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new
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 Victor MacGill
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Articles written by Victor
involving aspects of Chaos and Complexity Web
resources and links
A
Glossary of Terms
used
in Chaos and Complexity from www.calresco.org Search this site Chris Lucas has an enormous collection of articles and information about all aspects of Chaos and Complexity. www.calresco.org Vlad Dimitrov was my tutor when I studied for my MA in Compexity, Chaos and Creativity. He has many useful resources on his pages http://www.zulenet.com/Vladim irDimitrov/pages/home.html  I met Matjaz Mulej at the the 11th ANZSYS conference in Christchurch in December 2005. He is a Professor Emeritus (Systems and Innovation Theory), University of Maribor, Slovenia andi the Vice-President of IFSR ( International Federation for Systems Research)  I met Michael Barnsley at a conference in Surfer's Paradise in July 2007. He featured in a television programme I saw in 1995 called Colours of Infinity, when I first learned about chaos and complexity.  I met Sam Bowles from the Santa
Fe Institute when he came and gave a talk at our local university. I
was able to organise a chat over coffee before the talk. |
Friends,
Links and Resources
Video resources on the net
Spring School Complexity lectures at Southhampton University 2007 A great 3 minute video clip about ant colonies and how they may help us control traffic jams About a 1 hour video documentary on Network Theory Stuart Kauffman talks about his book, Reinventing the Sacred - video clip An 11 minute summary of Emergence with John Holland Software Net logo http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/download.shtml Net draw
http://www.analytictech.com/downloadnd.htm Fractals:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Editors/Fractal-Forge.shtml
http://www.ultrafractal.com/download.html
(free evaluation) Boids: http://www.navgen.com/3d_boids/
and Websites Edge of
Chaos
document from http://www.littletongov.org/bia/economicgardening/ The
Oracle of
Bacon: http://oracleofbacon.org/ Erdős
Numbers: http://www.oakland.edu/enp/ Small
world
Network slide show: http://www.slideshare.net/isaac/social-software Scale
Free Network
document: GREAT OVERVIEW!!! www.nd.edu/.../01%20Review%20Articles/ScaleFree_Scientific%20Ameri%20288,%2060-69%20(2003).pdf A general overview of chaos and complexity ( a bit more technical) http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/ELIS-Complexity.pdf A great site for exploring the Mandelbrot Set www.fractal.org Download Factinct
a
progam to create your own images from the Mandelbrot Set.
 The Santa Fe Institute has been at the forefront of
complexity research for decades.http://www.santafe.edu/ Chaos
Theory and Fractals
Great article on fractals and the brain ffrom the Society for Chaos Theory   The Society for Chaos Theory in
Psychology and the Life Sciences has
an enormous
range of resources available as well. Many prominent researchers are
members.http://www.societyforchaostheory.org  The Plexus Institute looks at complexity within the field of health. Jonathan Mendelson and Elana Blumenthal http://www.mathjmendl.org/chaos/ Power
Laws, Weblogs and
Inequality by Clay Shirky
http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html The Dynamical Systems and Technology Project at Boston University http://math.bu.edu/DYSYS/dysys.html A great interactive site!!  The
Cynefin Centre
is an international network that focuses on the application of
complexity science to management and organisational practice. The
Centre spun off from IBM in July 2004 and will be based in a network of
academic institutions. At the heart of the Cynefin Centre is a distinction between ordered and unordered systems, and the consequent recognition that systems with fundamentally different qualities require the application of contextually differentiated methods for both diagnosis and intervention. The Cynefin Centre has three interlinked focus areas: SOCIAL COMPLEXITY: helping to establish this new discipline, applying complexity science to human systems OPEN SOURCE: the creation of an open source movement for consultancy practice and theory based on social complexity DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH: development of trans-disciplinary research based on emergence, participation and co-evolution  Emergence:
Complexity & Organization (E:CO)
is an international and interdisciplinary conversation about human
organizations as complex systems and the implications of complexity
science for those organizations. With a unique format blending the
integrity of academic inquiry and the impact of business practice, E:CO
integrates multiple perspectives in management theory, research,
practice and education. E:CO
is a quarterly journal published in print and online by The Complexity
Society, the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, and
the Cynefin Centre for Organizational Complexity in accordance with
academic publishing standards and processes. |
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