ECCS'13: Satellite Meeting
INFORMATION PROCESSING IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS (IPCS'13)
Dates
Abstracts due: | June 15 |
Decision of admission: | July 20 |
Satellite meeting: | September 18 |
Note
To attend the Satellite Meeting, it is mandatory to register to the European Conference on Complex Systems 2013 ECCS2013
Location
Summary
All systems in nature have one thing in common: they process information. Information is registered in the state of a system and its elements, implicitly and invisibly. As elements interact, information is transferred. Indeed, bits of information about the state of one element will travel – imperfectly – to the state of the other element, forming its new state. This storage and transfer of information, possibly between levels of a multi level system, is imperfect due to randomness or noise. From this viewpoint, a system can be formalized as a collection of bits that is organized according to its rules of dynamics and its topology of interactions. Mapping out exactly how these bits of information percolate through the system could reveal new fundamental insights in how the parts orchestrate to produce the properties of the system. A theory of information processing would be capable of defining a set of universal properties of dynamical multi level complex systems, which describe and compare the dynamics of diverse complex systems ranging from social interaction to brain networks, from financial markets to biomedicine. Each possible combination of rules of dynamics and topology of interactions, with disparate semantics, would reduce to a single language of information processing.
Focus
The focus of IPCS'13 will be on information processing as a novel paradigm in understanding and modelling complex systems.
Invited speakers
Organising Committee
- Rick Quax (University of Amsterdam)
- Alfons Hoekstra (University of Amsterdam)
- Emanuela Merelli (University of Camerino)
- Prof. Peter M.A. Sloot (University of Amsterdam)
Program
Schedule | ||
9:00 - 9:05 | Welcome | Rick Quax |
Session 1: Information processing (chair: Emanuela Merelli) | ||
9:05 - 10:05 | Invited talk: Contextual Semantics: From Quantum Mechanics to Logic, Databases, Constraints, Complexity, and Natural Language Semantics |
Prof. Samsom Abramsky |
Cancelled | Hierarchy in tournament growing trees | Agnieszka Czaplicka |
10:05 - 10:25 | Surprise and Theoretical Aspects in Multi-scale Financial Data | Anton Golub |
10:25 - 10:45 | Dissipation and integration of Shannon information | Rick Quax |
10:45 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
Session 2: Information processing (chair: Rick Quax) | ||
11:30 - 12:00 | Invited talk: Information transfer across scales and levels | Eckehard Olbrich |
12:00 - 12:20 | Neural Information Dynamics | Prof. Michael Wibral |
12:20 - 12:40 | Task dependent dynamics of brain functional connectivity networks | Rychwalska |
12:40 - 13:00 | A cell: living on the border between digital and analog information | Plewczynski |
13:00 - 15:00 | Lunch | |
Session 3: Possible connections with social systems and tipping points (chair: Frank van Hamelen) | ||
TBA |