This is a forwarded message From: Marie-Jo Lecuyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 3:53:37 PM Subject: TR: European Conference on Complex Systems 2005 (ECCS'05), Paris, Nov 14-18
===8<==============Original message text=============== This is the second call for European Conference on Complex Systems 2005 (ECCS'05) Paris (Cite Internationale Universitaire) November 14-18, 2005 http://complexsystems.lri.fr/ IMPORTANT DATES * Full Conference, November 14-16 : Papers and posters are both due by APRIL 15. * Parallel Satellite Workshops, November 17 & 18 : Satellite Workshop proposals are due by MARCH 31. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS include Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research (UK) Henrik Lund, University of Southern Denmark Giorgio Parisi, Universita la Sapienza (Italy) Peter Schuster, Universitaet Wien (Austria) Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute-Frankfurt (Germany) Tamas Vicsek, Eotvos University (Hungary) Douglas White, University of California at Irvine (USA) Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, College de France Apologies for multiple announcements. -------------------------------------------------------------------- TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS -------------------------------------------------------------------- Complex systems, as networks of interactive entities, are studied through a rapidly increasing mass of data in all domains. At the same time, these domains share a lot of new and fundamental theoretical questions. This situation is especially favourable for developing the new science of complex systems in an interdisciplinary way. There are two kinds of interdisciplinarity within complex systems. The first begins with a particular complex system and addresses a variety of questions coming from its particular domain and points of view. The second begins with questions that are fundamental to complex systems in general. The first leads to domain-specific interdisciplinary fields such as cognitive science. The new science of complex system belongs to a second kind of interdisciplinarity. It starts from fundamental open questions relevant to many domains, and searches for methods to deal with them. These two kinds of interdisciplinarity are complementary and interdependent: any advance in one is valuable for the other. The science of complex systems will develop through a constantly renewed process of reconstructing data from models with a permanent interaction between the two kinds of interdisciplinarity. The reconstruction of the dynamics of complex systems presents a major challenge to modern science but it is becoming increasingly accessible through an accumulating mass of data, combined with the increasing power of computers leading to theoretical advances in understanding. ECCS is the first conference organized by the new European Complex System Society. It aims to bring together all scientists working on complex systems and wishing to widen the interchange of questions, concepts, models and theories beyond the specific points of view developed in more specialized conferences. It aims also to foster a more interconnected community, creating through its interactions the science of complex system as a rapidly growing field. http://complexsystems.lri.fr/ ===8<===========End of original message text=========== Carlos Gershenson... Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/ “Knowledge brings more questions than answers” -- Find information about this mailing list at http://complexity.vub.ac.be/list.html
