Re: [huml-comment] FW: [KMForum-KScience] "Motifs distinguish networks"

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

If the motifs are recurring and show definable patterns, the recent 
work from Wolfram might apply. The advantage to that is that 
eventually these and other patterns  when recognized can be analyzed 
and manipulated mathematically. Or we might be able to provide new 
computational operators. Imagine being able to change initial 
conditions from one kind of pattern to another to see differing 
outcomes or choose between such outcomes for the appropriate initial 
governing conditions.

I do find the wiring metaphor a bit cumbersome.

Ciao,
Rex

At 8:29 AM -0600 12/10/02, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>FYI to the group.
>
>Consider network motifs as sign/iconic.  Anyone care
>to speculate on uses for that?  Perhaps as a secondary
>that describes social communication norms for given
>cultures and human groups.   Perhaps as a context
>for describing a prototypical set of internal paths
>for a given human prototype.  Consider how the impact
>of culture/environment both conditions these (learning)
>and activates these given signs perceived by the human.
>
>I'm not suggesting a work item here.  Just food for thought
>pursuant to earlier comments made here that humans could
>be conceived of internally as a network of semiotes.
>
>Thanks Danny.
>
>len
>
>
>From: Danny Ayers [mailto:danny@isacat.net]
>
>A piece that may be of interest:
>
>http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2002/112702/Motifs_distinguish_networks_112702
>..html
>
>
>"There are many types of networks in the world -- computer webs like the
>Internet, connections among components in electronics, relationships among
>friends and acquaintances, transportation grids, food relationships among
>animals, connections among neurons, and interactions among genes.
>
>Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and Spring
>Harbor Laboratory have shown that it is possible to categorize networks by
>looking at certain recurring circuits, or motifs, within the networks. 'The
>motifs are small, local, wiring patterns that occur throughout the network,'
>said Uri Alon, a senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science."
>
>
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