ECCS'12: Satellite Meeting
INFORMATION PROCESSING IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS (IPCS'12)
Date
Wednesday September 5th, 2012
Note
To attend the Satellite Meeting, it is mandatory to register to the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012 ECCS2012
Location
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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'12 will be on information processing as a novel paradigm in understanding and modelling complex systems.
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Organising Committee
- Peter M.A. Sloot (University of Amsterdam)
- Emanuela Merelli (University of Camerino)
- Alfons Hoekstra (University of Amsterdam)
Confirmed Speakers
- Janusz Holyst
- Bastien Chopard
- Peter Sloot
- Rick Quax
- George Kampis
- Jaap Kaandorp
- Laszlo Gulyas
- Luca Tesei, Emanuela Merelli, Nicola Paoletti
- Pietro Lio, Viet Anh Nguyen and Lucia Bianchi
Program
| Time | Speakers and Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30–09:40 | Welcome | |
| 09:40–10:10 | Invited Talk – Information Propagation in Dynamic Contact Networks George Kampis & Laszlo Gulyas | |
| Session 1 – Information processing & Complex Systems – Chair: George Kampis | ||
| 10:10–10:40 | Information processing in complex networks Rick Quax & Peter Sloot | |
| 10:40–11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Emergence of organizational structures in a cellular automata model on a graph Bastien Chopard & Ranaivo Razakanirina | |
| 11:30–12:00 | Dissipation in Complex Networks and Stochastic Resonance Janusz A. Holyst | |
| 12:00–12:30 | Complexity in morphogenesis Jaap Kaandorp | |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00–14:10 | Introduction to TOPDRIM project | |
| 14:10–14:40 | Invited Talk – Topological analysis of data Francesco Vaccarino | |
| Session 2 – Topology & Complex Systems – Chair: Francesco Vaccarino | ||
| 14:40–15:10 | Network and cycle: a persistent homology approach to complex network Giovanni Petri, Francesco Vaccarino, Martina Scolamiero & Irene Donato | |
| 15:10–15:30 | The immune system as a metaphor for topology driven pattern formation in complex systems Emanuela Merelli & Mario Rasetti | |
| 15:30–16:00 | A multi-level model for self-adaptive systemss perspective Luca Tesei, Emanuela Merelli & Nicola Paoletti | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30–17:00 | Human heuristics in Information processing: a Bayesian perspectives Pietro Lio, Viet Anh Nguyen & Lucia Bianchi | |
| 17:00–17:30 | TBA Jeffrey Johnson | |
| 17:30–18:30 | Discussion and planning the TOPDRIM kick-off meeting | |
| 18:30 | End | |