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View ArticleArtificial Life and decentralised systems - How To See Thoughts
Decentralised systems are systems in which complex behaviours emerges from simple interactions between many agents, such as birds, cells, people drivingSee it on Scoop.it, via networks and network weaving
View ArticleAfter a decade of R&D, MaidSafe’s decentralized network opens for alpha testing
Not many startups have spent a decade fine-tuning their tech platform prior to launch. But not many startups are trying to radically rethink the structure of the internet.UK-based MaidSafe, which has...
View ArticleIntroduction to Focus Issue: Complex Dynamics in Networks, Multilayered...
In the last years, network scientists have directed their interest to the multi-layer character of real-world systems, and explicitly considered the structural and dynamical organization of graphs made...
View ArticleThe new challenges of multiplex networks: measures and models
What do societies, the Internet, and the human brain have in common? The immediate answer might be "not that much", but in reality they are all examples of complex relational systems, whose emerging...
View ArticleFruitful symbioses between termites and computers
The living-together of distinct organisms in a single termite nest along with the termite builder colony, is emblematic in its ecological and evolutionary significance. On top of preserving...
View ArticleOvercomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension (by Samuel Arbesman)
Why did the New York Stock Exchange suspend trading without warning on July 8, 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollably against the will of their drivers? Why does the...
View ArticleThe Hidden Danger of Big Data
With big data, we can multiply our options and filter out things we don’t want to see. But there is much to be said for making discoveries through pure serendipity: contingency and randomness often...
View ArticleThe Evolutionary Origins of Hierarchy
Hierarchy is a ubiquitous organizing principle in biology, and a key reason evolution produces complex, evolvable organisms, yet its origins are poorly understood. Here we demonstrate for the first...
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