Complexity journal, on-Line: Wiley Interscience

published in Complexity vol 8#1, Sept-Oct 2002 issue and available from Doug White for $8 for the whole issue including postage (regularly $15.95 plus postage)

Complexity

Special Issue: Networks and Complexity



Guest Editor: Douglas R. White

This site contains contributions to a Special Issue of the Journal COMPLEXITY in which researchers across the sciences were invited to reflect on the role of networks and network dynamics in their primary research areas. Typical contributions to the journal are in the range of 3-6 printed pages, and fall into the categories of general articles (special issue articles, surveys, commentaries, and essays) that should be concise and of interest to a broad range of educated readers consisting of scientists, engineers, social scientists and students. Special issues typically have 5-10 contributions. The possibility of two issues is envisioned, the present one focusing on substantive research findings, and the second on modeling and simulation.

14 Editorial - Douglas R. White - (pdf)

15-19 The Large-Scale Structure of Metabolic Networks: A Glimpse into Life's Origins? - Andreas Wagner - (pdf)

20-33 Selection, Tinkering and Emergence in Complex Networks - Ricard V. Solé, Ramon Ferrer Cancho, Jose M. Montoya, and Serge Valverde - (pdf)

34-42 Networks in Molecular Evolution - Peter F. Stadler and Peter Schuster - (pdf)

43-46 The Organization of Work in Social Insect Colonies - Deborah Gordon - (pdf)

47-55 Complexity Theory and Models for Social Networks - John Skvoretz - (pdf)

56-60 Network Analysis, Complexity, and Brain Function - Olaf Sporns - (pdf)

61-71 Networks and History - Peter Bearman, Robert Faris and James Moody - (pdf)

72-81 The Navigability of Strong Ties: Small Worlds, Tie Strength and Network Topology - Douglas White and Michael Houseman - (pdf)

82-86 Civilizations as Networks: Trade, War, Diplomacy and Command-Control - David Wilkinson - (pdf)

87-95 How Businesses Mobilize Production Through Markets: Parametric Modeling of Path-dependent Outcomes in Network Flows - Harrison C. White - (pdf)

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Early candidates for a subsequent issue:

Luc Steels - How Network Interaction Constitutes Language Learning in Wittgensteinian Robot Communities

Lee Worden - The Evolution of Cooperation in Ecological Communities

Harrison C. White - Networks into Markets: Parametric Modeling of Path Outcomes - for On-line use only: Markets from Networks: a prÈcis of the book - (pdf)

Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:56:59 +0100
From: Peter Schuster 
To: Douglas R. White 
Cc: morowitz@gmu.edu
Subject: Re: Special Issue on Networks and Complexity

Dear Doug,

Thank you for e-mail and for your willingness to serve
as a guest editor for one special issue of Complexity. 
Network structure and network dynamics, in my view, 
are keys to understanding complexity and I welcome 
your plan enthusiasticly. I like what I see on your web 
site. Your choice of authors sounds excellent. I am 
looking forward to the result of your efforts. 

You are authorized herewith to recruit the authors
for your issue. In case you need more space, please,
let me know, so that we can discuss a forthcoming
second issue too.

Please keep me informed about your success of 
finding excellent authors for the "Network Issue".   

Best regards. 

Peter Schuster.

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Professor Peter Schuster (Editor-in-Chief, Complexity, 2002-)
Institut fuer Theoretische Chemie 
und Molekulare Strukturbiologie
Universitaet Wien
Waehringerstrasse 17
A-1090 Wien, Austria
Phone:  +43 1 4277 527 43


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