International Conference on Complex Systems
Nashua, NH
October 25-30, 1998
Past conference programs:
ICCS 1997
Host: New England Complex Systems Institute
Conference Chairman: Yaneer Bar-Yam
Executive Committee: Larry Rudolph
This conference has two major aims: first, to investigate those properties or characteristics that appear to be common to the very different complex systems now under study; and second, to encourage cross fertilization among the many disciplines involved.
SUBJECT AREAS:
UNIFYING THEMES IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS
Sessions will be structured around both themes and systems.
The themes are:
EMERGENCE, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION: substructure, the relationship of component to collective behavior, the relationship of internal structure to external influence.
INFORMATICS: structuring, storing, accessing, and distributing information describing complex systems.
COMPLEXITY: characterizing the amount of information necessary to describe complex systems, and the dynamics of this information.
DYNAMICS: time series analysis and prediction, chaos, temporal correlations, the time scale of dynamic processes.
SELF-ORGANIZATION: pattern formation, evolution, development and adaptation.
The system categories are:
FUNDAMENTALS, PHYSICAL & CHEMICAL SYSTEMS: spatio-temporal patterns and chaos, fractals, dynamic scaling, non-equilibrium processes, hydrodynamics, glasses, non-linear chemical dynamics, complex fluids, molecular self-organization, information and computation in physical systems.
BIO-MOLECULAR & CELLULAR SYSTEMS: protein and DNA folding, bio-molecular informatics, membranes, cellular response and communication, genetic regulation, gene-cytoplasm interactions, development, cellular differentiation, primitive multicellular organisms, the immune system.
PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: nervous system, neuro-muscular control, neural network models of brain, cognition, psychofunction, pattern recognition, man-machine interactions.
ORGANISMS AND POPULATIONS: population biology, ecosystems, ecology
HUMAN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS:corporate and social structures, markets, the global economy, the Internet.
ENGINEERED SYSTEMS: product and product manufacturing, nano-technology, modified and hybrid biological organisms, computer based interactive systems, agents, artificial life, artificial intelligence, and robots.
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Asterisk (*) indicates confirmed speaker or session chair.
Titles in the program are all tentative.
Additional speakers and poster presentations (listed below) remain to be confirmed.
Sunday, October 25
9:00AM-5:00PM PEDAGOGICAL SESSIONS
*Dan Stein - Pedagogical sessions
*Charlie Doering - Convection, Stability & Turbulence
*Gerard Vichniac - CA
*Alfred Hubler - Overview
*Geoffrey West - Scaling
*Cris Moore - Computational Complexity and Statistical Physics
*Fred Nijhout - Patterns in Development
*Matt Wilson - Neural systems
5:00PM-6:00PM PERSEUS BOOKS RECEPTION
6:00PM-7:30PM RECEPTION SESSION
*Jeffrey Robbins - Reception Chair
*Richard Wrangham - Primate behavior
Monday, October 26
9:00AM-12:20PM EMERGENCE
*Jerome Kagan - Emergence
*Philip Anderson - Emergence, Hierarchy, Complexity
*Stephen Kosslyn - The Visual Mind
*Norman I. Badler - Virtual Humans
*David Sloan Wilson - Altruism in Nature and Human Nature
2:00PM-5:20PM DESCRIPTION AND MODELING
*Steve Lansing - Description and Modeling
*John Sterman - System Dynamics
*David Harel - Statecharts
*Richard Palmer - Statistical Strategies
*Gerald Sussman - AI Perspectives
7:30PM-9:30PM FUNDING
*David Litster - Funding
*James Anderson - NIH (NIGMS)
*Mike McCloskey - NSF
Tuesday, October 27
9:00AM-12:20PM SELF-ORGANIZATION
*Irving Epstein - Self-Organization
*David Campbell - Physical Systems
*Leo Liu - Development of C. elegans
*Jerry Lettvin - Vision
*J. A. Scott Kelso - Patterns in the Brain
2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS
*Richard Bagley - Quantum Information and Computation
*David Divincenzo, *Seth Lloyd, *David Meyer, *Tim Havel
*Yasha Kresh - Medical Complexity
*Jason Haugh, *Steven Kleinstein/Jaswinder Pal Singh/Martin Weigert, *Andre Van Der Kouwe/Richard C. Burgess/Jeffrey I. Frank, *Ary Goldberger, *Donald Coffey
*Tim Keitt/*Les Kaufman - Ecology
*Nic Gotelli, *Jim Drake/Craig Zimmermann, *Jay Bancroft, *Frencesco Santini/Lodovico Galleni, Jordi Bascompte, *Brian Enquist/Geoffrey B. West/James H. Brown
*Mark Bedau - Artificial and Natural Evolution
*Lynn Caporale, *Dimitris Stassinopoulos, *Hiroki Sayama, *Wolfgang Banzhaf, *Carlo Maley
7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS
*Dan Braha/Dan Frey - Modeling the Design Process
*Bill Birmingham, *David Brown, *Pradeep Khosla, *James Rinderle, *Seth Lloyd
*Sean Rice - Evolution: Multi Level Selection and the Structure of Biological Systems
*Leticia Aviles, *Charles Goodnight, *David Sloan Wilson
*Max Garzon - Complex Systems Aspects of DNA Computing
*Toni Kozic, *Laura Landweber, *Erik Winfree, *Natasha Jonoska/Max Garzon
*Bob Savit - Modeling Social Systems
*Bennett Levitan/Stuart Kauffman/Jose Lobo/Richard Schuler, Marco Propato/James Uber/*Ali Minai, *Thad Brown, *David Meyer, *Josh Epstein
Wednesday, October 28
9:00AM-11:40AM NETWORKS
*Larry Rudolph - Networks
*Eli Upfal - Structure and Analysis of Networks
*Kai Nagel - Transportation Network Simulations
*Walter Willinger - Internet traffic analysis
11:40AM-12:40PM POSTER SESSSION (RESERVED TIME)
2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS
*Jerry Chandler - Session Chair
| 2:00 | *Temple Smith - Nature's Legos | *Ernest Hartmann - Sleep and Dreaming | *Jim Stock - Economic Predictions |
| 2:20 | *William Gelbart - Genomes Proteomes and Phenomes | *Terrence Deacon - Consciousness | *Robert Savit - Adaptive Competition, Market Efficiency & Phase Transitions |
| 2:40 | *Irving Epstein - Waves in Inhomogeneous Biological Media | *Michael Jacobson - Learning the Sciences of Complexity | *Philip Auerswald - Industry Dynamics with Learning |
| 3:00 | *Yasha Kresh - Heart-Rate Dynamic Adaptation after Transplantation | *Walter Freeman - Neural Dynamics and Computation | *Michael Caramanis - Multi-scale Manufacturing |
| 3:20 |
|
|
|
| 3:40 | *Steve Lansing - Energence of Cooperation | *Helen Harte - Medical Managment | *Atlee Jackson - Evolution of Nature's Dynamics |
| 4:00 | *Mark Bedau - Toward a Zeroth Law for Evolving Systems | *Susanne Kelly - Evolving the Enterprise | *Max Garzon - DNA Computing |
| 4:20 | *Sean Rice - Evolution of structure at different scales | *Juergen Kluever - Modeling Social Differentiation | *Edward Lowry - Optimum Data Objects |
| 4:40 | Les Kaufman - Ecosystem dynamics | *Eric Beinhocker - Complexity Consulting | Leonid Levitov - |
6:15PM-7:45PM BANQUET
6:15 Cash Bar Reception6:45 Dinner (reservations in advance)
7:45PM-9:00PM BANQUET SESSION
*Dean LeBaron - Complex Understandings of Global Economics Today
Thursday, October 29
9:00AM-11:40AM TIME SERIES
*Richard Cohen - Time series
*Doyne Farmer
*Andrew Lo
*Jim Collins
11:40AM-12:20PM MANAGING COMPLEXITY
*Harris Berman - Medical Management
2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS
*Kosta Tsipis - Global Systems
*Frank Schweitzer, *Manjula Waldron, *Susan Aaron, *Roberto Serra
Walter Willinger - Networks
*Bruce Sawhill, *Daniel Coore, *Duncan Watts, Sergey Buldyrev
*Helen Harte/*Farrell Jorgensen - Health Care Management
*Mark Van Kooy, *Martin Merry, *William Braswell, *Mark Smith, Jeff Goldstein
*Joel Mac Auslan - Dynamics and Complexity of Physical Systems
*Hagai Arbell, *Jerzy Maselko, *Jay Palmer, *Richard Squire/Mariusz H. Jakubowski/Ken Steiglitz, *Martin Zwick
7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS
*Anjeli Sastry - System Dynamics
*Chris White, *Jim Hines/Jody House
*Walter Freeman/*Ali Minai - Neural Computation
*Steve Bressler, *John Lisman, *Randy Mcintosh, *Mike Hasselmo, *Jorge Jose, *John Symons
*Michael Jacobson - Education in Complex Systems
*Win Farrell, *Marshall Clemens, *Uri Wilensky/Walter Stroup/Kenneth Reisman, *Kenneth Brecher, *Jim Kaput
*Michael Lissack - New Concepts in Human Organizations
*Jeho Lee, *Kurt Richardson, *Steve Maguire, *Chang-Hyeon Choi/E. Andres Garcia, *Vasant Honavar, *Hernan Lopez-Garay/Jose Joaquin Contreras Garcia
Friday, October 30
9:00AM-11:40PM AGENTS IN ACTION
*William Fulkerson - Agents in Action
*Rob Axtell - Emergence of Multi-Agent Institutions and Organizations
*Abhijit Deshmukh - Caution! Agents-based systems in operation
*Van Parunak - How to Model a Supply Chain
*Win Farrell (discussant)
11:40PM-5:20PM COMPLEXITY AND MANAGEMENT (EXTENDED SESSION INCLUDING LUNCH)
*Tom Petzinger - Complexity and Management
*Michael Hammer
*William Mckelvey
*Henry Mintzberg
*Laurence Prusak
*Peter Senge
*Ron Schultz (discussant)
Poster Session:
(RUNS MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY INCLUDING RESERVED TIMES ON CERTAIN DAYS)
Iqbal Adjali, D. Collings, A.A. Reeder, A. Karelas & M.H. Lyons - Analysing the Behaviour of an Evolutionary Macro-Economic Model of Innovation and Imitation
Prateek S. Aggarwal - A Recursive Stochastic Learning Model for Efficient Bayesian Estimation of Discrete Stochastic Variables
Mary Ann Allison - Relationships Among Communications Media,Transportation Methods, and Human Group Self Organization
Jay Bancroft - A Model System and Individual-Based Simulation for Developing Statistical Techniques and Hypotheses for Population Dynamics in Fragmented Populations
Wojciech Burkot - Feeding the Schroedinger Cat: On the Power of Structural Approach in Solving Hard Problems with Quantum Computers
Val Bykoski - Computer-Generated Physical Reality and its Applications
Dmitriy Chistilin - The Self-Organizing of USA Economy System as the Basis for Leading Position in the World Economy
Marshall Clemens - Working Towards an Integrated Picture of CSS
Brian Clouse & Manjula B. Waldron - Human Performance Technology from a Complex Adaptive Systems View
Raja Laifa Clouse & Manjula B. Waldron - The Effect of History to Achieve Self Adaptation
Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx - Diffuse Rationality
Gavin Crooks - Robert Cutler - Analyzing Complexity in International Relations: A Theoretical Synthesis of Existing Systemic Approaches
Somalee Datta - Gradient Clogging in Depth Filtration
Alice Davidson, Yaneer Bar-Yam & Martin H. Teicher - Measuring Environmental Complexity as Related to the Well-Being of the Elderly
Tanya de Araujo - Conceptual Models as Emerging Complex Systems
Karl C. Diller - John C. Gallagher - Does Evolution Make Sense? Finding Order in a Class of Evolved Continuous Time Recurrent Neural Network Central Pattern Generators
Ben Goertzel - Continuous Learning in Sparsely Connected ANN's, with Application to Hopfield Nets and the Webmind Architecture
Paul Halpern - Evolutionary Algorithms on a Self-Organized Dynamic Lattice
Karthik Balakrishnan, Rushi Bhatt & Vasant Honavar - Animal Spatial Learning: A Computational Model and Behavioral Experiments
Dirk Holste - Optimization and Redundancy of Composition Measures: Implications for Recognizing Coding DNA
Sui Huang & Don Ingber - Regulation of Gene Activation Patterns by Cell Shape
Stuart Kauffman, Jose Lobo & William Macready - Optimal Search on a Technology Landscape
Joel MacAuslan & Juan Sanchez - The Dimensionality and Tangent Space of Experimental Data
Ali Minai - Synchronization in Non-Homogeneous Arrays of Chaotic Maps
Paul W. Morris - Organizational Intelligence
Erik Rauch - Pattern Formation and Functionality in Swarms
Jonathan A Rees - A Time-Symmetric Interaction Calculus
Jeff Schank - A New Paradigm for Investigating Animal Social Systems
Rebecca Schulman & Jeremy Zucker - Towards an Understanding of the Principles of Pattern Formation
Mark Smith, Yaneer Bar-Yam & William Gelbart - Towards Quantitative Languages for Complex Systems
Vassilios Spyropoulos & G. Papagounos - Some Aspects of Decision Making in The Complex System "Hospital"
Christina Stoica - SOZAIN - Social Cellular Automaton with an Interactive Network
Hideaki Suzuki - One-Dimensional Unicellular Creatures Evolved with Genetic Algorithms
Yasuhiro Suzuki & Hiroshi Tanaka - Degree of Halting computation and complexity -- Halting property and behavior of Abstract Chemical System.
Andrew Tait, Chris Casement & Fran Ackermann - Creating "Real" Knowledge in Virtual Communities
Wilson A. Truccolo-Filho - Dynamics and Information Processing in a Generic Cortical Area Model
Burton Voorhees - Complexity, Complementarity, and Consciousness
Shi-ching (Billy) Wu - Chaos Theory May Provide an Answer to the Number of Hexagrams in I-ching
Tomohiko Yamaguchi, H. Kuriyama, D. Murray, T. Ohmori, T. Amemiya, T. Kanamori, M.Tanaka & Y. Mitsui - Respiration Dynamics in Yeast Culture
Martin Zwick - Structure and Dynamics of Elementary Cellular Automata