Complex Systems Summer School 2014-Projects & Working Groups

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MITRE Data Sets

To access the data please contact Juniper. Here is a PDF that explains the datasets and gives some sample challenge questions. MITRE DATA PDF

Death in physical, biological and social systems

Firms, nation states, human beings and stars all die. Do the causes of "death" in physical, biological and social systems have something in common? If yes, what is it?

Fractal-like structures in economic data

Several economic time series (like the S&P 500 index) have fractal-like structures, i.e. they look the same at many time scales. What explains these time invariant structures in economic data?