Modeling Complex Systems: Sixth Granada Lectures on Computational Physics, Granada, Spain, 4-10 September, 2000 Book

	Preface
	Granada Seminar Steering Committee
	Modeling Active Memory: Experiment, Theory, and Simulation	1
	Complex Adaptive Systems and the Evolution of Reciprocation	29
	On the Role of External Constraints in a Spatially Extended Evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma Game	38
	A Model for Predation Pressure in Colonial Birds	56
	A Dynamical Thermostat Approach to Financial Asset Price Dynamics	60
	Introduction to Mathematical Modeling of Earthquakes	70
	The Fractal Properties of Internet	85
	Etching of Random Solids: Hardening Dynamics and Self-Organized Fractality	89
	Generating Power-Law Tails in Probability Distributions	95
	Sandpiles and Absorbing-state Phase Transitions: Recent Results and Open Problems	102
	Queuing in Critical Sandpile Automata	111
	Blocking, Persistence, and Scaling in the 2d Ising Model	115
	Monte Carlo Study of the Relaxation of the Metastable Phases of a Mixed Ising Ferrimagnet	121
	Bound States in the 3d Ising and [phi][superscript 4] Models	128
	Accurate Results for Ising Models from Large Order Cluster Variation Method	132
	Correlation Length of the Simple Cubic Layer Potts Model	136
	Improved Estimator of Disorder Observables in q-State Potts Model	140
	Kinetic Ising Model with Modified Kawasaki Dynamics: First-order Transition	144
	Recent Results on Driven Lattice Gases	149
	Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Techniques and Applications	155
	Some Aspects of Hydrodynamics for Dilute Granular Flows	192
	Compaction of Granular Matter and Random Tetris Model	208
	Gravitational Clustering in N-body Simulations	213
	Prediction of Liquid C[subscript 60] from ab-initio Inter-Molecular Potential	218
	Anomalies in the Properties of the Electrochemical Double Layer for Strong Ionic Coupling	222
	A Mean-field Theory of Super-cooled Liquids	226
	Numerical Approach to Spectral Properties of Coupled Quartic Oscillators	230
	Algebraic Multigrid Operators for Disordered Systems and lattice Gauge Theory	238
	Nonlinear Periodic Waves on a Slope	242
	Effects of Quantum Tunneling in Mesoscopic Commensurate Systems	249
	Transients and Fluctuations in Directional Solidification	250
	Traveling Bubbies in a Model of DNA	251
	Interfacial Properties of the Mixture of Flexible and Semiflexible Polymers	252
	Influence of the Supporting Electrolyte in the Properties of Liquid-Liquid Interfaces	254
	Measure of Transport Coefficients for Dense Hard Disks Systems Using an Event Driven Algorithm	255
	Time-Dependent Entropy and Entropy Production in Open Quantum Systems	256
	Intergradient Simulations of Dissipative Quasi-Particle Interactions with Solutions of a Three-Component Three-Dimensional Reaction-Diffusion System	257
	Lipowski Model and Superabsorbing States	258
	First Order Phase Transition in Non-equilibrium Wetting Process	259
	3D PIC Model of the Helical Current Filament	260
	A Link Between Conservative and Non-Conservative Difference Schemes in Gas Dynamics	261
	The Influence of Head Group Potentials on the Phase Behavior of Langmuir Monolayers	262
	Multilayer Perceptron Trained by the Backpropagation Algorithm	263
	Remote Task Manager for Windows NT Networks	264
	Network Data Base of Physical Technologies	265
	Ansatz Independent Solution of a Soliton in a Strong Dispersion-Management System	266
	Dynamic Critical Exponent of the Three-dimensional XY Model	267
	Monte Carlo Study of Critical Behaviour of 3D XY Model in Aerogel Pores	268
	Monte Carlo Simulation of Critical Behavior of Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition in Aerogel Pores	269
	From Quantum to Classical Calculations via an Effective Hamiltonian Approach: the Easy-axis Two-dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnet	270
	Computer Simulation and Theoretical Approach in the Brownian Dynamics with Rigid Constraints	271
	A Monte-Carlo Study of Donor Fluorescence Decays	272
	Computer Simulation of Three-Dimensional Dielectric Cavities Using a Novel Modal Method	273
	Scattering Analysis of Inhomogeneously Dielectric-Filled Cavities	274
	Multifractal Spectrum Calculation: Application to Colloidal Aggregation in Two Dimensions	275
	Fractal Behaviour in 2-D Colloidal Aggregation: Structure and Dynamic Scaling	276
	Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Thermophoresis on Fractal Particles	277
	Harmonic Emission by a 1-d Atomic Model	278
	Is There a True Metal-Insulator Transition in 1D Correlated-Disordered Systems?	279
	Large Multiphoton Ionization of Hydrogen Atom in an Intense Femto-Second Laser: A Classical, One-Dimensional Computer Model	280
	Multiscale Analysis of Nonlinear Accelerator Beam Physics Problems	281
	Wave Motions and Turbulence in Wavelet Framework	282
	Periodic and Chaotic Scattering of Classical Particles on Regular Surfaces	283
	Inelastic Scattering of Classical Partical on Langevin Thermostatic Surface	284
	Radiative Processes Calculation in Plasma Fiber	285
	Oritnetational Order and Electro-Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals Filled with Fullerenes	286
	Hydrogen Interactions with Dislocations in Iron	287
	Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Transition-Metal [pi]-Complexes: Ab Initio PM3(tm) Calculations and Photoelectron Spectroscopy	288
	X-Ray Time-dependent Diffraction: Theory and Numerical Experiments	289
	Nonlinear Phenomena in Optical Waveguides	290
	List of Participants	291
	Author Index	293