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2000

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Title:The Death of Costly Signalling?
Author(s):Michael Lachmann, Carl T. Bergstron, and Szabolcs Számadó
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Paper #:00-12-074
 
Title:The Co-evolution of Individual Behaviors and Social Institutions
Author(s):Samuel Bowles and Astrid Hopfensitz
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Paper #:00-12-073
 
Title:The Evolution of Reciprocal Preferences
Author(s):Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
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Paper #:00-12-072
 
Title:Costly Signaling and Cooperation
Author(s):Eric A. Smith, Samuel Bowles, and Herbert Gintis
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Paper #:00-12-071
 
Title:The Topology of the Possible: Formal Spaces Underlying Patterns of Evolutionary Change
Author(s):Bärbel M. R. Stadler, Peter F. Stadler, Günter P. Wagner, and Walter Fontana
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Paper #:00-12-070
 
Title:The Price Dynamics of Common Trading Strategies
Author(s):J. Doyne Farmer and Shareen Joshi
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Paper #:00-12-069
 
Title:Two Regimes in the Frequency of Words and the Origins of Complex Lexicons: Zipf’s Law Revisited
Author(s):Ramon Ferrer Cancho and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:00-12-068
 
Title:Lessons from the Past: Biotic Recoveries from Mass Extinctions
Author(s):Douglas H. Erwin
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Paper #:00-12-067
 
Title:Habitat Fragmentation and Biodiversity Collapse Under Recruitment Limitation
Author(s):Ricard V. Solé and David Alonso
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Paper #:00-12-066
 
Title:A Mechanism for the Evolution of Altruism Among Non-kin: Positive Assortment Through Environmental Feedback
Author(s):John W. Pepper and Barbara B. Smuts
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Paper #:00-12-065
 
Title:Who is the Best Connected Scientist? A Study of Scientific Coauthorship Networks
Author(s):M. E. J. Newman
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Paper #:00-12-064
 
Title:Modelling Macroevolutionary Patterns: An Ecological Perspective
Author(s):Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:00-12-063
 
Title:A Simple Model of Fads and Cascading Failures
Author(s):D. J. Watts
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Paper #:00-12-062
 
Title:Replication and Mutation on Neutral Networks: Updated Version 2000
Author(s):Christian Reidys, Christian V. Forst, and Peter Schuster
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Paper #:00-11-061
 
Title:Complexity and Fragility in Ecological Networks
Author(s):Ricard V. Solé and Jose M. Montoya
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Paper #:00-11-060
 
Title:Small World Patterns in Food Webs
Author(s):Jose M. Montoya and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:00-10-059
 
Title:Small Cycles in Small Worlds
Author(s):Petra M. Gleiss, Peter F. Stadler, Andreas Wagner, and David A. Fell
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Paper #:00-10-058
 
Title:Complex Discrete Dynamics from Simple Continuous Population Models
Author(s):Javier G. P. Gamarra and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:00-10-057
 
Title:A Mean Field Stochastic Theory for Species-Rich Assembled Communities
Author(s):Alan McKane, David Alonso, and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:00-10-056
 
Title:Normalization and Analysis of DNA Microarray Data by Self-Consistency and Local Regression
Author(s):Thomas B. Kepler, Lynn Crosby, and Kevin T. Morgan
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Paper #:00-09-055
 
Title:Noise Delays Bifurcation in a Positively Coupled Neural Circuit
Author(s):Boris Gutkin, Tim Hely, and Jürgen Jost
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Paper #:00-09-054
 
Title:Spectral Statistics of Instantaneous Normal Modes in Liquids and Random Matrices
Author(s):Srikanth Sastry, Nivedita Deo, and Silvio Franz
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Paper #:00-09-053
 
Title:Upper Bound on the Products of Particle Interactions in Cellular Automata
Author(s):Wim Hordijk, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, and James P. Crutchfield
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Paper #:00-09-052
 
Title:New Results on Alternating and Non-Deterministic Two-Dimensional Finite-State Automata
Author(s):Jarkko Kari and Cristopher Moore
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Paper #:00-09-051
 
Title:One-Dimensional Peg Solitaire, and Duotaire
Author(s):Cristopher Moore and David Eppstein
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Paper #:00-09-050
 
Title:Social Cohesion and Embeddedness: A Hierarchical Conception of Social Groups
Author(s):James Moody and Douglas R. White
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Paper #:00-08-049
 
Paper #:00-08-048
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Title:Individual Interactions, Group Conflicts, and the Evolution of Preferences
Author(s):Samuel Bowles
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Paper #:00-08-047
 
Title:Landscapes, Gene Networks and Pattern Formation: on the Cambrian Explosion
Author(s):Ricard V. Solé, I. Salazar, and Jordi Garcia-Fernández
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Paper #:00-08-046
 
Title:Theoretical Morphology: State of the Art
Author(s):Gunther J. Eble
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Paper #:00-08-045
 
Title:The Fossil Record of Insect Diversity and Disparity
Author(s):C. C. Labandeira and Gunther J. Eble
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Paper #:00-08-044
 
Title:Entropic Nonextensivity: A Possible Measure of Complexity
Author(s):Constantino Tsallis
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Paper #:00-08-043
 
Title:Random Graphs with Arbitrary Degree Distribution and Their Applications
Author(s):M. E. J. Newman, S. H. Strogatz, and D. J. Watts
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Paper #:00-07-042
 
Title:The Small World Inside Large Metabolic Networks
Author(s):Andreas Wagner and David Fell
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Paper #:00-07-041
 
Title:Abstention in Dynamical Models of Spatial Voting
Author(s):Baerbel M. R. Stadler
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Paper #:00-07-040
 
Title:Effect of Interaction Topology and Activation Regime in Several Multi-Agent Systems
Author(s):Robert L. Axtell
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Paper #:00-07-039
 
Title:Organizational Genesis, Identity and Control: The Transformation of Banking in Renaissance Florence
Author(s):John F. Padgett
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Paper #:00-07-038
 
Title:The Structure of Scientific Collaboration Networks
Author(s):M. E. J. Newman
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Paper #:00-07-037
 
Title:Hits and Flops Dynamics
Author(s):Gérard Weisbuch and Dietrich Stauffer
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Paper #:00-07-036
 
Title:Information Bottlenecks, Causal States, and Statistical Relevance Bases: How to Represent Relevant Information in Memoryless Transduction
Author(s):Cosma Rohilla Shalizi and James P. Crutchfield
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Paper #:00-07-035
 
Title:Relatedness in Trait Group Models of Social Evolution
Author(s):John F. Pepper
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Paper #:00-07-034
 
Title:Landscape Statistics of the Low Autocorrelated Binary String Problem
Author(s):Fernando F. Feirreira, José F. Fontanari, and Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:00-07-033
 
Title:Rectangles and Squares Recognized by Two-Dimensional Automata
Author(s):Jarkko Kari and Cristopher Moore
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Paper #:00-06-032
 
Title:Controlling Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Excitable Systems
Author(s):Nita Parekh and Somdatta Sinha
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Paper #:00-06-031
 
Title:Upper and Lower Bounds on Continuous-Time Computation
Author(s):Manuel Campagnolo and Cristopher Moore
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Paper #:00-06-030
 
Title:Spatial Competition and Price Formation
Author(s):Kai Nagel, Martin Shubik, Maya Paczuski, and Per Bak
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Paper #:00-05-029
 
Title:Interactions-Based Models
Author(s):William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf
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Paper #:00-05-028
 
Title:Design of Multi-Stable RNA Molecules
Author(s):Cristophe Flamm, Ivo L. Hofacker, Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Peter F. Stadler, and Martin Zehl
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Paper #:00-05-027
 
Title:Equation Satisfiability and Program Satisfiablity for Finite Monoids
Author(s):David B. Barrington, Pierre McKenzie, Cristopher Moore, Pascal Tesson, and Denis Thérien
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Paper #:00-04-026
 
Title:Who Wins Domineering on Rectangular Boards?
Author(s):Michael Lachmann, Cristopher Moore, and Ivan Rapaport
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Paper #:00-04-025
 
Title:Analogy-Making as a Complex Adaptive System
Author(s):Melanie Mitchell
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Paper #:00-04-024
 
Title:A Stochastic Overlapping Generations Economy with Inheritance
Author(s):I. Karatzas, Martin Shubik, and W. Sudderth
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Paper #:00-04-023
 
Title:Learning to Be Thoughtless: Social Norms and Individual Computation
Author(s):Joshua M. Epstein
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Paper #:00-03-022
 
Title:The Theory of Money
Author(s):Martin Shubik
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Paper #:00-03-021
 
Title:Phase Transitions in a Model of Internet Traffic
Author(s):Ricard V. Solé and Sergi Valverge
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Paper #:00-03-020
 
Title:Hard Tiling Problems with Simple Tiles
Author(s):Cristopher Moore and John M. Robson
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Paper #:00-03-019
 
Title:On the Source of Mutational Robustness in Genetic Networks of Yeast
Author(s):Andreas Wagner
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Paper #:00-03-018
 
Title:Optimal Parochialism: The Dynamics of Trust and Exclusion in Networks
Author(s):Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
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Paper #:00-03-017
 
Title:Decoupled Evolution of Coding Region and mRNA Expression Patterns After Gene Duplication : Implications for the Neutralist-Selectionist Debate
Author(s):Andreas Wagner
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Paper #:00-02-016
 
Title:The Role of Population Size, Pleiotropy, and Fitness Effects of Mutations in the Evolution of Overlapping Gene Functions
Author(s):Andreas Wagner
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Paper #:00-02-015
 
Title:Inferring Life Style From Gene Expression Patterns
Author(s):Andreas Wagner
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Paper #:00-02-014
 
Title:Molecular Insights into Evolution of Phenotypes
Author(s):Peter Schuster
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Paper #:00-02-013
 
Title:The Dynamics of Iterated Transportation Simulations
Author(s):Kai Nagel, Marcus Rickert, Patrice M. Simon, and Martin Pieck
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Paper #:00-02-012
 
Title:Phase Transitions in Random Networks with Multiple States
Author(s):Ricard V. Solé, Bartolo Luque, and Stuart A. Kauffman
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Paper #:00-02-011
 
Title:Centralization vs. Decentralization in a Multi-Unit Organization: A Computational Model of a Retail Chain as a Multi-Agent Adaptive System
Author(s):Myong-Hun Chang and Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.
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Paper #:00-02-010
 
Title:Alarm Calls as Costly Signals of Anti-Predator Vigilance: The Watchful Babbler Game
Author(s):Carl Bergstrom and Michael Lachmann
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Paper #:00-02-009
 
Title:Pattern Discovery and Computational Mechanics
Author(s):Cosma Rohilla Shalizi and James P. Crutchfield
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Paper #:00-01-008
 
Title:Exact Solution of Site and Bond Percolation on Small-World Networks
Author(s):Cristopher Moore and M. E. J. Newman
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Paper #:00-01-007
 
Title:The Geometry of Shape Space: Application to Influenza
Author(s):Alan S. Lapedes and Robert Farber
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Paper #:00-01-006
 
Title:An Analog Characterization of the Subrecursive Functions
Author(s):Manuel L. Campagnolo, Cristopher Moore, and José F. Costa
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Paper #:00-01-005
 
Title:Multiple Minimas In Glassy Random Matrix Models
Author(s):Nivedita Deo
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Paper #:00-01-004
 
Title:Autocatalysis, Information and Coding
Author(s):Peter R. Willis
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Paper #:00-01-003
 
Title:Epidemics and Percolation in Small-World Networks
Author(s):Cristopher Moore and M. E. J. Newman
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Paper #:00-01-002
 
Title:Life and Evolution in Computers
Author(s):Melanie Mitchell
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Paper #:00-01-001