Links on Complexity, Self-organization and Artificial Life

Complexity, Self-Organization

• CalResCo, an extensive website about complexity, self-organization and related subjects, including a self-organizing systems FAQ
• PCC- Complexity Theory Resources, including Lecture notes on "Complexity: A New Science For A Postmodern World "
• Complex Adaptive Systems and Artificial Life: an extensive list of links including conferences
• Phil Goetz's complexity page, including a complexity dictionary
• Yaneer Bar Yam's Guide to Complex Systems
• the Complexity Digest: a weekly list of summaries of articles related to complexity that appeared in various journals, a most useful service provided by G. Mayer-Kress
• Evolution of Complex Systems: Umur Ozkul's collection of thoughts, essay and links
• T. Tolman's Complexity of the Universe page
• Complexity Online: a quite elaborate server with Hypermedia papers and pointers to other places
• Complexity International: refereed electronic journal on Complex Systems Research
• Information on Complex Adaptive Systems in different parts of the Internet
• Bruce Edmonds's extensive Bibliography on Measures of Complexity
• Santa Fe Institute for the Sciences of Complexity (ftp-server)
• Science on the Edge of Chaos: an interactive multimedia service on complexity and chaos including a series of TV programmes
• Nonlinearity and Complexity home page at Democritus University of Thrace
• Center for Complex Systems Research
• Australian National University Bioinformatics
• Non-linear Science E-print archive with papers and conference announcements on chaos, adaptation, self-organization etc.
• Complex Systems Links on the Web
• Complexity, Complex Systems and Chaos: [at] Brint (Business & Technology Research)
• resources relevant to the journal "Complexity"
• Self-organizing systems Home page (mostly about cybernetic philosophy)
• Self-Organizing Systems: a tutorial on the processes and patterns of organization and complexity in natural systems, by Ethan H. Decker
• Complexity discussions from the point of view of constructivism and Robert Rosen's theories
• Complex Systems research: an extensive list of links
• Parameterized Complexity Home Page -- Todd Wareham, U Victoria
• Complexity Home Page at Virginia Commonwealth University
• Bayesian Theory As Extended Logic -- Ed Jaynes
• An Introduction to Synergetics
• Chaos, Complexity, and Everything Else: a long list of links on chaos, complexity, artificial inteligence, genetic algorithms, and fractals
• New England Complex Systems Institute, including the self-organizing, peer-reviewed Interjournal
• Complex Adaptive Systems in Finance and strategy, by Mark White

Alife, Evolutionary Systems and Simulations

• Artificial Life Online service with lots of info (news, bibliography, journals, ...)
• The New Alife Database: Searchable Database of Alife-Related Sites Gathered by a Search Bot
• T.S. Ray: An evolutionary approach to synthetic biology (paper on artificial life)
• Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems research at the University of Sussex
• Illinois Genetic Algorithms Lab
• Interactive genetic art (evolves according to user preferences)
• Genetically programmed music
• FAQ's on Genetic Algorithms
• Artificial Life ftp server
• Karl Sims' Virtual Creatures: 3D, animated "life forms", developed through simulated evolution
• Intelligent Systems: Brendan Kitts's reflections on life, AI, and their future developments, with many useful references
• CWRU Autonomous Agents Research Group
• MIT Media Lab Autonomous Agents Group, headed by Pattie Maes
• Intelligent Software Agents
• Web resources on Intelligent Software Agents
• University of Vienna Dep. of Theoretical Biology, with research on systems theory of evolution, alife, constructivism, cognition and evolutionary epistemology
• Boids , Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model
• The Swarm simulation system: a software system for complex system simulation devloped at SFI
• Liverpool Biocomputation Group (Announcements)
• Brian Keely's bibliography on Artificial Life
• Boston University's Center for Adaptive Systems
• Evolutionary Systems and Artificial Life: lecture notes by Luis Rocha
• Bibliography of Alife publications: a very rich collection of online papers, maintained by Ezequiel Di Paolo, covering topics such as complexity, self-organization, evolution, social behavior, robotics, etc.
• Biota.org: an organization stimulating the development of digital tools and environments for the study of living systems, with impressive visual and virtual reality examples of digital organisms
• Nicholas Gessler's site on artificial culture and computational anthropology