Hiararchical Complex Systems

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx.
Hyararchy and the Nature of Information.
Article in INFORMATION, ISSN2078-2489. 20 Januari 2016

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx.
Levels of Consciousness in the Multi-scaled Brain..
Tucson University of Arozona, The Science of Consciousness, April 26-30,Tucson, Arizona, USA. 2016 Submitted. 2016

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx.
Precognition and the Metascalar Nature of Information..
European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2015,
Submitted. ISSN: 1951-6355 (Print) 1951-6401 (Online). Copyright ©2015. 2015

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx.
Pre-Cognition in Genetics?.
10th International Conference on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues
IPCAT 2015, San Diego, USA, 14th-16th September
2015.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx.
Hyperscale Puts the sapiens in homo..
International Journal of Intelligence Science, 2015, Vol.5 No.1, 13-36 IJIS: Vol.5 No.1 2015 [ID: 1680143]. Copyright ©2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publicing Inc. 2015.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx.
Towards the Embodiment of Mathematics.
Special Issue on Integral Biomathics: Life Sciences, Mathematics and Phenomenological Philosophy 2015.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx.
The Hierarchical Underpinning of Consciousness Embodiment.
Quantum Biosystems. In publication. 2015

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx..
Chaos and Chaos; Complexity and Hierarchy .
Research Paper
Syst. Res. 32, 579-592, 2015 Published online in Wiley Online Library
(wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/sres.2288
Copyright © 2015.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx..
System Duality: Birational Hierachy .
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2014 United States
http://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings58th/article/view/2391
Copyright © 2014.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx..
Chaos and Chaos; Complexity and Hierarchy .
Research Paper
Syst. Res (2014) Published online in Wiley Online Library
(wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/sres.2288
Copyright © 2014.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx..
A Framework for Computing like Nature .
Book Chapter Systems Research and Behavioral Science
Syst. Res (2014)
Published online in Wiley Online Library
(wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/sres.2288.
Copyright © 2013.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx..
Chaos and Chaos; Complexity and Hierarchy .
American Journal of Operations Research
ISSN Print: 2160-8830. ISSN Online 2160-8849. Submitted. 2013.

Ron Cottam.
Rights, responsibilities and reselience; or Auntie Phyllis and the Bloody Great Fork.
Invited keynote lecture; programme and Abstracts of 54st Annual Conference of the International Society of the Systems Sciences: Governance for a Resilient Planet, p 28-29. Copyright © 2010. ISBN 978-1-906740-06-1
ISS: 1612-1872 (print), 1612-1880 (online). DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200790192

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx.
Getting (empirically) Back To(wards) (pre)(existential) Basics.
Proceedings of the 53st Annual Conference of the International Society of the Systems Sciences.
Making Liveable, Sustainable Systems Unremarkable,
p 1-11. Copyright © 2009. ISBN 978-1-906740-02-3

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx
A Difference in What?
General Systems Bulletin. Volume 38, p 7-8, 2009.
Edited by Jennifer Wilby, The International Society for the Systems Sciences modeling Life and Proto-organisms

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Living in Hyperscale: Internalization as a Search for Reunification
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Conference of ISSS 2006. p 2006-362.
ISBN 0-9740735-7-1. Editors: Jennifer Wilby, Janet K. Allen, Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Anticipative Anti-Anti-Anthropomorphism
International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems. Vol. 17, p 286-291, 2006.
Edited by Daniel M. Dubois. Published by CHAOS.
Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems.
ISBN: 2-930396-03-2 ISSN:1373-5411. Copyright ©2006 by CHAOS.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
A Dialogue on Causality, Relations and Other Things
S.E.E.D. Journal (Semiotics, Evolution, Energy, and Development).
Volume 4, (2) p 61-80, 2004

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Diffuse rationality in complex systems.
Unifying Themes In Complex Systems, Volume 2
Perseus Books ©2004 Westview Press 081334123X

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Autocreative Hierarchy I: Structure
Ecosystemic Dependence and Autonomy
S.E.E.D. Journal (Semiotics, Evolution, Energy, and Development).
Volume 4, (2) p 24-41, 2004.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Autocreative Hierarchy II: Dynamics
Self-organisation, Emergence and Level-changing
S.E.E.D. Journal (Semiotics, Evolution, Energy, and Development).
Volume 4, (2) p 42-60, 2004.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Autocreative Hierarchy II: Dynamics
Self-organisation, Emergence and Level-changing
IEEE KIMAS 2003. p 766-773.
Proceedings of the International Conference on
Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems.
IEEE Catalog number 03EX716. ISBN 0-7803-7958-6
Edited by Henry Hexmoor 2003

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Emergence: Half a Quantum Jump?
Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica: Emergence,
Complexity, Hierarchy, Organisation, pp.12-19.
Edited by George L. Farre and Tarkko Oksala.
The Finnish Academy of Technology, Espoo, 1998.
ISBN.. 952-5148-59-9.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Nils Langloh and Roger Vounckx.
A Unified Quasi-Particulate Framework for Evolution.
Mathematical and Computational Biology:
Computational Morphogenesis, Hierarchical
Complexity, and Digital Evolution, p 29.
Technical Report 97-1-010. Edited by
C. L. Nehaniv. The University of Aizu, Aizu , 1997.

N. Langloh, R. Cottam, R. Vounckx and J. Cornelis.
Towards Distributed Statistical Processing -
AQuARIUM: A Query and Reflection Interaction
Using Magic: Mathematical Algorithms
Generating Interdependent Confidences.
Optical Information Technology:
State of the Art Report, pp.303-319.
Edited by S. D. Smith and R. F. Neale.
Springer-Verlag, London , 1991.
ISBN.. 0-387-56563-9.


Theoretical Biology



Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Towards Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics.
BioSystems Journal Special Issue. In publication 2013

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson an Roger Vounckx.
Book chapter: Towards Cross-modeling Between Life and Solid State Physics
In Book: "Integral Biomathics": Tracing the Road to Reality
by Simeonov, Plamen L.; Smith, Leslie S.; Ehresmann, Andrée C. (Eds.), p85 -95. Hardcover ISBN 978-3-642-28110-5.
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-2811-2
Copyright © Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London. ©2012

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx.
Book chapter: Closing the Gap between Life and Physics
INFORMATION PROCESSIGN IN CELLS AND TISSUES
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012, Volume 7223/2012, 212-215,
ISSN 0302-9743
ISBN 978-3-642-28719-6
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28792-3
Eds. Michael A. Lones, Stephen L. Smith et al.
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Towards Cross-modeling Between Life and Solid State Physics
Book chapter, in Publication, 2011. INBIOSA: Germany 2011.


Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Re-Mapping Robert Rosen's (M,R) Systems
Chemistry & Biodiversity, p 2352-2368, Vol.4, Issue 10, 2007.
Copyright © 2007 Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta AG, Zürich
ISSN: 1612-1872 (print), 1612-1880 (online). DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200790192


Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Replicating Robert Rosen's (M,R) Systems
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Conference of ISSS 2006. p 2006-378
ISBN 0-9740735-7-1. Editors: Jennifer Wilby, Janet K. Allen, Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin

Ron Cottam.
Remembering Ray.
BioSystems, 85, 1-2 (2006).
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.05.005

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Life and Simple Systems.
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Syst. Res. 22, p 413-430 (2005).
DOI: 10.1002/sres.716
Copyright ©2005 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
"Abstract or Die: Life, Artificial Life and (v)organisms".
E. R. Messina and A. M. Meystel,
Eds. Gaithersburg: NIST, 2003, pp. 1-7

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
A Biologically Consistent Hierarchical Framework for
Self-Referencing Survivalist Computation Closure.
CP517, Computing Anticipatory Systems:
CASYS'99-Third International Conference,p252-262,
©2000 American Institute of Physics. ISBN 1-56396-933-5.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
A Diffuse Biosemiotic Model for
Cell-to-Tissue Computational Closure.
BioSystems, 55, 159-171 (2000).

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
"A Biologically-Consistent Diffuse Semiotic Architecture
for Survivalist Information-Processing",
in 7th International Congress of the
International Association for Semiotic Studies: Sign Processes in Complex Systems.
D. L. Gorlée, Ed. Dresden, germany: Universitätsverlag, Dresden, 1999, p. 130.

Ron Cottam, Nils Langloh, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Localisation and Nonlocality in Computation.
Information Processing in Cells and Tissues,
pp.197-202. Edited by Mike Holcombe and
Ray Paton. Plenum Press, New York (1998).
ISBN.. 0-306-45839-X.



Intelligent and Sapient Systems

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx..
Hyperscale Puts the sapiens in homo
International Journal of Intelligence Science, 2015, Vol.5 No.1, 13-36 (2015)
IJIS: Vol.5 No.1 2015 [ID: 1680143]
Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publicing Inc.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
The Mind as an Evolving Anticipative Capability
Journal of Mind Theory. Rigor in cognitive science
p 39-110, Volume 0, number 1, 2008.
ISBN: 978-84-613-3020-1

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Bi-Sapient Structures for Intelligent Control
Springer Book: Toward Artificial Sapience. R.V. Mayorga, L. Perlovsky (eds.), p175-200
Springer Publishing Company. ISBN: 978-1-84628-998-9
Copyright © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2008.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Variable-Formality Decision-Making in Artificial Systems
General Systems Bulletin. Volume 36, p 7-8, 2007.
Edited by Jennifer Wilby, The International Society for the Systems Sciences

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Sapient Structures for Sapient Control.
IEEE KIMAS 2003. p 178-181.
Proceedings of the International Conference on
Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems.
IEEE Catalog number 03EX716. ISBN 0-7803-7958-6
Edited by Henry Hexmoor 2003

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Lifelike Robotic Collaboration requires Lifelike Information Integration.
Proceedings of the 2002 PerMIS Workshop. p 0167-174.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
NIST Special Publication 990.
Edited by E.R. Messina and A.M. Meystel August 2002.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Artificial Minds?
Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of ISSS 2001 p 01-114.
ISBN 09664183-6-0. Editors: Jennifer Wilby, Janet K. Allen.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
AQuARIUM: a Hierarchically-Supported
Mono-Symbolic Language for Analogic Integration.
Advances in Analogy Research:
Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive,
Computational and Neural Sciences, pp.408-409.
Edited by Keith Holyoak, Dedre Gentner and Boicho
Kokinov. New Bulgarian University, Sofia (1998).
ISBN.. 954-535-200-0.


Awareness and Conscious Systems Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx.
Levels of Consciousness in the Multi-scaled Brain..
Tucson University of Arozona, The Science of Consciousness, April 26-30,Tucson, Arizona, USA. 2016 Submitted. 2016

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx.
The Hierarchical Underpinning of Consciousness Embodiment.
Quantum Biosystems. In publication. 2015

Ron Cottam and Willy Ranson.
Book Chapter: A Biosemiotic View on Consciousness Derived from System Hierarchy.
In A. Pereira Jr. & D. Lehmann (Eds.), The Unity of Mind, Brain and World: Current Perspectives on a Science of Consciousness, pp 77-112
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Copyright ©2013.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Anticipation: Breaking the Evolutionary Time Barrier
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, p 4653-4660.
IEEE Catalog Number 075H8963C. ISBN 1-4244-1340-0. Library of Congress: 2007928155.
Copyright ©2007 IEEE.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Back to the future: Anatomy of a System.
CP718, Computing Anticipatory Systems:
CASYS'2003 Sixth International Conference, p 160-165
©2004 American Institute of Physics. ISBN 0-7354-0198-5.

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Life as its own Tool for Survival.
Proceedings of the Forty-Third Annual
Conference of the International Society
for the Systems Sciences, paper 99168.
Edited by Janet K. Allen, Martin L. W. Hall
and Jennifer Wilby. ISSS, Asilomar, CA (1999).
ISBN.. 09664183-2-8

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
"Approach to Cousciousness through
Hierarchical Metastatic Evolution",
in Toward a Science of Consciousness: Tuscon III.
Tuscon, Arizona: University of Arizona, 1998, p. 147

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Consciousness: the Precursor to Life?
Proceedings of the Third German Workshop on
Artificial Life: Abstracting and Synthesizing
the Principles of Living Systems, pp.239-248.
Edited by C. Wilke, S. Altmeyer and T. Martinetz.
Verlag Harri Deutsch, Thun (1998).
ISBN.. 3-8171-1591-1.

Genetic and Cancerous Systems

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx.
Trans-Temporal Cancerous Life.
In the First European Workshop on Integrated Biomathics,
Paris, France, 12 August 2011.