Mikhail S. Burtsev

Research scientist at the department of Nonlinear Dynamics, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Address: Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Miusskaya sq. 4, Moscow RU-125047, Russia

Senior research scientist at the department of Systemogenesis of P.K.Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

Address: Mokhovaya 11/4, Moscow RU-125009, Russia

E-mail: mbur@ya.ru

Web: http://www.keldysh.ru/pages/mrbur-web

Fax: +7 (095) 2379109

Phone: +7 (903) 5614149

Education

Ph.D., Computer Modeling and Numerical Methods, June 2005. Thesis title: "Self-organization and evolutionary emergence of behavioral strategies", Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow, Russian Federation.

M.S., Semiconductor Engineering, June 2000. Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation.

B.S., Semiconductor Engineering, June 1998. Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation.

Advanced courses

"Summer University Complex Systems Course", July-August 2001. Organized by Santa Fe Institute and Central European University. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

"Complexity in Social Science", July 2003. Organized in the framework of COSI Network Project. International University of Andalucia, Baeza, Spain.

Honors and Awards

"Diploma of successful young scientist", February 2001. Established by KIAM RAS.

Personal grants for young scientists of Russian Fund for Basic Research #02-06-06028 (2002) and #03-06-06030 (2003),

Personal grant for young scientist of Russian Academy of Sciences established by "Foundation of Russian Basic Science Support" (www.science-support.ru), 2006.

Research Interests

Evolutionary Dynamics, Evolutionary Learning, Social Evolution, Artificial Life, Complex Systems, Philosophy of Science

Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

  1. Burtsev M.S., Turchin P.V. Evolution of cooperative strategies from first principles // Nature 440, 1041-1044, 2006.
  2. Burtsev M.S. Tracking the Trajectories of Evolution // Artificial Life, 2004. Vol. 10, Iss. 4. P.397-411
  3. Burtsev, M. and Korotaev, A. Evolutionary Agent-Based Model of Pre-State Warfare Patterns: Cross-Cultural Tests // World Cultures 15: 17-38, 2004
  4. Burtsev M.S., Gusarev R.V., Red’ko V.G., "Investigation of Mechanisms of Goal-Oriented Adaptive Control" // Journal of Computer and System Sciences International, Vol. 41, No. 6, 2002.

Publications in conference proceedings

  1. Burtsev M.S. Artificial Life Meets Anthropology: A Case of Aggression in Primitive Societies 8th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2005)
  2. Burtsev M.S. Evolution of strategies in the Artificial Life model: an attempt of historical interpretation // In proceedings of International Conference on Mathematical Modelling of Social and Economical Dynamics, MMSED 2004. Ìoscow, 2004.
  3. Red'ko V.G., Prokhorov D.V., Burtsev M.S. Theory of Functional Systems, Adaptive Critics and Neural Networks // Proceedings of IJCNN 2004. p. 1787-1792.
  4. Burtsev M.S. Measuring the Dynamics of Artificial Evolution // Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2801 / 2003. Advances in Artificial Life. 2003.
  5. Burtsev M.S., Red'ko V.G., Gusarev R.V., "Alife Model of Evolutionary Emergence of Purposeful Adaptive Behavior" // In. J. Kelemen, P. Sosik (Eds.): Advances in Artificial Life, proceedings of 6th European Conference, ECAL 2001, Prague, Czech Republic.

Technical reports

  1. Burtsev M.S., "Model of evolutionary emergence of purposeful adaptive behaviour. 2. Hierarchy of goals" // Preprint KIAM RAS, 2002, N 69. (In Russian).
  2. Burtsev M.S., Gusarev R.V., Red'ko V.G. "Model of evolutionary emergence of purposeful adaptive behaviour. 1. The case of two needs"// Preprint KIAM RAS, 2000, N 43. (In Russian).