Hi everyone, I'm Ken Lloyd - Director of Systems Science for Watt Systems Technologies Inc. in ABQ - a software development company. My interest is in helping scientists and engineers visualize and better understand complexity in systems. I serve in the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) as the Research Liaison for Model Based Systems Engineering of Complex, Adaptive and Stochastic systems. One of the interesting things I have found is that certain characteristics of complexity can be used to resolve (but not necessarily solve) complex problems (e.g. stochastic resonance, spontaneous chaos-order transitions) Like most people in the complexity business, I'm into genetic evolutionary neural networks like NEAT and HyperNEAT (i.e. Ken Stanley's NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies), forward and inverse Bayesian methods, statistical mechanics, graph theory - and of course computer visualization of hyper dimensional and temporal phenomena. I look forward to meeting others who strive to apply complexity science to real-world situations. Ken Lloyd
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