Complex Systems Reading Group
Winter term, 2001
The UM complex systems cabal cordially invites you to join us for deep
intellectual discussion and beer at 7pm every Wednesday at the Old Town
bar on the corner of E. Liberty and S. Ashley in Ann Arbor. This is a
student-run complex systems reading group, and all are welcome. (Those
under 21 are welcome to attend the discussions.) Our theme for the term is
"homebrewed complexity: complex systems research in Ann Arbor".
Our first meeting will be next Wednesday, Feb. 7, at 7pm at the Old Town.
Between tasting fine beers and conspiring to revolutionize science, we
will discuss the following paper:
Parunak, Van, and Sven Brueckner. (2001). Entropy and self-organization in
multi-agent systems. Forthcoming at the International Conference on
Autonomous Agents (Agents 2001).
The paper is online at
http://www.erim.org/~vparunak/agents01ent.pdf
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or by sending a request to Ted.Belding@umich.edu.
NOTE: Due to a conflict with a certain holiday, our second meeting will be
on TUESDAY (not Wednesday), Feb. 13, at 7pm at the Old Town.
During the spring and summer terms, we will meet Wednesdays at Dominick's
(time TBD).
Wed., Feb. 21:
Holland, John H. (2000). Building blocks, cohort genetic algorithms, and
hyperplane-defined functions. Evolutionary Computation 8(4):373-391.
Wed., Feb. 28: sushi at Miki (spring break)
Wed., March 7:
Tassier, Troy, and Filippo Menczer. (forthcoming). Emerging
small-world referral networks in evolutionary labor markets. IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.
http://dollar.biz.uiowa.edu/~fil/Papers/ieee-tec-ace.pdf
Wed., March 14, at the Old Town tavern (Liberty and
Ashley), we'll discuss:
Payton, Sallyanne. (UM, Law) (2001). The origin of the non-Js: A fantasy of racial
creation. Unpublished draft. (
PDF,
Postscript,
MS Word,
Text)
Wed., March 21:
Odell, James, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Bernhard Bauer. (2000). Extending UML
for Agents. Proc. of the Agent-Oriented Information Systems Workshop at
the 17th National conference on Artificial Intelligence, Gerd Wagner, Yves
Lesperance, and Eric Yu eds., Austin, TX, pp. 3-17, accepted paper, AOIS
Worshop at AAAI 2000.
http://www.jamesodell.com/ExtendingUML.pdf
For background reading on UML, see:
Fowler, Martin, and Kendall Scott. (1997). UML Distilled: Applying the
Standard Object Modeling Language. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-32563-2.
Wed., March 28:
Satterfield, Teresa. (forthcoming, 2001). Toward a socio-genetic solution:
Examining language formation processes through Swarm modeling. Social
Science Computer Review.
(PDF,
gzipped Postscript)
Wed., April 4: David Singer (UM Poli Sci, TBA)
Wed., April 11: Kanchna Ramchandran (U. Houston Future Studies, TBA)
Wed., April 18 and 25: no meeting
The CSRG Social Systems Bibliography
