Directory of Evolution and Dynamics Resources

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Evolution of Complexity and Evolution to Equilibrium both exhibit the Arrow of Time (see category 'Time and Timelessness'). Here we list Generalised Dynamical Systems, which can describe, model and explain such behavior.

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• Boids (Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model)

  http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
  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)

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/jair/pub/volume21/stanley04a.pdf
  NEAT is applied to an open-ended coevolutionary robot duel domain where robot controllers com- pete head to head

• Dissipative structures

  http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/dissipative-structures.html
  Critical overview of Self-Organization in Non-Equilibrium Systems issues.

• Evolution: Metaphysics of Evolution. Space and Motion Exist for Evolution to Exist

  http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Evolution-Metaphysics.htm
  Evolution: Darwinian / Cultural Evolution , society, ecology, metaphysics.

• Evolutionary Design of Complex Systems, Brown University, USA

  http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/complex/
  Desert is a new programming environment, combines fragment integration with standard control integration..

• Multi-agent Models

  http://pagesperso-orange.fr/philippe.gascuel/scientific_for_citizens.htm
  Book and software tools for social and political activism based on models of self-adaptive dissipative structures.

• Robotics I Multiagent Dynamics

  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/publication_view.html?pub_id=3166
  Robotics Institute: Modeling Supply Chain Dynamics: A Multiagent Approach

• TOL : Computational infrastructure

  http://www.utexas.edu/news/2003/09/17/nr_evolution/
  Resources for reconstructing the evolutionary history of all organisms.

• TOL at Berkley : Tree of Life project

  http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/tol.pdf
  Evolution of Life on this Planet

• TOL: Building a Tree of Life for All Species

  http://www.medilexicon.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=16463
  How living things have evolved since the origins of life

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