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Collective cooperative intelligence
https://comdig.unam.mx/2025/06/29/collective-cooperative-intelligence/
Published: June 29, 2025 15:10
W. Barfuss, J. Flack, C.S. Gokhale, L. Hammond, C. Hilbe, E. Hughes, J.Z. Leibo, T. Lenaerts, N. Leonard, S. Levin, U. Madhushani Sehwag, A. McAvoy, J.M. Meylahn, & F.P. Santos
PNAS 122 (25) e2319948121
Cooperation at scale is critical for achieving a…
Why collective behaviours self-organize to criticality: a primer on information-theoretic and thermodynamic utility measures
https://comdig.unam.mx/2025/06/29/why-collective-behaviours-self-organize-to-criticality-a-primer-on-information-theoretic-and-thermodynamic-utility-measures/
Published: June 29, 2025 11:31
Qianyang Chen and Mikhail Prokopenko
Roy. Soc. Open Science
Collective behaviours are frequently observed to self-organize to criticality. Existing proposals to explain these phenomena are fragmented across disciplines and only partially answer the…
Probabilistic alignment of multiple networks
https://comdig.unam.mx/2025/06/28/probabilistic-alignment-of-multiple-networks/
Published: June 28, 2025 15:12
Teresa Lázaro, Roger Guimerà & Marta Sales-Pardo Nature Communications volume 16, Article number: 3949 (2025)
The network alignment problem appears in many areas of science and involves finding the optimal mapping between nodes in two or more networks, so…
Unifying Systems : Information, Feedback, and Self-Organization, by Aarne Mämmelä
https://comdig.unam.mx/2025/06/27/unifying-systems-information-feedback-and-self-organization-by-aarne-mammela/
Published: June 27, 2025 19:28
Interdisciplinary systems thinking is complementary but does not replace conventional disciplinary analytical thinking. The book is valuable for researchers, their advisors, and other thinkers interested in deep knowledge of science. Interdisciplinary…
Matrix-Weighted Networks for Modeling Multidimensional Dynamics: Theoretical Foundations and Applications to Network Coherence
http://comdig.unam.mx/2025/06/27/matrix-weighted-networks-for-modeling-multidimensional-dynamics-theoretical-foundations-and-applications-to-network-coherence/
Published: June 27, 2025 16:30
Yu Tian, Sadamori Kojaku, Hiroki Sayama, and Renaud Lambiotte
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 237401
Networks are powerful tools for modeling interactions in complex systems. While traditional networks use scalar edge weights, many real-world systems involve…
Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga
http://comdig.unam.mx/2025/06/27/nitrogen-fixing-organelle-in-a-marine-alga/
Published: June 27, 2025 15:13
TYLER H. COALE, et al.
SCIENCE 11 Apr 2024 Vol 384, Issue 6692 pp. 217-222
Symbiotic interactions were key to the evolution of chloroplast and mitochondria organelles, which mediate carbon and energy metabolism in eukaryotes. Biological nitrogen fixation,…
Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective
https://comdig.unam.mx/2025/06/27/large-language-models-and-emergence-a-complex-systems-perspective/
Published: June 27, 2025 11:29
David C. Krakauer, John W. Krakauer, Melanie Mitchell
Emergence is a concept in complexity science that describes how many-body systems manifest novel higher-level properties, properties that can be described by replacing high-dimensional mechanisms with…
A continental scale analysis reveals widespread root bimodality
https://comdig.unam.mx/2025/06/26/a-continental-scale-analysis-reveals-widespread-root-bimodality/
Published: June 26, 2025 22:07
Mingzhen Lu, Sili Wang, Avni Malhotra, Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila, Samantha Weintraub-Leff, M. Luke McCormack, Xingchen Tony Wang & Robert B. Jackson Nature Communications volume 16, Article number: 5281 (2025)
An improved understanding of root…
Compendium of Urban Complexity, edited by Diego Rybski
https://comdig.unam.mx/2025/06/26/compendium-of-urban-complexity-edited-by-diego-rybski/
Published: June 26, 2025 19:06
This book brings together key findings, insights, and theories at the intersection of two disciplines – city science and complex systems. It features a curated collection of chapters contributed by emerging scholars conducting cutting-edge research in…
International Conference on Complex Systems Modeling, Analysis & Applications [IC2SMA2 2026], 13 – 14 February, Pune Lavasa, India
https://comdig.unam.mx/2025/06/26/international-conference-on-complex-systems-modeling-analysis-applications-ic2sma2-2026-13-14-february-pune-lavasa-india/
Published: June 26, 2025 16:15
IC2SMA2 2026 aims to create a new international venue that can unite scholars, practitioners and students from diverse fields to address various real-world challenges and opportunities using methodologies of complex systems modeling and analysis. The…