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Bibliography
Complex Systems Plus Bibliography by Bruce Edmonds
Hierarchy Bibliography by Bruce Edmonds
A Bibliography on 1/f Noise compiled by Wentian Li


Software
Software created by Robert Devaney director of the Dynamical Systems and Technology Project at Boston University
Swarm Simulation System at The Santa Fe Institute (download this software for FREE!)
Echo Simulation System at The Santa Fe Institute (download this software for FREE!)
Sprott's Chaos and Fractal Software by J.C. Sprott


FAQs and Tutorials
FAQs, Introductions and Tutorials compiled by CALResCo


Educational
Complexity and Artificial Life Research Concept


Places
The Santa Fe Institute
New England Complex Systems Institute
The Center for Complex Systems at Florida Atlantic University
Physics of Complex Systems at Northwestern University
Dynamical Systems and Technology Project at Boston University, directed by Robert Devaney
The Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems


People
Yaneer Bar-Yam - Complex System Dynamics
Noam A. Chomsky - Linguistic Theory
James Crutchfield - Computational Mechanics and Cellular Automata
Predrag Cvitanovic' - Periodic Orbit Theory
Daniel C. Dennett - Cognitive Studies
Robert Devaney - Fractals and Dynamical Systems
John Holland - Cognitive Studies and Complex Adaptive Systems
Murray Gell-Mann - 1969 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Stephen Grossberg - Neural modeling
Douglas Hofstader - Creativity, Consciousness and Computation
John J. Hopfield - Neural Modeling
E. T. Jaynes - Bayesian Probability
Kunihiko Kaneko - Coupled Nonlinear Oscillations and Pattern Dynamics
Stuart Kauffman - Self-Organization and Evolution
Scott Kelso - Self-Organization of Coordination
Teuvo Kohonen - Self-Organizing Feature Maps
Chris Langton - Artificial Life
Ian Malcolm!!! - A Fictional Character from Jurassic Park
Benoit Mandelbrot - Fractal Geometry
Melanie Mitchell - Genetic Algorithms
Howard H. Pattee - Hierarchical Organization and Semiotics
Alan Perelson - Immunology and Virology
Ilya Prigogine - 1977 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Tom Ray - Artificial Life (Tierra)
Craig Reynolds - Artificial Life (Boids)
Eric Sven Ristad - Computational Theory of Language
Herbert A. Simon - 1978 Nobel Laureate in Economics
Daniel L. Stein - Spin Glasses
Steven Strogatz - Self-synchronization of Oscillators
Richard Voss - Fractal Geometry and Power Laws
A.T. Winfree - Excitable Media in Physiology
E. Christopher Zeeman - Geometry and Catastrophes


Swarm Simulations
Swarm Simulation System at The Santa Fe Institute (download this software for FREE!)
Swarm User Community
Models of Prehistoric Anasazi Settlements by Timothy A. Kohler and Eric Carr
Gecko Ecological Simulations by Ginger booth
Honey bee Simulations by David Sumpter


Echo Simulations
Echo Simulation System at The Santa Fe Institute (download this software for FREE!)


Artificial Life
ALife Online at The Santa Fe Institute
Yahoo - Artificial Life
Tierra by Tom Ray
Boids by Craig Reynolds
Artificial Life and Genetic Algorithms Page by Sophia Chan


Genetic Algorithms
Melanie Mitchell
Artificial Life and Genetic Algorithms Page by Sophia Chan


Cellular Automata
ALife Online - Cellular Automata at The Santa Fe Institute
ALife Online - Exploring the Space of Cellular Automata at The Santa Fe Institute - You can actually perform simulations with different rules!
Pauls' Page of Conway's Life Miscellany by Paul Callahan.
Yahoo - Cellular Automata
Life Lexicon compiled by Stephen Silver and others.
John Conway's Game of Life at the Serendip Web Site.
Finite State Machines at the MegaMath site at LANL.
Cellular Automata Tutorial by David G. Green
A Brief Introduction to Cellular Automata by Moshe Sipper


Nonlinear Dynamics
Seredip web site has a Java Script Cobwebbing Applet with a nice tutorial.
Symbolic Dynamics on the WWW by Chris Hillman
Tiling Dynamical Systems by Chris Hillman
Fixed Point Theory on the Web at The University of Texas at El Paso
Finite State Machines at the MegaMath site at LANL
Cycle Expansions - Lecture Notes by Pedrag Cvitanovic and Ronnie Maineri
sci.nonlinear FAQ at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Nonlinear Dynamics and Topological Time Series Analysis Archive maintained by Nicholas B. Tufillaro
Nonlinear (and other fun) sites by Nicholas B. Tufillaro


Information Theory, Entropy and Probability
Probability Web maintained by Phil Pollett
Higher Order Statistics at Universitat Bremen
Probability Theory as Extended Logic by Larry Bretthorst
Probabilistic Thinking by Richard Jeffrey
LANL Bayesian Papers Archive
Tutorial on Bayesian Methods by Wray Buntine and Peter Cheeseman
Software for Belief Networks by Russel G. Almond
Maximum Entropy Online Resources by Carlos Rodriques
Entropy on the World Wide Web maintained by Chris Hillman
Bayesian Model-Based Learning Group at NASA Ames Research Center
Super-Resolution Surface Modeling at NASA Ames Research Center
Tomographic Reconstruction using MaxEnt at LANL


Meta-Links
Complex (Adaptive) Systems Information maintained by Alex Mallet
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Complex Systems by David Green is an excellent starting point.
Yahoo! - Complex Systems
Boids by Craig Reynolds
CAS Web Site from the Agilis Corporation


Kevin Knuth's Home Page Complex Systems Course Page