Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people ...

Themes are institute-wide research topics that draw together large networks of researchers from the extended SFI network and beyond. Over the course of several years, researchers rigorously engage ...

On December 19, the SFI Press published Volume 4 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science. Following the publication of ...

A significant body of research has investigated why, as city populations grow, so do violent crime, contagious diseases — and ...

Half a century ago, economic research took a little-noticed yet dramatic departure from the study of concepts most people might be familiar with from Econ 101. The field shifted from an almost ...

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 ...

James, R. G.,Ellison, C. J.,Crutchfield, J. P. Appealing to several multivariate information measures - some familiar, some new here-we analyze the information embedded in discrete-valued stochastic ...

We develop a theory of negotiation in which deals have multiple dimensions that can be bundled together. We use theory and experiments to show that in such settings efficient trade is possible even ...

The Santa Fe Institute was founded in 1984 by a group of scientists frustrated with the narrow disciplinary confines of academia. They wanted to tackle big questions that spanned different fields, and ...

Policing efforts to thwart crime typically rely on criminal infraction reports, which implicitly manifest a complex relationship between crime, policing and society. As a result, crime prediction and ...

In most economists' view, aggregate economic activity results from the interactions of many small economic agents pursuing diverse interests. To some, this statement is a normative proposition. It ...

This paper proves that one can not build a computer which can, for any physical system, take the specification of that system’s state as input and then correctly predict its future state before that ...