A very interesting paper by Fontanini & Katz (2008) published in Neurophysiology journal proposes a model that shows how similar sensory stimuli can elicit different responses in the same organism.
Information Theory of Complex Networks: on evolution and architectural constraints paper by Sole and Valverde (2004) features a very interesting chart that shows how different types of networks relate to each other in terms of their randomness, heterogeneity, and modularity. We’ve tried playing around with these different structures using InfraNodus network visualization tool to see how different types of networks have different structural properties.
Bruno Latour in his talk addressing the participants of International Seminar on Network Theory (2011) offers a brief introduction to Actor-Network theory and proposes the future development of technology, software, and interfaces which would bring the intelligence of network thinking to the end-users as well as the sociologists who study their behaviour.
Sharad Goel from Yahoo! research talks about the structure of online diffusion networks and the nature of the rare “viral” events.
A talk by David Hales from Open University about the behavior of defectors, social innovation, evolution, tribes and rationality. Recorded at The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Evolution of Social Norms at Henley Business School, UK, in December 2011.
