background reading

The following articles provide background on some of the research topics within the CDFN.

Biological Systems

B. L. Bassler. Small talk. cell-to-cell communication in bacteria. Cell, 109(4):421--424, 2002.

H. S. Wiley, S. Y. Shvartsmanan, and D. A. Lauffenburger. Computational modeling of the egf-receptor system: a paradigm for systems biology. Trends Cell Biol, 13(1):43--50, 2003.

Ecological Systems

J. R. Leadbetter. Quieting the raucous crowd. Nature, 411:748, 2001.

S. Levin. Fragile Dominion. Perseus Books, Reading, MA, 1999.

Geophysical Systems

E. M. Dunham, P. Favreau, and J. M. Carlson. A supershear
transition mechanism for cracks. Science, 299(5612):1557--1559,
2003.

M. L. Falk and J. S. Langer. From simulation to theory in the physics of deformation and fracture. M.R.S. Bulletin, 25:40, 2000.

CDS tools

J. M. Carlson and J. Doyle. Highly optimized tolerance: A mechanism for power laws in designed systems. Phys. Rev. E, 60:1412, 1999.

J. M. Carlson and J. Doyle. Complexity and robustness. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, 99:2538, 2002.

D. T. Gillespie and L. R. Petzold. Improved leap-size selection
for accelerated stochastic simulation. J. Chem. Phys.,
119:8229--8234, 2003.

I.G. Kevrekidis, C.W. Gear, J.M. Hyman, P.G. Kevrekidis,
O. Runborg, and K. Theodoropoulos. Equation-free coarse-grained
multiscale computation: enabling microscopic simulators to perform
system-level tasks. Comm. Math. Sciences, 1(4):715--762, 2003.

C. W. Rowley, I. G Kevrekidis, J. E. Marsden, and K. Lust. Reduction and reconstruction for self-similar dynamical systems. Nonlinearity, 16:1257--1275, 2003.

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