Simply Complexity (34 page)
Authors: Neil Johnson
http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/complex/
– Software for demonstrating Complex Systems from researchers at Indiana University, U.S.A.
http://necsi.org/guide/index.html
– A general guide from the New England Complex Systems Institute, with additional online resources at
http://necsi.org/education/onlineproj.html
and simulations at
http://necsi.org/visual/
http://www.comdig.org/
– A digest which provides an overview of new developments.
See also the list of resources at
http://www.comdig.org/resources.php
http://www.complexity-society.com/
– The Complexity Society which looks at the application of Complexity Science to human affairs.
For those interested primarily in financial applications, I suggest looking at:
N.F. Johnson, P. Jefferies and P.M. Hui,
Financial Market Complexity
(OUP, Oxford, 2003) ISBN: 0198526652
For broader discussions on topics such as non-linearity, chaos,
power-laws and collective behavior, I recommend looking at the following popular science books:
Philip Ball,
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
(Arrow Books, 2005) ISBN: 0099457865
Mark Buchanan,
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks
(Norton Books, 2003) ISBN: 0393324427
Mark Buchanan,
Ubiquity: The New Science That Is Changing the World
(Phoenix Press, 2001) ISBN: 0753812975
Ricard Sole, Brian Goodwin,
Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology
(Basic Books, 2002) ISBN: 0465019285
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi,
Linked: How Everything Is Connected Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
(Plume Books, 2003) ISBN: 0452284392
Steven Johnson,
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software
(Penguin Books, 2002) ISBN: 0140287752
Roger Lewin,
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos
(Phoenix Press, 2001) ISBN: 0753812703
Steven Strogatz,
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
(Penguin Books, 2004) ISBN: 014100763X
Duncan J. Watts,
Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness
(Princeton University Press, 2004) ISBN: 0691117047
John Scott,
Social Network Analysis: A Handbook
(Sage Publications, 2000) ISBN: 0761963391
Duncan J. Watts,
Six Degrees: The New Science of Networks
(Vintage Books, 2004) ISBN: 0099444968
Per Bak,
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality
(Springer-Verlag, 1996) ISBN: 0387947914
John Gribbin,
Deep Simplicity: Chaos Complexity and the Emergence of Life
(Penguin Books, 2005) ISBN: 0141007222
John Gribbin,
Schrodinger’s Kittens and the Search for Reality: The Quantum Mysteries Solved
(Phoenix Books, 1996) ISBN: 1857994027
Eric Bonabeau, Marco Dorigo, Guy Theraulaz,
Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems
(Oxford University Press, 1999) ISBN: 0195131592
http://sbs-xnet.sbs.ox.ac.uk/complexity/complexity_home.asp
– Complex Systems homepage for the University of Oxford, U.K.
http://www.santafe.edu/
– The Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, U.S.A., which is a multidisciplinary research center
http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/
– The Intelligent Systems Division at NASA
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/
– The University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Complex Systems
http://www.ccs.fau.edu/
– Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
The research papers listed below contain the background details for the discussions in this book, as well as reports on related areas of research. The references which are cited at the end of each of these papers provide further information about the publications by other research groups in the relevant area. Further details of my own group’s research collaborations, and an update of the projects described in this book, can be found on the following websites:
http://sbs-xnet.sbs.ox.ac.uk/complexity/complexity_home.asp
http://users.physics.ox.ac.uk/cmphys/cmt/people.htm
Each paper listed below can be freely obtained online by visiting
http://xxx.lanl.gov
. In particular:
To access paper
physics/0604121
, for example, go to the following website:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics
and type in the paper number
0604121
To access paper
quant-ph/0509022
, for example, go to the following website:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph
and type in the paper number
0509022
To access paper
cond-mat/0506011
, for example, go to the following website:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat
and type in the paper number
0506011
The same procedure applies for any paper number. Nearly all the papers listed below are already published in peer-reviewed, international science journals. However, I won’t give the reference to these journals since access to them is not generally free. Additional research papers written by the wider Complexity community can be freely downloaded from the following two websites:
1. physics/0604121
Title:
Multi-Agent Complex Systems and Many-Body Physics
Authors: N.F. Johnson, David M.D. Smith, Pak Ming Hui
2. physics/0605035
Title:
Universal patterns underlying ongoing wars and terrorism
Authors: N.F. Johnson, Mike Spagat, Jorge A. Restrepo, Oscar Becerra, Juan Camilo Bohorquez, Nicolas Suarez, Elvira Maria Restrepo, Roberto Zarama
3. physics/0604142
Title:
Pair Formation within Multi-Agent Populations
Authors: David M.D. Smith, N.F. Johnson
4. physics/0605065
Title:
Predictability, Risk and Online Management in a Complex System of Adaptive Agents
Authors: David M.D. Smith, N.F. Johnson
5. physics/0604183
Title:
Interplay between function and structure in complex networks
Authors: Timothy C. Jarrett, Douglas J. Ashton, Mark Fricker, N.F. Johnson
6. physics/0604148
Title:
Effects of decision-making on the transport costs across complex networks
Authors: Sean Gourley, N.F. Johnson
7. cond-mat/0604623
Title:
Optically controlled spin-glasses in multi-qubit cavity systems
Authors: Timothy C. Jarrett, Chiu Fan Lee, N.F. Johnson
8. quant-ph/0509022
Title:
Renormalization scheme for a multi-qubit-network
Authors: Alexandra Olaya-Castro, Chiu Fan Lee, N.F. Johnson
9. physics/0508228
Title:
Abrupt structural transitions involving functionally optimal networks
Authors: Timothy C. Jarrett, Douglas J. Ashton, Mark Fricker, N.F. Johnson
10. quant-ph/0507164
Title:
Reply to Brankov et al.’s “Comment on equivalence between quantum phase transition phenomena in radiation-matter and magnetic systems”
Authors: J. Reslen, L. Quiroga, N.F. Johnson
11. physics/0506213
Title:
From old wars to new wars and global terrorism
Authors: N.F. Johnson, M. Spagat, J. Restrepo, J. Bohorquez, N. Suarez, E. Restrepo, R. Zarama
12. physics/0506134
Title:
Using Artificial Market Models to Forecast Financial Time-Series
Authors: Nachi Gupta, Raphael Hauser, N.F. Johnson
13. cond-mat/0506011
Title:
A non-Markovian optical signature for detecting entanglement in coupled excitonic qubits
Authors: F. J. Rodriguez, L. Quiroga, N.F. Johnson
14. cond-mat/0505581
Title:
Decision Making, Strategy dynamics, and Crowd Formation in Agent-based models of Competing Populations
Authors: K.P. Chan, Pak Ming Hui, N.F. Johnson
15. cond-mat/0505575
Title:
Transitions in collective response in multi-agent models of competing populations driven by resource level
Authors: Sonic H. Y. Chan, T. S. Lo, P. M. Hui, N.F. Johnson
16. physics/0505071
Title:
How does Europe Make Its Mind Up? Connections, cliques, and compatibility between countries in the Eurovision Song Contest
Authors: Daniel Fenn, Omer Suleman, Janet Efstathiou, N.F. Johnson
17. physics/0503031
Title:
Competitive Advantage for Multiple-Memory Strategies in an Artificial Market
Authors: Kurt E. Mitman, Sehyo Charley Choe, N.F. Johnson
18. quant-ph/0503015
Title:
Exploring super-radiant phase transitions via coherent control of a multi-qubit–cavity system
Authors: Timothy C. Jarrett, Chiu Fan Lee, N.F. Johnson
19. physics/0503014
Title:
What shakes the FX tree? Understanding currency dominance, dependence and dynamics
Authors: N.F. Johnson, Mark McDonald, Omer Suleman, Stacy Williams, Sam Howison
20. cond-mat/0501186
Title:
Many-Body Theory for Multi-Agent Complex Systems
Authors: N.F. Johnson, David M.D. Smith, Pak Ming Hui
21. cond-mat/0412411
Title:
Detecting a Currency’s Dominance or Dependence using Foreign Exchange Network Trees
Authors: Mark McDonald, Omer Suleman, Stacy Williams, Sam Howison, N.F. Johnson
22. quant-ph/0412069
Title:
Optically controlled spin-glasses generated using multi-qubit cavity systems
Authors: Chiu Fan Lee, N.F. Johnson
23. cond-mat/0409140
Title:
Theory of enhanced performance emerging in a sparsely-connected competitive population
Authors: T.S. Lo, K.P Chan, P.M. Hui, N.F. Johnson
24. quant-ph/0409104
Title:
A robust one-step catalytic machine for high fidelity anti-cloning and W-state generation in a multi-qubit system
Authors: Alexandra Olaya-Castro, N.F. Johnson, Luis Quiroga
25. cond-mat/0409059
Title:
Effect of congestion costs on shortest paths through complex networks
Authors: Douglas J. Ashton, Timothy C. Jarrett, N.F. Johnson
26. cond-mat/0409036
Title:
Evolution Management in a Complex Adaptive System: Engineering the Future
Authors: David M.D. Smith, N.F. Johnson
27. cond-mat/0408557
Title:
Plateaux formation, abrupt transitions, and fractional states in a competitive population with limited resources
Authors: H. Y. Chan, T. S. Lo, P. M. Hui, N.F. Johnson
28. cond-mat/0406674
Title:
Direct equivalence between quantum phase transition phenomena in radiation-matter and magnetic systems: scaling of entanglement
Authors: José Reslen, Luis Quiroga, N.F. Johnson
29. cond-mat/0406391
Title:
Theory of Networked Minority Games based on Strategy Pattern Dynamics
Authors: T. S. Lo, H. Y. Chan, P. M. Hui, N.F. Johnson
30. quant-ph/0406133
Title:
Quantum Information Processing in Nanostructures
Authors: Alexandra Olaya-Castro, N.F. Johnson
31. cond-mat/0405037
Title:
Error-driven Global Transition in a Competitive Population on a Network
Authors: Sehyo Charley Choe, N.F. Johnson, Pak Ming Hui
32. quant-ph/0404163
Title:
Efficient quantum computation within a disordered Heisenberg spin-chain
Authors: Chiu Fan Lee, N.F. Johnson
33. quant-ph/0403185
Title:
First-order super-radiant phase transitions in a multi-qubit–cavity system
Authors: Chiu Fan Lee, N.F. Johnson