Medieval friar William of Ockham posited a famous idea: always pick the simplest explanation. Often referred to as the ...

The Santa Fe Institute is dedicated to the study of complexity, and it is adept at processing large quantities of data to that end.

Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive four-week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. CSSS brings together graduate students, ...

The SFI Undergraduate Complexity Research (UCR) program is a 10-week residential experience in complexity science research. Students can select from a menu of projects, or develop a project in ...

Applications for the third Complexity Global School (CGS) are now open. The school will be hosted at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and applicants from all countries are eligible to ...

Applications for the third Complexity Global School (CGS) are now open. Like last year, the school will  be hosted at ...

Applied projects are led by SFI faculty, powered by SFI Applied Complexity Fellows, and are supported by industry sponsors and private foundations. Applied Belief Dynamics lives in a domain that is ...

The Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity brings together a group of advanced Ph.D. students and a small faculty for an intensive two-week study of computational ...

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Algorithms play an increasingly prominent role in societal decision-making in a variety of settings. Online streaming services use them to recommend new music, movies, or television shows; criminal ...

Swarm is a multi-agent software platform for the simulation of complex adaptive systems. In the Swarm system the basic unit of simulation is the “swarm,” a collection of agents executing a schedule of ...