sfiscience

A historical archive of SFI's in-house preprint series, retired in 2017.

The Network Structure of Cancer Ecosystems

Authors:

Simón P. Castillo, Rolando Rebolledo, Matias Arim, Michael E. Hochberg, and Pablo A. Marquet

Date:

2017-12-29

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The Decline of Polygyny: An Interpretation

Authors:

Seung-Yun Oh, Cody T. Ross, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, and Samuel Bowles

Date:

2017-12-21

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The frequency of genes in interconnected populations and of species in interconnected communities are affected by similar processes, such as birth, death and immigration. The equilibrium distribution of gene frequencies in structured populations is known

Authors:

Pablo A. Marquet, Guillermo Espinoza, Sebastian R. Abades, Angela Ganz, Rolando Rebolledo

Date:

2017-11-22

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The Origins of Computational Mechanics: A Brief Intellectual History and Several Clarifications

Authors:

James P. Crutchfield

Date:

2017-10-23

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Unique Information via Dependency Constraints

Authors:

Ryan G. James, Jeffrey Emenheiser, and James P. Crutchfield

Date:

2017-09-20

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A Physics-Based Approach to Unsupervised Discovery of Coherent Structures in Spatiotemporal Systems

Authors:

Adam Rupe, James P. Crutchfield, Karthik Kashinath, Mr Prabhat

Date:

2017-09-13

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Technology, Institutions, and Wealth Inequality over Eleven Millennia

Authors:

Mattia Fochesato and Samuel Bowles

Date:

2017-08-23

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Sequence Selection by Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in an Autocatalytic Binary Polymer Model

Authors:

Harold Fellermann, Shinpei Tanaka and Steen Rasmussen

Date:

2017-08-15

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Above and Beyond the Landauer Bound: Thermodynamics of Modularity

Authors:

Alexander B. Boyd, Dibyendu Mandal, and James P. Crutchfield

Date:

2017-08-11

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Prediction and Generation of Binary Markov Processes: Can a Finite-State Fox Catch a Markov Mouse?

Authors:

Joshua Ruebeck, Ryan G. James, John R. Mahoney, and James P. Crutchfield

Date:

2017-08-02

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Punctuated Non-Equilibrium and Niche Conservatism Explain Biodiversity Fluctuations through the Phanerozoic (Including Supplement)

Authors:

Andrew J. Rominger, Miguel A. Fuentes, and Pablo A. Marquet

Date:

2017-08-02

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Toward a Theory of Recurrent Social Formations

Authors:

Peter N. Peregrine

Date:

2017-08-02

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Extreme Quantum Advantage for Rare-Event Sampling

Authors:

Cina Aghamohammadi, Samuel P. Loomis, John R. Mahoney, and James P. Crutchfield

Date:

2017-08-02

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Social Resilience to Climate-Related Disasters in Ancient Societies: A Test of Two Hypotheses

Authors:

Peter N. Peregrine

Date:

2017-07-19

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Dacura: A New Solution to Data Harvesting and Knowledge Extraction for Archaeology

Authors:

Peter N. Peregrine, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter François, Peter Turchin, and Harvey Whitehouse

Date:

2017-07-19

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Observational and Reinforcement Pattern-Learning: An Exploratory Study

Authors:

Nobuyuki Hanaki, Alan Kirman, and Paul Pezanis-Christou

Date:

2017-07-19

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An Alternative Information Plan

Authors:

Matteo Monti, Steen Rasmussen, Marco Moschettini, and Lorenzo Posani

Date:

2017-07-19

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Prediction and Power in Molecular Sensors: Uncertainty and Dissipation When Conditionally Markovian Channels are Driven by Semi-Markov Environments

Authors:

Sarah E. Marzen and James P. Crutchfield

Date:

2017-07-19

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Islands in the Gap: Intertwined Transport and Localization in Structurally Complex Materials

Authors:

Xincheng Lei, Dowman P. Varn, and James P. Crutchfield

Date:

2017-07-19

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Spectral Simplicity of Apparent Complexity, Part II: Exact Complexities and Complexity Spectra

Authors:

Paul M. Riechers and James P. Crutchfield

Date:

2017-06-05

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