Computational Mechanics Reader

• Alice: R. Gilmore and M. Lefranc, The Topology of Chaos: Alice in Stretch and Squeezeland: Chapter 2 and Chapter 1. Note, UC has a e-license for the entire book.
• Anatomy: R. G. James, C. J. Ellison, and J. P. Crutchfield, "Anatomy of a Bit: Information in a Time Series Measurement", CHAOS 21 (2011) 037109.
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• BOAC: J. P. Crutchfield, "Between Order and Chaos", Nature Physics 8 (January 2012) 17-24.
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• BSI: C. C. Strelioff and J. P. Crutchfield, "Bayesian Structural Inference for Hidden Processes", Physical Review E 89 (2014) 042119.
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• BTFM2: D. P. Varn, G. S. Canright, and J. P. Crutchfield, "Inferring Pattern and Disorder in Close-Packed Structures from X-ray Diffraction Studies, Part I: epsilon-Machine Spectral Reconstruction Theory",
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• CAO: Stanislaw Lem, "Chance and Order", The New Yorker 59 (1984) 88-98.
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• Chaos: J.P. Crutchfield, J.D. Farmer, N.H. Packard, and R.S. Shaw, "Chaos", Scientific American 255 (1986) 46-57.
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• CFR: R. G. James, K. Burke, and J. P. Crutchfield, "Chaos Forgets and Remembers: Measuring Information Creation, Destruction, and Storage", (2013) submitted.
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• CMCA:J. E. Hanson and J. P. Crutchfield, "Computational Mechanics of Cellular Automata: An Example", Physica D 103 (1997) 169-189.
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• CMPPSS: C. R. Shalizi and J. P. Crutchfield, "Computational Mechanics: Pattern and Prediction, Structure and Simplicity", Journal of Statistical Physics 104 (2001) 819-881.
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• EC: J.P. Crutchfield, C.J. Ellison, and P. M. Riechers, "Exact Complexity: The Spectral Decomposition of Intrinsic Computation",
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• EQC: P. M. Riechers, J. R. Mahoney, C. Aghamohammadi, and J. P. Crutchfield, "Minimized State-Complexity of Quantum-Encoded Cryptic Processes", Physical Review A 93:5 (2016) 052317.
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• IACP: J.R. Mahoney, C.J. Ellison, and J.P. Crutchfield, "Information Accessibility and Cryptic Processes",
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• IACPLCOCS: J.R. Mahoney, C.J. Ellison, and J.P. Crutchfield, "Information Accessibility and Cryptic Processes: Linear Combinations of Causal States",
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• IAEN: J. P. Crutchfield, "Is Anything Ever New? Considering Emergence", in Complexity: Metaphors, Models, and Reality, G. Cowan, D. Pines, and D. Melzner, editors, SFI Series in the Sciences of Complexity XIX, Addison-Wesley, Redwood City (1994) 479-497.
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• IMC: C. C. Strelioff, J.P. Crutchfield, and A. Hubler, "Inferring Markov Chains: Bayesian Estimation, Model Comparison, Entropy Rate, and Out-of-class Modeling",
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• IRatchet: A. B. Boyd, D. Mandal, and J. P. Crutchfield, "Identifying Functional Thermodynamics in Autonomous Maxwellian Ratchets",
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• MET: J. L. Lebowitz and O. Penrose, "Modern Ergodic Theory", Physics Today (February 1973) 23-29.
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• MRS: R. G. James, J. R. Mahoney, C. J. Ellison, and J. P. Crutchfield, "Many Roads to Synchrony: Natural Time Scales and Their Algorithms", Physical Review E 89 (2014) 042135.
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• MSP: J. P. Crutchfield, "Mixed States of Hidden Markov Processes and Their Presentations: What and how to calculate".
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• Odds: Stanislaw Lem, "Odds", The New Yorker 54 (11 December 1978) 38-54.
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• OIMNC: C. C. Strelioff and J.P. Crutchfield, "Optimal Instruments and Models for Noisy Chaos",
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• OQS: J. R. Mahoney, C. Aghamohammadi, and J. P. Crutchfield "Occam's Quantum Strop: Synchronizing and Compressing Classical Cryptic Processes via a Quantum Channel", Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 20495.
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• RI: A. Archibald, "A Review of Residues and Integration---A Procedural Approach", Online Research Notes (date unknown) 1-9.
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• PRATISP: C.J. Ellison, J.P. Crutchfield, and J.R. Mahoney, "Prediction, Retrodiction, and The Amount of Information Stored in the Present",
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• ROIC: Mark Buchanan, "Revealing the Order in Chaos", New Scientist (26 February 2005).
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• RURO: J. P. Crutchfield and D. P. Feldman, "Regularities Unseen, Randomness Observed: Levels of Entropy Convergence", CHAOS 13:1 (2003) 25-54.
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• SAC: J.P. Crutchfield, C.J. Ellison, and J.R. Mahoney, "Synchronization and Control in Intrinsic and Designed Computation: An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Competing Models of Stochastic Computation",
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• SSAC1:P. Riechers and J.P. Crutchfield, "Spectral Simplicity of Apparent Complexity, Part I: The Nondiagonalizable Metadynamics of Prediction",
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• SSAC2:P. Riechers and J.P. Crutchfield, "Spectral Simplicity of Apparent Complexity, Part II: Exact Complexities and Complexity Spectra",
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• TBA: J.P. Crutchfield, C.J. Ellison, and J.R. Mahoney, "Time's Barbed Arrow: Irreversibility, Crypticity, and Stored Information",
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• TSFPOO: A. Rupe and J. P. Crutchfield, "On Principles of Emergent Organization", Physics Reports 1071 (2024) 1-47.
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• TurBases: J. P. Crutchfield and J. E. Hanson, "Turbulent Pattern Bases for Cellular Automata", Physica D 69 (1993) 279-301.
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• Yeung: R.W. Yeung, "A New Outlook on Shannon's Information Measures", IEEE Trans. Info. Th. 37:3 (1991) 466-474.
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• ZT: J.P. Crutchfield, "Z-Transforms for Stochastic Automata", Research Notes (1991) 1-7.
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