Complex Sciences: Second International Conference, COMPLEX 2012, Santa Fe, NM, USA, December 5-7, 20

The Crossover Point: Comparing Policies to Mitigate Disruptions.- Progress Curves and the Prediction of Significant Market Events.- Bifurcation as the Source of Polymorphism.- Large-Scale Conflicts in Massively Multiplayer Online Games.- Impact of Global Edge-Removal on the Average Path Length.- Assessing the Spatial Impact on an Agent-Based Modeling of Epidemic Control.- Behaviors of Actors in a Resource-Exchange Model of Geopolitics.- Portfolio Optimization and Corporate Networks: Extending the Black Litterman Model.- Cooperation through the Endogenous Evolution of Social Structure.- To Trade or Not to Trade: Analyzing How Perturbations Travel in Sparsely Connected Networks.- Paid Sick-Leave: Is It a Good Way to Control Epidemics?.- Decoding Road Networks into Ancient Routes: The Case of the Aztec Empire in Mexico.- A Policy of Strategic Petroleum Market Reserves.- Identifying Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies for Healthcare Operations during Extreme Events.- Modeling Emergence in Neuroprotective Regulatory Networks.- Identification of Chordless Cycles in Ecological Networks.