Network Resources -- Links

http://www.complexsystems.org/

The Institute for the Study of Complex Systems (ISCS) is a research organization that specializes in evolutionary/functional approaches to complexity. The director of the ISCS is Peter A. Corning, Ph.D.

http://www.insna.org/

INSNA is the professional association for researchers interested in social network analysis.

http://www.necsi.org

The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent educational and research institution dedicated to advancing the study of complex systems. NECSI was established as a joint effort of faculty of New England academic institutions for the advancement of communication and collaboration outside of institutional and departmental boundaries.

http://www.santafe.edu/

The Santa Fe Institute is devoted to creating a new kind of scientific research community, one emphasizing multidisciplinary collaboration in pursuit of understanding the common themes that arise in natural, artificial, and social systems. This unique scientific enterprise attempts to uncover the mechanisms that underlie the deep simplicity present in our complex world.

http://www.systemdynamics.org/

The System Dynamics Society is an international, nonprofit organization devoted to encouraging the development and use of systems thinking and system dynamics around the world.

http://www.scs.org/

SCS is the only technical Society dedicated to advancing the use of modeling & simulation to solve real-world problems. SCS is the principal technical society devoted to the advancement of simulation and allied computer arts in all fields.

http://www.comdig.org/

Complexity Digest has been successfully networking the complexity community since fall of 1999. ComDig hopes to be of use to all of the growing number of complexity organizations and supported by them. ComDig is distributed by weekly email to a list of people who request copies free of charge.

http://www.cmu.edu/joss/

The Journal of Social Structure (JoSS) is an electronic journal of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). It is designed to facilitate timely dissemination of state-of-the-art results in the interdisciplinary research area of social structure. It publishes empirical, theoretical and methodological articles.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/

KurzweilAI.net features the big thoughts of today's big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world, and the inside story on new technological and social realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas. Although the "AI" in the title of this site suggests Ray Kurzweil's work in "artificial intelligence," it's intended here to refer to the far broader world of "accelerating intelligence" in all of its diverse forms. The quickening pace of our knowledge and intelligence will ultimately alter the nature of what it means to be human.

http://www.insna.org/INSNA/socnet.html

SOCNET is a listserv whose purpose is to allow network researchers worldwide to discuss research and professional issues, make announcements, and request help from each other.

http://www.complex-systems.com/

A journal devoted to the science, mathematics, and engineering of systems with simple connections but complex overall behavior. Complex Systems was founded by Stephen Wolfram in 1987 to provide a publication forum for the new field of complex systems research.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/38804/ProductInformation.html

Complexity is a bi-monthly, cross-disciplinary journal focusing on the rapidly expanding science of complex adaptive systems.

http://emergence.org/

Emergence: Complexity & Organization (E:CO) is an international and interdisciplinary conversation about human organizations as complex systems and the implications of complexity science for those organizations. With a unique format blending the integrity of academic inquiry and the impact of business practice, E:CO integrates multiple perspectives in management theory, research, practice and education. E:CO is a quarterly journal published in print and online.

http://www.j-npcs.org/

The primary objective of Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems (NPCS) is to provide a single forum for this interdisciplinary area to strengthen links between basic and applied research, theoretical and experimental methods relating to nonlinear dynamics of complex systems encountered in the natural and social sciences. NPCS is a relatively new journal, which started in December 1998.

http://www.nd.edu/~networks/index.htm

CCNR, directed by Professor Barabasi (Notre Dame; Physics), has a simple objective: think networks. It is about how networks emerge, what they look like, and how they evolve; and how networks impact on understanding of complex systems.

http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/

CASOS brings together computer science, dynamic network analysis and the empirical study of complex socio-technical systems. CASOS is a university wide center drawing on a group of world class faculty, students and research and administrative staff in multiple departments at Carnegie Mellon.

http://www.csss.washington.edu/

The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at the University of Washington started in 1999. It is the first center in the nation devoted to this interface, with the triple mission of galvanizing collaborative research between social scientists and statisticians, developing a menu of new graduate courses for social science students, and putting together an innovative case-based undergraduate statistics sequence for the social sciences.

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/index.html

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) is a broadly interdisciplinary program at the University of Michigan designed to encourage and facilitate research and education in the general area of nonlinear, dynamical and adaptive systems.

http://www.cds.caltech.edu/

Caltech's Control and Dynamical Systems (CDS) primary theoretical areas of research include: robust control, multivariable and nonlinear dynamical systems, multiscale modeling, optimal and decentralized control, system identification and estimation theory, and communications and information theory.

http://hcs.ucla.edu/home.htm

UCLA's HCS explores complex systems inhabited by human beings. These systems are biological, social, cultural, technological and creative. Our method is to analyze the behavior of the inhabitants of these systems and their interactions. Multi-agent virtual worlds serve as experimental laboratories to explore intuitions and "what-if" scenarios. We observe agents learning and adapting.

http://www.imbs.uci.edu/

The Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS) in the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine is a specialized research center where the objective is to facilitate interaction and common research goals among scientists whose purpose is to formulate precisely and test theories of human behavior.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/netlab/index.html

NetLab is a scholarly network based at the University of Toronto studying computer networks, communication networks, and social networks.

http://www.northwestern.edu/nico/

A university-wide institute, NICO is comprised of a distinguished and diverse group of faculty from all areas of the university, including engineering, business, natural sciences, education, medicine, law, and the social sciences. NICO's mission is to serve as a hub and facilitator of intellectual life at Northwestern and to produce path-breaking research in the area of complex systems transcending the boundaries of established disciplines.