Scaling and Growth of Complex Networks - Seattle

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This meeting will take place Wednesday, June 28, 2006, beginning at 8:30 a.m., at the Waterlink Gallery of the Odyssey Discovery Center & Bell Harbor International Conference Center. Bell Harbor is located at 2211 Alaskan Way, Pier 66, Seattle. For directions, please visit their website, http://www.bellharbor.com.

Abstract:

Many complex systems, including those as seemingly disparate as cognitive and Internet networks, appear to scale as a power-law. Evolving research at the Santa Fe Institute applies established work in biological scaling formalized by James Brown and Geoffrey West to technological, social, ecological and cognitive systems. Understanding the fundamental relationship between the distribution of nodes and connectors of a system is important for formulating theories of growth in networks and eventually formulating predictive models of network evolution. Time will be allocated to discuss how this research can be used to help understand growth in complex networks relevant to businesses and organizations.