"book" report (written or oral with notes) on your reading of a coherent set of pages in one of the following sources - to be given in class and posted to the Noteboard on the weeks below

      week 2. Kohler, Timothy A. 2000. Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes (SFI Studies of Complexity). Anasazi Village Formation simulation

      week 2. John H. Holland, 1999. Emergence: From chaos to order. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. Barnes/Noble: $12.80+

      week 3. Hutchins, Ed. 1996. Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press.

      week 3. Resnick, Mitchel, and Mitchell Resnick. 1997. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems). Ships in 2-3 days - Amazon Price: $12.50.

      week 4. Kauffman, Stuart A. 2000. Investigations. Hardcover Usually ships in 24 hours - Amazon: $24.00. A 1996 preprint is on the SFI web pages.

      week 4. Kauffman, Stuart A.1995. At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. Oxford University Press.

      week 5. Prietula, Michael and Kathleen Carley (eds.). 1998. Simulating Organizations: Computational Models of Institutions and Groups. MIT Press.

      week 6. Schelling, Thomas C. 1978. Last chapter, pp. 137-155, Micro Motives and Macro Behavior Paperback Usually ships in 24 hours - Amazon Price: $17.50.

      week 6. Axelrod, Robert M. 1997. The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Cooperation . Ships in 24 hours - Amazon: $13.70

      week 6. Skyrms, Brian 1996. Evolution of the Social Contract. Amazon: $16.96+ Cambridge University Press. See Bill Harms simulator for the dynamics of some of the games in Evolution of the Social Contract: see also Harm's et al. Evolving Artificial Moral Ecologies and its contents page, at the E.A.M.E. site

      week 6. Brams, Steven J. 1996. Theory of Moves. Cambridge University Press. (see Robert Matthews 2001 report on BEYOND GAME THEORY - the dynamic nature of conflicts ) http://www.worldlink.co.uk/discuss/msgReader$442

      week 7 Duncan Watts' book Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness - Sample Reviews: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

    or "article" report (written or oral with notes and posted to Noteboard) on your reading of one of the following sources - other web-linked possibilities listed at end of syllabus web site (I have copies of articles that you cant get from the web--not the books-- if you email me in advance I can give you a copy)

      week 3. Resnick, Mitchel, and Mitchell Resnick; 1997. First chapter, pp. 3-19 on decentralization (Foundations). Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems).

      week 3. Johnson, Norman L. 2000. PARTS 3-5: A Developmental View of Evolving Systems - Illustrated by a Model Problem. Artificial Life Journal 7. MIT Press.

      week 3. Wolpert, David H. et al. 1999. Using Collective Intelligence to Route Internet Traffic. In, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11. MIT Press. Check out: Collective Intelligence and New Results in Collective Intelligence David H. Wolpert

      week 4. Jain, Sanjay and Sandeep Krishna. 2000. A model for the emergence of cooperation, interdependence and structure in evolving networks. Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems. May Issue.

      week 4. Anderson, Philip. 1999. Complexity Theory and Organization Science. Organization Science 10:216-232.

      week 4. Kauffman's Biosgroup, websight, glossary, research insights, applications

      week 5. Network publications from Barabási's group, Self-Organized Networks

      week 5. Arthur De Vany and David Walls, Bose-Einstein Dynamics and Adaptive Contracting in the Motion Picture Industry The Economic Journal (November 1996) 1493--1514.

      week 5. Saari, Donald. Complexity in Economics.

      week 6. Holland, John H. 1999. Ch. 12 pp. 221-249. Emergence: From chaos to order.

      week 7. Skyrms - A dynamic model of network formation

      week 8. Powell, White and Koput - network dynamics in the biotechnical industry 1988-99

    Let me know at drwhite@uci.edu or drop me a note with your choice of book/article to review and report upon so we dont have duplication...