Evolution and Dynamics

See also:

• Science: Biology: Evolution  (162)
• Science: Social Sciences: Cognitive Science: Culture, Cognition, and Evolution  (15)
• Society: Philosophy: Metaphysics: Free Will and Determinism  (9)

Boids (Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model) - - Background and update on BOIDS, the 1987 model of group motion in flocks, herds, schools and related phenomena. Includes a Java-based demonstration and many links to related research and applications.

Complexification , NEAT (algorithm) - - NEAT is applied to an open-ended coevolutionary robot duel domain where robot controllers com- pete head to head [PDF.

Dissipative structures - - Critical overview of Self-Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems issues.

Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory - - Articles and links in the Atlas of Known Math.

Evolution: Metaphysics of Evolution. Space and Motion Exist for Evolution to Exist - - Evolution: Darwinian / Cultural Evolution , society, ecology, metaphysics.

Evolution of Complexity - - self-emergence and artificial life, genetic algorithms, genetic programming - essays and link.

Evolutionary Design of Complex Systems, Brown University, USA - - Desert is a new programming environment, combines fragment integration with standard control integration..

Multi-agent Models - - Book and software tools for social and political activism based on models of self-adaptive dissipative structures.

Robotics I Multiagent Dynamics - - Robotics Institute: Modeling Supply Chain Dynamics: A Multiagent Approac.

TOL : Computational infrastructure - - Resources for reconstructing the evolutionary history of all organisms.

TOL at Berkley : Tree of Life project - - Evolution of Life on this Planet [PDF.

TOL: Building a Tree of Life for All Species - - How living things have evolved since the origins of lif.