New England Complex Systems Institute

NECSI Research Projects: Recent Publications Updated 09/16/02   See also the following: Project Pages Quantitative languages Evolution and ecology Artificial self-replication and evolution Environmental complexity Complex Systems Perspectives on Education and the Education System Personal Pages http://necsi.net/faculty/bar-yam.html http://necsi.net/postdocs/rauch/ http://necsi.net/postdocs/sayama/ http://necsi.net/postdocs/werfel/ H. Sayama, M. A. M. de Aguiar, Y. Bar-Yam, and M. Baranger: Spontaneous pattern formation and genetic invasion in locally mating and competing populations, Physical Review E, 2002, in press. H. Sayama, L. Kaufman and Y. Bar-Yam: Symmetry breaking and coarsening in spatially distributed evolutionary processes including sexual reproduction and disruptive selection, Physical Review E 62, pp.7065-7069, 2000. PDF file (Also available in other formats at Los Alamos arXiv) M. A. Smith, Y. Bar-Yam and W. Gelbart: Quntitative languages for complex systems applied to biological structure, Nonlinear Dynamics in the Life and Social Sciences, W. Sulis and I. Trofimova, eds., NATO Science Series A/320, pp.65-71, 2001, IOS Press. PDF file H. Sayama and Y. Bar-Yam: The gene centered view of evolution and symmetry breaking and pattern formation in spatially distributed evolutionary processes, Nonlinear Dynamics in the Life and Social Sciences, W. Sulis and I. Trofimova, eds., NATO Science Series A/320, pp.360-368, 2001, IOS Press. PDF file Y. Bar-Yam: Formalizing the gene centered view of evolution, Advances in Complex Systems 2, pp.277-281, 1999. PDF file (Also available in other formats at Los Alamos arXiv) Y. Bar-Yam and H. Sayama: Formalizing the gene centered view of evolution, InterJournal, Brief Article 385, accepted. H. Sayama, L. Kaufman and Y. Bar-Yam: The role of spontaneous pattern formation in the creation and maintenance of biological diversity, InterJournal, Brief Article 417, submitted. A. W. Davidson and Y. Bar-Yam: Environmental Complexity: Information for Human-Environment Well-Being, in preprint. PDF file H. Sayama: Self-replicating worms that increase structural complexity through gene transmission, Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life, M. A. Bedau, J. S. McCaskill, N. H. Packard and S. Rasmussen, eds., pp.21-30, 2000, MIT Press. PDF file PostScript (gzipped) H. Sayama: A new structurally dissolvable self-reproducing loop evolving in a simple cellular automata space, Artificial Life 5:4, pp.343-365, 1999. Full text (PDF file) H. Sayama: Spontaneous evolution of self-reproducing loops on cellular automata, InterJournal, Brief Article 236, accepted.