Unifying Themes in Complex Systems

Complex Behavior of Simple Systems.- Thresholds, Bifurcations and Mental Control: An Application of Nonlinear Dynamics to Psychotherapy.- Study of Pattern Formation by Peafowl using LEM Multi-Agent Simulator.- The Contribution Of Complexity Theory To The Study Of Socio-Technical Cooperative Systems.- Complexity Theory of Art: Recent Investigations.- Complexity, Emergence and Pathophysiology: Using Non-Adaptive Inflammatory Response.- Self-Organization of Population Structure in Biological Systems.- Spatial Periodicity in Mycelial Fungi Growth with Respect to Their Life Strategies.- In Search of Scaling in Brain.- Co-operation in the Brain in Higher Cognitive Functioning.- A Complex System for the Visualization of Music.- Plasma Experiments with Relevance for Complexity Science.- Ball Lightning as a Self-Organized Complexity.- Self-Organisation in Metabolic Pathways.- Modelling Bacterial Hyperstructures with Cellular Automata.- Environmental Complexity: Information For Human-Environment Well-Being.- Use of an Object-Based Model to Represent Complex Features of Ecosystems.- Complexity of Predictive Neural Networks.- Locating Self-Organization at the Edge of Chaos.- Strategic Planning Amidst Massive Uncertainty in Complex Adaptive Systems: the Case of Defense Planning.- Formalizing the Gene Centered View of Evolution.- The Structure of Instantaneous Phase Resetting in a Neural Oscillator.- On Analysis of the Periodicity Attributes of the Photo-Plethysmograph Signal to Assess the Cardiovascular State.- Pattern Formation by Autonomous Mobile Robots.- Punctuated equilibrium, modularity, and A-Life.- Agent-based Modeling of Disrupted Market Ecologies: A Strategic Tool to Think and Learn With.- Considerations about universality in phase-ordering of binary liquids.- Complexity and Simplicity in Ecosystems: The case of forest management.- Cell State Dynamics and Tumorigenesis in Boolean Regulatory Networks.- The role of spontaneous pattern formation in the creation and maintenance of biological diversity.- Developing Understanding of Ecological-Economic Systems.- Self-Healing Structures in Amorphous Computing.- Phase Transitions in the Computational Complexity of “Elementary” Cellular Automata.- Chaotic Dynamics of Tumor Growth and Regeneration.- Language as a Model of Biocomplexity.- Social Constraints and Cybernetic Explanations.