Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2013-2014)
Time: Friday May 9, 14h-16h Place: *room D.1.07 * ------------------------------ Modeling Global Control Systems: Formal Approaches to Understand What a Global Brain Could Be Cliff Joslyn <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Joslyn> (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Abstract: In trying to understand what a global brain is or may become, we are naturally drawn to a range of complex network models mapping analogies between neural systems and social networks. Both are characterized by a vast number of interacting information agents coordinating together in complex environments, resulting in a range of stable phenomena which can be interpreted at least as survival, if not beyond that as growth or evolution. But to the extent that purely social vs. purely organismal organization can be distinguished, it would be in the existence of a coherent control relation between the collective system and its collective environment. And to the extent that we are able to represent these kinds of systems and relations computationally, we must adopt whatever formal and mathematical approaches are most appropriate. Reacting to recent work from the GBI, and drawing on work in information integration at PNNL, I will discuss a range of these formal approaches to network science applied to this question of representing a global brain. Specifically, we will discuss the interaction between order theoretical hierarchical models, complex combinatorial graph operations, hypergraph models, and new work we are investing in in topological sheaf theory to model complex integration of semantic sensors. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *May 16 * Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich) *Programming the Global Brain - Implications for Computer Science* *May 23 * Shima Beigi *A generic framework for resilience of complex adaptive systems* *May 30* Mehdi Moussaid (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) *Social influence and collective opinion dynamics* *June 6* Petter Braathen *Linking Complexity Science and Strategic Management* *June 13* Alfonso Molina *June 20 * Piet Holbrouck (ECCO) *Problem Solving and Paradigm Shifts* *June 27* Viktoras Veitas & David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) (ECCO,GBI) See also the ECCO/GBI calendar<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ>. You can add this calendar to your calendar application throughhere<https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers<http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
