`Anthro 179A: List of Links Page`

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Doug's ISCOM pages this is a 1-off page as per usual
Networks and Complexity
Self-Organized Criticality versus Highly Optimal Robustness
Masaki's You too can do the physics equations for complexity (in your excel spreadsheet!)
Doug White Home page
Anthropological Simulations
Experience Rich Anthropology UK
Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (CSAC) UK
Center for Anthropological Informatics at UCI
Center for Computational Social Science at UCLA
Behavior, Evolution and Culture Brown Bag Mondays at UCLA Anthro
Networking Games site at Columbia University - pointers to resources focusing on theapplication of game theoretic concepts to decentralized network resource control and management.
Graphic Imaging Source for Social Network Analysis site maintained by Linton Freeman (UC Irvine) -- a gateway to information on creating images of social networks. See images 21-25 in Visualizing Social Networks for some dynamics of social networks.
Self-Organizing Systems(USENET self-org-sys) Frequently Asked Questions August 1999 biblio
Thermodynamic Principles for the Social Sciences: An Introduction to Self-Organization
Physics of Phase Transitions Douglas R. White
Linkages Fieldsite ImageMap
WSN, an electronic conferencing network and information source for scholars and researchers who are studying world-systems
Data archives
J. Stephen Lansing. 1991. Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali. $17.95 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. HB99.5 .N67 1990 discussion by Jonathan Sepe
coevolutionary biology - Steve Frank at UCI, author of1998. Foundations of Social Evolution. Princeton University Press. Amazon Price: $14.36
Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve Lars-Erik Cederman
Computational Models from A to Z Scott E. Page
---- Play the game ----
Prisoner's Dilemma
Serendip
LEARNING AND CREATING CATEGORIES: SIMPLE NETWORKS, SIMPLE RULES
Free Will!
article on these games Paul Grobstein
---- Intro to Alife simulation ----
photo essay introduction to Tierra, artificial life
---- Live simulations ----
Zones of Cooperation in Demographic Prisoner's Dilemma
Center on Social and Economic Dynamics Agent-Based Models Page
- "The Emergence of Classes in an Agent-Based Bargaining Model" From the paper by Robert Axtell, Joshua Epstein, and Peyton Young.
- "Coordination in Transient Social Networks: An Agent-Based Computational Model of the Timing of Retirement" From the paper by Robert Axtell and Joshua Epstein. Quicktime movies are also available.
- Zones of Cooperation in Demographic Prisoner's Dilemma. (A older version that does not require JDK 1.1 is also available.)
- "The Emergence of Firms in a Population of Agents: Local Increasing Returns, Unstable Nash Equilibria, and Power Law Size Distributions
- The road to agent-based models
Artificial LIFEPAGE
Conway's Game of Life
Game of Life patterns
aLife at EB
Agent technologies at EB
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Nils A. Baas and Claus Emmeche. 1997. On Emergence and Explanation, Intellectica 2(25):67-83 (Santa Fe Institute Working Paper97-02-008. New Mexico)
Scientific American Feature Articles
Readings: Extracts from THE BULLETIN OF THE SANTA FE INSTITUTE
Issues and Advances?
The Great Complexity Debate: Stuart Kauffman and John Maynard Smith
Learning How to Control Complex Systems: SFI report by Seth Lloyd (MIT)
Evolutionary Dynamics: The Keck program
Travels with Political Scientist John Padgett and Sociologist David Stark
An"Algebra" of Novelty in Renaissance Florence: SFI report on John Padgett (see: robust action and the rise of the medici)
Heterarchy: The Organization of Diversity
RESTRUCTURING NETWORKS IN POST-SOCIALIST europe
About Silicon Alley
What Can Emergence Tell Us About Today's Eastern Europe? SFI conference report
Norms and Small Scale Systems
Agent-Based Modeling of Small-Scale Societies: SFI work in Progress
Anthropologist Jonathan Haas Studies Pueblo Political Life Before the Spanish: SFI Report
Social Organization and the Evolution of Norms: SFI report on Economist SamuelBowles
Modeling Business as Usual: Organizational Routines: SFI Report on Michael Cohen
Collective properties of individual decisions
Economist Steven Durlauf Applies Complexity to the Study of Inequality: SFI Report
Language, Politics and History:
Does Linguist George Lakoff Know Something Conservatives Don't? Hayward Alker probes Lakoff about his new book.
---Social Networks---(Reviews)
The Small World: SFI report on Duncan Watts
Trade Cohesion, Class Unity, and Urban Insurrection AJS Roger Gould
Multiple Networks and Mobilization in the Paris Commune, 1871 Roger Gould
Patron-Client Ties, State Centralization, and the Whiskey Rebellion Roger Gould
Social Networks and Collective Action: A theory of the Critical Mass. III. Marwell, Oliver, and Prahl. (1988) AJS
Friendship Among the French Financial Elite Charles Kadushin
Corporate Political Groupings: Does Ideology Unify Business Political Behavior?Alan Neustadtl and Dan Clawson, ASR
INSNA Home Page
---- Complexity Theory in Social Science ----
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel De Landa
Ron Eglash Current Research:
African Fractals
Communication Studies
African Influences in Math and Science History
Appropriating Technology: vernacular science and social power
Social Studies of Cybernetics
International Study Group on Ethnomathematics
STUDY OF COMPLEX SYSTEM seminar, Ron Eglash

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