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LAST CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE MAY 8
European Conference on Complex Systems 2005 (ECCS'05)
PARIS (Cite Internationale Universitaire)
November 14-18, 2005
http://complexsystems.lri.fr/
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
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TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
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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/
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