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E. M. Rauch and Y. Bar-Yam, Long-range interactions and evolutionary stability in a predator-prey system, Physical Review E 73, 020903, 2006. PDF file

Y. Bar-Yam, Improving the Effectiveness of Health Care and Public Health: A Multi-Scale Complex Systems Analysis, American Journal of Public Health, vol. 96 no. 3, 459-466, 2006. abstract PDF file press release

M. A. M. de Aguiar, I. R. Epstein and Y. Bar-Yam: Analytically solvable model of probabilistic network dynamics, Physical Review E 72, 067102, 2005. abstract PDF file press release

E. M. Rauch and Y. Bar-Yam, Estimating the total genetic diversity of a spatial field population from a sample and implications of its dependence on habitat area, PNAS 102, 9826-9829, 2005. abstract PDF file (requires subscription) press release

R. Metzler and Y. Bar-Yam, Multiscale analysis of correlated Gaussians, Phys. Rev. E 71, 046114, 2005. PDF file

M. Klein, R. Metzler, and Y. Bar-Yam: Handling Emergent Resource Use Oscillations, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part A: Systems and Humans 35, 327-336, 2005. PDF file

S. Huang, G. Eichler, Y. Bar-Yam and D. E. Ingber, Cell Fates as High-Dimensional Attractor States of a Complex Gene Regulatory Network, Physical Review Letters 94, 128701, 2005. PDF file news article

Y. Bar-Yam, About Engineering Complex Systems: Multiscale Analysis and Evolutionary Engineering, in Engineering Self Organising Systems: Methodologies and Applications, S. Brueckner, G. Di Marzo Serugendo, A. Karageorgos, R. Nagpal (Eds.), ESOA 2004, LNCS 3464, Springer-Verlag, 16-31, 2005. PDF file

M. A. M. de Aguiar and Y. Bar-Yam, Spectral analysis and the dynamic response of complex networks, Physical Review E 71, 016106, 2005. PDF file

B. de Bivort, S. Huang and Y. Bar-Yam, Dynamics of cellular level function and regulation derived from murine expression array data, PNAS 101, 17687-92, 2004. PDF file supplemental material, press release

S. Gheorghiu-Svirschevski and Y. Bar-Yam, Multiscale analysis of information correlations in an infinite-range, ferromagnetic Ising system, Physical Review E 70, 066115, 2004. PDF file

E. M. Rauch and Y. Bar-Yam, Theory predicts the uneven distribution of genetic diversity within species, Nature 431, 449-452, 2004. PDF file explanation, press release, BBC interview

J. K. Werfel and Y. Bar-Yam, The evolution of reproductive restraint through social communication, PNAS 101, 11019-11024, 2004. PDF file press release

Y. Bar-Yam, A Mathematical Theory of Strong Emergence using Multiscale Variety, Complexity 9:6, 15-24, 2004. PDF file

D. Braha and Y. Bar-Yam, Information Flow Structure in Large-Scale Product Development Organizational Networks, to appear in Smart Business Networks, Peter Vervest et al (Eds), Chap. 8, Springer Verlag, 2004. PDF file

Y. Bar-Yam, Multiscale Variety in Complex Systems, Complexity 9:4, 37-45, 2004. PDF file

Y. Bar-Yam, Multiscale Complexity / Entropy, Advances in Complex Systems 7, 47-63, 2004. PDF file

Y. Bar-Yam and I. R. Epstein, Response of complex networks to stimuli, PNAS 101, 4341-4345, 2004. PDF file

R. Metzler, Y. Bar-Yam and M. Kardar, Information Flow through a Chaotic Channel: Prediction and Postdiction at Finite Resolution. Phys. Rev. E 70, 026205, 2004. nlin.CD/0310048

D. Braha and Y. Bar-Yam: Topology of large-scale engineering problem-solving networks, Phys. Rev. E 69, 016113-1-7, 2004. PDF file

V. K. Vanag and I. R. Epstein, From the Cover: Segmented spiral waves in a reaction-diffusion system, PNAS 100: 14635-14638; published online before print as 10.1073/pnas.2534816100.

E. M. Rauch, M. A. M. de Aguiar, and Y. Bar-Yam, Mean Field Approximation To a Spatial Host-Pathogen Model, Phys. Rev. E 67, 047102, 2003. PDF file

M. A. M. de Aguiar, M. Baranger, Y. Bar-Yam, and H. Sayama: Robustness of spontaneous pattern formation in spatially distributed genetic populations, Brazilian Journal of Physics 33, 514, 2003.

M. Klein, H. Sayama, P. Faratin, and Y. Bar-Yam: A complex systems perspective on how agents can support collaborative design, in Agent Supported Cooperative Work, Y. Ye and E.F. Churchill, eds., in press.

H. Sayama, L. Kaufman, M. A. M. de Aguiar, E. Rauch, C. Goodnight, and Y. Bar-Yam: Breakdown of the gene-centered view: What is beyond Neo-Darwinian evolution?, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Complex Systems, Perseus Books / InterJournal, to appear.

M. Klein, P. Faratin, H. Sayama, and Y. Bar-Yam: Negotiating complex contracts, Group Decision and Negotiation, 2003, in press.

M. Klein, H. Sayama, P. Faratin, and Y. Bar-Yam: The dynamics of collaborative design: Insights from complex systems and negotiation research, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications (CERA Journal) 11:3, 201-209, September 2003. PDF file

Y. Bar-Yam: When Systems Engineering Fails --- Toward Complex Systems Engineering, International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, 2003, Vol. 2, 2021- 2028, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2003. PDF file

E. M. Rauch, H. Sayama, and Y. Bar-Yam: Dynamics and genealogy of strains in spatially extended host-pathogen models, J. Theor. Biol. 221, 655-664, 2003. PDF file

H. Sayama, M. A. M. de Aguiar, Y. Bar-Yam, and M. Baranger: Interplay between Turing pattern formation and domain coarsening in spatially extended population models, FORMA, SciPress, Tokyo, Japan, 2003 (in press). PDF file

H. Sayama, L. Kaufman, and Y. Bar-Yam: Spontaneous pattern formation and genetic diversity in habitats with irregular geographical features, Conservation Biology 17, 893, 2003.

H. Sayama: Workplace construction: A theoretical model of robust self-replication in kinematic universe, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 8th 2003), M. Sugisaka and H. Tanaka, eds., 267-270, Beppu, Oita, Japan, 2003. PDF file

B. Shargel, H. Sayama, I. R. Epstein and Y. Bar-Yam: Optimization of Robustness and Connectivity in Complex Networks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 068701-1-4, 2003. PDF file

M. A. M. de Aguiar, H. Sayama, E. Rauch, Y. Bar-Yam, and M. Baranger: Stability and instability of polymorphic populations and the role of breeding seasons in phase III of Wright's shifting balance theory, Phys. Rev. E 65, 031909, 2002. PDF file

R. M. D'Souza, N. H. Margolus and M. A. Smith: Dimension-Splitting for Simplifying Diffusion in Lattice-Gas Models, Journal of Statistical Physics 107, 401-422, 2002. PDF file

P. Faratin, M. Klein, H. Sayama, and Y. Bar-Yam: Simple negotiating agents in complex games: Emergent equilibria and dominance of strategies, in Intelligent Agent VIII: Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2333, 367-377, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

M. Klein, P. Faratin, H. Sayama, and Y. Bar-Yam: Negotiating complex contracts, in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, Italy, 2002, AAAI Press, in press.

M. Klein, H. Sayama, P. Faratin, and Y. Bar-Yam: A complex systems perspective on computer-supported collaborative design technology, Communications of the ACM 45:11, 27-31, 2002. PDF file

E. M. Rauch, H. Sayama, and Y. Bar-Yam: Relationship between measures of fitness and time scale in evolution, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 228101, 2002. PDF file

H. Sayama: Von Neumann's machine in the shell: Enhancing the robustness of self-replication processes, Artificial Life VIII: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Life, R. K. Standish, M. A. Bedau, and H. A. Abbass, eds., 49-52, 2002, MIT Press.

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 65, 051919, 2002. PDF file

Y. Bar-Yam: Complexity rising: From human beings to human civilization, a complexity profile, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK, http://www.eolss.net, 2002; also NECSI Technical Report 1997-12-01 (December 1997). PDF file

P. Faratin, M. Klein, H. Sayama, and Y. Bar-Yam: Simple negotiating agents in complex games: Emergent equilibria and dominance of strategies, Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL-2001), 42-53, 2001.

M. Klein and Y. Bar-Yam: Handling Emergent Dysfunctions in Open Peer-to-Peer Systems, ROMA Working Paper ROMA-WP-2001-03, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. PDF file

M. Klein, P. Faratin, H. Sayama, and Y. Bar-Yam: Negotiating complex contracts, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall 2001 Symposium on Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems, 2001 / ROMA Working Paper ROMA-WP-2001-01, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001.

M. Klein, H. Sayama, P. Faratin, and Y. Bar-Yam: What complex systems research can teach us about collaborative design, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD-2001), 5-12, 2001, IEEE 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, 360-368, 2001, IOS Press. PDF file

H. Sayama and Y. Bar-Yam: Interplay of genetic and actual lifespans, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4718, 2001. PDF file

M. A. Smith, Y. Bar-Yam and W. Gelbart: Quantitative 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, 65-71, 2001, IOS Press. PDF file

Y. Bar-Yam and H. Sayama: Formalizing the gene centered view of evolution, InterJournal, Brief Article 385, accepted.

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., 21-30, 2000, MIT Press. PDF file PostScript (gzipped)

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, accepted.

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, 7065-7069, 2000. PDF file (Also available in other formats at Los Alamos arXiv)

Y. Bar-Yam: Formalizing the gene centered view of evolution, Advances in Complex Systems 2, 277-281, 1999. PDF file (Also available in other formats at Los Alamos arXiv)

H. Sayama: A new structurally dissolvable self-reproducing loop evolving in a simple cellular automata space, Artificial Life 5:4, 343-365, 1999. Full text (PDF file)

A. W. Davidson and Y. Bar-Yam: Environmental Complexity: Information for Human-Environment Well-Being, in preprint. PDF file

H. Sayama: Spontaneous evolution of self-reproducing loops on cellular automata, InterJournal, Brief Article 236, accepted.

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