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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Klaas Chielens Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ECCO] An update on ECCO organization CLWF = Centrum voor Logica en Wetenschaps Filosofie (http://www.vub.ac.be/CLWF/) COMO = Computational Modeling Lab (http://como.vub.ac.be/) MOSI = Mathematics, Operational research, Statistics & Information systems applied in human sciences (http://www.vub.ac.be/MOSI/) Hope this helps. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of margeret heath > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 13:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ECCO] An update on ECCO organization > > Dear Francis > > Excuse my ignorance, but what do the following acronyms stand for?: > CLWF > COMO > MOSI > > Thanks, > margeret > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Francis Heylighen > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:09 PM > To: Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group > Subject: [ECCO] An update on ECCO organization > > Our ECCO group continues to grow at a staggering rate, and > this understandably creates a couple of practical issues, > which are making life rather hectic at the moment. So let me > update you on the latest, but noting that things are changing > quickly, and what is the case now may no longer be so in a week. > > Given the growing number of ECCO members, to keep the > organization manageable, I propose to distinguish two > categories: 1) "full" > members, and 2) "affiliated" members. The full members are > supposed to have their core academic activities within ECCO > (they can have other, non-academic activities elsewhere), > while the affiliated members do their core research within > another research group (e.g. > CLWF, MOSI or COMO), but from time to time participate in > ECCO activities (e.g. seminars or email discussions) and are > generally interested in collaboration with other ECCO members. > > In principle, according to VUB rules, it is possible to have "core" > activities in more than one research group, so becoming an > ECCO member does not exclude being engaged in another > research group. I just leave it up to you to decide in how > far you want to be involved: > as full or as affiliated members. The practical implication > is that full members are expected to participate in most > external or internal ECCO activities, such as meetings, and > in return can count on the support of the other members, > while the affiliated members are merely informed about the > more public and scientific activities, in which they are free > to participate or not. > > As a first rule of thumb, I consider all my PhD students to > be full ECCO members, and leave it up to the others to state > whether they want to be listed as "full", or remain > "affiliated" by default. This resulting provisional > membership list can be found on > http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ECCO/ Of course, this subdivision > will never be absolute, and some people will fall "in > between" the two categories. > > Since we haven't had any public activities lately, let me > report on the internal organization. > > First, Marko Rodriguez has joined us last week, on a one-year > visit from the University of California at Santa Cruz, to > work on algorithms to support collective decision-making. He > is presently sharing my office in the CLEA house. > > Klaas Chielens has officially started to work on an OZR > project about linguistic aspects of memetics on Oct. 1, but > is still waiting for several practical issues to be settled, > such as getting a computer and an office. Unfortunately, > since space is tight in the CLEA house, it has become > difficult to locate more people there, and Klaas will > probably be settled officially in the faculty LW in their new > room for researchers, B407. > > Both Mixel Kiemen (computer scientist interested in consciousness and > cognition) and Laetitia De Jaegher (legal expert interested > in systems approaches) are exploring ways to fund their PhD > research in ECCO, via the FWO or European projects. > > Andreas Loengarov (sociologist working on computer > simulations of social networks and evolution) has received an > offer to make a PhD in Scotland, but will anyway try to keep > close contact with ECCO and visit regularly. > > Erden Goktepe is a Turkish political scientist who will > arrive in Brussels on Nov. 1 to visit ECCO and discuss the > possibilities to come and work here on a PhD, in which he > would apply systems and complexity thinking to international > relations. He is also applying for funding, and seems > optimistic that he will get a job that could pay for his studies. > > Dirk Bollen, younger brother of my former PhD student Johan, > is a psychologist interested in situated and embodied > cognition. He would like to collaborate with ECCO and will > shortly come to meet us and discuss the possibilities. > > Julien Libbrecht has a PhD in philosophy and is working > half-time in health-care management. He would like to do > PostDoc research in ECCO on applying cybernetic thinking to > the organization of health care. > > Given these likely new arrivals, it seems that our first > priority will be to find sufficient office space on campus. > Any suggestions about unused spaces anywhere on the VUB are > most welcome! Ideally, all full ECCO members (some 8 people) > should find a space in the same building or wing, but the > given the tightness of space, this will be a difficult exercise... > > -- > > Francis Heylighen > Center "Leo Apostel" > Free University of Brussels > http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html > >
