz
Evolutionary Optimization of Dynamic Fitness Functions - Alessio Gaspar
Holarchies - The Metapattern of the Self-Organizing Universe - Bob Debold
Introducing a New Connectionist Model: The Spreading Waves of Activation Network - Scott Gazzard
Is Life as a Multiverse Phenomenon ? - Claus Emmeche
Modeling Life: A Note on the Semiotics of Emergence and Computation in Artificial and Natural Living Systems - Claus Emmeche
Mother Nature vs. the Walking Encyclopedia - Daniel C. Dennett
Significant Points in the Study of Complex Systems - Yaneer Bar-Yam
Some Myths of Connectionism - István S. N. Berkeley
Synergy of Complements in Living System - Gyorgy G Jaros
The Connectionist Modeler's Toolkit: A Review of Some Basic Processes Over Distributed Memories - Janet Wiles
Parallelization of Variable-Sized Self Organizing Maps: A Development Tool - Travis Minke and Jason Reicheneker
Classical and Connectionist Models of Cognition - Eric Lormand
Distributed Representations and Nested Compositional Structure - Tony A. Plate
From Artificial Evolution to Artificial Life - Tim Taylor
Seized by Agreement, Swamped by Understanding - edited by L. Fell, D. Russell & A.Stewart

Related Application Papers

About the Relationship of Artificial Life to Digital Art, with a Focus on the Aesthetic of Behaviour-based Models - Damien Cola
Against Scientific Imperialism - John Dupré
Anatomy of Teleology - Julian Cole
Autopoietic Theory and Social Systems: Theory and Practice - Randall Whitaker
Beyond our Senses: Recasting Book I, Part III of Hume's Treatise - Saul Traiger
Biosemiotics: Towards a New Synthesis in Biology - Jesper Hoffmeyer
Buddhist Meditation and Personal Construct Psychology - Phouttasone (Pilou) Thirakoul
Complex Systems: The Role of Interactions - Robert Jervis
Complex Thinking in Eastern Thought: Non-Presence, Decenteredness and the Unspeakable - Robert Chia
Connectionism, Psychology and Science - George Oliphant
Connectionism and Second Language Vocabulary - Robert Waring
Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning and Social Behavior - Stephen J. Read and Lynn C. Miller
Consciousness and Education: A Process Perspective - Steve Mashalidis
Cybernetics and Social Science: Theories and research in Sociocybernetics - Felix Geyer
Darwin Amongst the Machines; or The Origins of [Artificial] Life - George Dyson
Darwinism and Development Systems - Paul Griffiths & Russell Gray
Democracy and Education - John Dewey
Education For & With Values Immanent in the Emergent Levels of Socio-Cybernetic Being - Gary McI. Boyd
Emotional Decisions - Allison Barnes and Paul Thagard
Evolution, Teleology, Intentionality - Daniel C. Dennett
Evolutionary Love - Charles Peirce
Fractals in Biological Systems - Angel Chang
From Social Synapses to Social Ganglions: Complex Adaptive Systems in the Jurassic Age - Howard Bloom
Gaia: The World Soul of Science and Religion - Doctress Neutopia
Global Strategies Project: Order through Chaos - Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
How High School Students Become System Thinkers - Scott Guthrie & Diana Fisher
Integrating Memory and Reasoning in Analogy-Making: The AMBR Model - Boicho N. Kokinov and Alexander A. Petrov
Isolated and Interrelated Concepts - Robert L. Goldstone
Many To One Mappings as a Basis for Life - Roland Somogyi
Moral Realism, Moral Relativism and Moral Rules (A Compatibility Argument) - Graham Oddie
Mining the Gene Expression Matrix: Inferring Gene Relationships from Large Scale Gene Expression Data - Patrik D'haeseleer, Xiling Wen, Stefanie Fuhrman, and Roland Somogyi
Modelling Social Systems as Complex: Towards a Social Simulation Meta-Model - Chris Goldspink
Moral Objectivism - Michael Huemer
Naive Physics: An Essay in Ontology - Barry Smith and Roberto Casati
New Approaches to the Study of Complex Biological Processes - NIGMS
NonDual Ecology: In Praise of Wildness & In Search of Harmony With Everything That Moves - John McClellan
Objective Versus Intersubjective Truth - Nick Szabo
On Ecological Ethics: An Introduction - Patrick Curry
Philosophical Issues in Brain Theory and Connectionism - Andy Clark & Chris Eliasmith
Pluralisms for Education: An Ethics of Care Perspective - Ann Diller
Pragmatism, Critical Realism and the Cognitive Value of Religion and Science - J. Wesley Robbins
Qualitative Overview of Population Neurodynamics - Walter Freeman
Rehabilitating Care - Alisa L. Carse and Hilde Lindemann
Rethinking the Benefits of the College-Bound Curriculum: Escaping Academic Captivity - Nel Noddings
Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning - John Seely Brown, Allan Collins and Paul Duguid
Social Processes as Dynamical Processes: Qualitative Dynamical Systems Theory in Social Psychology - Paul A. Watters, Peter J. Ball & Stuart C. Carr
Some Remarks on Wholes, Parts and Their Perception - Cyril Latimer and Catherine Stevens
Strange Attractors of Meaning - Vladimir Dimitrov
Synergic Inquiry (SI): An Alternative Framework for Transformative Learning - Yongming Tang
Teaching System Dynamics to Teachers and Students in 8-12 Environment - Diana M. Fisher
Technology Recapitulates Phylogeny - Kenneth E. Rinaldo
The Acting Brain: Reviewing the Neuroscientific Evidence - Vittorio Gallese
The Concept of Coherence Considered as a Systems Isomorphism - Zbigniew William Wolkowski
The Extended Mind - Andy Clark and David Chalmers
The Feminine Face of Science - Linda Jean Shepherd
The Philosophical Appendix to Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research - Caroline Whitbeck
The Principles of Psychology - William James
The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions - Carl Folke, Lowell Pritchard Jr., Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding and Uno Svedin
The Role of Symbiosis in Evolutionary Adaptation - Richard A. Watson
The Search for Transcendent Values - Robert M. Young
The Third Contender: A Critical Examination of the Dynamicist Theory of Cognition - Chris Eliasmith
Topology, Metric and Dynamics of Social Systems - Jürgen Klüver and Jörn Schmidt
Urban Dynamics - Jay Forrester
Value Theory: Toward Conceptual Clarification - Pat Duffy Hutcheon
World Views: From Fragmentation to Integration - Aerts, Apostel, de Moor, Hellemans, Maex, Van Belle & Van der Veken

Offline Papers

Bill Clancey - situated cognition
CogPrints Southhampton/JISC - misc
Gerald Edelman - neural Darwinism
Jeff Elman - connectionism
Robert Goldstone - learning & NNs
Geoffrey E. Hinton's - neural networks
Peter M. Todd - evolutionary and adaptive simulation
An Overview of Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Logic Programming - Jack Minker
Connectionism : Past, Present and Future - Jordon B. Pollack
Criticality and Scaling in Evolutionary Ecology - Ricard V. Sole, Suzanna C. Manrubia, Michael Benton, Stuart Kauffman, and Per Bak
Morphodynamic Models of Communication - Peter Bøgh Andersen
Multiassociative Memory - John F. Kolen & Jordon B. Pollock
Phase Transitions in a Gene Network Model of Morphogenesis - Ricard V. Solé, Isaac Salazar-Ciudad and Jordi Garcia-Fernandez
Phase Transitions in Logic Networks - Bruce Sawhill and Stuart Kauffman
Systems Dynamics and the Lessons of 35 Years - Jay W. Forrester
Systems Dynamics Meets the Press - Donella H. Meadows

Major Software

Dynamical Systems Theory - Hinke Osinga
Simulation - IDSEA
Dancer DNA - Sound/Joy (Win95)
Dynamic Analyzer - webPhysics (Windows/Mac)
Evoids - Dave Mann (Win95)
Fractal Awareness Governance Model - Jules Ruis (DOS)
Nonlinear Regression Analysis Program - Phillip H. Sherrod (DOS/WIN95/NT)

Fun & Miscellaneous

Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution - Elisabet Sahtouris
Enlightenment On-Line - The Spiritual Search In Cyberspace
Extraterrestrial Life In The Cosmos - Sterling Kodiak
Feudalism ...alias American Capitalism - David's fight against modern slavery
Free-Programs.com - The Best Freeware on the Net
Journal of Scientific Exploration - evaluating fringe science
Ken Wilber - online holistic philosophy
New Thought Movement - The Practice of the Presence of God for Practical Purposes
Omphalos - The Center of the Pagan Web !
Parascience Website - reconciliation of 21st century science & humankind
School of Wisdom - Ralph Losey
Social Power and Psychological Distress - David Smail
Spiral Dynamics, Values, Leadership, Change - expanding on the work of Clare W. Graves
The Radical Academy - Philosophy, Politics and the Human Condition
Zenzibar Alternative Culture - directory
The Free Web - resources
Project Gutenberg - freely available classic books

Updated Pages Updated !

Self-Organizing Systems FAQ V2.4 - structure/results changes
Java Software - applet pics added
Complexity and Artificial Life - pics added and minor text changes
Attractors Everywhere - pics, links & subheadings added
Fractal Geometry - pics & subheadings added
Self-Organization & Entropy - pics, links & subheadings added
Genetic Algorithms - pics, links & subheadings added
Automata - pics, links & subheadings added
Neural Networks - subheadings added
Nonlinear Science - subheadings added
Perturbations and Transients - subheadings added
Emergence and Evolution - subheadings added, minor text changes

Updated Links Updated !

American Society for Cybernetics - Venkat Sunil Dudi (new URL)
Artificial Life Online - home of Artificial Life (merge of Santa Fe)
Dynamical & Evolutionary Machine Organization (DEMO) - NNs, GAs & Robots (new URL)
Tony Plate - holographic recurrent networks (new URL)
The Apothecary's Drawer - stuffed alligators, brass astrolabes and jars of coloured water...
Complexity - CTCS (new URL)
SineArt - Brian N. Hershey (new URL)

End of Update 4.6


Update 4.5 March 2000


New Pages New

The Philosophy of Complexity - introduction
Evolutionary Psychology and Sociology - introduction
Autopoiesis and Coevolution - introduction
Classifier, IFS, L-Systems and Beyond - introduction
The Abnormal Normals - essay on social norms
Quality of Life - essay on better living
Fighting Manipulation - essay on exploitation
Freedom Beyond Control - essay on complex politics
Fitness and Synergy - introduction
Fuzzy Multidimensional Logic - introduction
Contextual Ethics - essay on coevolving morality
Genomic Delusions - essay on GM food
Creation of a Global Life - essay on Internet life
Entering a New Millennium - essay on new year resolutions

New Links New

Applications

Application Of Evolutionary Thinking To Brand Marketing - Martin Oxley
Evolutionary Economics: Metaphor or Unifying Paradigm ? - Peter Corning
Vortex Simulation - Building Organizational Agility in Complex Knowledge Environments
TRON : Experiments in Machine Learning - Pablo Funes
Compositional Algorithms as Cyberspirit Attractors - Ron Pellegrino
Flight Control and Visual Navigation - Mike Fouche

Resources

European Journal of Economic and Social Systems (EJESS) - some pdf availability
The Alife Society - resources and articles
Gallery Of Strange Attractors- Bluy Brink
Cellular Automata - Mario Rodríguez-Riotorto
Systems Theory - links by David X. Swenson
The Joint Committee on Complexity - various resources
3D Fractals (Quaternions) - Dirk Meyer
Fuzzy Systems - Digital Library
Doing Science - an overview by Pete Jumars

Tutorials

An Introduction to AI - essays on most areas by Generation 5
Chaos without the Math - by Judy Petree
Primer to Complexity Theory - Amanda Inskip Corcoran
Systems Theory Lesson - AECT Change Division
The Fractal Guide - by Parmjit Virk
Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic - overview by Brian T. Luke
Fuzzy Logic Tutorial - Steven D. Kaehler
Fuzzy Decision Making - lecture notes (postscript) by Robert Fullér
The GA Tutorials Notebook - lists of introductions and tutorials
A Genetic Algorithm Tutorial - by Darrell Whitley (postscript)
The Backprop Algorithm - by Donald R. Tveter

Online Papers

William Langton - genetic programming
Antichaos and Adaptation - Stuart A. Kauffman
Attractive and In-Discrete: A Critique of Two Putative Virtues of the Dynamicist Theory of Mind - Chris Eliasmith
Control Information: A Meaningful Alternative to Information Theory - Peter Corning
Holistic Darwinism: Synergistic Selection and the Evolutionary Process - Peter Corning
Synergism Hypothesis: On the Concept of Synergy and it's Role in the Evolution of Complex Systems - Peter Corning
Zones of Cooperation in Demographic Prisoner's Dilemma - Joshua M. Epstein
Fuzzy Inferencing Systems : Problems and Some Solutions - Bob John
Genetic Programming Bloat with Dynamic Fitness - William Langdon and Riccardo Poli
A Comprehensive Case Study: An Examination of Connectionist and Machine Learning Algorithms - Frederick Zarndt
Classifier Systems: A Useful Approach to Machine Learning ? - Bart de Boer
Evolutionary Design of Neural Networks - Marko A. Grönroos
Evolutionary Emergence Route to Artificial Intelligence - Alastair Channon
Fuzzy Logic in Control - René Jager
Organizational Learning within a Learning Classifier System - Jason Wilcox
Quantum and Evolutionary Approaches to Computational Learning - Dan Ventura
Building Fuzzy Expert Systems - William Siler
Darwinism: Science or Philosophy - ed. Jon Buell and Virginia Hearn

Offline Papers

Tom Quick - structural coupling
William Spears - genetic algorithms
Dan Ventura - quantum EC
Gunter Wagner - evolution
A Report on the 1st International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems - R.E. Smith
A Survey of Parallel Genetic Algorithms - Erich Cantú-Paz
An Overview of Evolutionary Algorithms in Multiobjective Optimization - Carlos M. Fonseca and Peter J. Fleming
Can Evolution Explain How the Mind Works? - Melanie Mitchell
Can Unrealistic Computer Models Illuminate Theoretical Biology ?
Mark Bedau
Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability - Gunter Wagner and Lee Altenberg
Connectionism and Novel Combinations of Skills: Implications for Cognitive Architecture - Robert F. Hadley
Emergence of Social Organization in the Prisoner's Dilemma: How Context-Preservation and Other Factors Promote Cooperation - Michael D. Cohen, Rick L. Riolo, and Robert Axelrod
Environmental Puppeteer Revisited: A Connectionist Perspective on Autonomy - Tom Ziemke
Essays on Darwinism : Ontological Foundations - Barry McMullin
Essays on Darwinism : Organismic Darwinism - Barry McMullin
Essays on Darwinism : Genic Organismic Selection - Barry McMullin
Essence of Embodiment - Tom Quick, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher Nehaniv & Graham Roberts
Evolving 3D Morphology and Behavior by Competition - Karl Sims
Evolving Artificial Neural Networks that Develop in Time - Stefano Nolfi and Domenico Parisi
Evolving Optimal Populations with XCS Classifier Systems - Tim Kovacs
Fungus Eaters Approach to Evolution: A View from Artificial Intelligence - Rolf Pfeifer
Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Recent Developments - Robert Fullér and Christer Carlsson
Game Theory, Complexity, and Simplicity Part I : A Tutorial - Martin Shubik
Game Theory, Complexity, and Simplicity Part II : Problems and Applications - Martin Shubik
Game Theory, Complexity, and Simplicity Part III : Critique and Prospective - Martin Shubik
How Economists Can Get Alife - Leigh Tesfatsion
How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution - Richard Watson and Jordon Pollack
Implications of Creation - David Hiebeler
Inside and Outside Views of Life - George Kampis
Introduction of Structural Dissolution into Langton's Self-Reproducing Loop - Hiroki Sayama
Introduction to the Statistical Theory of Darwinian evolution - Luca Peliti
Is Anything Ever New ? : Considering Emergence - Jim Crutchfield
Is There Another New factor in Evolution ? - Inman Harvey
Jigsaw Model: An Explanation for the Evolution of Complex Biochemical Systems & the Origin of Life - John F. McGowan
Lamarkian Evolution, The Baldwin Effect and Function Optimisation - Darrell Whitley, V.Scott Gordon & Keith Mathias
Landscapes and Molecular Evolution - Peter Schuster
Life and Evolution in Computers - Melanie Mitchell
Macroevolutionary Algorithms: A New Optimization Method on Fitness Landscapes - Jesus Marin and Ricard V. Sole
Metastable Evolutionary Dynamics: Crossing Fitness Barriers or Escaping via Neutral Paths ? - Erik van Nimwegen and James P. Crutchfield
Multiobjective Optimization using the Niched Pareto Genetic Algorithm - Jeffrey Horn, Nicholas Nafpliotis & David Goldberg
On Information Sharing and the Evolution of Collectives - Michael Lachmann, Guy Sella & Eva Jablonka
Self-Dissimilarity: An Empirical Measure of Complexity - David Wolpert and William Macready
Using Artificial Physics to Control Agents - William M. Spears and Diana F. Gordon
What are Neuro-Fuzzy Classifiers ? - Detlef Nauck and Rudolf Kreuse

Fun & Miscellaneous

Communitarian Network - the responsive community
Cosmogonicon - A Postmodern Cosmography by John P. Lynch
Global Renaissance Alliance - non-violent political values
Intuition Network - cultivate and use your inner resources
The Ragged Trousered Philosopher - Answers to Life, The Universe & Everything
WorldDharma - Evolving A Global Culture of Conscience
Fantastic Art - Christian de Boeck
Social Surrealism - Karl Franklin
The Society for the Art of Imagination - Fantastic Realism, Magic Realism, Surrealism and Visionary Art
Surrealism - an online gallery
The Apothecary's Drawer - stuffed alligators, brass astrolabes and jars of coloured water...
Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsch
The Spiritual Pilgrim - Miles Hodges
The Open Directory Project - the largest human-edited directory of the Web

Updated Pages Updated !

Glossary - new intros added and all entries hyperlinked

Updated Links Updated !

Resources

Harrison's ALife - software (new URL)

Tutorials

What Are Chaos & Complex Systems Theory ? - explanation by Mark Michaels (new URL)

Online Papers

Lee Altenberg - evolution and ecology (new URL)

End of Update 4.5


Update 4.4 November 1999


New Sections New

Agent & Robot Resources
Book Reviews
Dissertations and Theses
Software Collections & Major Software Projects

New Pages New

Complexity Philosophy as a Computing Paradigm - paper on adaptive programs
Metahuman Science - essay on a science of needs
Value Objectivity - essay on human science
Neo-Transcendentalist Philosophy - essay on abstract holism
Freeing Our Wild Side - essay on personal development
Irreversible Paths - essay on scientific assumptions

New Links New

From: applicat.htm

Flux Aeterna Project - Gerald O'Connell
Third Apex to Fractovia - Juan Luis Martínez
Bacterial Cybernetics Group - Eshel Ben-Jacob
BacSim - a simulator for individual-based modelling of bacterial colony growth
Chaos in the Central Nervous System - William Freeman
Digital Biology - alife technology
Morphogenesis and Development - bibliography by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Virtual Plant Images - CRC for Tropical Pest Management
Xmorphia - Morphogenesis from a Reaction-Diffusion System
Command and (Out of) Control: The Military Implications of Complexity Theory - John F. Schmitt
Complex Adaptive Systems, Evolutionism, and Ecology within Anthropology- Tom Abel
Computational Ecology and Visualization Laboratory - Stuart H. Gage
Life-time Selection and Self-Organization in Tree Growth - Rekesh John
Self-organising in spatial competition systems - Craig R. Johnson
Applying Complex Adaptive System's Theory to Organizations & Management - Uri Merry
Biononomics - evolutionary economics
Knowledge Based Development - entrepreneurial organization
Useful books and articles about complexity theory - Philip Anderson
CROP: Communities Resolving Our Problems - Robert S. Houghton
System Dynamics in Education - Sloan School of Management
Artificial Life, Inc - smart bots
Dancer DNA - evolving life to music
Game AI Page - for developers
Genetic Othello - Itamar Faybish
Octavius - neural network chess program by Luke Pellen
Molecular Information Processing - IMB Jena
Complexity Resources for Health Care Professionals - Edgeware
Life, The Multiverse & Everything: An Introduction to the Ideas of Humberto Maturana - Vincent Kenny
Life at the Edge of Chaos - Curt Lindberg, Alfred Herzog, Martin Merry & Jeffrey Goldstein
The Sameness of Difference: Self-Organisation & the Evolution of Counselling Theory - Edward N. Drodge
Fractal Sequencer - Shawn Bulen
Musical Networks - Niall Griffith & Peter M. Todd
Four Types of Chaotic Dynamics in Cellular Flames - M. Gorman, M. el-Hamdi, Kay A. Robbins
Chaos Theory & Social Dynamics: Foundations of Postmodern Social Science - T. R. Young
Evolutionary Models in Social Science (EMSS) - Web Bibliography
On Self Organization in Disaster Response to the Great Hanshin Earthquake - Louise K. Comfort
Project "Analysis of Social Self-Organization" - Sigmar Papendick
Sociocybernetics - International Sociological Association
Nanotechnology and Complexity: Consequences for Computing - Susan Stepney
Using Pareto Optimality to Coordinate Distributed Agents - Charles J. Petrie,Teresa A. Webster & Mark R. Cutkosky

From: links.htm

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation - University of Surrey
Noetica - cognitive psychology
Adaptive Behaviour - abstracts online
Cybernetics and Human Knowing - self-organizing processes
Agent Resources - NRC-CNRC
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Project - AI&R Laboratory
Beam Robotics FAQ - Brian O. Bush
Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab - ATR
Embodied Evolution - Richard A. Watson & Sevan G. Ficici
Evolutionary Robotics - Hornby
Evolutionary Robotics Links - Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Giant Robotics Page - Jeff Skinner
Intelligent Autonomous Machines - AI at Essex
Internet Ecologies - Xerox Palo Alto
Metabolizing Agents - Peter Zvirinsky
Nepros: obstacle avoiding robots - Wolfgang Wagner
Neugents: Software That Can Think - Computer Associates
Popbugs - COGS Sussex
Project Mentifex - Artificial minds for evolving mobile robots
Robot Kitten - Genobyte
Robotics Home Page - Mark Dalton
Robotics in Japan - comprehensive list
SNeRG - The SNePS Research Group
Subsumption Architecture - Rodney Brooks
The Web Robots Pages - Martijn Koster
Trio Project - Design and Prototyping of Agent Systems
Karl Sims - virtual creatures
Reed College Artificial Life Project - Mark Bedau
Systems Thinking Practice - reading list by Roderich Otto Ruehl
Stuart Kauffman - boolean networks
An Early Sampler of CAM-8 Applications - MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Complex Systems and ALife Created by Cellular Automata - Tomoaki Suzudo
Gray Scott Model of Reaction Diffusion - Abelson, Adams, Coore, Hanson, Nagpal, Sussman
StarLOGO - CAs at MIT
StarLOGO Models - fractals & others
Complex Adaptive Systems & Artificial Physics - William M. Spears
Centre for Complex Studies - Florin Munteanu
Cybernetics, Systems Theory and Complexity - Univ of Colorado
Institute for the Study of Complex Systems - synergy in evolution
VCU Complexity Research Group - understanding the world
EC Gateway to the World - Battelle
Evolutionary Dynamics Bibliography - Jim Crutchfield
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization - bibliography by Carlos A. Coello Coello
Genetic-Programming.Com - applied GP
IlliGAL - Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
The Fractal Forrest - Mitchell Robinson
Keplerian Fractals - David Hop
Lindenmeyer Systems Links - Christian Jacob
Adaptive Resonance Theory - FAQ
Diffusible GasNets - new ANN type
Pulse Coupled Neural Networks - CAOS
Correlation Coding and Self-Organizations on Pulse Neural Networks - Natsuhiro Ichinose
Chaotic N-Space Network - a repository for a wide variety of information
Nonlinear Who Is Who by subject
EVALife - Self-organisation in life-cycles
Extropia - open source software
Fractal Structures and Self-Organization - TMR Network
Scalable Self-Organizing Simulations - DARPA
Self-Organising Adaptive Systems - BT Labs
Self-Organising Nanopatterns - Sandia National Laboratory
Self-organization and fractals - Geodynamics
Cybernetics and the Art of Living - talk by Ernst von Glasersfeld
Bayesian Methods for Neural Nets - FAQ by David MacKay
Cyclomorphosis: Novelty Reducing NNs - Mervyn van Kuyen
EmerNet - emergent neural computation
Chaotic Bookstore - on chaos, nonlinear dynamics, financial markets
American Society for Cybernetics - Venkat Sunil Dudi
Anticipatory Systems - Robert Rosen interview
Center for Evolutionary Psychology - UC Santa Barbara
Encyclopaedia Autopoietica - Maturana & Varela's biology of cognition
Stanford Humanities Review - von Foerster interview
Whole Systems - links, books, essays by Flemming Funch
Connectionist Epistemology - Bruce MacLennan
Polycontextual Logic - multisystem logics
Radical Constructivism - Alex Riegler

From: tutorial.htm

Robotics - comp.robotics newsgroup
Complexity - by Don Mikulecky
PCC Complexity Course - lecture notes by Larry Edwards
Introduction to Lattice Gas Automata - David Hanon and Olivier Tribel
An Introduction to Fractals - by Paul Bourke
The Nature of Fractals - intro by Juan Luis Martínez
Cubic Tutorial - by Ingvar Kullberg
Fractals Unleashed - comprehensive tutorial
A Graphical Introduction to Fuzzy Logic - Jim Sibigtroth
An Overview of Evolutionary Computation - by Spears, De Jong, Baeck, Fogel & de Garis
What are Neural Networks ? - brief intro by Battelle
Connectionism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Neural Networks Tutorial - Vikram Pudi
Artificial Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, and Distributed Intelligence - by Colin Fyfe (Postscript)
Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART): An Introduction - L.G. Heins and D.R. Tauritz (Postscript)
PBio520 ANN Lecture Notes - by Deborah A. Stacey (Postscript)
Information Theory and Artificial Neural Networks - by Colin Fyfe (Postscript)
Learning and Self-Organizing Systems - Denni Rögnvaldsson (some Swedish)
Self-Organization, Systems Theory & Constructivism - Moses A. Boudourides

From: papers.htm

Peter Bentley - genetic evolutionary design
Robert Worden - evolution
A Close Look at a New Science: Chaos as Science or Science in Chaos ? - Don C. Mikulecky
A Multiagent Based Prediction of the Evolution of Knowledge with Multiple Points of View - Franck Lesage, Alain Cardon & Pierrick Tranouez
A Theoretical Framework for Abundance Distributions in Complex Systems - Stephan R.P. Halloy
An Adaptive Novelty Detector - Robert Saunders
An Introduction to “Maturana’s” Biology - Lloyd Fell & David Russell
Autocatalytic Closure in a Cognitive System - Liane Gabora
Autopoiesis: The Organization of the Living - Preface by Stafford Beer
Broadcast Networks, Temporal Codes & Global Integration - Peter Cariani
Building Block Fallacy - Chris Thornton
Category ART: A variation on adaptive resonance theory neural networks - David Weenink
Challenge of Sociocybernetics - Felix Geyer
Complexity - the Science, its Vocabulary, and its Relation to Organizations - Michael R. Lissack
Complexity and Semiosis of Human Life - Vladimir Dimitrov
Complexity Rising: From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile - Yaneer Bar-Yam
Conditions That Support Self-Organization in A Complex Adaptive System - Glenda Eoyang & Doris Jane Conway
Decision Emergence Out Of Complexity and Chaos, Semiotics and Complexity - Vladimir Dimitrov
Discourse: Patterns of Complex Adaptation - Glenda H. Eoyang & Brenda Fiala Stewart
Emergence - Mark H. Bickhard with Donald T. Campbell
Evoluitionary Dynamics - Erica Jen
Extent to which Organisms Construct their Environments - Mark A. Bedau
General System Principle - Thomas Mandel
Human Values as Strange Attractors: Coevolution of classes of governance principles - Anthony Judge
Intrapersonal Autopoiesis - Vladimir Dimitrov & Robert Ebsary
Knowledge Extraction from Data Using Self-Organizing Modeling Technologies - Frank Lemke
Language Evolution and the Complexity Criterion - Bernard H. Bichakjian
Managing Metaphors - Differing Interpretations and Implications of Complexity Theory - Donald MacLean, Michael Mayer, Robert MacIntosh & Arthur Francis
Material Sign Processes and Emergent Ecosocial Organization - Jay L. Lemke
Minds, Machines and Gödel - John Lucas
Narratives of Artificial Life - Katherine Hayles
Niche Construction, Biological Evolution & Cultural Change - Kevin Laland, John Odling-Smee & Marcus Feldman
On Emergence and Explanation - Nils A. Baas & Claus Emmeche
Poly-Contextural Modeling of Heterarchies in Brain Functions - Rudolf Kaehr and E. von Goldammer
Soft Computing: When It's Not Black and White - Hank Hogan
Spatio-temporal Connectionist Networks: A Taxonomy and Review - Stefan C. Kremer
The Self-Organizing Information Society - Henk Goorhuis
Self-Organizing Systems Research in the Social Sciences: Reconciling the Metaphors and the Models - Noshir S. Contractor
Toward an evolvable model of development for autonomous agentsynthesis - Frank Dellaert & Randall Beer
Use of Multiploidy in Evolutionary Computation - Paul Carr
Cognitive Architectures - From Knowledge Level To Structural Coupling - Walter Van de Velde
Genetic Network Inference in Computational Models & Applications to Large-Scale Gene Expression Data - Roland Somogyi
Incremental Neuro-Fuzzy Systems - Bernd Fritzke
Organising Simply for Complexity: Beyond Metaphor Towards Theory Synthesis - Michael Church
A Neural Networks Construction Method based on Boolean Logic - Georg Thimm & Emile Fiesler
A Chaotic Paradigm: An Alternative World View of the Foundations of Educational Inquiry - Robert Stuart Houghton
An Empirical Exploration of Computations with a Cellular-Automata-Based Artificial Life World - Pedro de Oliveira
Artificial Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour - Inman Harvey
Attractors in Recurrent Behavioural Networks - Phil Goetz
Data Exploration Using Self-Organizing Maps - Samuel Kaski
Evidence Sets and Contextual Genetic ALgorithms - Luis M. Rocha
Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Michael Oliphant
Generic Evolutionary Design of Solid Objects using a Genetic Algorithm - Peter Bentley
Possibilistic Processes for Complex Systems Modeling - Cliff Joslyn
Role of Mutation and Recombination in Evolutionary Algorithms - William M. Spears
Self-Organization In Living Systems - James J. Kay
Simulation of the Evolution of Single Celled Organisms with Genome, Metabolism and Time-Varying Phenotype - Paul Kennedy
Tangled Webs: Evolutionary Dynamics on Fitness Landscapes with Neutrality - Lionel Barnett
Visualizing Local Properties & Characteristic Structures of Dynamical Systems - Helwig Löffelmann

From: offline.htm

CCNR Sussex - evolutionary computing
Colorado State - genetic algorithms
Connectionist Research Group - cognitive modelling
Frank Dellaert - robots
Dynamical & Evolutionary Machine Organization - GAs & Robots
EEAAX - evolutionary computation
Evolutionary Computation Group - Edinburgh
Walter Fontana - Alchemy
David Goldberg - Illinois GA Lab
Samual Kaski - self-organizing maps
Loet Leydesdorff - self-organization
Man-Wai Mak - neural networks
Madhavan Mukund - asynchronous automata
Heinz Mühlenbein - mathematic & GAs
Ulrich Nehmzow - robotics
Didier Somette - self-organization
Jan Vaario - complexity in general
Ronald J. Williams - neural networks
An Updated Survey of Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Techniques: State of the Art and Future Trends - Carlos A. Coello Coello
Elephants Don't Play Chess - Rodney Brooks
Learning from Mistakes - Dante Chialvo and Per Bak
The Science of Self-Organization and Adaptivity - Francis Heylighen

From: java.htm

Alife Applets - Scott Robert Ladd
Animated Julia Explorer - Demidov
Artificial Neural Networks - Pacific Northwest National Lab
GA Playground - toolkit by Ariel Dolan
Lotus Artificial Life - various applets by Tim Tyler

From: software.htm

Artificial Intelligence - Generation 5
Artificial Life - PDP Lab
Artificial Life - Santa Fe
Artificial Life - Zooland
Artificial Worlds - Open Directory
Cellular Automata - Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Chaos & Fractals - for Mac by Glenn Elert
Complex Adaptive Systems For Macintosh
Complex Systems - For Macintosh by Ishihama Yoshiaki
Complex Systems - PDP Lab
Complexity - CTCS
Evolutionary Art - Andrew Rowbottom
Evolutionary Computation - PDP Lab
Fractals - Paul N. Lee
Fuzzy Systems - PDP Lab
Genetic Algorithms - Nova Genetica
L-Systems Software - Unix, Mac, MS-Dos
Neural Networks - Chris P. Hess
Neural Networks - NEuroNet
Neural Networks - PDP Lab
Simulation - Michael Altmann
Alchemy - Walter Fontana
Annexus 3D - ANN Shell, Markus Sprunck (WinNT4)
Cellang - J. Dana Eckart
Common Principal Component Analysis - Patrick Phillips
Con-x - Connectionist Backprop Language & Simulator
Echo - John Holland
EcoLab - Russell Standish
Framsticks - Maciej Komosinski & Szymon Ulatowski
GAGS GA Library - GeNeura (C++)
GARAGe - genetic algorithms
GPC Genetic Programming Library - Thomas Weinbrenner Institut (C++)
Nonlinear Dynamics Toolbox (NDT) - Applied Chaos Lab
On Growth and Form - National Science Foundation
The ART Gallery: A Neural Network Simulation Package - Lars Liden
Water & Molecule Networks - Center for Polymer Studies
Aerth - Fractal Terrain Generator
BacSim: Bacterial Growth - Jan Kreft (Swarm)
Behavioral Evolution Simulations & Tutorials - Michael Mills (DOS)
Benoit Fractal Analysis - TruSoft Intl Inc
Biotopia - Anthony Liekens
Brazil Fractal Builder - David Chardonnet (Win95/NT)
Cellular Automata Viewer - J.P. Rennar
Deepzoom & Fractals - Jay Hill
DEGAS GA - Pedro A. Castillo Valdivieso
Design IFS - Aaron Klingaman (Win95/NT)
DynaLab/Dynamics/Order - M.Casco associates
Elegance: genetic reinforcement control - Pieter Spronck
Evoloop: Evolving SDSR Loop - Sayama Hiroki
Evolvica: Evolutionary Algorithms with Mathematica - Christian Jacob
Expansions - John S. Stokes III
Forest Fire Model - Andreas Honecker
Flexica - Chris Gordon Smith
Fractal Analysis Macros - Mathew Warfel
Fractal Analysis of Contours of Objects - Volodymyr Kindratenko (Sun)
Fractal Domains - Dennis C. DeMars (Power Mac)
Fractal eXtreme - Cygnus
Fractal Programs - Ramiro Perez
Fractal Time - Peter Meyer
Fractal Viewer - Iterated
Fractal ViZion - Terry W. Gintz (Win95)
Fractopia Screen Saver - Software Cottage
Gaia - Genetic Algorithms Artificial Life
Gene Hunter - Ward Systems Group (Excel, VB, C)
Generator - New Light Industries (Excel)
HOP : Fractals in Motion - Michael Peters (DOS)
L-System - Thinkpiece (Win98/NT)
Makin' Magic Fractals - Dave Makin (DOS)
Mirek's Cellebration (MCell) - Mirek Wojtowicz
Mystical Screen Saver - Insim, Incorporated
NetLab - Ian Nabney (Matlab)
NeuroSolutions - educational demo
NK-Landscape Generator - Mitchell A. Potter
PolyAnalyst Data Mining - Mega Puter
Primordial Life - Axcelis
Primordial Life (2) - Jason Spofford
Quintessential Sophistry Fractals - Michael Sargent (DOS/Win95)
Rabbits GA - Richard (Visual Basic)
Salomo Fractals - Niko Wilbert (Win95/NT)
SBART Image Breeding - Tatsuo Unemi
Self-Organizing Map & LVQ - Neural Networks Research Centre Helsinki
Symmetry - Net Math Tutor
TISEAN - Nonlinear Time Series Analysis
Ultimate Fractals - Win95/NT
UltraFractal - Frederik Slijkerman (Win95/NT)
Visual Recurrence Analysis - Eugene Kononov
Wireworld - Darren
Wrigglers - Simon Hudson

From: fun.htm

Affinity Group of Evolutionary Anarchists - education and self-organization for an ideal society
The One Behind the Many - lists of all us weirdo's...
The Robot Wisdom Pages - Conservative-left Responsible Party
The Self-Organizing Cosmos - Paul Harrison
Trans-Hyperborean Institute of Science - sound healing
Conscious Dreaming and Controlled Hallucinations - Claude de Contrecoeur
Religious Tolerance - really new age !
The Secret Doctrine - the Buddhist middle way
Fringe and Controversial Science - they may be right !
Synesthesia: Phenomenology And Neuropsychology - cross modal people
Weird Links - something very different
Search Engines and Robots for WWW and Internet - long list

Updated Pages Updated !

Help & Overview - added details of New, Update and Dead flags
Self-Organizing Systems FAQ - version 2.3
Inner, Outer and Middle Natures - expanded essay

Updated Links New

(Many broken links have been fixed, those listed here are those whose authors had advised us)

From: links.htm

Artificial Life - Keith Wiley's page incl Megaflies (new URL)
John Koza's Home page - home of Genetic Programming (new URL)
Jean-Pierre Louvet's Fractal Gallery - interesting collection (new URL)

From: tutorial.htm

Artificial Life - comp.ai.alife newsgroup (new URL)
Fractals - sci.fractals newsgroup (temp new URL)
Dynamic Systems & Fractals - Book length maths lecture notes by David Wright (new URL)
Basic Information on Fractals - by Jean-Pierre Louvet (new URL)

End of Update 4.4


Update 4.3 June 1999


New Sections New

Complex Art Exhibition 2 - Leila Kubba Kawash : Transcending Time
Subscriber and Offline Journals - some with limited online availability

New Pages New

Exploring The Impossible - essay on future evolution
Cybernetics and Stochastic Systems - introduction
Patterns of Unreality - essay on possibility
Creativity and Consciousness - essay on innovation
The One-Dimensional Paradox - essay on global thinking
Emotional Reactions to Complexity, Confusion and Chaos - essay on reality
Quantifying Complexity Theory - introduction
The Non-Linear Dynamics of War - research paper

New Links New

From: applicat.htm

Computational Complexity Theory - Univ. Massachusets
Conference on Structure in Complexity Theory - bibliography
The Non-Linear Dynamics of War - Linda Beckenham
War, Chaos and Business - Strategy: the art and science of winning
Future Technologies - biological computing at BT
Manufacturing Complexity Network - industry meets academia

From: links.htm

Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies - Alife page

From: papers.htm

Background: Classifier Systems & Genetic Algorithms - Robert A. Richards
Complexity Theory and Management Practice - Jonathan Rosenhead
Complexity Theory and Social Research - David Byrne

From: offline.htm

The Selfish Gene Algorithm - Fulvio Corno, Matteo Sonza Reorda, Giovanni Squillero

Updated Pages Updated !

Exhibition 2 added to Exhibition page.
Complexity Theory definition added to Help.
New Application categories for Cognition, Conflict and War
New papers added to TOC, Themes and Tourbus.
New members Linda Beckerman and Jiri Donat added to CALResCo Info.

Updated Links Updated !

From: links.htm

Emergence: Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management - Issue 1 now out
C.O.P.P Software Flanders/VITAL - alife interest group (new URL)
Gene Pool & Darwin Pond - Jeffrey Ventrella (added program)

End of Update 4.3


Update 4.2 March 1999


New Sections New

Essays in Alternative Dimensions - complexity and world issues
Online Books - in depth expositions of complexity ideas

New Pages New

Complex Adaptive Systems - Webs of Delight - introduction
Inner, Outer and Middle Natures - essay on personality
Fact, Theory and Dogma - essay on convictions
Fourth World Thinking - essay on postindustrial society
Multidimensional Economics - essay on values
The Spirit of Complexity - research paper

New Links New

From: applicat.htm

Warunek - Complexity: Art, Science, and Technology
Grammidity - generating music from grammars
Agent Oriented Design of Control Systems - University of Twente

From: links.htm

HyperPSYCOLOQUY - connectionist psychology+other areas
Imagination Engines - creative NNs
Edge Foundation - Reality Club and Third Culture
Value Logic & Simplicity Theory - Stephen Phillips

From: papers.htm

Cris Moore - computational complexity plus
Evolution of Complex Behaviour - Rekesh John & C.R. Muthukishnan
Fragmentation of the Universe and the Devolution of Consciousness - Stephen L. Thaler
Metaphors as Transdisciplinary Vehicles of the Future - Anthony Judge
Neural Networks That Autonomously Create and Discover - Stephen L. Thaler
Niche Construction, Biological Evolution & Cultural Change - Laland, Odling-Smee & Feldman
Particle Swarm Optimization - James Kennedy & Russell Eberhart

From: offline.htm

An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology: Zen and the Art of Creating Life Tom Ray
As Large as Life & Twice as Natural: Bioinformatics & the Artificial Life Paradigm Paulien Hogeweg

From: fun.htm

Anarchist University - society without hierarchy
Elegant Technology - economic prosperity through environmental renewal
Science Without Bounds: A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Mysticism - Art D'Adamo
Music Industry Human Rights Association - power for musicians

Updated Pages Updated !

New intro, essays and paper added to relevant pages
Emergence and Evolution - Constraints on Form - additions on codons and choice

Updated Links Updated !

From: applicat.htm

Interactive Genetic Art - vote on the gallery (new URL)
Autopoiesis - self-organising cognition (new URL)
Science of Psychology - resources (new URL)

From: links.htm

Dynamic Psychology - complex mental processes (new URL)
ALife Database - Ariel Dolan (new URL)

From: papers.htm

Consciousness: Chaotic & Strangely Attractive - Allan Combs (new URL)

From: tutorial.htm

Chaos Hypertextbook - mathematics by Glenn Elert (new URL & Title)

End of Update 4.2


Update 4.1 November 1998


New Sections New

Graphic Links - visual access to the best of the best, our 'CALResCo Select' resources
(these are distributed around the pages of the site, illustrating, enhancing and adding depth to our educational themes).

New Pages New

Table of Contents - list of all the pages on the site
Java Applets & Animations - for those with the technology to run
Other Software - more conventional software for DOS/Windows

New Links New

From: applicat.htm

Evolutionary Art - Steven Rooke
Turbulent Landscapes - The Exploratorium
Biota.org - digital biology project
Ecotaoism: Holism, Ecology & Evolution - Laurence Evans
Alchemy Project - algorithmic chemistry by Walter Fontana
Artificial Culture: Experiments in Synthetic Anthropology - Nicholas Gessler
Ecosystem Network Analysis - Robert E. Ulanowicz
Network Analysis for the Neuse River - Christian and Thomas
Sci.Bio.Evolution Homepage - Josh Hayes
Game Theory - Roger A. McCain
Nonlinear Finance - Blake LeBaron
Simple yet Complex - Megan Santosus' CIO review
Devonian Garden - VRML ecosystem
Molecular Information Theory - & Theory of Molecular Machines
Gingerbread - Mandelbrot music generator
Interpreting Rhythmic Structures Using Artificial Neural Networks - S. C. Roberts
Transmusic - cellular automata music by Isle Ex
Continuous Valued Cellular Automata for Nonlinear Wave Equations - Daniel N. Ostrov
Quasicrystals - at CALTech
Chaos & Complexity in Social Systems - Clemson University
Complexity, Global Politics & National Security - Murray Gell-Mann
ISAAC - an artificial life approach to land warfare
Twelve Characteristics of a Family System - Craig Chalquist
What Disaster Response Management can learn from Chaos Theory - conference proceeedings
Genetic Algorithm Approaches to Telecommunication Network Design - Luke Welling
Hyphos - self-organizing wireless network

From: links.htm

InterJournal - self-organizing systems
Avida - alife group homepage
Bomb - an ALife visual-musical instrument
Gene Pool - Jeffrey Ventrella
Prison Project - Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
Technosphere III - 3D WWW model world
Tierra Photoessay - Tom Ray
Spectral Strange Attractors - Steve Giannoni
Life Page - by Mark D. Niemiec
Reversible Cellular Automata - self-reproduction with movies
Structurally Dissolvable Self-Reproducing Loop - Sayama Hiroki
CTCS - cognition, technology and complex Systems
Digital Library - several categories
Ilya Prigogine Center - statistical mechanics and complex systems
Primer Project - integrating the systems sciences
EvoNet - European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing
Fractals at the Edge of Chaos - Rob's Fractal Studio
Multivalued Logic Neural Computing - David D. Olmsted
Cycle Expansions - Ronnie Mainieri
One-Over-F Noise - bibliography
SciCentral - comprehensive science guide
Integrity Concept - James N. Rose
Online papers on Consciousness - David Chalmers

From: offline.htm

Pete Angeline - ALife, EC & GP
John Koza - genetic programming
Tony Plate - neural nets

From: papers.htm

Stuart Kauffman - working papers
Collective Problem Solving: Functionality beyond the Individual - Norman L. Johnson
Explaining Emergence: Towards an Ontology of Levels - Claus Emmeche
A Brief History of Connectionism - David A. Medler
Evolution, Learning and Popper's Epistemology - N. Cristianini
SOMLib:Distributed Digital Library based on Self-Organizing Maps - Andreas Rauber
Towards Combining Artificially Alive and Artificially Intelligent Agents - Neven T. Tomov

From: tutorial.htm

The Nature of Autonomous Agents - technical lecture notes by Stuart Kauffman
Cellular Automata and Art - introduction by Brian P. Hoke
Simulation with Cellular Automata - lecture notes by Jörg R. Weimar
Stochastic Spatial Models - hyper-tutorial by Rick Durrett
What is Chaos? - a five-part online course for everyone by Matthew A. Trump
What are Neuro-Fuzzy Systems - brief introduction by Detlef Nauck
Introducing Evolutionary Computing - by EvoNet
Genetic Algorithms - introduction with JAVA by Marek Obitko
Neural Networks - introduction by Leslie Smith

From: fun.htm

Hyperborea - an alchemical garden at the edge of time
Genesis of Eden - logos of the millennium
Soa Gild Antinomian Gate to the Left Hand path - occult
Thiaoouba Prophecy - the future of humanity
Alternate Realities in Art and Thought - wiccan, pagan, fantasy art gallery
Artchive of Surrealists - the odball collection
Bruce's Surreal World of Art - enjoy
Carol Gerten's Fine Art - a virtual art museum
Cecil Touchon Contemporary Art Gallery - interesting
Magritte Art Gallery - extensive
The Salvador Dali Museum Collection - wow !
World Wide Arts Resources - surrealism
Surrealism in Sound - a new experience
Fortean Times Online - strange phenomena rule ?
The Transcendental Meditation Program - complete guide
CWSApps List - download the greatest web software

Updated PagesUpdated !

All pages: minor navigation changes, TOC added to button bar, Index button renamed to Home. Index/Home - revised, picture links included, contents moved to new TOC page.
CALResCo Software - additions, updates and pics.
The Concept - expanded and enhanced to include applying the concept and pics.
Self-Organization and Extropy - enhanced to better reflect entropy in non-equilibrium systems
Self-Organizing Systems FAQ - version 2.1 with many more results
Tour Bus - new pages and pic included
Help & Overview - picture links included
Resource Links - picture links included
Application Links - picture links included
Glossary - index added
Relaxation Links - extended, pics and index added
CALResCo - reordered and new member added

Updated Links Updated !

From: applicat.htm

William Latham's Organic Art - genetically evolved phenotypes (new URL)
Talk Origins Archive - evolution and life matters (new URL)
Visual Models of Morphogenesis - biological structure (new URL)

From: links.htm

Artificial Life - Keith Wiley's page incl Megaflies (new URL)
The Temple of Alife: Morphs Lab - evolve your own organisms (new URL)
Framsticks - 3-D Artficial Life and evolution simulation s/w (new URL)
Larry Yaeger's Polyworld - computational ecology (new URL)
Primordial Soup Kitchen - software/developments (new URL)
Nova Genetica - Genetic Algorithms and all (new URL)
New Science Collection - many links/big Glossary (new URL)

From: papers.htm

Nova Genetica - genetic algorithms (new URL)
Jack Sarfatti - mind, matter & quantum mechanics (new URL)
Of Flesh and Ghosts: Self-Organization as Post-Quantum Physics - Jack Sarfatti (new URL)
Neural Networks and the Computational Brain - Stephen Jones (new URL)
On Complexly Ordered Systems and Consciousness - Stephen Jones (new URL)

End of Update 4.1


Update 4.0 July 1998


New Sections New

Complex Art Exhibition - E.W.Powell's Environmental & Social Surrealism, over 45 pages of powerful paintings and social commentary

New Pages New

Search Facility - quickly search all our site text !

New Links New

From: applicat.htm

Art by Math Fractals - gallery & products
Beauty of Chaos - Uwe Krüger
Glimpses of a Fugitive Universe - fractal gallery
Sine Art - Brian N.Hershey
Artificial Pet Shop - Rick Rutt
Genetic Algorithms & Games Theory - Steve Nichols
Artificial Convolution Neural Network with Wavelet Kernels For Disease Pattern Recognition - paper
Chaos and complexity as theoretical grounding for psychotherapeutic listening - Joanna Poppink
Art Song - music from fractal images
GenBeBop - Lee Spector
LMUSe - L-systems to Midi music
Sonomorphs - Gary Lee Nelson
Lattice Gas Automata - papers

From: links.htm

The ALife Database - searchable
Art & Aesthetics of Artificial Life - UCLA exhibition
Framsticks - alife simulation
Attractors & Co. - software & gallery by Pascal Leclercq
Cellular Automata - Harold V. McIntosh
Games of Life in Colour - by Gunnar Johnsson
Chaos & Complexity at Cornell - faculty guide
Complex Systems - University of Buenos Aries
Fractals, Chaos & Complexity - Ramiro Perez
GA Technical Reports - A-Z by Raffaele Gaioni
Genetic-Programming-Org - conferences
Netadelica - GA evaluations
superNATURAL - genetic programming
efg's Computer Lab - Fractals & Chaos
Fractal Sound - illustrative samples
IFS Fractal Encyclopedia - pictures, animations, software
Lparser - Laurens Lapre's L-systems
Study Web - comprehensive evaluated fractal links
Extended Kohenen Maps - Peter Kleiweg
NICO - ANN Toolkit
Symbiotic Intelligence Project - self-organizing knowledge
Center for Process Studies - developmental thought
Constructivism - extensive links

From: offline.htm

Digital Genetic Research Group - genetic algorithms
Xin Yao - evolutionary computation

From: papers.htm

Ben Goertzel - complexity & mind
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz - L-systems
Artificial Life: What Divides Living from Non-Living - Kai Wu
Composing with Chaos - David Clark Little
Emergence of Intelligence - William Calvin
Metadesign - Humberto Maturana
Origin and Evolution of Culture and Creativity -Liane Gabora
Investigating and Visualizing the Dynastic Cycle - Helmut Doleisch
Sexual Swimmers: Emergent Morphology and Locomotion - Jeffrey Ventrella

From: tutorial.htm

AI Pattern Recognition Introductory Book - by Donald Tveter
Artificial Life - introduction by Anders Kaplan
Chaos & Fractals - guided tour by Brian Wynn
Fractals - brief introduction by Godric Wilkie
Fractals - introduction by the Amateur Chaologist
Genetic Algorithms - introduction by Rabatin Investment Technology

Updated Pages Updated !

Index - hot logo graphics, exhibit, search & Edunet Choice award added
SOS FAQ - version 2 of the Self-Organizing Systems Frequently Asked Questions

Updated Links Updated !

From: links.htm

ALife Central - by Scott Robert Ladd (new URL)
Neural Networks Research Centre Helsinki - self-organizing maps (new URL)
The Nonlinear Lab - Blair Fraser (extended URL - was Lorenz Equations)

From: papers.htm

William Calvin - brain and mind (new URL incl online books)
Backpropagators Review - Donald Tveter (new location)

From: tutorial.htm

Artificial Life - interactive guide by Stewart Dean (new URL)
Cellular Automata - introduction by Scott Robert Ladd (new URL)
Fuzzy Logic and Neurofuzzy - collection of tutorials by Martin Brown (updated URL)
Genetic Algorithms - detailed introduction by Scott Robert Ladd (new URL)

End of Update 4.0



Update 3.1 January 1998


New Links New

From: applicat.htm

Kerry Mitchell - fractal computer artist
Fractal Landscapes - Ken Musgrave
Lifesmith Classic Fractals - lots of pics & products
Ilya - Brusselator model
Hearing the Mandelbrot Set - Dave Spondike
CRESS - computer simulation of societies

From: links.htm

Constructivist ALife - Alexander Riegler
Harrison's ALife - software
Cellular Automata Repository - comprehensive CA resources
Game of Life Varients - by David Ingalls Bell
Finite State Automata - Henrik Bergströms
Visualisation of Complex Dynamical Systems - Institute of Computer Graphics
Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms - Carlos Fonseca/Jane Shaw
Paul N. Lee - fractals
The Kaos Rhei Project - Bjoern Ischo
Fuzzy Logic & Neurofuzzy Resources - by Martin Brown at Southhampton
Fuzzy Sets and Systems - links by Robert Fuller
fuzzyTech - applications, demos and all
UH ERDC Neural Systems Group - ANNs
Applied Chaos Lab - Georgia Tech
The Lorenz Equations - Blair Fraser
AI Jumps List - comprehensive links by Seth Russell
Robotics Links - AI Lab Zurich
The Tangled Web: Whole Thinking - Lawrence University

From: offline.htm

David Fogel - evolutionary computation
James Meiss - high dimensional maps
Domenico Parisi - various
Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Michael Oliphant thesis

From: papers.htm

Artificial Neural Network Technology - a review by Rome Labs
Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms: Principles, Methods and Algorithms - Hartmut Pohlheim

From: tutorial.htm

Artificial Intelligence Introduction - by Thinkquest
Chaos, Fractals, Dimension - mathematics by Glenn Elert
Fractals & Chaos Theory - introduction by Scott Vaughen
Fuzzy Logic & Control - brief course by Peter Bauer, Stephan Nouak & Roman Winkler
Fuzzy Logic and Neurofuzzy - collection of tutorials by Martin Brown
Mandelbrot Set Introduction - by David Dewey

Updated Pages Updated !

Glossary - new entries
Info - Dr Vyacheslav L. Kalmykov home page added

Updated Links Updated !

From: tutorial.htm

Alife & Evolutionary Systems - detailed lecture notes by Luis Rocha (new URL)
Chaos & Order - maths intro for high school by M. Casco Associates (new URL)

From: papers.htm

Luis Rocha - artificial life (new URL)
Selected Self-Organization from Eigenbehaviour to Descriptions - Luis Rocha (new URL)

End of Update 3.1


Update 3.0 November 1997


New Pages New

What's New ? - this page !
Introduction to Complex Systems - an essential beginners guide
Help ! - navigating our site and how it can help you
The Tour Bus - a guided tour around our site
The Concept - what we are all about, philosophy wise...
Our Message Board - join us in wide ranging discussions
Conflicts as Emergent Phenomena of Complexity - new joint paper preprint

New Sections New

Offline Selected Papers - a recommended collection of postscript papers with short descriptions of each.

New Links New

From: applicat.htm

Descriptions of Evolutionary Art Programs - Andrew Rowbottom
Fractalus - Damien M. Jones
Radiolarians - 3D Golubitsky Icons
SBART : Let's Breed Images - Tatsuo Unemi
Vector Automata - John S. Stokes
Between Chaos and Order: What Complexity Theory can Teach Business - David Berreby
Complexity Research Project - London School of Economics
Generator GA problem solver - New Light Industries
Cognitive Musicology - connectionism, physicalism, representation
Music of José Oscar Marques - Fractal Midi compositions
Music, Mind, Machine - computational modelling of temporal structure
MusiNum - the music is in the numbers by Lars Kindermann
Organised Chaos - Phil Thompson's Fractal Music
Growing Artificial Societies - Sugarscape
Generic Evolutionary Design System - Peter Bentley

From: links.htm

Santa Fe Institute Bulletin - complexity research updates
Artificial Life & Complex Systems - a subject catalogue
CAPOW & CELLAB Software - Rudy Rucker
Genetic Algorithms Archive - inc GA-List back issues
Fractal Science - IBM Research
The 4D Julibrot Fractal - Benno Schmid
Fuzzy Logic Sources of Information - by Bob John
International Group For Chaos Studies (IGCS) - Vladimir Gontar
Philosophy of Mind, AI & Cognitive Science - Dey Alexander

From: offline.htm

Hugo de Garis - CAM artificial brain
Stephanie Forrest - GAs & evolution
Yasusi Kanada - randomized CAs

From: papers.htm

Gene Genie: Making DNA Computers - Thomas Bass
Learning How to Control Complex Systems - Seth Lloyd
Use of Fuzzy Logic when Dealing with Social Complexity - Vladimir Dimitrov
Virtues of Laziness in AI: Adaptive Logic Nets - William Armstrong
Artificial Life - Tom Ray
Complexity of Brains: A Biologist's View - Chris Smith
Effects of Randomness in Asynchronous 1D CA - Yasusi Kanada

From: tutorial.htm

Artificial Intelligence - comp.ai newsgroup FAQ
Artificial Intelligence Introduction - course notes (some postscript) by Michael Gasser
Classical and Quantum Chaos: A Cyclist Treatise - a web book (mostly postscript) by Predrag Cvitanovic
Fractal Tutorials - by ThinkQuest

Updated Pages Updated !

All pages given extensive button navigation bars, top and bottom.
Most pages (excluding papers) given a background graphic
Index page includes all new pages plus Conflict paper.
CALResCo Info page has an icon illustration
Images Page 1 has a new introduction and cell illustration.
Themes page includes Conflict paper and a small animation
Tutorial page has a quick access index
Links page has a quick access index
Software page typos corrected and illustration added

Updated Sections Updated !

CALResCo Info On-Line Themes section retitled and moved to the new Help page

Updated Links Updated !

From: links.htm

C.O.P.P Software Flanders/VITAL - alife interest group (VITAL added)
Jean-Pierre Louvet's Fractal Gallery - interesting collection (new location)

From: offline.htm

Wolfgang Banzhaf - GP & self organisation in binary strings (new expanded page)

From: tutorial.htm

Fractals - basic information by Jean-Pierre Louvet ( new location)

End of Update 3.0


Update 2.0 August 1997


New Pages New

Emergence & Evolution - introduction
Boolean Networks - introduction
Transient Attractors and Emergent Attractor Memory - research paper
Towards an Edge Methodology for Complex Systems Simulation - research paper
The Generalised Theory of Life - research paper
Attractor Map Images - research findings
CALResCo Software Guide - description of our software and download
Tutorials/FAQ - separate page now

New Sections New

All relevant Newsgroups - access added to index

New Links New

From: applicat.htm

Creating Art by means of Natural Selection - genetic pictures & music
Earl's Computer Art Gallery - fractals
Fractal Alphabet - A-Z
Fractals, Fractals, Fractals - images
Fractal Images on the Internet - Illustrated site list
Homage to Greenaway - 100 views on symmetry
Implicate Beauty - computational art by Brian Evans
Mandelbrot Gallery - Kees van der Doel
Physiology of Perception - Walter J. Freeman
Visual Models of Morphogenesis - biological structure
Center for Polymer Studies - water & molecular networks
Advanced Investment Technologies Center - books
Cracking Wall Street - Kevin Kelly
Complexity and Management - Michael Lissack's extensive information
Chaos & Complexity in Education - AERA Special Interest Group
Chaos and the World Wide Web - experimental teaching page
Chaos Theory, Dynamic Systems & Fractal Geometry - fun learning
Interface Project - fractal and chaos education
Patterns in Nature - fractal student activity guide
School of the Web - chaos and dynamics
Artificial Life Games Homepage - people & demos
Cybug-Space - robots & games
Molecular Physiology home page - genetic networks in CNS
Simple Complexity: The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book
Computational Complexity - people links
Dynamical Systems Homepage - SUNY preprint servers
Complexity & Chaos in Nursing - journal
Nanotechnology & Medicine - Ralph C. Merkle
Chaosynth - Cellular Automata Synthesis of Acoustic Particles
Fractal Music Lab - comprehensive
Musical Signals from Chua's Oscillator - in-depth investigation
Entropy in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems - Chris Hillman
Fractal Cosmology - Robert L. Oldershaw
Homeokinetics - the physics of complex systems
Quantum Chaos at Humboldt - papers
The Problem of Time in Quantum Cosmology - Stuart Kauffman & Lee Smolin
Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & the Life Sciences - resources
Application of Chaos Theory to Family Interactions - Matthijs Koopmans
Bifurcation Properties of Dynamic Urban Models - Thomas Buchendorfer
Complexity & Nonlinear Social Systems Home Page - human systems

From: tutorial.htm

Artificial Intelligence for the Beginner - incl NNs and GAs by Mark Lambourne
Artificial Life - detailed introduction by Moshe Sipper
Cellular Automata - introduction with applets by David Eck
Cellular Automata - introduction by Scott Robert Ladd
Chaos & Order - maths intro for high school by M. Casco Associates
Learning Dynamic Systems - tutorial by Dean, Leach & Shatkay
Fractals - natural geometry introduction by Michael Bayne
Fract-Ed - tutorial by Douglas Martin
Genetic Algorithms - detailed introduction by Scott Robert Ladd
Mandelbrot Set - maths by Hoppy

From: links.htm

Complexity in Human Systems - IAIR Group
International Journal of Futures Studies - complexity in the real world
ALife Central - by Scott Robert Ladd
Megaflies by Keith Wiley - large scale flocking phenomena
The Swarm Simulation System - multi-agent interactions
Larry Yaeger's Polyworld - computational ecology
C.O.P.P Software Flanders - alife interest group
Genetool - reverse engineering genetic networks
IAIR Complexity Laboratory - embryo stage...
Phil Goetz Complexity Links - old but big...
Santa Fe Institute - home of Complexity Studies
John Koza's Home page - home of Genetic Programming
Genetic Programming Bibliography - William Langdon
Patrick Hahn's Fractal Gallery - theory & practice
Graphics Archive - fractals
Fractal Image Encoding - comprehensive links
Fractals on the Internet - Chaffey High School's comprehensive links
FracTop - analyse fractals mathematically
L-Systems Software - Unix, Mac, MS-Dos
Redbeard's Life Raft - fractal set-surfer
Robert Vojak - multifractals & wavelets
Application Examples in Real World Systems - STØ Group descriptions
Meridian Marketing Group - newsletter/software
Adaptive Logic Networks - Bill Armstrong
Applications Corner - list from NeuroSolutions
Artificial Neural Network and Computational Brain Theory Group - Illinois
BioComp Systems - applications of neuro-genetics
Neural Network Links - with groups and publications
Neural Networks Research Centre Helsinki - self-organizing maps
SIENA - successful application case studies
Chaos in Nature - complex forms
Alwn Scott's home page - solitons & nonlinear waves
Nonlinear Nonsense Netletter - by Dick Oliver (fractals/chaos for the weird ?)
Archive of papers - adaptation/self-organizing systems
Shalizi's Notebook - self-organization
SOS on The Web - small
WEBSOM Self-Organizing Maps - web intelligence
Towards a Metaview for Interscience Discussion - Joel Henkel

From: offline.htm

Chicago University - computer science
ECAL 97 - 4th European Conference on Artificial life
EVOALG Group Berlin - evolvution and optimisation
Fractals, automates, cellulaires et systèmes dynamiques - fractals & chaos
Bernd Fritzke - self-organizing networks
Henrik Hautop Lund - evolving robots
Melanie Mitchell - alife & complexity
Udo Seiffert - self-organizing maps
Luc Steels - intelligence
UTSC Neural Networks -self-organization

From: papers.htm

Stuart Hameroff - microtubule automata
MIT - epistemology and learning
Luis Rocha - artificial life
Jack Sarfatti - mind, matter & quantum mechanics
Artificial Life Needs a Real Epistemology - Howard Pattee
A Speed Limit for Evolution - Robert Worden
Beyond the Centralised Mindset - Mitchel Ressnik
Causation, Control and the Evolution of Complexity - Howard Pattee
Conscious Events as Orchestrated Space-Time Selections - Hameroff & Penrose
Digital Non-Biological Lifeform - David Harrison
Neural Networks and the Computational Brain - Stephen Jones
Notes on the Simulation of Evolution - Wirt Atmar
Of Flesh and Ghosts: Self-Organization as Post-Quantum Physics - Jack Sarfatti
On Complexly Ordered Systems and Consciousness - Stephen Jones
Selected Self-Organization from Eigenbehaviour to Descriptions - Luis Rocha
The Systems View of Life - from The Turning Point - Fritjof Capra
Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability - Wagner & Altenberg
Complexity Seeking Ants - Howard Gutowitz
Games of Proto-Life in Masked Cellular Automata - Ali & Zimmer
Growing Self-Organizing Networks - Bernd Fritzke
Messy Futures & Global Brains - Gottfried Meyer-Kress
Origins of Intelligence - Luc Steels
Self-Assembly of Gene Nets in Evolution - Alexander Spirov
Stochastic Problem Solving by Local Computation based on Self-organization - Yasusi Kanada
Transients, Cycles & Complexity in Cellular Automata - Howard Gutowitz

End of Update 2.0


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