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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH - CHAOS & COMPLEXITY
LETTERS

CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Finally, I can say that we are ready! 
The first issue, part one and two, has been sent to the publisher.
Publication of the first part is due by January 2004. 
Here below you can find the contents: not so bad! 
We also have in progress three special issues: synchronization and noise
dynamics; complexity of esthetics and architecture; nonlinear neuroscience.

If you have other proposals for further special issues we would be very
happy.
Any suggestion for institutional subscriptions would be welcome.

Please, send any paper or material which could be inserted in one of the
Journal sections as listed below.

All correspondence and submissions should be addressed to the Co-Editor
Nicoletta Sala in electronic format: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks again for your support to our shared enterprise!

Franco Orsucci

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH - CHAOS & COMPLEXITY
LETTERS


CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY LETTERS
ISSUE 1 PART 1
CONTENTS

EDITORIAL: Elephants, Butterflies and Whales, Franco Orsucci

MEMORIES: Ilya Prigogine and his last works, Gonzalo Ordonez

ORIGINAL PAPERS:

Acceleration and Entropy: a macroscopic analogue of the twin paradox, Ilya
Prigogine and Gonzalo Ordonez

William James on Consciousness, Revisited, Walter J. Freeman

The Structural Equations Technique for Testing Hypotheses in Nonlinear
Dynamics: catastrophes, chaos, and related dynamics, Stephen J. Guastello

Synchronization of Oscillators in Complex Networks,  Louis M. Pecora and
Mauricio Barahona

CTML: a mark up language for holographic representation of document based
knowledge,  Graziella Tonfoni

NEWS AND IDEAS:

Sustainability and bifurcations of positive attractors, Sergio Rinaldi and
Renato Casagrandi

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CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY LETTERS
ISSUE 1 PART 2
CONTENTS


ORIGINAL PAPERS:

Dynamical prediction of chaotic time series, Ulrich Parlitz and  Alexander
Hornstein

Dynamics as a heuristic framework for psychopathology, Jean-Louis Nandrino,
Fabrice Leroy and Laurent Pezard

Collective Phenomena In Living Systems And In Social Organizations, Eliano
Pessa, Maria Petronilla Penna and Gianfranco Miniati

Contribution to the debate on linear and nonlinear analysis of the
electroencephalogram, Francesco Ferro Milone, Tullio A. Minelli, Alberta
Leon Canzi, Valentina Nofrate and Donatella Pascoli

Complex Dynamics of Visual Arts, Ljubisa M. Kocic and Liljana Stefanovska

METAPHORS

The myth of the Tower of Babylon as a symbol of creative chaos, Jacques
Vicari

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH
CHAOS & COMPLEXITY LETTERS

Co-sponsored by:
Academy of Architecture, University of Italian Switzerland, Mendrisio,
Switzerland Institute for Complexity Studies, Rome, Italy Interdisciplinary
Center of Complex Systems (IZKS), University of Bonn, Germany

Editor-in-Chief:
Franco F. Orsucci
Institute for Complexity Studies  and
Institute of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Catholic University, Rome

Co-Editor:
Nicoletta Sala
Academy of Architecture, University of Italian Switzerland, Switzerland

Editorial Board:

Henry Abarbanel, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California
San Diego, USA - Frederick Abraham Blueberry Brain Institute, Waterbury
Center VT, USA- Diederik Aerts Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary
Studies, Free University Brussels, Belgium - Valentin Afraimovich Institute
of Physics, University of Berlin, Germany - Kazuyuki Aihara Department
Mathematical Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan - Sergio Albeverio
Interdisciplinary Center of Complex Systems, University of Bonn, Germany -
Uwe an der Heiden Institute of Mathematics, University of Witten/Herdecke,
Germany - Tito Arecchi Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Florence, Italy -
Elizabeth Bates Center for Research in Language, University of California
San Diego, USA - Dick Bird Division of Psychology, University of
Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK - Stefano Boccaletti Istituto Nazionale
di Ottica, Florence, Italy - Giovanni Degli Antoni University of Milan,
Milan, Italy - Sergio De Risio Institute of Psychiatry and Clinical
Psychology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy - Giovanni Dosi Scuola
Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy - Jeffrey Elman Department of Cognitive
Science, University of California San Diego, USA - Walter J. Freeman
Molecular Biology Department, University of California at Berkeley, USA -
Celso Grebogi Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil - Fanji
Gu Department of Physiology & Biophysics Fudan University, Shanghai, China -
Stephen J. Guastello Department of Psychology, Marquette University,
Milwaukee, USA - Alan Hastings Department  of Environmental Science and
Policy, University of California at Davis, USA - Scott Kelso Complex Systems
and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA - Ljubisa
Kocic Department of Engineering, University of Nis, Yugoslavia - Zbignew
Kowalik Neurology Department, University of Düsseldorf, Germany - Juergen
Kurths Institute of Physics, University of  Potsdam, Germany - Alexander
Mikhailov Department of Physical Chemistry, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin,
Germany - Ulrich Parlitz Drittes Physikalisches Institut, University
Göttingen, Germany - Louis Pecora Naval Research Laboratory, Washington
D.C., USA - Heinz-Otto Peitgen Center for Medical Diagnostic Systems at the
University of Bremen, Germany - Laurent Pezard Lab. de Neurosciences
Comportementales, Université René Descartes (Paris 5), France - Robert J.
Porter Emeritus, Psychology Department, University of New Orleans, USA -
Kestutis Pyragas Semiconductor Physics Institute, Vilnius, Latvia - Paul
Rapp Clinical Research Center,  Norristown State Hospital, Norristown, USA -
Guenther Schiepek, Institute for Complex Systems, University of München,
Germany - Timothy Shih Department of Computer Science and Information
Engineering, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan - William Sulis Department
of Psychology, MacMaster University, Cayuga, Canada - Richard Taylor
Department of Physics, University of Oregon, USA - Marco Tomassini
University of Lausanne, Switzerland - Qing Ye Tong Research Center for
Nonlinear Theory, Dep't Life Science & Biomedical Engineering Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou, China - Ichiro Tsuda Department of Mathematics,
Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan - Jacques Vicari University of Geneva,
Switzerland - Angelo Vulpiani Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma, La
Sapienza, Italy - Chuck Webber Department of Physiology, Loyola University,
Chicago, USA - Damian Zanette Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina - Joseph
Zbilut Department of Molecular Biophysics & Physiology, Rush University,
Chicago, USA




Chaos and Complexity Letters is a refereed journal for scientific papers
dealing with any area of complex systems research. Relevant topics include
(but are not restricted to):


* artificial life
* cellular automata
* chaos theory
* cognition
* complexity theory
*synchronization
* fractals
* genetic algorithms
* information systems
* metaphors
* neural networks
* non-linear dynamics
* parallel computation
* synergetics


Papers dealing with applications of these topics (for example, to the arts,
biology, economics, linguistics, medicine, psychology, sociology, technology
etc.) are also strongly encouraged.

Manuscripts are considered under the following categories:

Original Papers
should be original works describing scientific results. For the printed
version of the journal there is a limit of 15,000 words.

Reviews
should be detailed outlines. Multi-media hypertext provides a superlative
vehicle for reviewing many issues and reviews exploiting these features are
encouraged. Reviews should not exceed 10,000 words in the printed version.
Authors of review papers are encouraged to contact the editor  in advance.

News and Ideas
will be provocative suggestions for applications of new  ideas or
methodologies. Contributions should not exceed 3,000 words in length for the
printed version.

Software and Algorithms
will include any of the following:
a) Interactive processes, such as CGI and JAVA; b) Program packages; c)
Algorithms as demonstrations of new computational ideas and techniques.
Submission of these should be accompanied by a description of the aims,
methods and implementation; documentation to allow users to install and run
the software; sample data, scripts or any other material to provide a
demonstration of the software in use; and arrangements regarding
availability. Authors should contact the Co-Editor, before submission.

Educational Material
will include lectures, tutorials and other educational material.

Metaphors
creative papers on analogical suggestions coming from the arts and the
social sciences.

Original Data
samples of any kind of raw original data (e. g. time series etc.) that could
be offered, accompanied by detailed explicative notes, to the scientific
community to compare different methodological approaches. To be published
just in the e-version, not in the paper version.

Journal Format
Authors should follow these guidelines.
Manuscripts can be submitted in MS Word,  HTML, RTF, PDF, PostScript or
LaTex.
Software
Programs should be submitted in source form. They should compile and execute
successfully using GNU software only.

Citations
Citations should follow the "author-date system" (APA criteria) in the text
body referring to an alphabetical list of authors provided in the References
section.

The correct format is:

a) Text body:
..To account for broad scale distributions in space and time in interacting
dynamical systems, Bak, introduced the notion of Self-Organized Criticality
(SOC) to explain 1/f phenomena like the Zipf laws (Bak, 1996). At the
orthographic level Claude Shannon (1949) defined other orders when he
stated:  ..

b) References:
Varela FJ, Lachaux JP, Rodriguez E, and Martinerie J (2001) The brainweb:
phase synchronization and large-scale integration. Nat.Rev.Neurosci. 2
(4):229-239.
Verhulst F (1994) Metaphors for psychoanalysis. Nonlinear Science Today 4
(1):16.
Vitiello G (2001) My double unveiled, the dissipative quantum model of
brain, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co.

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