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22nd July 2015, 10am-1pm, York, UK
Submission deadline: 15th May 2015
Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS) is a broad term that describes
large-scale systems that comprise of many units/nodes, each of which
may have their own individual properties, objectives and actions.
Decision-making in such a system is distributed and possibly highly
dispersed, and interaction between the units may lead to the emergence
of unexpected phenomena. CAS are open, in that nodes may enter or
leave the collective at any time, and boundaries between CASs are
fluid. The units can be highly heterogeneous (computers, robots,
agents, devices, biological entities, etc.), each operating at
different temporal and spatial scales, and having different
(potentially conflicting) objectives and goals.
Understanding the mechanisms that underpin the design and operation of
CAS systems poses significant challenges: the workshop solicits
discussion papers that will stimulate the thinking and discussion
required to progress research within collective adaptive systems.
Call for participation
This workshop solicits discussion papers that will stimulate the
thinking and discussion required to progress research within
Collective Adaptive Systems. Rather than describing technical results,
we solicit two-three page extended abstracts that do one or more of
the following:
describe radical or inspirational approaches and ideas
identify open problems in current thinking
propose controversial ideas
propose novel application areas
raise doubts about current approaches
identify the most significant challenges/hurdles to be overcome
Abstracts are likely to draw on inter-disciplinary research, e.g. from
communities such as ALife, Biology, Game Theory, Evolutionary
Computing, Network Science, Complexity, Swarm Intelligence etc.
Chairs
Emma Hart – Edinburgh Napier University
Ben Paechter – Edinburgh Napier University
Submission
Maximum three page PDF abstract emailed to Prof. Emma Hart
([log in to unmask]) with ‘FoCAS@ECAL Submission’ as the email header.
Deadline is 15th May 2015.
All accepted authors will be invited to submit an article to the FoCAS
Magazine:
www.focas-reading-room.eu.
Main ECAL site: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/nature/ecal2015/
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