ComplexityWorkshop

1. First, we are creating a rich set of on-line tutorials.  These are freely available, including all source code, binaries, and media used to illustrate the tutorials.  All tutorials are completely cross-platform, using Java and other systems freely available on any of your computers.
   
2. Second, we offer consultancy services based on these tutorials.  These include classes to introduce your business to these methods directly, and project planning where complexity components are being used.
   

Details: Complexity Tools Becoming Mainstream

Over the last three years I've had the opportunity to transfer technology from the Santa Fe institute to Sun Microsystems.  This started by my attending the SFI Complex Systems Summer School, followed by  a project on Local Knowledge Networking, research into Power Law networks, modeling RFID/AutoID impact on business Supply Chains, and investigating closure properties for Peer networks.  (More details can be seen on my personal web site and on my O'Reilly WebLog.  More on me on my Bio page.)

This experience, along with discussions with researchers and consultants here in Santa Fe, has made clear that the tools and techniques of complexity science are ready for use "by the rest of us", in business, consulting, contracting and industry.  Thus ComplexityWorkshop

So what are the initial complexity technologies of interest to a wider audience?  Initially I plan to focus on:

• Agent Based Modeling
  •   NetLogo and RePast initially, others as needed.
• Modern Heuristics for Optimization
  • Genetic Algorithms, Ant Colony Optimization, others
• Learning and Forecasting
  • Neural Nets, Genetic Programming, others
• Modern Random Graph Theory
  • Small Worlds, Power Law, Local Knowledge Searching

Another decision is to use cross-platform solutions only, so that the community of interested users can all share the software.  Initially I've limited my investigations to Java, but will expand to GNU, Python and other open frameworks as needed.  As an example, GnuPlot is a valuable graphing system that I've successfully run on Mac, Linux and Solaris.

Tutorials

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