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You are hereby invited to the twenty-sixth seminar organized in
2005 by the "Evolution, Complexity and
Cognition (ECCO)" research group:
Developing a Self-Organizing
Knowledge Network for Complexity Science
by
(ECCO)
Place: room 3C204 (building C, 3rd floor), VUB campus
Etterbeek
Time: Friday, Nov. 4, at 17:00 h.
Abstract
Complexity science holds great promise in helping us to
understand scientific and societal problems characterized by
multiple, non-linear interactions and constant evolution. However,
complexity science itself is a complex and ever changing amalgam of
methods, models and metaphors from different traditions. To fully
realize its potential, knowledge on complexity needs to be
integrated, and made available in a comprehensive, complete and
transparent framework. This seminar will introduce a project, to be
submitted to the European NEST program on complexity by a consortium
coordinated by ECCO, with partners in Italy, India, Poland and New
Mexico. The project intends to build a distributed knowledge
management system about complexity, in the form of a self-organizing,
semantic network of concepts, resources and applications, that can be
consulted and edited via the web. This network would include novel
algorithms for context-dependent recommendation and visualization of
relevant material, and the creation of new links and nodes based on
usage. It can be viewed as a much more extensive and advanced version
of the Principia Cybernetica
Web.
More info
first draft of the proposal available
at:
http://pcp.vub.ac.be/ECCO/ECCO-papers/NESTproposal.pdf
ECCO
seminar programme coming weeks
- 18 Nov: Bertin Martens: Extending
the Evolutionary Epistemology Paradigm into Economics
- 25 Nov: Nathalie Gontier: Symbiogenesis as a Fundamental Evolutionary Principle
- 2 Dec: Gustaaf Geeraerts & Mehmet Tezcan: Modeling the complex adaptive system of governance in EU Foreign Policy
ECCO seminars normally take place each Friday at 17h00 in room
3C204 of the VUB Campus Etterbeek. Everyone interested is welcome.
The seminars are very interactive, with small groups (about 8
people). The intention is to discuss in depth the research being
proposed, and to look for interdisciplinary connections with other
themes related to Evolution, Complexity and Cognition. Seminars last
about two hours, after which the remaining participants go to take a
drink or a snack in the Opinio Café on the campus, to continue the
discussion in a more relaxed setting.
--
Francis Heylighen
"Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" research group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
Francis Heylighen
"Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" research group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
