Digital organisms have been synthesized based on a computer metaphor of organic life in which CPU time is the “energy'' resource and memory is the “material'' resource. Memory is organized into ...

The city is a complex system that evolves through its inherent social and economic interactions. Mediating the movements of people and resources, urban street networks o↵er a spatial footprint of ...

In a recent study in Physical Review Letters, SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Aanjaneya Kumar and colleagues show that the ...

The Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity brings together a group of advanced Ph.D. students and a small faculty for an intensive two-week study of computational ...

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The Complex World, originally published in Volume 1 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science, presents an entirely new framing of nature, of the human role in the natural and technological worlds, ...

Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive four-week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. CSSS brings together graduate students, ...

Housed in the old pool house on SFI’s Hyde Park campus, this extrapolated space holds ever-evolving exhibits on scale, time, and cosmodity. Heliotown II is the work of one of SFI's Omega Minds, Thomas ...

A working group held at the Santa Fe Institute May 28-30, 2013, produced a set of consensus answers to questions about Cahokia, an urban place dating to the 12th and 13th centuries and located in what ...

Scientists are working across disciplines to render complex reality to scientific understanding. It has been the great triumph of the sciences to find consistent means of studying phenomena hidden by ...

Christa Brelsford is a Research Scientist in the Geospatial Science and Human Security Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Previously, she was the Liane Russell Fellow at ORNL and a ...

We show that all algorithms that search for an extremum of a cost function perform exactly the same, when averaged over all possible cost functions. In particular, if algorithm A outperforms algorithm ...