About the Book
This special topic issue of 'ComPlexUs' contains selected papers presented at the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS’05) which took place in Paris in November 2005. Complex systems are networks of interactive entities that are studied through a rapidly increasing mass of data in all scientific disciplines. At the same time, these disciplines share a lot of new and fundamental theoretical questions. This situation is particularly favorable for developing the new science of complex systems in an interdisciplinary way. As the first in a series of major annual conferences on complex systems research, the ECCS’05 provided an overview of the many fields of interest contributing to the growth of this rapidly developing interdisciplinary science. Mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, and investigators in biology and sociology will appreciate the wealth of interesting new findings and theories from the cutting edge of complex systems research collected in this issue.
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Towards a Science of Complex Systems: Bourgine, P.; Kepes, F.; Schoenauer, M.; Bio Inspired Methods; Chemotaxis-Inspired Load Balancing: Canright, G.; Deutsch, A.; Urnes, T.; Elements about the Emergence Issue: A Survey of Emergence Definitions: Deguet, J.; Demazeau, Y.; Magnin, L.; The POEtic Electronic Tissue and Its Role in the Emulation of Large-Scale Biologically Inspired Spiking Neural Networks Models: Mreno, J.M.; Thoma, Y.; Sanchez, E.; Eriksson, J.; Iglesias, J.; Villa, A.; An Electronically Controlled Microfluidic Approach towards Artificial Cells: Tangen, U.; Wagler, P.F.; Chemnitz, S.; Goranovic, G.; Maeke, T.; McCaskill, J.S.; Complex Systems Methods; Message-Passing Algorithms for Non-Linear Nodes and Data Compression: Ciliberti, S.; Mezard, M.; Zecchina, R.; Understanding Fractal Analysis? The Case of Fractal Linguistics: Jelinek, H.F.; Jones, C.L.; Warfel, M.D.; Lucas, C.; Depardieu, C.; Aurel, G.; Ambiguity in Art: Yevin, I.; Information Technology Modelling; Sampling of Networks with Traceroute-Like Probes: Alain Barrat, A.; Alvarez-Hamelin, I.; Dall'Asta, L.; Vazquez, A.; Vespignani, A.; Traffic Dynamics in Scale-Free Networks: Fekete, A.; Vattay, G.; Kocarev, L.; Emergent Group Level Selection in a Peer-to-Peer Network: Hales, D.; Measuring the Dynamical State of the Internet: Large-Scale Network Tomography via the ETOMIC Infrastructure: Simon, G.; Steger, J.; Haga, P.; Csabai, I.; Vattay, G.; Network Modelling; Spreading on Networks: A Topographic View: Canright, G.S.; Enge-Monsen, K.; Lightweight Centrality Measures in Networks under Attack: Georgiadis, G.; Kirousis, L.; Is Selection Optimal for Scale-Free Small Worlds?: Palotai, Zs.; Farkas, Cs.; Lorincz, A.; Correlation Model of Worm Propagation on Scale-Free Networks: Nikoloski, Z.; Deo, N.; Kucera, L.; Author and Subject Index.
