This is a forwarded message From: Fran�ois K�p�s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: S�minaire de recherche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, April 1, 2005, 7:46:20 PM Subject: Extended deadlines: European Conference on Complex Systems 2005 (ECCS'05)
===8<==============Original message text=============== Dear participant of the Torino conference, I am sending you this message to ask your help in making ECCS'05 a highly successful event. This conference follows and amplifies the enjoyable conference that we attended in Turin in December 2004. When we decided to start this conference series supported by the European Commission, we had in mind that it could become the annual forum for all scientists involved in complex systems research, whichever their favorite application fields or their transversal approaches. Beyond scientific exchange, ECCS could favor self-awareness within this scientific community. Moreover, we wished that ECCS could also serve as an exchange platform with non-academic partners like companies, political actors, etc. This was a very ambitious goal which can turn into a success only if the emerging community participates on a large scale to this event. An encouraging sign is that the response from the community to the call for satellite workshops has been extremely enthusiastic. I would be very pleased if you would accept to join us in this task by strongly incitating people around you to submit their best papers or abstracts before MAY 8, and to be in Paris in November ! It would also be useful for web referencing purposes to have your local web pages point to the ECCS'05 conference page. --> http://complexsystems.lri.fr/ Below please find the updated call for papers/abstracts for ECCS'05. With all my thanks for your help, Fran�ois K�p�s Chair of the Organization Committee -- Please circulate. The PAPER submission DEADLINE has been significantly POSTPONED 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 MAY 8. Notifications to authors by July 8. * Parallel Satellite Workshops, November 17 & 18 : The call is closed. Notifications to proponents by April 30. 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. This conference follows the one organized in Torino (Italy) in December 2004 with the help of the European commission and with support from the coordination actions EXYSTENCE and ONCE-CS, funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies unit of the European Commission. ECCS'05 benefits from the same support and is the first conference in an annual series organized by the new European Complex Systems Society. 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/ "Describing and understanding problems will not solve them..."
