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{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

The following is a collection of papers regarded as "classic" literature in Complex Systems Science. This list has been growing over the past few years and was formalized by Dan Rockmore for the 2010 Complex Systems Summer School. 

For more suggested readings, please explore the wiki content of previous summer schools.

[http://chd.ucsd.edu/seminar/documents/waddington.nature.pdf Waddington, C.H. 1942. Canalization of Development and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters. Nature 150:563-565.]

[http://www.jstor.org/stable/184253 Rosenblueth, A., and N. Wiener. 1945. The Role of Models in Science. Philosophy of Science 12 (4):316-321.]

[http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf Shannon, C.E. 1948. A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal 27:379-423 623-656.]

[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=3&ved=0CCcQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.santafe.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F05%2Fturing1950.pdf&ei=oiEFTJusGI7ANu3vnTs&usg=AFQjCNHXifZ0zDwXXFN5WT0nbRo3-by2JQ&sig2=6ikAdPJXTujA_6WZ9c0sIQ Turing, A.M. 1950. Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind, New Series, 59 (236):433-460.]

[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CBsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dna.caltech.edu%2Fcourses%2Fcs191%2Fpaperscs191%2Fturing.pdf&ei=-iEFTOabHI7eNYSZkDw&usg=AFQjCNGopAGCXkZ7OBVBFLY0rIh-9O6Fhg&sig2=oO6O7ehULch49r03agAWlA Turing, A.M. 1952. The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 237 (641):37-72.]

[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.79.7413&rep=rep1&type=pdf Minksy, M. 1961. Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 49 (1):8-30.]

[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.68.7646&rep=rep1&type=pdf Landauer, R. 1961. Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process. IBM Journal of Research and Development 5:183-191.]

[http://www.jstor.org/stable/2295952 Arrow, K.J. 1962. The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing. Review of Economic Studies 80:155-173.]

[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CBYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnicorg.pbworks.com%2Ff%2Fkolmogorov.pdf&ei=piIFTKCHD4KGNsW_hTw&usg=AFQjCNHpAoEHm9DGbh2-dTCKGJxdDzSnaA&sig2=TS3hl6GDZeGncKA80gzabA Kolmogorov, A.N. 1965. Three Approaches to the Quantitative Definition of Information. Problems of Information and Transmission 1 (1):1-7.]

[http://www.jstor.org/stable/1301992 Raup, D.M. 1966. Geometric Analysis of Shell Coiling; General Problems. Journal of Paleontology 40 (5):1178-1190.]

[http://cba.mit.edu/events/03.11.ASE/docs/VonNeumann.pdf Neumann, J. V. 1966. Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata. In Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, edited by A. W. Burks. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Original edition, Fourth University of Illinois lecture.]

[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CBIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.7.5156%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf&ei=7CIFTOPUOKaUMs6t2Ts&usg=AFQjCNG2hWyC8HdDNVeOIWa6ZA9xKL9xZA&sig2=v-kyVrQVEvjz3GpnWcz93A Chaitin, G.J. 1966. On the Length of Programs for Computing Finite Binary Sequences. Journal of the ACM 13:547-569.]

[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CBcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.santafe.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F08%2Fconant_ashby1.pdf&ei=FyMFTPqmHoy6NrSS4Ts&usg=AFQjCNGnxwGyXttQcsb5d1mxFuW1HsltDw&sig2=9p3wht953Cv1_SMoZTTT0w Conant, Roger C. and W. Ross Ashby. 1970. Every Good Regulator of a System Must be a Model of That System. International Journal of Systems Science 1 (2):89-97.]

[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CBYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sccs.swarthmore.edu%2Fusers%2F08%2Fbblonder%2Fphys120%2Fdocs%2Fanderson.pdf&ei=siMFTOmRLZPCM5iwxTs&usg=AFQjCNHMcFgAnJg_ngtqQsYX2Zu6t0iUiw&sig2=rGqMQ39VsWndCh4JxqK-Yg Anderson, P.W. 1972. More Is Different. Science, New Series 177 (4047):393-396.]

[http://blog.santafe.edu/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/simon1973.pdf Simon, H. 1973. The Organization of Complex Systems. In Hierarchy Theory, edited by H. H. Pattee. New York: George Braziller.]

[http://webout.weizmann.ac.il/complex/tlusty/courses/InfoInBio/Papers/Bennett1973.pdf Bennett, C.H. 1973. Logical Reversibility of Computation. IBM Journal of Research and Development 17 (6):525-532.]

[http://www.dklevine.com/archive/refs4448.pdf Smith, J.M. 1974. The theory of games and the evolution of animal conflicts. Journal of Theoretical Biology 47 (1):209-21.]

[http://www.math.miami.edu/~hk/csc210/week3/May_Nature_76.pdf May, R.M. 1976. Simple Mathematical Models with Very Complicated Dynamics. Nature 261 (5560):459-67.]

[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1045373 Holland, J.H., and J.S. Reitman. 1977. Cognitive Systems Based on Adaptive Algorithms. SIGART Newsletter (63):49.]

[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=3&ved=0CB8QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchaos.swarthmore.edu%2Fcourses%2FSOC26%2FBak-Sneppan%2F07_Gould.pdf&ei=6CUFTJb8LqPCMu2MpDs&usg=AFQjCNH0Ua8JG_7QtipRRBvLt5V8E7kJyQ&sig2=457Aj9mKdg5-b-z4NrbHCw Gould, S.J., and N. Eldredge. 1977. Punctuated Equilibria: the Tempo and Mode of Evolution Reconsidered. Paleobiology 3 (2):115-151.]

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC346238/pdf/pnas00447-0135.pdf Hopfield, J.J. 1982. Neural Networks and Physical Systems with Emergent Collective Computational Abilities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 79:2554-2558.]

[http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/articles/ca/84-universality/ Wolfram, S. 1984. Universality and Complexity in Cellular Automata. Physica D 10:1-35.]

[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TVK-4CVPV04-C&_user=1695018&_coverDate=11%2F30%2F1986&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000054245&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1695018&md5=42419038a0560af45057c065a719b326 Langton, C.G. 1986. Studying Artificial Life with Cellular Automata. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 22 (1-3):120-149.]

[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.130.1431&rep=rep1&type=pdf Derrida, B., E. Gardner, and A. Zippelius. 1987. An exactly solvable asymmetric neural network model. Europhysics Letters 4 (2):167-173.]

[http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/03-12-068.pdf Gell-Mann, Murray and Seth Lloyd 2003.  Effective Complexity. Santa Fe Institute Working Paper #03-12-069.]


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