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Facing Complexity: Prediction vs. Adaptation
Carlos Gershenson
One of the presuppositions of science since the times of Galileo, Newton, Laplace, and Descartes has been the predictability of the world. This idea has strongly influenced scienti…
Living in Living Cities
Carlos Gershenson
This paper presents an overview of current and potential applications of living technology to some urban problems. Living technology can be described as technology that exhibits th…
Are Minds Computable?
Carlos Gershenson
This essay explores the limits of Turing machines concerning the modeling of minds and suggests alternatives to go beyond those limits.
Complexity
Carlos Gershenson
The term complexity derives etymologically from the Latin plexus, which means interwoven. Intuitively, this implies that something complex is composed by elements that are difficul…
The Implications of Interactions for Science and Philosophy
Carlos Gershenson
Reductionism has dominated science and philosophy for centuries. Complexity has recently shown that interactions---which reductionism neglects---are relevant for understanding phen…
Polyethism in a colony of artificial ants
Chris Marriott, Carlos Gershenson
We explore self-organizing strategies for role assignment in a foraging task carried out by a colony of artificial agents. Our strategies are inspired by various mechanisms of divi…
Self-organizing traffic lights at multiple-street intersections
Carlos Gershenson, David A. Rosenblueth
Summary: Traffic light coordination is a complex problem. In this paper, we extend previous work on an abstract model of city traffic to allow for multiple street intersections. We…
Modular Random Boolean Networks
Rodrigo Poblanno-Balp, Carlos Gershenson
Random Boolean networks (RBNs) have been a popular model of genetic regulatory networks for more than four decades. However, most RBN studies have been made with random topologies,…