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Complexity in Biological Systems 1

Automated Tracking of Individuals Reveals Temporal Structure and Resiliency of Honey Bee Social Networks
Tim Gernat
Weibing Deng
Vikyath Rao
Martin Middendorf
Nigel Goldenfeld
Harry Dankowicz
Gene Robinson

Swarming Collapse Under Limited Information Flow Between Individuals
Roland Bouffanais
Mohammad Komareji

Efficiency of T Cell Search in Lymph Nodes
George Fricke
Judy Cannon
Melanie Moses

Using Information to Improve Collective Search
Tatiana Flanagan
Matthew Fricke
Joshua Hecker
Kenneth Letendre
Drew Levin
Stephanie Forrest
Deborah Gordon
Melanie Moses

Ant Colonies and Neural Networks: Collective Decision-Making Using Simple Messages
Jacob Davidson
Deborah Gordon
Mark Goldman

Hub Neurons Contribute More to Computation
Nicholas Timme
Shinya Ito
Maxym Myroshnychenko
Fang-Chin Yeh
Pawel Hottowy
Alan Litke
John Beggs

General Relationship of Global Topology, Local Dynamics, and Directionality in Complex Networks and Brain Networks across Different Species
Joon-Young Moon
Junhyeok Kim
Minkyung Kim
George Mashour
Tae-Wook Ko
Uncheol Lee

Self-Organization of Network Dynamics into Local Quantized States
Christos Nicolaides
Ruben Juanes
Luis Cueto-Felgueroso

Long-Term Seizure Dynamics
Milan Palus
Jan Kudlacek
Pavel Vlk
Jaroslav Hlinka
Premysl Jiruska

Classification of Epilepsy Focus in Interictal and Ictal States
Mojtaba Khodadadi
Farhad Shahbazi

Exploring Cardiac Arrhythmia as a Communication Failure in Cardiomyocyte Networks
Hiroshi Ashikaga
Jonathan Chrispin
Degang Wu
Joshua Garland

Critical Phenomena in the Earth’s Cryosphere: Perspectives from Nonlinear and Statistical Physics
Ivan Sudakov

Sample and Population Exponents of Generalized Taylor’s Law
Andrea Giometto
Marco Formentin
Andrea Rinaldo
Joel E Cohen
Amos Maritan

Consequences of Limited Availability of Resources on Scaling Exponents of Interrelated Macroecological Laws
Silvia Zaoli
Andrea Giometto
Amos Maritan
Andrea Rinaldo

Exploring the Influence of Infectious Disease Agents on the Stability of Ecosystems
Sanja Selakovic
Hans Heesterbeek

Disease Spreading on Ecological Multiplex Networks
Cecilia Andreazzi
Alberto Antonioni
Alireza Goudarzi
Sanja Selakovic
Massimo Stella

Chimera States in Population Dynamics: Networks with Fragmented and Hierarchical Connectivities
Johanne Hizanidis
Evangelia – Evelyn Panagakou
Iryna Omelchenko
Eckehard Schöll
Philipp Hövel
Astero Provata

Are You New Here? Infection Spread in Networks with Demographic Turnover
Joel Miller

Assessing the Vulnerability of Time-Evolving Contacts to Diseases: Applications for Risk Assessment in Infection Prevention and Control
Vittoria Colizza
Eugenio Valdano
Chiara Poletto

Modeling the Impact of Awareness Programs on Influenza Epidemics with Delay
Maoxing Liu
Haiyan Wang

Cancer Stem Cells in Melanoma: A Complex Problem
Caterina A. M. La Porta

Using Agent-Based Modeling to Understand the Emergence of Resistant Cancer Phenotypes
Amy Boddy
Marco Campenni
Robert Gatenby
Carlo Maley
Athena Aktipis

Systems Science Medicine: A Systems Approach to the Complexity in Medicine
Myles Suehiro
Monika Juszczyk

Threshold Networks: Universality and Applications
Eric Goles
Gonzalo A. Ruz

Topological Similarity as a Proxy to Content Similarity
Yonatan Rosen
Yoram Louzoun

Taming Biological Model Complexity Through Modular Interaction Models
Hessam Sarjoughian
Chao Zhang

Quantum Criticality at the Origin of Life
Gabor Vattay
Stuart Kauffman
István Csabai
Dennis Salahub
Ali Nassimi

The Informational Architecture of Biological Networks
Hyunju Kim
Paul Davies
Sara I. Walker

Self-Referencing Dynamical Systems
Sara I. Walker

Relative Abundance of Oxic Reaction Genes May Determine Metabolic Rate and Lifespan
Kazuhiro Takemoto
Yuko Kawakami

Investigating Linguistic Features of DNA Sequences by Nonextensivity Measurment
Hanieh Moghaddasi
Khosrow Khalifeh
Amir Hossein Darooneh

The Hourglass Effect in Evolving Hierarchical Networks
Constantine Dovrolis

Sequence and Structural Variability at the Whole Population Scale for the Influenza Virus
Giovanni Mazzocco
Piotr Migdal
Michal Lazniewski
Jan Radomski
Dariusz Plewczynski

Complexity in Biological Systems 2

Self-Organizing Collective Motions of Biological Cells with Delay-Coupled Interactions
Klementyna Szwaykowska
Luis Mier-Y-Teran-Romero
Ira Schwartz

A Computational Abstraction for Multi-Dimensional Syntactic Pattern Recognition
John Kalantari
Michael Mackey

Modeling Individual Behavioral State Transitions from Experimental Observations of Termite Collectives
Hiroki Sayama

Asymmetric Corrections to the West, Brown, and Enquist Model of Biological Resource Distribution Networks
Alex B. Brummer
Van M. Savage
Brian J. Enquist

What’s Special About Biology? Dynamical Complexity and the System Individuation Problem
Jon Lawhead
Daniel Estrada

Higher-Order Laplacian Backbones
Giovanni Petri
Paul Expert
Francesco Vaccarino

Social Network Clustering and Ebola Virus Transmission
Samuel Scarpino
Atila Iamarino
Chad Wells
Dan Yamin
Martial Ndeffo-Mbah
Natasha Wenzel
Spencer Fox
Tolbert Nyenswah
Frederick Altice
Alison Galvani
Lauren Ancel Meyers
Jeffrey Townsend

Compensating for Population Sampling in Simulations of Epidemic Spread on Temporal Contact Networks
Mathieu Génois
Christian Lyngby Vestergaard
Ciro Cattuto
Alain Barrat

Disease Spreading in Interconnected Networks with Adaptive Coupling
Maxi San Miguel
Federico Vazquez
Mariangeles Serrano

Analysis of Homogeneous Mixing Assumption for Infectious Disease Spread in Real Locations
Bioglio, Livio
Génois, Mathieu
Vestergaard, Christian
Poletto, Chiara
Barrat, Alain
Colizza, Vittoria