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Complex Sciences

Second International Conference, COMPLEX 2012, Santa Fe, NM, USA, December 5-7, 2012, Revised Selected Papers

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Table of contents (29 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Regular Papers

    1. The Crossover Point: Comparing Policies to Mitigate Disruptions

      • Matthew Antognoli, Marshall A. Kuypers, Z. Rowan Copley, Walter E. Beyeler, Michael D. Mitchell, Robert J. Glass
      Pages 1-10
    2. Progress Curves and the Prediction of Significant Market Events

      • Sofia Apreleva, Neil Johnson, Tsai-Ching Lu
      Pages 11-28
    3. Bifurcation as the Source of Polymorphism

      • Ernest Barany
      Pages 29-39
    4. Large-Scale Conflicts in Massively Multiplayer Online Games

      • Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Kiran Lakkaraju, Jonathan H. Whetzel, Jeremy R. Bernstein
      Pages 40-51
    5. Impact of Global Edge-Removal on the Average Path Length

      • Lock Yue Chew, Ning Ning Chung, Jie Zhou, Choy Heng Lai
      Pages 52-57
    6. Assessing the Spatial Impact on an Agent-Based Modeling of Epidemic Control: Case of Schistosomiasis

      • Papa Alioune Cisse, Jean Marie Dembele, Moussa Lo, Christophe Cambier
      Pages 58-69
    7. Behaviors of Actors in a Resource-Exchange Model of Geopolitics

      • Curtis S. Cooper, Walter E. Beyeler, Jacob A. Hobbs, Michael D. Mitchell, Z. Rowan Copley, Matthew Antognoli
      Pages 70-82
    8. Cooperation through the Endogenous Evolution of Social Structure

      • David Hales, Shade T. Shutters
      Pages 111-126
    9. The Role of Community Structure in Opinion Cluster Formation

      • Ryan J. Hammer, Thomas W. Moore, Patrick D. Finley, Robert J. Glass
      Pages 127-139
    10. Achieving Social Optimality with Influencer Agents

      • Jianye Hao, Ho-fung Leung
      Pages 140-151
    11. Mathematical Model of Hit Phenomena as a Theory for Human Interaction in the Society

      • Akira Ishii, Hidehiko Koguchi, Koki Uchiyama
      Pages 159-164
    12. Hospitals as Complex Social Systems: Agent-Based Simulations of Hospital-Acquired Infections

      • José M. Jiménez, Bryan Lewis, Stephen Eubank
      Pages 165-178
    13. To Trade or Not to Trade: Analyzing How Perturbations Travel in Sparsely Connected Networks

      • Marshall A. Kuypers, Walter E. Beyeler, Matthew Antognoli, Michael D. Mitchell, Robert J. Glass
      Pages 190-200
    14. Help from Hoarders: How Storage Can Dampen Perturbations in Critical Markets

      • Marshall A. Kuypers, Walter E. Beyeler, Matthew Antognoli, Michael D. Mitchell, Robert J. Glass
      Pages 201-212
    15. Paid Sick-Leave: Is It a Good Way to Control Epidemics?

      • Shaojuan Liao, Yifei Ma, Jiangzhuo Chen, Achla Marathe
      Pages 213-227

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About this book

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International ICST Conference on Complex Sciences, COMPLEX 2012, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA in December 2012. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers cover aspects on foundations and analysis of complex systems, complex biological systems, complex social systems, complex engineering systems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sandia National Laboratories, Santa Fe, USA

    Kristin Glass, Richard Colbaugh

  • Volterra Partners, London, UK

    Paul Ormerod

  • Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA

    Jeffrey Tsao

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