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EUROPEAN CONFERENCE on COMPLEX SYSTEMS ECCS '06

Towards a Science of Complex Systems
25th - 29th September 2006
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford


ECCS '09 will take place at the University of Warwick, U.K, 21st - 25th September 09. http://eccs09.info/

Conference details

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The European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS '06) took place at the Saïd Business School from 25th to 29th September 2006. The conference, which welcomed around 350 participants, built on the success of ECCS '05, which was held in Paris in November 2005. Speakers from all over the world, who are widely recognised as leaders in their respective fields of research, gave a series of challenging talks which are now available as archive streams. Multi-track sessions also allowed for the presentation of high quality, peer-reviewed papers which reflected some of the most exciting research on complex systems. In addition, ECCS '06 hosted 13 satellite workshops. The orientation of the conference was highly interdisciplinary, and it mixed together a broad range of disciplines and a variety of rigorous research methods in a way that stimulated new ideas, and helped develop and build the complex systems research community.

Download Conference Proceedings (pdf)
To order a printed copy or CD ROM version of the Conference Proceedings please email info.cabdyn@sbs.ox.ac.uk

Press Coverage

In a news article entitled Tracking People's Electronic Footprints, (pdf file) which appeared in the 10 November 2006 issue of Science, John Bohannon writes about recent advances in the social sciences that are based on the increasing availability of digital records of human interactions, ever growing computer power, and the development of new mathematical models.

Plenary Sessions; these are now available as archive streams.

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Rolf Pfeifer RealPlayer

Rolf Pfeifer (speaker bio)

‘Morphological Computation – Connecting Brain, Body, and Environment’

     
Eric Goles RealPlayer

Eric Goles (speaker bio)

‘Cellular Automata as a Complex System Paradigm: Short-Cut Theorems and Complexity’

     
Matthias Kaiserswerth RealPlayer

Matthias Kaiserswerth (speaker bio)

'Virtualization – Curse or Cure?'

     
David Mumford RealPlayer

David Mumford (speaker bio)

‘The Complexity of “Thought” – Two Fundamental Issues’

     
Cris Moore RealPlayer

Cris Moore (speaker bio)

‘Phase Transitions in Physics and Computer Science – A Tale of Two Cultures’

     
Marcelo Viana RealPlayer

Marcelo Viana (speaker bio)

‘A Probabilistic View of Deterministic Dynamical Systems’

     
Henri Atlan RealPlayer

Henri Atlan (speaker bio)

‘Self-Organising Systems: A Typology’

     
Alessandro Vespignani RealPlayer

Alessandro Vespignani (speaker bio)

‘Epidemic Spreading and Complex Networks’

     
Dennis Bray

 

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Dennis Bray (speaker bio)

‘Bacterial Chemotaxis: Using Computer Models to Unravel Mechanism’


     
Holger Kantz  

Holger Kantz (speaker bio)

‘Extreme Events – A Challenge to the Understanding of Complex Dynamics’
(archive stream not currently available)

     
Sander van der Leeuw RealPlayer

Sander van der Leeuw (speaker bio)

‘Complex Systems Modelling in the Anthropocene’



Best Paper Prize

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The prize of €3,000 for the best paper at the conference was shared by Dr Uwe Tangen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and Dr Jukka-Pekka Onnela (of Helsinki University of Technology/Oxford)

Conference theme: Towards a Science of Complex Systems

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Empirical studies of complex systems, which can be viewed as networks of interacting entities, have made substantial progress in recent years as a result of the rapidly increasing mass of data which has become accessible and manageable in many different application domains. At the same time, it seems that radically different disciplinary domains now share many new and fundamental theoretical questions. The conjunction of these two trends encourages the interdisciplinary development of a new science of complex systems.

In this spirit, the main broadly defined topics for the conference were:
• Biology and Cognition
• Concepts and Methods
• Networks
• Social and Economic Systems

Organisers

Peter Schuster (Vienna) - Chair, Programme Committee
Felix Reed-Tsochas (Oxford) - Vice-Chair, Programme Committee
Jürgen Jost (Leipzig) - Chair-Elect ECCS ‘07

General Enquiries

CABDyN Administrator
Said Business School
University of Oxford
Park End Street
Oxford OX1 1HP

email: info.cabdyn@sbs.ox.ac.uk

 

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