Hi Phil. Actually there's been quite a bit on growth, from cancer to the corporation to countries, not that I mean to imply any semantic parallels here (: There may or may not be computational or mathematical models to a greater or lesser degree. I think this is because so many of the presentations are domain driven to show a new approach and solution to the domain problem that "complexity thinking"--as many seem to say around here--offers. Representation of the problem and the solution varies.
Mike >>> "Phil Henshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/29/06 10:49 PM >>> Thanks, There certainly seems to be a lot going on; 32 major speakers and 320 papers in 16 sessions! I searched the NECSI site for the subject of 'growth' and found 44 pages. There was no mention of NECSI's growth itself, though that might have been interesting. All but 7 hits were NECSI06 conference abstracts. Only one clearly referred to dynamic system growth as involving changes in the organization of the system... Everyone seems to assume growth refers to the shape of a curve, and not what's happening inside the thing producing the curve. That seems remarkable given that a) growth curves are most commonly evidence of internal loops in local processes that are emerging as a system, and b) almost anything we can interpret as a natural system traceably comes into being by growth. Shouldn't we use the curves to help point us toward what they're coming from? > I'm at the NECSI conference in Boston this week and recommend > a look at the program web page with links to abstracts and > papers, http://www.necsi.org/community/wiki/index.php/ICCS06. > Extremely interesting variety of presentations. > > Mike > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
