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The original journal devoted to the science, mathematics and engineering of systems with simple components but complex overall behavior.

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Volume 31, Issue 2

Stephen Wolfram
Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More
David Peak, Charles G. Torre and Jenny R. Whiteley
Improved Majority Identification by the Coarsened Majority Automaton
Alyssa M. Adams
The Effects of Interaction Functions between Two Cellular Automata
Thomas Bärecke and Marcin Detyniecki
Graph Matching with Distance-Preserving Crossover
Furkan Semih Dündar
A Use of Variety as a Law of the Universe

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