Complex Systems: From Biology to Computation

Part 1 Life - natural and artificial: as large as life and twice as natural - bioinformatics and the artificial life, Paulien Hogeweg the emergence of connectivity and fractal time in the evolution of random diagraphs, Doug Seeley and Simon Ronald emergent behaviour in biological systems, David G. Green the wave-cluster model of water-protein interactions, John Watterson computer viruses - the inevitability of evolution?, Paul-Michael Agapow pattern formation in physical and biological growth, Tony Roberts and Mark A. Knackstedt recovery of model coral communities - complex behaviours from interaction of parameters operating at different spatial scales, Ann L. Preece and Craig R. Johnson methodological issues within a framework to support a class of artificial-life worlds in cellular automata, Pedro Paulo Balbi de Oliveira computation in inhomogeneous cellular automata, Zoran Aleksic. Part 2 Fractals, chaos and nonlinear dynamics: nonlinear dynamics and chaos in musical instruments, Neville H. Fletcher interactive evolution of L-system grammars for computer graphics modelling, Jon McCormack the effect of permeability heterogeneity on viscous fingers in porous media, Mark Knackstedt and Muhammad Sahimi recognition and generation of fractal patterns by using syntactic techniques, Jacques Blanc-Talon from beta-expansions to chaos and fractals, Dominique Luzeaux the uniform emergence of points on a circle, Keith Tognetti and Graham Winley complexity and emergence - the seduction and reduction of nonlinear models in the social sciences, Margot L. Lyon steps to an ecology of form, Jean Pierre Paillet fractal computer image analysis of particle morphology, Thomas B. Kirk and Gwidon W. Stachowiak. Part 3 Information and control systems: taming large complex information systems, C.N.G. (Kit) Dampney et al complexity in C31 systems, Clive Cooper soft systems methodology - an alternative approach to knowledge elicitation in complex and poorly defined systems, Andrew Finegan a self-organizing load balancing system, George M. Bryan and Wane E. Moore central fusion of sensor information using reasoned feedback, Tim Payne reduction of modelling error of complex biosystems by an AI approach, Patrick C. Fu and John P. Barford. Part 4 Parallel and emergent computation: parallel computers and complex systems, Geoffrey C. Fox parallel algorithms for distance embedding problem, Hong Xie convergence of symmetric shunting in competitive neural networks, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum the evolution of learning algorithms for artificial neural networks, Jonathan Baxter self-annealing when learning a Markov random field image model, David Howard and William Moran external inputs to attractor neural networks, Anthony N. Burkitt a computer simulation of plasticity in the primary motor cortex, David Cake neural dynamics in biological visual information processing, Terry Bossomaier et al.