http://assystcomplexity.eu ASSYSTComplexity News and Events RSS Feed With the Latest from the ASSYST Portal http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=84 In the days where paper was king there was a good reason why lots of different publications covered the same stories: they had to serve their readers, and there was a good chance that they did not have the opportunity to read more than a few magazines a month. With the web, that has changed. People don’t copiously read a single magazine site, they surf the net. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=84 2012-02-02T00:00:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=83 Following highly successful meetings on Mathematics in the Science of Complex Systems at ECLT in Venice and Warwick University in February and June 2011, we are holding the meeting Mathematics for the Dynamics of Multilevel Systems at the European Centre for Living Technology, Venice, 26th - 28th February 2012. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:30:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=83 2012-01-04T11:30:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=221 “The endogenous dynamics of markets: price impact and feedback loops” was presented by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (Capital Fund Management, ESPCI Paris Tech, Ecole Polytechnique) at FET’11 - The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition - Science beyond fiction, a conference held in Budapest, May 4 – 6, 2011. The presentation is available at the FET’11 website. Abstract: “We review the evidence that the erratic dynamics of markets is to a large extent of endogenous origin, i.e. determined by the trading activity itself and not due to the rational processing of exogenous news. In order to understand why and how prices move, the joint fluctuations of order flow and liquidity – and the way these impact prices – become the keyingredients. Impact is necessary for private information to be reflected in prices, but by the same token, random fluctuations in order flow necessarily contribute to the volatility of markets. Our thesis is that the latter contribution is in fact dominant, resulting in a decoupling between prices and fundamental values, at least on short to medium time scales. We argue that markets operate in a regime of vanishing revealed liquidity, but large latent liquidity, which would explain their hyper-sensitivity to fluctuations. More precisely, we identify a dangerous feedback loop between bid-ask spread and volatility that may lead to microliquidity crises and price jumps. We discuss several other unstable feedback loops that should be relevant to account for market crises: imitation, unwarranted quantitative models, pro-cyclical regulation, etc.” Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:03:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=221 2011-12-30T11:03:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=220 When a stock market rises unsustainably, it can create a financial bubble that sooner or later will burst. Tobias Preis explains whether concepts from physics can be used to create a law describing exactly how such crashes occur. Tobias Preis is a scientist and founder of Artemis Capital Asset Management. He performed complex systems research at Boston University and ETH Zurich. He was awarded a Ph.D. in physics and is a member of the Gutenberg Academy. His current research focuses on quantifying and modeling financial market fluctuations. Recently, he headed a research team which provided evidence that search engine query data and stock market fluctuations are correlated. Web: tobiaspreis.de Twitter: @t_preis Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:53:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=220 2011-12-30T10:53:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=82 One of the work packages of ASSYST is to provide conference support and, in particular, to attempt to increase variety in the CS community by supporting female scientists and minority groups. This year we provided 32 bursaries to people to attend ECCS’11. The bursaries provided limited contributions towards the conference fee and/or travel expenses for female scientists, young researchers, and others who would otherwise be unable to attend ECCS'11. There were also a number of conditions for receiving the bursary, one of which was to provide feedback about how they had benefitted from attending the conference. You can read the full reports at below. Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:55:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=82 2011-12-27T17:55:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=Evostar%202012 Evostar 2012 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:27:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=Evostar%202012 2011-11-30T10:27:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=80 The International Meeting on Visualization in Complex Environments took place at Politecnico di Torino, November 17-18, 2011. The programme covered the tracks Visualization and Decision Making in Spatial Environments, Visualization and Scientific Data Exploration and Visualization and Communication. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=80 2011-11-23T00:00:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=81 The African RoadMap for Complex Systems Research is being developed following the "African Conference on the Science of Complex Systems" held on the 9th and 10th November 2011, in Dakar. The conference was an opportunity to discuss the African Roadmap and its Digital Campus - towards a UNESCO Unitwin Network. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=81 2011-11-23T00:00:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=ECCS12 European Conference on Complex Systems 2012 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:27:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=ECCS12 2011-11-20T16:27:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=79 Les 9 et 10 novembre se tient à Dakar la conférence africaine AC-CSS. Les débats seront essentiellement francophones. Cette conférence a pour objectif de construire la feuille de route africaine des systèmes complexes et de concevoir le Campus numérique pour la réaliser. La conférence est retransmise en direct chaque jour de 9h30 à 19h30. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=79 2011-11-08T00:00:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=WCSCM%202011 Workshop on Complex Systems as Computing Models Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:42:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=WCSCM%202011 2011-10-28T11:42:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=SIMUL%202011 The Third International Conference on Advances in System Simulation Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:33:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=SIMUL%202011 2011-10-28T11:33:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=ISCRAM2012 The 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:14:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=ISCRAM2012 2011-10-21T08:14:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=219 How can ICT help achieve a green knowledge society? How are different regional policies in Europe affecting this goal? ASSYST and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Florence organized a conference on the “possibility to achieve a green knowledge society with the utilisation of the ICT as a mean of enhancing interaction and a distributed intelligence on the overall society”. The conference took place May 27th, 2011 at the University of Florence. Representatives of four European regions: Greater London Authority, Region de l'Ile de France, Piedmont Region, and Tuscany Region, presented their experience. Experts in decision making and in the utilization of ICT commented these experiences. A general final discussion investigated how ICT could help strengthening regional policies to pursue the goal of a greener knowledge society. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:01:45 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=219 2011-10-13T15:01:45Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=218 How can ICT help achieve a green knowledge society? How are different regional policies in Europe affecting this goal? ASSYST and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Florence organized a conference on the “possibility to achieve a green knowledge society with the utilisation of the ICT as a mean of enhancing interaction and a distributed intelligence on the overall society”. The conference took place May 27th, 2011 at the University of Florence. Representatives of four European regions: Greater London Authority, Region de l'Ile de France, Piedmont Region, and Tuscany Region, presented their experience. Experts in decision making and in the utilization of ICT commented these experiences. A general final discussion investigated how ICT could help strengthening regional policies to pursue the goal of a greener knowledge society. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:00:01 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=218 2011-10-13T15:00:01Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=217 How can ICT help achieve a green knowledge society? How are different regional policies in Europe affecting this goal? ASSYST and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Florence organized a conference on the “possibility to achieve a green knowledge society with the utilisation of the ICT as a mean of enhancing interaction and a distributed intelligence on the overall society”. The conference took place May 27th, 2011 at the University of Florence. Representatives of four European regions: Greater London Authority, Region de l'Ile de France, Piedmont Region, and Tuscany Region, presented their experience. Experts in decision making and in the utilization of ICT commented these experiences. A general final discussion investigated how ICT could help strengthening regional policies to pursue the goal of a greener knowledge society. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:58:42 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=217 2011-10-13T14:58:42Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=216 How can ICT help achieve a green knowledge society? How are different regional policies in Europe affecting this goal? ASSYST and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Florence organized a conference on the “possibility to achieve a green knowledge society with the utilisation of the ICT as a mean of enhancing interaction and a distributed intelligence on the overall society”. The conference took place May 27th, 2011 at the University of Florence. Representatives of four European regions: Greater London Authority, Region de l'Ile de France, Piedmont Region, and Tuscany Region, presented their experience. Experts in decision making and in the utilization of ICT commented these experiences. A general final discussion investigated how ICT could help strengthening regional policies to pursue the goal of a greener knowledge society. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:56:55 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=216 2011-10-13T14:56:55Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=215 How can ICT help achieve a green knowledge society? How are different regional policies in Europe affecting this goal? ASSYST and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Florence organized a conference on the “possibility to achieve a green knowledge society with the utilisation of the ICT as a mean of enhancing interaction and a distributed intelligence on the overall society”. The conference took place May 27th, 2011 at the University of Florence. Representatives of four European regions: Greater London Authority, Region de l'Ile de France, Piedmont Region, and Tuscany Region, presented their experience. Experts in decision making and in the utilization of ICT commented these experiences. A general final discussion investigated how ICT could help strengthening regional policies to pursue the goal of a greener knowledge society. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:54:49 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=215 2011-10-13T14:54:49Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=214 How can ICT help achieve a green knowledge society? How are different regional policies in Europe affecting this goal? ASSYST and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Florence organized a conference on the “possibility to achieve a green knowledge society with the utilisation of the ICT as a mean of enhancing interaction and a distributed intelligence on the overall society”. The conference took place May 27th, 2011 at the University of Florence. Representatives of four European regions: Greater London Authority, Region de l'Ile de France, Piedmont Region, and Tuscany Region, presented their experience. Experts in decision making and in the utilization of ICT commented these experiences. A general final discussion investigated how ICT could help strengthening regional policies to pursue the goal of a greener knowledge society. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:49:46 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=214 2011-10-13T14:49:46Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=213 How can ICT help achieve a green knowledge society? How are different regional policies in Europe affecting this goal? ASSYST and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Florence organized a conference on the “possibility to achieve a green knowledge society with the utilisation of the ICT as a mean of enhancing interaction and a distributed intelligence on the overall society”. The conference took place May 27th, 2011 at the University of Florence. Representatives of four European regions: Greater London Authority, Region de l'Ile de France, Piedmont Region, and Tuscany Region, presented their experience. Experts in decision making and in the utilization of ICT commented these experiences. A general final discussion investigated how ICT could help strengthening regional policies to pursue the goal of a greener knowledge society. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:48:02 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=213 2011-10-13T14:48:02Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=212 How can ICT help achieve a green knowledge society? How are different regional policies in Europe affecting this goal? ASSYST and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Florence organized a conference on the “possibility to achieve a green knowledge society with the utilisation of the ICT as a mean of enhancing interaction and a distributed intelligence on the overall society”. The conference took place May 27th, 2011 at the University of Florence. Representatives of four European regions: Greater London Authority, Region de l'Ile de France, Piedmont Region, and Tuscany Region, presented their experience. Experts in decision making and in the utilization of ICT commented these experiences. A general final discussion investigated how ICT could help strengthening regional policies to pursue the goal of a greener knowledge society. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:46:36 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=212 2011-10-13T13:46:36Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=211 How can ICT help achieve a green knowledge society? How are different regional policies in Europe affecting this goal? ASSYST and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Florence organized a conference on the “possibility to achieve a green knowledge society with the utilisation of the ICT as a mean of enhancing interaction and a distributed intelligence on the overall society”. The conference took place May 27th, 2011 at the University of Florence. Representatives of four European regions: Greater London Authority, Region de l'Ile de France, Piedmont Region, and Tuscany Region, presented their experience. Experts in decision making and in the utilization of ICT commented these experiences. A general final discussion investigated how ICT could help strengthening regional policies to pursue the goal of a greener knowledge society. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:28:48 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=211 2011-10-13T00:28:48Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=ICECCS2012 17th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:50:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=ICECCS2012 2011-10-12T16:50:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=210 Jeff Johnson presentation at the European Conference on Complex Systems, Vienna, September 2011. Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:18:44 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/video.jsp?id=210 2011-10-05T08:18:44Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=SDM%2012 The Twelfth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:39:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=SDM%2012 2011-09-29T09:39:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=INSC%202012 5th International Nonlinear Science Conference 2012 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:58:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=INSC%202012 2011-09-28T11:58:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=HICSSS%202012 Heron Island Complex Systems Summer School 2012 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:55:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=HICSSS%202012 2011-09-28T11:55:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=ComplexNet%202012 3rd Workshop on Complex Networks Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:50:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=ComplexNet%202012 2011-09-28T11:50:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=BASNA%202011 Business Application of Social Network Analysis 2011 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:48:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=BASNA%202011 2011-09-28T11:48:00Z http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=IWSOS%202012 Sixth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:44:00 GMT http://assystcomplexity.eu/conferences.jsp?q=IWSOS%202012 2011-09-28T11:44:00Z