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2001

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Title:Computation with Switching Map Systems: Nonlinearity and Computational Complexity
Author(s):Yuzuru Sato, Makoto Taiji, and Takashi Ikegami
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Paper #:01-12-083
 
Title:Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in New Media Projects
Author(s):Monique Girard and David Stark
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Paper #:01-12-082
 
Title:Pathways of Property Transformation: Enterprise Network Careers in Hungary, 1988-2000
Author(s):David Stark and Balázs Vedres
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Paper #:01-12-081
 
Title:Money and the Monetization of Credit
Author(s):Martin Shubik
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Paper #:01-12-080
 
Title:Two-Tiered Evolution of “Neiserria meningitis”: How Within-Host Ecology and Between-Host Epidemiology Expedite Phase Shifting
Author(s):Lauren W. Ancel, Bruce R. Levin, Anthony R. Richardson, and Igor Stojiljkovic
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Paper #:01-12-079
 
Title:Applying Network Theory to Epidemics: Control Measures for Outbreaks of “Mycoplasma pneumoniae”
Author(s):Lauren W. Ancel, M. E. J. Newman, Michael Martin, and Stephanie Schrag
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Paper #:01-12-078
 
Title:Community Structure in Social and Biological Networks
Author(s):Michelle Girvan and M. E. J. Newman
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Paper #:01-12-077
 
Title:Large Extinctions in an Evolutionary Model: The Role of Innovation and Keystone Species
Author(s):Sanjay Jain and Sandeep Krishna
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Paper #:01-12-076
 
Title:Crashes, Recoveries, and “Core-Shifts” in a Model of Evolving Networks
Author(s):Sanjay Jain and Sandeep Krishna
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Paper #:01-12-075
 
Title:Variations on the Theme of Scarf’s Counter-Example
Author(s):Alok Kumar and Martin Shubik
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Paper #:01-12-074
 
Title:Exact Solutions of Epidemic Models on Networks
Author(s):M. E. J. Newman
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Paper #:01-12-073
 
Title:Interacting Agents and Continuous Opinions Dynamics
Author(s):Gérard Weisbuch, Guillaume Deffuant, Frederic Amblard, and Jean Pierre Nadal
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Paper #:01-11-072
 
Title:Self Organized Critical Traffic in Parallel Computer Networks
Author(s):Sergi Valverde and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:01-11-071
 
Title:Almost All Graphs of Degree 4 are 3-colorable
Author(s):Dimitris Achlioptas and Cristopher Moore
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Paper #:01-11-070
 
Title:Topological Properties of Food Webs: From Real Data to Community Assembly Models
Author(s):José M. Montoya and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:01-11-069
 
Title:Optimization in Complex Networks
Author(s):Ramon Ferrer i Cancho and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:01-11-068
 
Title:Secondary Structure Prediction for Aligned RNA Sequences
Author(s):Ivo L Hofacker, Martin Fekete, and Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:01-11-067
 
Title:Ego-Centered Networks and the Ripple Effect
Author(s):M. E. J. Newman
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Paper #:01-11-066
 
Title:Self-Organized Instability in Complex Ecosystems
Author(s):Ricard V. Solé, David Alonso, and Alan McKane
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Paper #:01-11-065
 
Title:Decisionmetrics: A Decision-Based Approach to Econometric Modeling
Author(s):Spyros Skouras
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Paper #:01-11-064
 
Title:Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
Author(s):Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, Richard McElreath, Michael Alvard, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensminger, Kim Hill, Francisco Gil-White, Michael Gurven, Frank Marlowe, John Q. Patton, Natalie Smith, and and David Tracer
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Paper #:01-11-063
 
Title:Exploring the Evolution of Complexity in Signaling Networks
Author(s):John H. Holland
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Paper #:01-10-062
 
Title:Emulation, Inequality, and Work Hours: Was Thorsten Veblen Right?
Author(s):Samuel Bowles and Yongjin Park
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Paper #:01-10-061
 
Title:The Evolution of Inequality
Author(s):Samuel Bowles
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Paper #:01-10-060
 
Title:The Puzzle of Prosociality
Author(s):Herbert Gintis
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Paper #:01-10-059
 
Title:The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Altruism: Gene-Culture Coevolution, and the Internalization of Norms
Author(s):Herbert Gintis
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Paper #:01-10-058
 
Title:Neutral Evolution and Aesthetics: Vladimir Nabokov and Insect Mimicry
Author(s):Victoria N. Alexander
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Paper #:01-10-057
 
Title:Circuit Bases of Strongly Connected Digraphs
Author(s):Petra M. Gleiss, Joseph Leydold, and Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:01-10-056
 
Title:Path Integration on a Quantum Computer
Author(s):Joseph F. Traub and Henryk Wozniakowski
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Paper #:01-10-055
 
Title:Inflationary Bias in a Simple Stochastic Economy
Author(s):Martin Shubik
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Paper #:01-09-054
 
Title:Barrier Trees of Degenerate Landscapes
Author(s):Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:01-09-053
 
Title:Evolution in Systems of Ligation-Based Replicators
Author(s):Bärbel M. R. Stadler, Peter F. Stadler, and Peter R. Wills
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Paper #:01-09-052
 
Title:Estimating Coarse Gene Network Structure from Large-Scale Gene Perturbation Data
Author(s):Andreas Wagner
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Paper #:01-09-051
 
Title:Reconstructing Pathways in Large Genetic Networks from Genetic Perturbations
Author(s):Andreas Wagner
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Paper #:01-09-050
 
Title:Chaos in Learning a Simple Two-Person Game
Author(s):Yuzuru Sato, Eizo Akiyama, and J. Doyne Farmer
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Paper #:01-09-049
 
Title:Norm Compliance and Strong Reciprocity
Author(s):Rajiv Sethi and E. Somanathan
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Paper #:01-09-048
 
Title:How to Reconstruct a Large Genetic Network from $n$ Gene Perturbations in Fewer than $n^2$ Easy Steps
Author(s):Andreas Wagner
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Paper #:01-09-047
 
Title:Percolation and Epidemics in a Two-Dimensional Small World
Author(s):M. E. J. Newman, I. Jensen, and R. M. Ziff
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Paper #:01-09-046
 
Title:Tiling Groups for Wang Tiles
Author(s):Cristopher Moore, Ivan Rapaport, and Eric Rémila
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Paper #:01-08-045
 
Title:Minimum Cycle Bases of Product Graphs
Author(s):Wilfried Imrich and Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:01-08-044
 
Title:Non-explanatory Equilibria: An Extremely Simple Game With (Mostly) Unattainable Fixed Points
Author(s):Joshua M. Epstein and Ross A. Hammond
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Paper #:01-08-043
 
Title:A Long-Term Perspective on Resilience in Socio-natural Systems
Author(s):Sander E. van der Leeuw and Chr. Aschan-Leygonie
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Paper #:01-08-042
 
Title:A Model of Large-Scale Proteome Evolution
Author(s):Ricard V. Solé, D. Eric Smith, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, and Thomas Kepler
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Paper #:01-08-041
 
Title:Conserved RNA Secondary Structures in Picornaviridae Genomes
Author(s):C. Witwer, S. Rauscher, I. L. Hofacker, and Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:01-08-040
 
Title:On the Impossibility of Predicting the Behavior of Rational Agents
Author(s):Dean P. Foster and H. Peyton Young
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Paper #:01-08-039
 
Title:Dynamics of a Simple Evolutionary Process
Author(s):Dietrich Stauffer and M. E. J. Newman
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Paper #:01-08-038
 
Title:Stabilization of Chaotic and Non-Permanent Food Web Dynamics
Author(s):Richard J. Williams and Neo D. Martinez
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Paper #:01-07-037
 
Title:Two Degrees of Separation in Complex Food Webs
Author(s):Richard J. Williams, Neo D. Martinez, Eric L Berlow, Jennifer A. Dunne, and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
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Paper #:01-07-036
 
Title:Fast Approximation Algorithms for Finding Node-Independent Paths in Networks
Author(s):Douglas R. White and M. E. J. Newman
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Paper #:01-07-035
 
Title:Fractal Geometry of Spin-Glass Models
Author(s):J. F. Fontanari and Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:01-06-034
 
Title:Stochasticity in Transcriptional Regulation: Origins, Consequences and Mathematical Representations
Author(s):Thomas B. Kepler and Timothy C. Elston
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Paper #:01-06-033
 
Title:The Structure of Growing Social Networks
Author(s):Emily M. Jin, Michelle Girvan, and M. E. J. Newman
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Paper #:01-06-032
 
Title:If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich? Belief Selection in Complete and Incomplete Markets
Author(s):Lawrence Blume and David Easley
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Paper #:01-06-031
 
Title:A Simple Model of Epidemics with Pathogen Mutation
Author(s):Michelle Girvan, Duncan S. Callaway, M. E. J. Newman, and Steven H. Strogatz
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Paper #:01-05-030
 
Title:The Topology of Technology Graphs: Small World Patterns in Electronic Circuits
Author(s):Ramon Ferrer i Cancho, Christiaan Janssen, and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:01-05-029
 
Title:Recovery After Mass Extinction: Evolutionary Assembly in Large-Scale Biosphere Dynamics
Author(s):Ricard V. Solé, José M. Montoya, and Douglas H. Erwin
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Paper #:01-05-028
 
Title:The Peacock, the Sparrow, and the Evolution of Human Language
Author(s):Carl T. Bergstrom, Rustom Antia, Szabolcs Számadó, and Michael Lachmann
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Paper #:01-05-027
 
Title:Quantum Walks on the Hypercube
Author(s):Cristopher Moore and Alexander Russell
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Paper #:01-05-026
 
Title:Are Randomly Grown Graphs Really Random?
Author(s):D. S. Callaway, J. E. Hopcroft, J. M. Kleinberg, M. E. J. Newman, and S. H. Strogatz
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Paper #:01-05-025
 
Title:Field Theory of a Reaction-Diffusion Model of Quasispecies Dynamics
Author(s):Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:01-05-024
 
Title:Evolution of Strategies in Repeated Stochastic Games
Author(s):Anders Eriksson and Kristian Lindgren
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Paper #:01-04-023
 
Title:The Yeast Protein Interaction Network Evolves Rapidly and Contains Few Redundant Duplicate Genes
Author(s):Andreas Wagner
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Paper #:01-04-022
 
Title:Clustering and Preferential Attachment in Growing Networks
Author(s):M. E. J. Newman
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Paper #:01-03-021
 
Title:Synchronizing to the Environment: Information Theoretic Constraints on Agent Learning
Author(s):James P. Crutchfield and David P. Feldman
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Paper #:01-03-020
 
Title:Interfaces (and Regional Congruence?) in Spin Glasses
Author(s):C. M. Newman and Daniel L. Stein
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Paper #:01-03-019
 
Title:Stochastic Economies with Locally Interacting Agents
Author(s):I. V. Evstigneev and M. I. Taksar
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Paper #:01-03-018
 
Title:The Conservation of Homochirality and Prebiotic Synthesis of Amino Acids
Author(s):Harold J. Morowitz
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Paper #:01-03-017
 
Title:The Small-World of Human Language
Author(s):Ramon Ferrer i Cancho and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:01-03-016
 
Title:The Coevolution of Genes and the Genetic Code
Author(s):Guy Sella and Dave Ardell
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Paper #:01-03-015
 
Title:Combinatorial Landscapes
Author(s):Christian M. Reidys and Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:01-03-014
 
Title:Shaking a Box of Sand
Author(s):Peter F. Stadler, Anita Mehta, and Jean-Marc Luck
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Paper #:01-03-013
 
Title:Regularities Unseen, Randomness Observed: Levels of Entropy Convergence
Author(s):James P. Crutchfield and David P. Feldman
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Paper #:01-02-012
 
Title:Recombination Spaces, Metrics, and Pretopologies
Author(s):Bärbel M. R. Stadler, Peter F. Stadler, Max Shpak, and Günter P. Wagner
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Paper #:01-02-011
 
Title:A Fast Monte Carlo Algorithm for Site or Bond Percolation
Author(s):M. E. J. Newman and R. M. Ziff
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Paper #:01-02-010
 
Title:Modeling Florentine Banking: Part I. Deposits and Loans
Author(s):John F. Padgett
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Paper #:01-02-009
 
Title:Modeling Florentine Republicanism
Author(s):John F. Padgett
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Paper #:01-02-008
 
Title:Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies
Author(s):Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, and and Richard McElreath
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Paper #:01-01-007
 
Title:Landscapes on Spaces of Trees
Author(s):Oliver Bastert, Dan Rockmore, Peter F. Stadler, and Gottfried Tinhofer
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Paper #:01-01-006
 
Title:The Inheritance of Economic Status: Education, Class, and Genetics
Author(s):Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
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Paper #:01-01-005
 
Title:Incentive-Enhancing Preferences: Personality, Behavior, and Earnings
Author(s):Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne
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Paper #:01-01-004
 
Title:Social Capital and Community Governance
Author(s):Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
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Paper #:01-01-003
 
Title:The Role of Begging and Sibling Competition in Foraging Strategies of Nestlings
Author(s):Miguel A. Rodriguez-Girones, Magnus Enquist, and Michael Lachmann
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Paper #:01-01-002
 
Title:On the Evolution of Polygamy: A Theoretical Examination of the Polygamy Threshold Model
Author(s):Susan Ptak and Michael Lachmann
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Paper #:01-01-001