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ASSYST 1st Year Reports Online
DavidR. - 2010-07-21The ASSYST 1st Year Reports are available as downloadable PDF files. This are the reports submited to the European Commission at the end of the first year of activity. The ASSYST project had it's review meeting March 23, 2010.
Turunc Summer School and Workshop and PerAda-ASSYST summer school
David R. - 2010-07-12
Have you thought about taking a Summer School? ASSYST is sponsoring two summer schools and a Workshop that might interest you in Turkey and Hungary.
The first summer school (TSCS'10) will take place in Turunc, Turkey on August 23rd-27th. It's subject are Complex Systems ranging from Probability & Stochastic Process to Complex Networks and Agent Based Systems. This summer school is shortly followed by a workshop (TWCS'10) also in Turunc from August 30th to September 1st also on Complex Systems.
If you prefer a late summer school, you can choose go to the PerAda Summer School 2010 in Budapest, Hungary, that will take place from September 20th through September 27th. This conference is dedicated to Adaptive Socio-Technical Pervasive Systems. This summer school is co-located with the SASO Conference.
Newsletter - When 'Life' Gets another Boost
David R. - 2010-07-01
Social intelligence Workshop
David R. - 2010-06-22
As part of the COSI-ICT programme (COmplex systems for Socially Intelligent ICT), ASSYST is organising a one-day workshop on 'social intelligence' on 3rd August 2010 in London.
Our guest speaker will be Ricardo Baeza-Yates of Yahoo.
We are inviting the COSI-ICT IPs and others to participate. The draft agenda addresses the questions:
- - What is ICT-enabled 'social intelligence'?
- - What theory(s) exists on social intelligence?
- - Are there engineering principles for creating social intelligence systems?
We hope you will be able to join us.
Even if you cannot come on the day we will welcome your answers to the questions. A report on the meeting will be published on the ASSYST website, and presented at COSI-ICT Satellite Conference ECCS'10 in Lisbon.
source: http://phoenixweb.open.ac.uk/~jeff_johnson/ASSYST_Perada_WS.html
Physics of Competition and Conflicts - COST Action MP0801 Meeting in Bulgaria
DavidR. - 2010-05-26
In a time of great uncertainty what can societies do to tackle the problems that arise in the context of the large scale social and political changes inside the European Union?
The Second Annual Meeting of COST Action MP0801, "Physics of Competition and Conflicts" is taking place at the Bulgarian Black See Resort "Sunny Beach" to bring together scientists of different disciplines on a discussion on quantitative understanding of social turmoil.
Physicists, sociologists, economists, etc are participating in a interdisciplinary debate of ideas, concepts and practices that one must embrace for these frontier problems to be solved for the benefit of the society.
During the 3 day conference, the participants discuss topics related to Competition and Conflicts in the COST workgroups:
- Information and Knowledge
- Agents including game theory
- Complex Networks
- Evolution & Co-evolution
- Technology & Risk Management
Sessions include invited talks from prominent researchers and contributions from national COST representatives. We are including the available powerpoint presentations here in the Assyst Website for you to download:
Day 1 Presentations (May 25, 2010)
Talks by:
J. Mimkes - Putty and Clay. Calculus in Capital and Labor
K. Suchecki - Design vs. Emergence: The Structure of Knowledge
H. Huffel - Active Complex Stochastic Systems
V. Gontis - Scaled Nonlinear Stochastic Model of Return versus Empirical Data
S. Maletic - Percolations on Clique Complex
V. Urumov - Variable-Delay Feedback as a Tool for Stabilization of Unstable Steady States and Desynchronization of Systems of Oscillators
N. Vitanov - A Spatial Model of Ideology Struggle
Z. Burda - Maximal Entropy Random Walk
Yu. Holovatch - Critical Phenomena on Scale-Free Networks: Logarithmic Corrections and Scaling Functions
G.P. Tsironis - Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation in Complex Networks
C. Giardina - Ferromagnetic Ising Models on Power-Law Random Graphs
S. Jain - The KLM Airline Network
F. Slanina - Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions in Hegselmann-Krause Model of Opinion Formation
Day 2 Presentations (May 26, 2010)
Talks by:
D. Helbing - Cooperation, Norms, and Conflict: Towards Simulating the Foundations of Society
F. Schweeitzer - Open Source as a Complex Network
S. Cebrat - Modeling Evolution of Y Chromosome, Altruism and Sexual Antagonism
M. Mitrovic - Network Structure and Emotions on Popular Posts
C. Costea - Sustainable Go Green Logistics Solutions for Emerging Metropolis
H. Bingol - Which Criteria Are More Important in Finding a Partner?
J. Louçã - The Observatorium: Monitoring Topic Trends in Online Media
A. Zuccala - Poverty Research in a Science for Development Policy Context
S. Galam - Public Debates Driven by Incomplete Scientific Data: Comparing the Cases of Evolution Theory and Global Warming
I. Avramov - Is It Possible to Describe the Epidemic Spread in Terms of the Knetics of Overall Phase Transition
P. Contucci - Toward a Quantitative Approach to Migrants Integration
* - presentation from J. Holyst on Collective Emotions in Internet Communities was canceled.
Day 3 Presentations (May 28, 2010)
J. Johnson - Multilevel Hypernetworks of Competition, Conflict and Cooperation
A. Delanoë - Modeling Media Dynamics: The French Case of Unusual Bees Death
S. Reimann - The Financial Bubble Experiment: Theoretical Background and Empirical Results
G. Rotundo - Symbolic Images for an Evolutionary model of Bounded Rationality Consumers
A. Sîrbu - Gene Regulatory Network Modeling: an Integrative Approach
R. Pan - Path Lengths, Distances and Connectivity in Temporal Networks
Posters Presented at the meeting
T. Hulshof - Random Walk on Infinite Critical Percolation Clusters
A. Kononovicius - Empirical Analysis of Vilnius Stock Exchange Absolute Return Time Series
I. Grabec - Modeling and Forecasting of Traffic Flow on Roads Network in Slovenia
L. Mihoreanu - Competitive PET Study of the Central Nicotinic Receptors Alpha4Beta2 in Baboons
M. Pistek - Minority Game with Several Groups Acting at Different Time Scales
F. Redelico - On a fractal Instability Quotient Applied to Financial Crashes
A. Sirbu - Wavelets for the Analysis of Time Series Gene Expression Data
F.O. Redelico - Persistence Properties of Market Maker Intervention in Financial Markets
M. Szell - Multi-Relational Organization and Social Balance in a Large-Scale Human Society
M. Tasgin - The Spread of Gossip in Weighted Networks
L. Todorova - Power Law Distribution in High Frequency Financial Data?
I. Vassileva - Optimal Fiscal Policy in an Economy With an Informal Sector
W. Waga - Computer Modeling of Biological Conflicts in the Human Reproduction
(We'll update this page with presentations regularly, please bookmark this page. If you participated in the conference and your talk isn't available please send it by email to david@assystcomplexity.eu)
For more details on this COST meeting please visit the Conference Website and the Project Website.
source: https://sites.google.com/site/costmp08012010annualmeeting/
ASSYST CSS Newsletter
DavidR. - 2010-05-01
FET Proactive: COSI-ICT Cluster Workshop
DavidR - 2010-03-26The European Commission organized a workshop that brought together the COSI-ICT projects in Brussels March 25th. The workshop aimed at promoting projects results with the idea that output of research is bigger than the single parts of it.
The workshop program included interventions by all partners and topics covered the importance of the FET program, opportunities for mobility, one idea for the flagship called FuturIcT, the integrated projects presentations. The afternoon period had a round-table discussion about international cooperation, flagship initiatives, open access and the future of research.
You can download the presentations here
- Wolfgang Boch - Welcome and Introduction to the workshop.
- Jeffrey Johnson - Mission of ASSYST and COSI-ICT
- Janusz Holyst - Cyberemotions - Colective Emotions in Cyberspace
- Alexandro Vespignani - Epiwork
- Nigel Gilbert - QLectives
- Paul Lukowicz - Socionical
- Jeffrey Johnson - The 2009 virtual CSS consultation
source: http://assystcomplexity.eu/
International School on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Economic and Social Complex Systems
news inserted by Jorge L. - 2010-03-09Siena, June 27 - July 3, 2010
The school aims to gather leading specialists in economics, mathematics, physics, so-cial sciences and in the financial industry to set up an intensive program for young researchers interested in using and developing multidisciplinary approaches to the analysis and the modeling of economic and social complex systems.
Applications are invited from graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty mem-bers of a broad set of disciplines including mathematics, physics, computer science, economics and social sciences. Deadline for the applications is April 30th, 2010. De-tails for application can be found at http://www.unisi.it/eventi/schoolESCS.
INVITED LECTURERS
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Science & Finance, Capital Fund Management, Paris
Stephen Eubank, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, VBI, Virginia Tech.
Dirk Helbing, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zürich
Cars Hommes, CeNDEF, Department of Quantitative Economics, Amsterdam University
Janos Kertesz, Institute of Physics, University of Technology and Economics, Budapest
Fredrik Liljeros, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University
Fabrizio Lillo, Dip. Fisica e Tecnologie Relative, Palermo University and Santa Fe Institute
Felix Reed-Tsochas, CABDyN Complexity Centre, Said Business School, Oxford University
KEYNOTE LECTURER
H. Eugene Stanley, Center for Polymer Studies, Department of Physics, Boston University
IMPORTANT DATES
April 30, 2010 deadline for application
May 10, 2010 notification of acceptance
May 25, 2010 online registration deadline
June 27, 2010 arrival of participants
REGISTRATION
http://www.unisi.it/eventi/schoolESCS/registration.htm
4th ASSYST CSS NEWSLETTER
DavidR. - 2010-03-01It is with great pleasure that we bring to you the latest number of the ASSYST/CSS Newsletter. In this newsletter we bring you a new section: "Reading Snippets"
In this edition you'll find:
* Editorial
* Reading snippets
* ECCS'10 Satellite Meetings
* Conferences and Workshops
* Jobs
* Contacts
source: http://www.assystcomplexity.eu/newsletter.jsp?edition=4
Complex Systems Conferences 2010
DavidR. - 2010-02-24You can now download our Complex Systems Conferences Map 2010.
We'll be updating this planner regularly, so if you see that some conference is missing, please send us the conference details.
source: http://assystcomplexity.eu/db/pdf/others/Road2ECCS2010_02_24.pdf
3rd ASSYST CSS Newsletter
DavidR. - 2010-02-02It is with great pleasure that we bring to you the latest number of the ASSYST/CSS Newsletter. In this first number of 2010 the Complex Systems Society and the ASSYST Coordination Action joined efforts to produce a common newsletter.
In this edition you will find:
* Editorial, by David Chavalarias
* ECCS'09 at the University of Warwick, by Markus Kirkilionis
* ECCS'10 Call for Papers
* News
* Conferences and Workshops
* Jobs
* Contacts
Download the Assyst CSS Newsletter
FP7 Call: Identifying new research topics, Assessing emerging global S&T trends in ICT for future FET Proactive initiatives
news inserted by Jorge L. - 2010-01-20Deadline for submission of proposals 13 April 2010 (17h, Brussels local time)
Target outcome:
a) Short duration actions (typically 6-12 Months) to organise consultations of multi-disciplinary communities to formulate novel and widely supported FET research topics, initiatives and modalities in support of foundational research that could open up radically new avenues for future ICT. Proposals should concentrate on new emerging areas of research complementing the ICT FET Proactive portfolio. They may consolidate, revisit, or widen topics elicited in earlier calls and previous consultations on the work programme, or bridge with emerging new communities established through FET Open projects. The main objective should be to identify and motivate one or more new research avenues from a global perspective, the associated fundamental challenges, and to analyse the expected impact on science, technology and society.
b) Actions that perform in-depth analyses of emerging global trends in multidisciplinary science and technology fields contributing to future ICT, in terms of assessment, measurement, risk analysis, critical mass and necessary resources.
Topics for FET Proactive Initiatives for 2011 and later calls will develop over the period and could be inspired by those highlighted in the introduction to FET Proactive under the heading 'Candidate topics for calls in 2011 and beyond'.
Expected impact:
* Novel widely supported and well motivated research topics to be considered as inputs for future work programmes in ICT, with an estimate of the effort required and a clear description of the expected impact.
* Increased motivation of research communities to embrace new directions of multidisciplinary exploration around ICT
Early identification and increased awareness of new trends emerging on a global scale in support of future proactive initiatives
source: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-proactive/futfetip_en.html
Marie Curie PhD fellowships
news inserted by Jorge L. - 2010-01-11Marie Curie PhD fellowships available at the University College Dublin
Two funded Marie Curie PhD fellowships available, commencing in April 2010, with project entitled ‘Management of Emergent Technologies for Economic Impact’, at the Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL), University College Dublin.
Contact:
Lisa Kilmartin
Research Administrator
Innovation Research Unit (IRU)
Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL)
University College Dublin
8 Belfield Office Park
Beaver Row
Clonskeagh
Dublin 4
Ireland
tel:+353 1 716 5394
fax:+353 1 716 5709
http://casl.ucd.ie/iru/
iru@ucd.ie
source: http://casl.ucd.ie/iru/
ECCS 2010 - European Conference on Complex Systems
news inserted by Jorge L. - 2010-01-02The ECCS’10 Organising Committee invites paper submissions for the ECCS'10 main conference, taking place in Lisbon from 13-17 September 2010. Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2010. See http://eccs2010.eu/
1st CALL FOR PAPERS - submissions deadline February 15, 2010
The main goal of the ECCS’10 conference is to stimulate and facilitate the presentation and discussion of new ideas, methods, and approaches related to different domains, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Complex Systems research. Previous ECCS conferences have provided an excellent environment allowing the propagation of new ideas to a large audience, leading to the publication of papers in several journals (see, for instance, http://eccs09.info/ ).
**** SCOPE ****
The range of domains that ECCS has dealt with, and continues to deal with, is diverse, concerning a variety of Complex Systems research areas. The ECCS'10 main conference is organized in the following tracks:
* Track A: Policy, Planning & Infrastructure
Policymaking; Urban Planning; Internet; Transport & Power Networks; Medical & Health Systems.
* Track B: Collective Human Behaviour and Society
Philosophy of Science; Economics & Finance; Sociology; Psychology; Game theory.
* Track C: Interacting Populations and Environment
Climate Change; Pollution; Demography; Ecology; Epidemiology.
* Track D: Complexity and Computer Science
Natural and Pervasive Computing; Global Computing Infrastructure; Swarms and Robot Teams; Mobile and Fleet Computing; Graphs and Neural Networks; Language and Cognition; Collaborative Human Computer Networks.
* Track E: From Molecules to Living Systems
Self-assembly & Self-organisation; Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Neuroscience; Systems Biology; Medicine & Physiology.
* Track F: Mathematics and Simulation
Mathematics; Theoretical Physics; Modelling; Theory of Simulation (both numerical mathematics and agent based); Network Theory.
**** SUBMISSIONS ****
The ECCS’10 Organising Committee invites paper submissions for the ECCS'10 main conference, taking place in Lisbon from 13-17 September 2010.
All submitted papers must be formatted according to the instructions and templates available in the conference website. Long papers, which correspond to a 40min talk at ECCS'10, should have 12 pages maximum. Short papers, which correspond to a 20min talk at ECCS'10, should have no more than 6 pages.
Papers should be submitted via the MyReview System ( http://myreview.eccs2010.eu/ ).
**** IMPORTANT DATES ****
February 15, 2010 - Paper submission deadline
April, 2010 - Paper reviews and notification of paper acceptance
June 30, 2010 - Poster submission deadline
September 13, 14 and 17, 2010 - ECCS'10 Main Conference
September 15 and 16, 2010 - ECCS'10 Satellite Meetings
**** ORGANISATION ****
Conference Organising Chair:
Jorge Louçã (Lisbon University Institute)
Conference Programme Chair:
Tsou Sheung Tsun (University of Oxford)
Complex Systems Society:
Jeffrey Johnson (Open University; President of the CSS)
Conference Programme Committee: TBA
Complex Systems Society Conference Steering Committee members:
Markus Kirkilionis (Warwick; Committee Chair)
Fatihcan Atay (Leipzig)
Jürgen Jost (Leipzig)
Scott Kirkpatrick (Jerusalem)
David Lane (University of Modena and Reggio Emillia)
Andreas Lorincz (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Denise Pumain (Sorbonne)
Felix Reed-Tsochas (Oxford)
Eörs Szathmáry (Collegium Budapest)
Stephan Thurner (Wien)
Paul Verschure (Barcelona)
Alessandro Vespignani (Indiana, ISI)
Riccardo Zecchina (Torino)
Questions should be addressed to the ECCS’10 Organizing Committee through the e-mail address eccs2010@ eccs2010.eu or using the contact form in the conference website.
ECCS'10 - European Conference on Complex Systems - eccs2010.eu
source: http://eccs2010.eu/
BOOK: Planning, Complexity and New ICT available!
David R. - 2009-11-10The book "Planning, Complexity and New ICT" was plublished last september. It was the result of the INPUT08 conference, held last March in Lecco, Italy.
The book is now available to download at the Assyst Complexity Portal.
Also available is the poster from the conference INPUT08.
source: http://www.memolab.org/
ASSYSTComplexity RSS Feed
DavidR - 2009-10-16Today we added the RSS feed to the main site. This had been under testing for some time now, and is now available to all. The RSS feed is populated with the latest news from the Portal, Conferences and the Digital Library. If you use Google Reader, Net News Wire or any other RSS aggregator you can now subscribe to the ASSYSTComplexity RSS Feed.
ASSYSTComplexity Newsletter - Special ECCS09 Edition
David - 2009-09-15We just sent the 2nd edition of the ASSYST Complexity Newsletter
This editon is dedicated to the ECCS09 conference in Warwick that will start the September 21.
COSI-ICT 09: First International Workshop on Complex Systems for Socially Intelligent ICT
DR - 2009-09-08Members of the European COSI-ICT Research Programme (CYBEREMOTIONS, EPIWORKS, QLECTIVES, SOCIONICAL) are invited to present their projects at a Satellite Conference of ECCS at Warwick University on Wednesday 23rd September 2009 www.eccs09.info organised by the COSI-ICT coordination action ASSYST. Members of the research community are also invited to present relevant work on social networking and socially intelligent ICT. All are welcome to attend.
source: http://www.eccs09.info/
Lyapunov analysis, from theory to geophysical applications
news inserted by Jorge - 2009-09-02Thematic institute at the Institute of Complex Systems, Paris, France - 26-30 October 2009
Lyapunov exponents and vectors provide a powerful theoretical and practical framework for the analysis of the instabilities that can develop in a dynamical system. This Thematic Institute, to take place at the Institute of Complex Systems, Paris on October 26th-30th aims at bringing together scientists active in applied mathematics and/or geophysics, finding the crossing point between state-of-the-art Lyapunov analysis theory and the current challenges faced by geophysics. Special emphasis will be put on recent theoretical results on Lyapunov vector analysis, turbulent transport, and data assimilation.
The Institute will be organized around introductory perspective lectures (3-4 hours each) given by leading experts, covering both the theoretical and application aspects. These lectures will be complemented by shorter seminars presented by the participants and by plenary and informal discussions. Participants are not required to have experience in both theory and geophysical applications of Lyapunov exponent analysis, although at least some general knowledge in one of the two fields is expected.
Scientific committee
H. Chaté (CEA), F. d'Ovidio (ISC-PIF), F. Ginelli (ISC-PIF)
Confirmed keynote speakers
Michael Ghil (ENS, Paris, France)
Bernard Legras (ENS, Paris, France)
Gary P. Morriss (University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia)
Antonio Politi (ISC/CNR, Florence, Italy)
Registration
Please send an email to francesco.dovidio (at) iscpif.fr or francesco.ginelli (at) iscpif.fr with your name and affiliation. If you want to present a short talk, please also add a title and abstract. There is no registration fee. Lunches and coffee breaks will be offered. Participants are expected to cover their travel and hotel expenses. The registration deadline is 4 October 2009.
source: http://www.iscpif.fr/LTG09
International Symposium on Complex Systems Science
news inserted by Jorge - 2009-09-02ISC-PIF and IXXI, Paris, 17-18 September 2009
The Complex Systems Institutes of Paris Ile-de-France (ISC-PIF) and Lyon Rhône-Alpes (IXXI), and the French National Network for Complex Systems (RNSC) are organizing an "International Symposium on Complex Systems Science" in the honor and with the kind participation of their scientific boards' members (see http://iscpif.fr/committees and http://rnsc.fr/Conseil+Scientifique).
This symposium will take place in Paris at the Henry Poincaré Institute (IHP), Thursday 17th (all day) and Friday 18th morning, September 2009
The access to the symposium is free but registration is required to reserve a seat! Please fill out the form here : http://iscpif.fr/symposium09-registration
Invited Speakers
Henri Atlan
Henri Berestycki
Jacques Demongeot
Anne Fagot-Largeault
Bruno Goffinet
Eric Goles
Mirta Gordon
François Képès
Alan Kirman
Cris Moore
Etienne Pardoux
Nadine Peyriéras
Eugene Stanley
Mina Teicher
Simon Thorpe
Sheung Tsun Tsou
Sander van der Leeuw
Organizers
René Doursat, Director, ISC-PIF
Pablo Jensen, Director, IXXI
Paul Bourgine, Director, RNSC (and Founder, ISC-PIF)
Hugues Chaté, Scientific Director, ISC-PIF & Symposium Chair
source: http://iscpif.fr/symposium09
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