2002 Workshop on Collectives and

the Design of Complex Systems



Massoud Amin

Complex Interactive Networks: Toward Self-healing Infrastructures

Rob Axtell

Societies Solve Dilemmas with Groups: Non-Cooperative Coalition Formation with Internal Redistribution

Aviv Bergman

Developmental Stability and Evolution

Damien Challet

Competition Between Adaptive Agents: Learning and Collective Efficiency

John Doyle

Rigor and Robustness in Collective Dynamics

David Fogel

Self-Play Can Improve the Performance of Certain Kinds of Collectives, but which Kinds?

Eric Friedman

Asynchronous Learning in Decentralized Environments: A Game Theoretic Approach

Tad Hogg

Multi-Agent Control of Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots

Bernardo Huberman

Dynamics of Large Autonomous Computational Systems

Neil Johnson

Complex Systems Management: hoping for the best but coping with the worst

Ilan Kroo

Large-Scale System Optimization: Designing Collectives

Kristina Lerman

Two Paradigms for the Design of Artificial Collectives

Kristian Lindgren

Cooperation in Iterated-Game Collectives

Mark Millonas

Adaptive Compilation in Randomly Assembled Computers

Akira Namatame

Efficiency and Equity in Collective Action of Interacting Heterougeneous Agents

David C. Parkes

Mechanism Design for Complex Systems: Towards Automatic Configuration

Jordan Pollack

Solving the Evolution-of-Complexity Problem

Robert Savit

Man and Superman: Human limitations, Innovation and Emergence in Resource Competition

Yoav Shoham

It's Not Your Father's Mechanism Design

Zoltan Toroczkai

Effects of Interagent Communication on Collectives

Kagan Tumer

An Introduction to Collectives

David Wolpert

The Mathematics of Collectives



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