Cover Design: Fractal Graphic.
J. C. Sprott
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Progress in Applied Nonlinear Dynamics: Welcome to NDPLS Volume 8.
Stephen J. Guastello, pg. 1
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The Problematisation of Existence: Towards a Philosophy of Complexity.
Kurt Richardson, pg. 17
Keywords: complexity theory, philosophy, pluralism, cellular automata, computational mechanics
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Transitions Between Two Pictorial Attractors.
Robert A. M. Gregson, pg. 41
Keywords: similarity, boundaries, intransitivities, attractors
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Situated Learning Theory: Adding Rate and Complexity Effects via Kauffman's NK Model.
Yu Yuan & Bill McKelvey, pg. 65
Keywords: situated learning theory, group learning, rate of learning, complexity catastrophe, agent-based models, Kauffman, NK model, rugged landscape
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Can a Monkey with a Computer Create Art?.
J. C. Sprott, pg. 103
Keywords: art, aesthetics, chaos, strange attractor
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Book Review: Chaos and Time Series Analysis by Julien Clinton Sprott.

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Cover Design: Fractal Graphic.
J. C. Sprott, pg. 115
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Agent-Based Modeling in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Euel Elliott & L. Douglas Kiel, pg. 121
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Emergence of Constraint in Self-organizing Systems.
Stephen Guerin & Daniel Kunkle, pg. 131
Keywords: constraint, self-organization, entropy, ant simulation, agent-based modeling
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Avoiding Synchrony as a Strategy of Female Mate Choice.
Jeffrey C. Schank, pg. 147
Keywords: Ovarian cycle synchrony, estrous synchrony, computer simulation, female mate choice, Norway rats, women, individual-based modeling
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Using Agent-Based Simulation to Examine the Robustness of Up-or-Out Promotion Systems in Universities.
Steven E. Phelan, pg. 177
Keywords: promotion, efficiency, internal labor markets, higher education, simulation
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Personnel Turnover In Organizations: An Agent-Based Simulation Model.
Arianna Dal Forno & Ugo Merlone, pg. 205
Keywords: corporate culture, multi-agent system, bounded rationality, personnel turnover, organization performance
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Heterogeneity and Evolution of Expectations in a Model of Currency Crisis.
Jasmina Arifovic & Paul Masson, pg. 231
Keywords: currency crisis, expectations, heterogeneity, agents
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Robust Reasoning With Agent-Based Modeling.
Steven Bankes & Robert Lempert, pg. 259
Keywords: computational experiment, robust reasoning, agent-based meodeling, robustness, ensembles of models
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Trends in Complexity Theories and Computation in the Social Sciences.
Leslie Henrickson, pg. 279
Keywords: bibliometrics, chaos, complexity, nonlinear, neural network
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Cover Design: Fractal Graphic.
J. C. Sprott
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Dynamical Models of Love.
J. C. Sprott, pg. 303
Keywords: love, romance, differential equations, chaos
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Fractal Meta-analysis and Causality Embedded in Complexity: Advanced Understanding of Disease Etiology.
Eystein Glattre & Jan F. Nygård, pg. 315
Keywords: fractal, meta-analysis, causality, complexity, self-organized criticality, epidemiology
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Coordination Learning in Stag Hunt Games with Application to Emergency Management.
Stephen J. Guastello & Robert W. Bond, Jr., pg. 345
Keywords: stag hunt, cooperation, emergency management, game theory, attractor
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A Model of Chaotic Drug Markets and Their Control.
Doris A. Behrens, Jonathan P. Caulkins, & Gustav Feichtinger, pg. 375
Keywords: drug markets, static and dynamic drug control policies, nonlinear, chaos, OGY control
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Dynamic Analysis of News Streams: Institutional versus Environmental Effects.
Kevin Dooley & Steven Corman, pg. 403
Keywords: dynamics, media, terrorism, Reuters, news production
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Book Review: The Nonlinear Workbook, 2nd Edition, by Willi-Hans Steeb.
pg. 429
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Book Review: Changing Mind: Transitions in Natural and Artificial Environments; Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena in Life Science, Vol. 9. By Franco F Orsucci.
pg. 431
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Book Review: The Great Adventure: Toward a Fully Human Theory of Evolution. Edited by David Loye.
pg. 437
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Book Review: Goodman, Paul S., Ancona, Deborah G., Lawrence, Barbara S., Tushman, Michael L. (Eds.). (2001). Special topic forum on time and organizational research. Academy of Management Review.
pg. 441
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Cover Design: Fractal Graphic.
J. C. Sprott
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Information Hidden in Signals and Macromolecules I. Symbolic Time-series Analysis.
Miguel A. Jim nez-Monta o, Rainer Feistel, & Oscar Diez-Mart nez, pg. 445
Keywords: symbolic dynamics, time series, conditional entropies, context-free grammatical complexity, surrogates
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The Fractal Dynamics of Self-Esteem and Physical Self.
Didier Delignieres, Marina Fortes, & Gregory Ninot, pg. 479
Keywords: self-esteem, physical self, time series analysis, fractal processes
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Backward and Forward-Looking Expectations in a Chaotic Cobweb Model.
Cristiana Mammana & Elisabetta Michetti, pg. 511
Keywords: nonlinear cobweb model, backward and forward-looking expectations, chaotic price behaviour, nonautonomous unidimensional map, infinite distributed memory
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Key Word Index for NDPLS Articles 1997-2003.
Stephen J. Guastello & Patrick R. Gunderson, pg. 527
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Ad Hoc Reviewers for 2003 / Color Figures for 2003 / Manuscripts Accepted for Volume 9 (2005).
pg. 535
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