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Chaos and Complexity

We dance 'round and suppose,
The secret sits in the middle and knows.

Robert Frost

Our own evolution is a joy and a wonder because such a curious chain of events would probably never happen again, but having occurred, makes eminent sense.

Stephen Jay Gould

There is joy in the dance, but it does not exist for the sake of joy.... It does not exist for us, but we for it.

C. S. Lewis

ACASA Ackoff Center for Advancement of Systems Approaches
(University of Pennsylvania)

ACE/CAS-Related Research Groups and Sites, Pointers to
(Leigh Tesfatsion)

Ackoff Center Weblog (ACASA)

Active transport: A kinetic description based on thermodynamic grounds (Signe Kjelstrup et al., Journal of Theoretical Biology 234(1):7-12, 7 May 2005; arXiv:cond-mat/0412493v1 [cond-mat.soft], 17 Dec 2004)

ALife Bibliography: Artificial Life Bibliography of On-line Publications (Ezequiel A. Di Paolo)

ALife FAQ (Titus Brown, comp.ai.life)

Alive (Suzana Stojakovic-Celustka)

All About Entropy, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Order from Disorder

Apophyis | Freeware fractal flame editor for Windows
(Mark Townsend, West St. Kilda, Victoria)

Artificial Culture and Computational Anthropology (Nicholas Gessler)

Artificial Evolution Archive

Artificial Intelligence and A-Life (NewScientist.com)

Artificial Life (Journal of the International Society of Artificial Life)

Artificial Life (Thomas S. Ray)

Artificial Life (Yahoo)

Artificial Life VIII The 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (University of New South Wales, Sydney, 9-13 Dec 2002)

Artificial Life Games Homepage (ed. Luigi Pagliarini et al.)

Artificial Life Links (Erik Max Francis)

Artificial Life Online (Santa Fe Institute)

Artificial Life on the Web (Ariel Dolan)

Artificial Life (ALife) Pages at Brandeis (Patrick Tufts)

Artificial Life Researches in Japan (Tatsuo Unemi)

Artificial Life VII (1-6 Aug 2000)

Artificial Life Software

The Artificial Self-Replication Page (Moshe Sipper)

The Avida Artificial Life Group Home Page
(Digital Life Lab, CalTech)

The Avida-ED Project: Technology for Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science using Digital Organisms (Robert T. Pennock, Devolab at MSU)

Benoit B. Mandelbrot (Yale University)

A Bibliography of Molecular Computation and Splicing Sytems
(J. H. M. Dassen)

Biocomplexity Thesaurus, Browse the (US National Biological Information Infrastructure)

Biologically Inspired Research, WWW Resources on (Jianjun Hu)

Biomorph Breeder (Anna Claudia Nardella)

Bios Group (Stuart Kauffman et al.)

Biota.org - The Artificial Life Project (Bruce Damer et al.)

Bob Devaney's Home Page (Robert L. Devaney, Boston University)

Brainstorms Forum

Cellular Automata (Gil Bub)

Cellular Automata (J. Dana Eckart)

Center for Nonlinear Dynamics (University of Texas at Austin)

Center for Nonlinear Studies (Los Alamos National Laboratories)

Center for the Study of Complex Systems (University of Michigan)

Ceptual Institute

CEU Systems Laboratory (John B. Corliss)

Chaos (Purely Academic...)

Chaos and Complexity Theory (Judy H. Petree)

Chaos at Maryland

The Chaos Center at the Visual Math Institute
(Ralph Abraham, Santa Cruz, California)

The Chaos Hypertextbook (Glenn Elert)

Chaos - Interactive Mathematics Online

ChaosLab - An Orderly Pursuit of Disorder (Living Graphs)

The Chaos Metalink

Chaos Theory and Fractals (Jonathan Mendelson & Elana Blumenthal)

Chaos Without the Math (Judy H. Petree)

Chaotic Attractors (Tim Stilson)

Climate Dynamics, Chaos and Quantum Mechanics
(A. Mary Selvam)

Cognition, Technology, and Complex Systems Group
(CTCS Home Page)

Complex Adaptive Systems Group at Iowa State University
(Vasant Honavar et al.)

Complex (Adaptive) Systems Information

Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group
(University of Newcastle, Australia)

Complexity and Artificial Life (Anders Sandberg)

The Complexity & Artificial Life Research Concept for Self-Organizing Systems (CALResCo)

-- European Mirror

Complexity and Catastrophe: A Talk with Sir John Maddox
(John Brockman, Edge 8, 4 Mar 1997)

Complexity and Philosophy (Francis Heylighen et al., uk.arXiv.org:cs.CC/0604072, 19 Apr 2006) PDF

Complexity and Self-Organisation (Susan Stepney)

ComplexityBlog.com - Science, Engineering, and Philosophy of Complexity & Adaptive Systems (Aaron Bramson)

-- Review (Physics World, 2 Feb 2010)

Complexity, Complex Systems & Chaos Theory: Organizations as Self-Adaptive Complex Systems (Brint Institute)

Complexity/Computation Links (Net Advance of Physics)

Complexity International (CSU)

Complexity Links (CPM)

Complexity On-line (Complex Systems Information Network)

Complexity Papers Online: Online Papers on Self-Organisation, Complexity and Artificial Life (CALResCo)

Complex Systems (Yahoo)

Complex Systems Research Center (University of New Hampshire)

Computational Complexity (Lance Fortnow & Bill Gasarch)

Connected Mathematics

Conway's Game of Life (Alan Hensel)

Conway's Game of Life (Anna Claudia Nardella)

Conway's Game of Life for Microsoft Windows (Johan Bontes)

Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab (Cornell University)

CoSCo - Complex Systems Computation Group
(University of Helsinki)

The Creatures Community

Cris Moore's Homepage

Cyberlife Technology Ltd

David Ingalls Bell's Homepage

Dead Ahead: Similar Early Warning Signals of Change in Climate, Ecosystems, Financial Markets, Human Health (US National Science Foundation Press Release 09-161, 2 Sep 2009)

DEEPER - An Unattended Fractal Zoom Algorithm for FractInt
(Jason Hine)

Deterministic Chaos: A Signature of Quantumlike Mechanics in Self-organized Adaptive Networks in Atmospheric Flows (A. Mary Selvam, 23 May 2003)

The Devolab at MSU (Charles Ofria et al., The Digital Evolution Laboratory, Michigan State University)

Differential Equations and Nonlinear Mechanics (Cairo)

Digital Life Consortium (The Media Lab, MIT)

The Digital Life Lab at Caltech (Christoph Adami et al.)

Digital Physics (Joel Dobrzelewski & Plamen Petrov)

Does Nature Break the Second Law of Thermodynamics? (J. Miguel Rubi, 'The Long Arm of the Second Law,' Scientific American 299:5:62-7, Nov 2008)

Dynamical Systems (Oliver Knill, Arlington, Massachusetts)

Dynamical Systems and Technology Project
(dir. Robert L. Devaney, Boston University)

Dynamic Doctor Dan Lathrop's Non-linear Dynamics Lab
(Daniel P. Lathrop, University of Maryland)

ECCC - The Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity

ECCO Web (Evolution, Complexity and COgnition Group, dir. Francis Heylighen, Free University of Brussels)

The Electric Sheep Screen-Saver (Scott Draves et al., San Francisco)

Emergence: Complexity & Organization (E:CO) (ISCE)

The Emergence of Biological Complexity
(Cambridge Templeton Consortium)

Emergent Behavior in Agent Networks: Self-Organization in Wasp and Open Source Communities (Sergi Valverde et al., physics/0602003, 1 Feb 2006)

ENCORE (Evolutionary Computation Repository Network)

The Enquist Lab (Brian Enquist et al., University of Arizona)

Entropy, An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Entropy and Information Studies (ed. Shu-Kun Lin et al., Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland)

Entropy on the World Wide Web (Chris Hillman)

-- Entropy Mirror

-- European Mirror (Shu-Kun Lin, Basel)

Eric's Treasure Trove of Life (Eric W. Weisstein)

EvoGrid - The Evolution Technology Grid (Bruce Damer et al., Biota.org)

Evolutionary Computation (Napier University, Edinburgh)

-- Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES2000)

Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Page
(Una-May O'Reilly)

Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life: Lecture Notes
(SSIE580B, Luis Mateus Rocha, LANL)

Evolution, Complexity, Entropy, and Artificial Reality
(Thomas S. Ray)

Evolution, Ecology and Optimization of Digital Organisms
(Thomas S. Ray)

The EvoNet Online Tutorial (Enrique Alba & Carlos Cotta-Porras, EvoWeb)

EvoWeb - UK (EvoNet: The Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing)

Exploring Fractals (Mary Ann Connors)

Exploring Patterns in Nature Tutorials (PhysioNet, MIT)

Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management in the 21st Century (Michael Crichton, Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy, Washington, DC, 6 Nov 2005)

The Fractal Continuum (Mike Kidulich)

Fractal Explorer

Fractal Geometry (Michael Frame et al., Yale University)

The Fractal Microscope (NCSA)

Fractal Microscope Curriculum Resources (Joseph South)

Fractal Overview (IBM Research)

Fractals (CLN)

Fractals, Chaos (Paul Bourke, Swinburne University of Technology)

A Fractals Lesson (Cynthia Lanius)

Fract-ED: The Fract-ED Information Pages (Douglas Martin)

Fractint Homepage (Noel Griffin)

-- East Coast Mirror (Michael Taylor)

The Fractory: An Interactive Tool for Creating and Exploring Fractals
(David Green et al.)

FracXtra Home Page (Dan Goldwater)

Fuzziology (Vlad Dimitrov)

The Genetic Algorithms Archive (Alan C. Schultz)

Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life Resources
(School of Computer Science, Carleton University)

Genetic Programming Conference

Genetic Programming Inc.

The Genetic Programming Notebook (Jaime J. Fernandez)

Geometry.net | Chaos

George Maydwell's Cellular Automata Page (SARCASim)

Groupe Fractales - INRIA

Greetings from Info Mesa (Ed Regis, Wired 8.06, Jun 2000)

Guide to Complex Systems (Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute)

Human Strategies in Complexity: Philosophical Foundations for a Theory of Evolutionary Systems (Wolfgang Hofkirchner et al., Vienna)

Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics & Complex Systems

The Institute For Advanced Interdisciplinary Research

Institute for Nonlinear Science (UC San Diego)

Institute for the Study of Complex Systems
(dir. Peter A. Corning, Palo Alto)

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (IJBC) $

International Society for the Systems Sciences

International Society of Artificial Life

ISCE Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence

ISCID - International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design
(William A. Dembski et al.)

-- PCID: Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design

Isle Ex: Applet: Cellsprings/Web (John Elliott)

Java Applets for Neural Network and Artificial Life
(Akio Utsugi, Artificial Neural Networks Lab)

John Conway's Game of Life (Edwin Martin, Amsterdam)

John Conway's Game of Life (Stephen Stuart)

Langton's Ant (Anna Claudia Nardella)

Life Drop

Life in Digital Space - Bots, Biota and Virtual Pets (Bruce Damer)

-- We Are Not Alone: Artificial Life Growing on the Internet

Lotus Artificial Life (Tim Tyler)

Making Sense of Complexity: Summary of the Workshop on Dynamic Modeling of Complex Biomedical Systems (George Casella et al., U.S. National Research Council, 2002)

Mandelbrot and Julia Set Explorer (David E. Joyce)

Mandelbrot Explorer (Panagiotis Christias, NTUA/Softlab)

Marco's Maddening Artifical Life Page (Marco van de Weg)

Mark's Floating Julia Set Page

Mark's Java Julia Set Generator

The mesoscopic dynamics of thermodynamic systems (David Reguera et al., Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109(46):21502-15, 24 Nov 2005; arXiv:cond-mat/0511651v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech], 28 Nov 2005)

Metaphysical Chaos (Peter Turlands Home Page)

Michael Polanyi Center for Complexity, Information, and Design

Mirek's Cellebration: 1-D and 2-D Cellular Automata
(Mirek Wojtowicz)

"A Mirror up to Nature": Cosmos, Nature, and Culture in Shakespeare (Kenneth W. Davis, Global Spiral, 27 May 2009)

MITACS Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems

Mitchell, Melanie, Papers by

A model for the emergence of cooperation, interdependence, and structure in evolving networks (Sanjay Jain & Sandeep Krishna, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98:2:543-7, 16 Jan 2001)

Modeling Kinematic Cellular Automata: Final Report (Tihamer Toth-Fejel et al., NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts, 30 Apr 2004) PDF

Murray Gell-Mann Home Page (Santa Fe)

New England Complex Systems Institute

Nonlinear Dynamics Experiment (Chaos Group at Maryland)

Nonlinearity and Complexity Home Page (Fotis A. Papoulias)

Nonlinear Science Group at George Mason University (Kathleen Alligood et al.)

Nonlinear Systems, Fractal Geometry and Chaos Theory - Resources
(P. R. F. Brown)

The Non-Linear Lab (Blair Fraser)

NOVA | Hunting the Hidden Dimension (Michael Schwarz & Bill Jersey, PBS, 28 Oct 2008)

Open Directory - Computers: Artificial Life

Order - A Closer Look at Chaos (J. D. Jones, M. Casco Associates)

Out of Order, Chaos (Anna Claudia Nardella)

The Page of Entropy (Dave Slaven)

Paul's Page of Conway's Life Miscellany (Paul Callahan)

Philosophy, Information Theory, Complexity
(John Collier, University of KwaZulu)

A Prime Case of Chaos (Barry Cipra)

The Primordial Soup Kitchen (David Griffeath)

ProtoCELL (Steen Rasmussen)

Protocell and Evolutionary Cell Computing Project
(Computational Intelligence Group, NASA Ames RC)

Protocell Assembly (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

ECCO Web (Evolution, Complexity and COgnition Group, dir. Francis Heylighen, Free University of Brussels)

Principia Cybernetica Web (ed. Francis Heylighen)

-- Los Alamos Mirror

Regular & Chaotic Dynamics Selected Papers

The Santa Fe Institute

Science, complexity and the nature of existence (George Ellis, Royal Society, London, 9 Dec 2004)

Scientists Seek Warning Signs for Catastrophic Tipping Points (Brandon Keim, Wired Science, 2 Sep 2009)

Sci.Fractals FAQ

Sci.Nonlinear FAQ - Contents (James D. Meiss)

Self-organized complexity in the physical, biological, and social sciences (Donald L. Turcotte & John B. Rundle, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99 (Suppl. 1): 2463-2465, 19 Feb 2003)

Self-Organized Complexity in the Physical, Biological, and Social Sciences(NAS Colloquium, Washington, D.C., 2002)

Self-Organized Networks (University of Notre Dame)

Self Organizing Systems

Self-Organizing Systems and Final Causality (Joseph A. Bracken, Metanexus Sophia, 11 Aug 2005)

Self-Organizing Systems FAQ (Chris Lucas, comp.theory.self-org-sys)

Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences

Soft Computing and Artificial Life (Victor V. Miagkikh)

Software Collidoscope Foundry (George Maydwell)

The Space-Time Travel Machine (VOL Mirror)

Stewart Dean's Guide to Artificial Life

Stuart A. Kauffman Home Page (Santa Fe)

Systemics Inquiry Primer Welcome (Tom Mandel)

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE)

Systems Thinking World Wide Portal (Systems Thinking Press, San Diego)

T-13 Complex Systems Group LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

TechnoSphere

The Temple of Alife (Fusebox)

Thermodynamics "beyond" local equilibrium (Jose Manuel Gomez Vilar & J. Miguel Rubi, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 98(20):11081-4, 25 Sep 2001; arXiv:cond-mat/0110614v1, 30 Oct 2001)

Tierra Home Page (Thomas S. Ray)

The Tierra Project

Tierra Users Manual (Thomas S. Ray)

Transitions and Tipping Points in Complex Environmental Systems: A Report by the NSF Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education, 8 Sep 2009) PDF

Turbulence - Pattern Formation - Spatiotemporal Chaos (Nonlinear Dynamics and Fluid Dynamics Group, Cornell University)

A Turing Machine in Conway's Game Life... (Paul Rendell)

Virtual ALife Library (Patrick Tufts)

Vlad Dimitrov, Home Page of

VRML Fractals

What is Chaos? An Interactive Online Course for Everyone
(Matthew A. Trump, Ilya Prigogine Center)

Zooland: The Artificial Life Resource (Jörg Heitkötter)

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