• Descriptions of CSIRO research (new page)
• Working papers
• Presentations on-line
• Animations on-line
• Image gallery Coming soon
• CSS Emerging Science Area Operating Documents
• Link to External links page

Link to index in pdf file: Coming soon.

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• Complex Systems Science Overview (9MB ppt). John Finnigan talk in Perth, 2003.
• Earth System Science (2MB ppt). Presentation by Mike Raupach, at CSIRO Climate meeting, August 2003.
• Chaos you can play in. Presentation by Nicky Grigg on project at Santa Fe Institute. (10MB ppt)

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Game of Life

John Conway's Game of Life is perhaps the most well known of all cellular automata. It is a two-dimensional, two-state CA with three simple rules:

• A live cell with two or three live neighbours stays alive (survival)
• A dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell (birth)
• A cell with more than three live neighbours or less than one neighbour dies or stays dead (overcrowding or loneliness)
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Start Game of Life!

Instructions

To Run the Simulation:

1. Click ‘Start Game of Life!’ button to open
2. Click Randomise button OR Click on the Draw button then Click and Drag in the empty frame to ‘draw’
3. Click the ‘Run’ button

Lorenz Attractor

Edward Lorenz's strange attractor is a classic example of chaotic behaviour in a dynamical system. (more...)

Start Lorenz Attractor!

Instructions

1. Click ‘Start Lorenz’s Attractor!’ button to open
2. Enter parameters in the windows on the RHS
3. Click on the ‘Trace’ button to see the simulation run, OR
4. Click on the ‘Calculate’ button to see the final result

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• Deep Complexity: Now comes the scary bit. (85 kB pdf). Keynote talk at Sydney 2003 meeting.
• Cellular Automata: Some source material. I. Enting. (178kB pdf).
• CSS: can we do better than ABM? (25kB pdf).
• Abstracts from CABM/HEMA conference, July 2003. (94kB pdf)
• Books on complex systems science

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Under development

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• Complex Systems Science ESA summary Jul 2003. (150kB pdf)
• Call for interaction tasks Jul 2003. (36kB MS-word)
• Complex Systems Science Investment Proposal May 2002. (172kB MS-Word).
• Report of Science Investment Focus Group Feb 2002. (233kB MS-word)

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