PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM

(* indicates confirmed)
Additional speakers are still to be assigned
to sessions. Session times may still change.
Abstracts can still be submitted.

SUNDAY, May 16

9:00AM-5:00PM PEDAGOGICAL SESSIONS

• ANDREW WUENSCHE - Self-reproduction by glider collisions
• *URI WILENSKY - Modeling complex systems
• *JOHN PETER WIKSWO - From physics to medicine
• *LEV LEVITIN - Entropy and information

• *GREG CHAITIN - Mathematics
• *PHILIP BALL - History of social modeling
• *BILL HILLIER - Urban space syntax
• *STEPHEN WOLFRAM - New science

EVENING RECEPTION

*STEPHEN HEUSER (THE BOSTON GLOBE)/
*TOM SIEGFRIED (THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS)

• *ALVIN AND HEIDI TOFFLER - The Future

MONDAY, May 17

9:00AM-10:30AM EMERGENCE

*JOHN STERMAN/*ALLAN ROBINSON - Emergence

• *STEVEN STROGATZ - Synchrony
• *ALAN GUTH - Inflationary universe

11:00AM-12:30PM NETWORKS

*IRVING EPSTEIN - Networks

• *BERNARDO HUBERMAN - Web social interactions
• *LEON COOPER - Neural networks in vision

1:30PM-2:50PM NETWORKS

*IRVING EPSTEIN - Networks

• *NEO MARTINEZ - Food Webs
• *RICARD SOLE - Complex networks

3:10PM-4:40PM ROBOTS

*ALI MINAI - Robots

• *STEFANO NOLFI - Evolutionary Robots
• *WEI-MIN SHEN - Self-Reconfigurable Robots and Digital Hormones

5:40PM-9:00PM EVENING PARALLEL SESSIONS

Social Systems

• DUNCAN A. ROBERTSON - A Dynamic Model of Inter-Firm Competition
• *KAZUYUKI IKKO TAKAHASHI - An application of percolation theory on political science
• *CESAR E. GARCIA-DIAZ - Market Partitioning Under Varying Resource Landscapes
• *CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN - REVOLUTION BY OSMOSIS: A CASE STUDY OF WEST FLORIDA, TEXAS, CALIFORNIA AND HAWAII
• *MAKINEN SAKU - System dynamics approach to evolution and process of corporate political action
• JAMES K. HAZY - Permeable Boundaries in Organizational Learning: Computational Modeling Explorations
• *AJITH MULKY RAO - A Self-Organizing Neural System For Urban Design
• SORIN BAICULESCU - Mathematical models of stochastic level that may be used within the complex system of ferry-boat sea navigation
• *DAVID SYLVAN - Organized All the Way Down: The Local Complexity of "Thick" Social Systems
• *VLADISLAV KOVCHEGOV - A model of communications as random walk on the semantic tree
• *PROF. B. COHEN - Modelling the Enterprise and its Actors as Triply-Articulated Anticipatory Systems
• MAURO GALLEGATI - A new approach to business fluctuations: heterogeneous interacting agents, scaling laws and financial fragility
• DADANG SUBARNA - VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION OF MONEY MARKET FORECASTING WITH A NON-LINEAR METHOD (USD VS IDR CURRENCY CASE)
• *CARLOS PARRA - Evolutionary Dynamics of Knowledge
• PORFESSOR JOHN FOSTER - Can we Conduct Simple Exercises in Economic Analysis when Economic Systems are Viewed as Complex and Adaptive?

Concepts, Formalisms, Methods and Tools

• *DANIEL JOSHUA STEINBOCK - Self-Modeling Systems: A Social Networks Application
• *ELIZAVETA PACHEPSKY - A conceptual framework for mechanisms of self-organization
• J.S. DEHESA - Information Planes for Complex Systems
• *TED BACH - Using SIMP, a Laboratory for Cellular Automata and Lattice-Gas Experiments
• *DR.LEN TRONCALE - Is Artificial "Systems" Research Possible?
• PABLO SANCHEZ-MORENO - Entropy Approach to Regular and Irregular Spectra of Complex Systems
• *WILLIAM SULIS - Archetypal Dynamical Systems
• *JENNIFER GOLBECK - A Framework for Studying the Propagation of Effects in Complex Networks
• *DAVID WOLPERT - Metrics for sets of more than two points
• *DAVID WOLPERT - Self-dissimilarity as a high dimensional complexity measure
• *HIDESHI ISHIDA - Linearly time-dependent information on invariant set
• *SETH TISUE - NetLogo: A Simple Environment for Modeling Complexity
• *RICARDO NIEVA - An ANC Analytical Payoff Function for 3-Agent-Multistage-Network-Games with Endogenous Coalitions and Communication Structures

Evolution and Ecology

• *STEVEN S. ANDREWS - Simulated niche partitioning by bacteria
• *ARIEL CINTRON-ARIAS - Rumors on Complex Attractors
• RUI PEDRO MOTA - Optimal policies for an ecosystem with structural dynamics
• *JACOB BEAL - Predictive Modelling for Fisheries Management in the Colombian Amazon
• SEBASTIAN GONCALVES - A Social Model for the Evolution of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• *DONNA K. FISHER - Complexities of River Basin Management, The Case of the Pitimbu River in Brazil.
• MBABAZI DISMAS - Trophic structure of the fish communities in the Kyoga Basin lakes (East Africa) based on stable Nitogen and Carbon isotopes.
• *GUY HOELZER - A new model for exploring emergent phenomena in spatially explicit ecology and evolution
• *YUN ZHOU - An approach to holistic ecological risk assessment: Food web responses to a warmed climate as a case study
• TOLIBJON E. BURIYEV - Bifurcation Study of Self-Oscillatory and Chaos Regimes in Predator-Prey Systems.
• JOHN BRYDEN - Social behaviour in artificially evolved rule-based models of cellular organisms
• *MICHAEL HAUHS - A new type of models for managed ecosystems
• *RICARDO AZEVEDO - The Simplicity of Metazoan Cell Lineages
• *PAN-JUN KIM - Spatio-temporal Dynamics in the Origin of Genetic Information
• JOSE WAGNER GARCIA - Cognitus

Learning / Neural, Psychological and Psycho-Social Systems

• *BROCK DUBBELS - Teaching Complex Systems in the Classroom with Video Games
• *OREN ZUCKERMAN - Hands-on modeling and simulation of systems concepts
• *ARNO KLEIN - Activity patterns in the brain: breaking up the problem into pieces
• YUE JIAO - Neuro-fuzzy modeling of human fatigue
• YEVIN IGOR - Controlling Chaos in the Brain and Structure of Music Tonality
• *PIETRO PANZARASA - The Emergence of Collective Cognition in Social Systems
• *ADAM DOBBERFUHL - ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLEXITY INFLUENCES VISUAL ACUITY IN CICHLID FISHES
• HASSAN QUDRAT-ULLAH - Debriefing in Support of Dynamic Decision Making: An Empirical Study
• *BURTON VOORHEES - Cognitive Illusions and the Evolution of Science
• MIHNEA MOLDOVEANU - The Economics of Cognition. I. Algorithmic Information-Theoretic Explanation of Cognitive Biases and Fallacies
• MIHNEA MOLDOVEANU - The Economics of Cognition II. Fundamental Cognitive Choices that Shape Adaptation to Complexity
• *MITINA OLGA - The use of fractal dimension calculation algorithm to determine the nature of autobiography memoirs.
• *MICHAEL D. FISCHER - Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Emergent order and the internal regulation of shared symbolic systems
• *GRISELLE TORRES-GARCIA - The Effects of Student-Teacher Ratio on Student and Faculty Performance in

Networks

• *ANDRE X. C. N. VALENTE - 2-Peak and 3-Peak Optimal Complex Networks
• *JOAO RODRIGUES - Network dimension and the topology of life
• *MAZIAR NEKOVEE - Rumor-like information dissemination in complex computer networks
• *JUKKA-PEKKA ONNELA - Studies in correlation based financial networks
• *JEVIN WEST - Comparing the dynamics of stomatal networks to the problem-solving dynamics of cellular computers
• *NATHAN EAGLE - Genetically Modified Network Topologies
• MARKUS BREDE - Interaction networks of agents that exploit resources
• *WILLIAM SULIS - Phase Transitions if Random Graphical Dynamical Systems
• *ERIK RAUCH - Long-range interactions and evolutionary stability in predator-prey systems
• ARMENAK S. GASPARYAN - THE MATRIX NETWORK APPROACH TO MODELLING GENERAL COMPLEX SYSTEMS
• *BYUNGNAM KAHNG - Avalanche dynamics on complex networks
• KWANGHO PARK - Characterization of Weighted complex networks
• GUILLERMO ABRAMSON - How does the topology of a neural network affect its memory capacity?
• *YONG-YEOL AHN - Extremely clustered network

Physical Systems

• *THOMAS PORTEGYS - A Robust Game of Life
• *NATALIA A. BRYKSINA - FRACTAL STATISTICS OF OSCILLATORY ZONING PATTERNS IN CALCITE: A QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON OF MODELED ZONING PATTERNS
• ALEXANDER LEVICHEV - "Russian Troika" as the New Spatio-Temporal Paradigm
• *EUGENIO DEGROOTE - Fire Safety on Flame Spreading Over Liquid Fuels
• *MIKA LATVA-KOKKO - Capilllary rise and fluid-solid contact angle in Lattice Boltzmann simulations
• S. POPESCU - Physical basis of the self-organization at critically concept
• ANTONINA N. FEDOROVA - ZOO OF QUANTUM PATTERNS IN WIGNER-WEYL-MOYAL REPRESENTATION
• HAI LIN - 1/f^a Random Fields, Scaling Properties and Local Averages
• ANTONINA N. FEDOROVA - LOCALIZATION AND PATTERNS FORMATION IN (NONLINEAR) COLLECTIVE DYNAMICS
• *KONSTANTIN L KOUPTSOV - Short Time Quantum Revivals in Chaotic Quantum Systems.
• PRAGYA SHUKLA - LEVEL STATISTICS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
• *YONGTAO GUAN - Spatial self-organization in interacting particle systems with cyclic local dynamics

9:00PM-10:00PM INITIAL POSTER SESSION

Systems Biology

• DOLOMATOV M. YU. - FEATURES OF EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS COMPLEX SYSTEMS WITH CHAOS OF CHEMICAL CONSTITUTIONS AND ALLOCATION OF ORGANIC MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE
• *MITRA SHOJANIA - The effect of minus ends on the microtubule steady state
• HIMANSHU AGRAWAL - Topological Characteristics of Counter Expressed Gene Networks Constructed from Gene Expression Data
• *SIMONETTA FILIPPI - Complex Dynamics of the Cardiac Rhythms
• *VAL BYKOSKI - Emergence of Genome: Generalization and Use of Environmental Information by Cell
• ELLI KOHEN - FLUORESCENCE IMAGING FOR COMPLEX DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS OF ORGANELLES IN LIVING CELLS
• VLADIMIR I. VYSOTSKII - BIOLOGY CELL AS NATURAL SELF-CONTROLLED NUCLEAR REACTOR (MODEL AND EXPERIMENTS)
• *DR.LEN TRONCALE - Systems Pathology as Systems Biology
• THOMAS J. WHEELER, PH.D. - A Modeling and Integration Framework for System Biology Informatics Systems
• V. GONZALEZ-VELEZ - Diffusion of Na+ and Ca++ in spheric cells

Networks and Structural Themes

• *ATIN DAS - From Bibliometrics to Webometrics: A Case Study
• *MANUEL MIDDENDORF - Classification of Biological Networks Via Walks and Words
• *ERIK VOLZ - Random graphs with clustering and arbitrary degree distribution

Socio-economic Systems

• DAVID SAAKIAN - Inter-hierarchic resonance in complex systems: search of anti-resonance situation.
• *VLADISLAV KOVCHEGOV - The inhomogeneous product-potential social systems
• *PIERPAOLO ANDRIANI - POWER LAW PHENOMENA IN ORGANIZATIONS:
• *VLADISLAV KOVCHEGOV - The dynamic of product potential social systems and representation theory
• *ATIN DAS - What Does Composite Index Of NYSE Represent In The Long Run?
• *ELI BERNIKER - Information Thermodynamics: Is There a Limit to Organizing?
• *HYUNG SAM PARK - Evolution of Organizational Rationality in Social Complexity: Interorganizational Networks in Environmental Biotechnology Industry
• CARLOS E. PUENTE - From Complexity to Peace
• *HIROYUKI MASUDA - Integrated Model of Emergency Evacuation of People after a Big Earthquake at the Busy Quarter near a Major Junction Station in Suburban Tokyo
• *JAMES K. HAZY - SIMULATING AGENT INTELLIGENCE AS LOCAL NETWORK DYNAMICS AND EMERGENT ORGANIZATIONAL OUTCOMES
• XIANG SAN LIANG - Evolution of Money Distribution in a Simple Economic Model
• CHISTILIN DMITRY - To the wave nature of the economy cycle
• *INGAR MALMGREN - The Complex Economics of Innovation, -Implications for the Shipping Industry
• *MARCIA ESTEVES AGOSTINHO - The Building-Block Advantage
• PAUL LANG - An Essay on SFEcon.s .Perfect Markets Model.

Engineering Systems

• *ALEX J. RYAN - Hybrid Complex Adaptive Engineered Systems: A Case Study in Defence
• *DR. MARK S. VOSS - Cellular Automata + GMDH = Emergent Programming: A New Methodology for Hardware Intelligence
• OSWALDO TERAN - Understanding MAS and Social Simulation: Switching Between Languages in a Hierarchy of Levels
• *VLADISLAV KOVCHEGOV - THE LINGUISTIC MODELS OF INDUSTRIAL AND INSURANCE COMPANIES
• *KATHARINE MULLEN - Human-Technology Integration
• XIAOQIN HUANG - Research of Agent-based Web Services for Complicated Telecom System
• SUMATHI SEETHARAMAN - Self-Organized Scheduling of Node Activity in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks
• KAMPAN SAINI - Artificial Neural NetworkBased Offline Hand written character recognition for Postal Services
• REZA MEHRABANI - Statistical Modeling of Creep Strength of Austenitic Stainless Steels
• REZA MEHRABANI - Statistical Modeling of Austenite Formation in Steels
• WEIHUA SHENG - A Distributed Bidding Algorithm for Multi-robot Exploration with Safety Concerns
• GUSTAVO A. SANTANA TORRELLAS - A Framework for Security Model Innovation using Knowledge Engineering

Evolution and Ecology / Population Change

• DAVID SAAKIAN - Exact error threshold for Eigen model with general fitness and degradation rate functions.

Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation

• *BURTON VOORHEES - Emergence of Cellular Automata Rules Through Fluctuation Enhancement

Physical Systems, Quantum and Classical

• *BHARAT KHUSHALANI - Vortex Analogue of Molecules
• *PROFESSOR JONATHAN VOS POST - IMAGINARY MASS, FORCE, ACCELERATION, AND MOMENTUM
• *JONGJIN LEE - Slow relaxations of randomly packed ball bearings
• HORACIO S. WIO - Stochastic resonance between noise-sustained patterns: local and nonlocal coupling
• *JD MORALES-GUZMAN - Time-dependent forced quantum oscillator
• PAVOL VALENT - Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and its Two Complementary Theories
• ALESSANDRO PLUCHINO - Glassy dynamics hindering synchronization in a Hamiltonian system

Learning / Neural, Psychological and Psycho-social Systems

• MIHNEA MOLDOVEANU - The Economics of Cognition. III. A Weak Axiom of Revealed Cognitive Preference
• *CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN - AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SYSTEM EVERYTHING DEVELOPED FROM AND RAISED FROM HEAVEN AND EARTH IS IN ITS PROPER PLACE OF FORM MIND BOXING
• S. HAGBERG - Human interaction and nonlinear oscillators
• *TETSUJI EMURA - A Coupled Oscillator Model for Emergent Cognitive Process
• DOBILAS KIRVELIS - CLOSED-LOOP CODING-DECODING or NEURAL NETWORKS ANALYSIS by SYNTHESIS in the VISUAL NEO-CORTEX of MAMMALS
• *DANIEL W. MILLER, PH.D. - THE WEB AND THE CLOTH: SCIENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS AND HOMEODYNAMICS . WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY DO
• *ROSEMARY WILLIAMS WRAY - Towards More Generative Evaluation, Research and Assessment (ERA) in Education
• DONG-UK HWANG - Multistability of Coupled Neuronal Nets with Multiple Synapses

Concepts, Formalisms, Methods and Tools

• *AXEL G. ROSSBERG - A generic scheme for choosing models and characterizations of complex systems
• SORIN BAICULESCU - Mathematical Aspects in Complexity of Biological,Neuro-Physiological and Psychological Systems
• *RUSS ABBOTT - Emergence and Entities
• *P. FRAUNDORF - Net surprisals ala Tribus: correlations from reversible thermalization
• *DAVID H. WOLPERT - Adaptive Metropolis Sampling with Product Distributions
• *MICHAEL KREMLIOVSKY - On Physical Definition of Intelligence
• MARK AVRUM GUBRUD - Definining "nano" in terms of complexity
• GILBERT G. CHEN - On Simulated Time

Other Complex Systems Topics

• GERARD S. LEMIRE - Formating Complex Systems and Aspects of Cross-disciplinary Research
• *DANIEL POLANI - Defining Emergent Descriptions by Information Preservation

TUESDAY, May 18

9:00AM-12:20PM EVOLUTION

*CHARLES GOODNIGHT - Evolution

• *STUART KAUFFMAN - Origins of Life
• *ALAN PERELSON - Immunological Evolution
• *MARTIN NOWAK - Evolutionary systems
• *LISA MARIE MEFFERT - Experiments on the escape from extinction: Lessons from the common housefly.

2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS

*CHRISTINA STOICA - Social Systems

• *DWIGHT READ - Change in the Form of Evolution: Transition from Primate to Hominid Forms of Social Organization
• *ROBERT G. REYNOLDS - The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Decision-Making Roles: An Example Using Cultural Algorithms
• *CLAUDIO CIOFFI-REVILLA - A Canonical Theory of Origins and Development of Social Complexity
• *JUERGEN KLUEVER - The emergence of social order by the communicative generation of social types

Networks

• *RICH COLBAUGH - ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX NETWORKS USING LIMITED INFORMATION
• *MATT LABRUM - On the Evolution of Structure in Ecological Networks
• NISHA MATHIAS - Small Worlds - How and Why
• *YING-CHENG LAI - Synchronization in complex networks
• LJUPCO KOCAREV - Synchronization in complex network topologies
• *VALENTIN ZHIGULIN - Dynamical Motifs: Building Blocks of Complex Network Dynamics
• *ROBERT PRILL - Modeling Network Motifs as Linear Dynamical Systems
• *GYORGY KORNISS - Extreme Fluctuations in Small-Worlds with Relaxational Dynamics and Applications to Scalable Parallel Computing

Evolution and Ecology

• *JUSTIN WERFEL - The evolution of reproductive restraint through social communication
• *ERIK RAUCH - Scaling, dynamics, and distribution of within-species diversity
• *JOSH MITTELDORF - Selection in Ecosystems
• *KEI TOKITA - Diversity dynamics in large complex biological networks
• *MADHUR ANAND - Quantification of Biocomplexity

2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON EXTENDED TALK SESSIONS

Systems Biology

• *BENJAMIN J DUBIN-THALER - Cell Motility: How Cellular Machines Generate Precise Responses in a Complex Environment
• *KEITH AMONLIRDVIMAN - Mathematical modeling of planar cell polarity to understand domineering non-autonomy
• CRAIG VAN HORNE, MD, PHD - The Basal Ganglia as a Complex system as it Relates to Normal Movement and Movement Disorders.
• *MARKUS BREDE - Random Evolution of Idiotypic Networks: Dynamics and Architecture
• *ERIC MJOLSNESS - Network Dynamics for Systems Biology
• *JENNIFER HALLINAN - Tunable Asynchrony in an Artificial Genome Model of a Genetic Regulatory Network
• *BEN GOERTZEL - Integrative Artificial Intelligence as a Key Ingredient of Systems Biology
• *SHAI SHEN-ORR - THE UNABRIDGED C. ELEGANS REGULATORY MOTIF DICTIONARY, FIRST EDITION
• *TAESIK LEE - A FUNCTION-BASED Approach to Systems Biology
• *CHEOL-MIN GHIM - Assessing lethality in the genome-scale metabolic network of Escherichia coli

Concepts, Formalisms, Methods and Tools

• *ABHIJNAN REJ - Multiscale Coordination and Dynamical Similarity
• *ROBERT CLEWLEY - Dominant-scale analysis for automatic reduction of high-dimensional ODE systems
• *NED J. CORRON - Information Flow in Synchronization
• *DMITRY NERUKH - Statistical complexity of protein folding: application of computational mechanics to molecular dynamics
• *PRITHA DAS - Classification of Indian Songs in Context of Complexity Measure
• MICHAEL BAYM - An analytical demonstration of adaptation to the edge of chaos
• *STEVEN H. BERTZ - The Complexity of Graphs and Digraphs
• *MANOJ GAMBHIR - Possible Steps Toward a Theory of Organization
• *CLAIRE MARTINET-EDELIST - An experimentation strategy directed by kinetic logic

7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Social Systems

• *IRENE CONRAD - Educational Reform at the Edge of Chaos
• CARLOS E. MALDONADO - Complexity and the Social Sciences
• *LOUISE K. COMFORT - Modeling Complexity in Disaster Environments
• NANCY HAYDEN - Knowing Terrorism as a Complex Adaptive System
• *EDWARD P. MACKERROW - Agent-Based Simulation of the Demand for Islamist Terrorist Organizations

Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation

• *TEEMU LEPPANEN - Morphological diversity and robustness of Turing structures
• MARTA IBANES - A gradient model for proximo-distal differentiation in vertebrate limbs
• *DANIEL COORE - Towards a Universal Language for Amorphous Computing
• *A. BRAD MURRAY - Pattern Formation from Emergent, Finite Amplitude Interactions: the Example of Sandy-Coastline Evolution
• *ELENNA DUGUNDJI - Socio-Dynamic Discrete Choice: Analytical Results for the Nested Logit Model
• E. LOZNEANU - Self-organized plasma blobs as possible precursors of life
• YING ZHANG - 3D Substitution Model for Limb Growth and Pattern Formation

7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING EXTENDED TALK SESSIONS

Learning / Neural, Psychological and Psycho-Social Systems

• *THEA LUBA - MediaMetro / Museocracy / SonicMetro: A New Complex Systems Model for Arts Education
• *WENJIE HU - Dynamics of Innate Spatial-Temporal Learning Process: Data Driven Education Results Identify Universal Barriers to Learning
• CHRISTINA FANG - Learning in the Absence of Immediate Feedback - an Experimental Study
• *GOTTFRIED MAYER-KRESS - Multiple Time-Scale Landscape Models of Motor Learning
• *ROBERT K. LOGAN - The Emergence of Language and Culture out of the Complexity of Hominid Existence
• *BRIAN D. JOSEPHSON - How we might be able to understand the brain
• *CHRISTIAN MACHENS - A push-pull model of prefrontal cortex during a sequential discrimination task
• *KARL YOUNG - Global MRI Diagnostic Tools Via Statistical Complexity Measures
• *CAROLINE YOON - Emergent Mathematical Ideas from Complex Conceptual Systems
• *LIQIANG ZHU - Impacts of homo- and hetero- synaptic plasticities on neuronal networks

Evolution and Ecology

• *MANUEL MENDOZA-GARCIA - How Communities Evolve
• *DANIEL S FISHER - The rate of evolution: Is anything understood?
• *HIROKI SAYAMA - Self-Protection and Diversity in Self-Replicating Cellular Automata
• KOJI OHNISHI - Autopoietic learning-neural network-like bio-machinogenesis via semeiogenesis: A unified theory on the cognitive genesis and evolution of biosystems
• *JOHN W. PEPPER - Emergent segregation and over-mixing from symmetric movement rules
• GEORGE KAMPIS - The Origin of Species as a Simulation Problem: A Phenotype-Based Solution
• *AXEL G. ROSSBERG - Holling cycles in simulations of complex food webs
• WILLIAM SILVERT - Speciation through Bifurcation
• ANATOLY BRILKOV - MATHEMATICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MODELING OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION BY THE EXAMPLE OF RECOMBINANT BACTERIA AT CONTINUOUS CULTIVATION
• *MICHAEL LEVANDOWSKY - Complexity Measures for Ecological Assemblages
• *HANNELORE BRANDT - Assessment and Action Rules for Indirect Reciprocity

WEDNESDAY, May 19

9:00AM-12:20PM SOCIAL SYSTEMS

• *THEODORE BESTOR - Tracking global sushi
• *THOMAS HOMER-DIXON - Complexity of global systems
• *SCOTT PAGE - Diversity in organizations
• *STEVEN ALAN HASSAN - Strategic Interaction Approach: Complex Systems and Undoing Cult Mind Control

2:00PM-3:30PM AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Special Session

• *MAYA PACZUSKI - Self-organization
• *PROFESSOR EVE MITLETON-KELLY - An Integrated Methodology to Facilitate The Emergence of New Ways of Organising
• *ERIC BEINHOCKER - Wealth, Entropy, and Evolution

*HELEN HARTE - Healthcare

• *FRANK FUNDERBURK - Organizational Culture from a Complex Dynamic Systems Perspective: Moving from Metaphor to Action in Healthcare
• *ANITA PATIL - Modeling Safety Outcomes on Patient Care Units
• *SALIL H. PATEL - Complex Medical Information Systems: A Social Context
• BASILE SPYROPOULOS - A METHOD TO APPRAISE THE FUNCTIONAL COST OF THE COMPLEX MEDICAL-MANAGERIAL SYSTEM "HOSPITAL" IN GREECE

Origins

• *BRUCE WEBER - Origin of Life
• *TERRENCE DEACON - Origin of Life

Military

• *MAJOR MARK T. CALHOUN - Complexity and Army Transformation
• *ROGER HURWITZ - Computing the Battle for Hearts and MInds: Lessons from the Vendee
• W.F. LAWLESS - Quantum perturbations, mergers, and organizational theory

2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS

Systems Biology

• VITTORIO ROSATO - Kinetic dynamics of a kinase-phosphatase network
• *MUNEESH TEWARI - SYSTEMATIC INTERACTOME MAPPING AND GENETIC PERTURBATION ANALYSIS OF A C. ELEGANS TGF-BETA SIGNALING NETWORK
• JOHANNNES SCHUCHHARDT - Peptide Binding Landscapes
• GINKUL LUBOV - INTERACTION OF TUMOR CELLS AND IMMUNE SYSTEM: INTERINDUCTION OF APOPTOSIS BETWEEN TUMOR HEPATOCYTES AND SPLENOCYTES
• WILLIAM SILVERT - Complexity and Allometry
• DOBILAS KIRVELIS - CLOSED-LOOP CODING-DECODING as GENERAL PRINCIPLE BIO-SYSTEM FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION
• CRISTIAN I. CASTILLO-DAVIS - Where the earth meets the sky: understanding cis-regulatory evolution through genomics
• *PAULI RAMO - Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks: Growth and Dynamics
• *VADIM KVITASH, M.D., PH.D. - Games Systems Play
• *EDWARD MARCUS - Models of Right Ventricular Shape and Function
• *CHRIS WIGGINS - Information-theoretic measures of biological network modularity
• JEONG SEOP SIM - Transcription Factor Binding Sites Prediction based on Sequence Similarity
• JOSE WAGNER GARCIA - Clothing Earth with a Mind
• *HAO XIONG - Sensitivity Analysis of Optimal Production of Biomass in Metabolic Networks
• *MOMIAO XIONG - Generalized Circuit Analysis of Biological Networks

3:30PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS

Social Systems

• *TAKESHI ARAI - Estimation of the Functions Describing Transition Potentials of Land Use at Cells Applied to Cellular Automata Based Models of Land Use
• *LA ROCCA SANTA - Strategy emergence.A journey through modernism, postmodernism, complexity and nonmodernism
• *PHILIP VOS FELLMAN - The Nash Equilibrium Revisited: Chaos and Complexity Hidden in Simplicity
• SERGE HAYWARD - Building Financial Time Series Prediction with Neural Genetic System: Analysis of Statistical and Economic Performances
• *BILL MACMILLAN - Modeling spatial economics with an agent-based approach
• *JEROEN STRUBEN - Competition between vehicle propulsion technologies: critical thresholds for sustained adoption
• *BRIAN RUBINEAU - Job Sex Segregation As A Complex System: Exploring a Simulation Approach

Engineering Systems

• *SARJOUN DOUMIT - Cartography application for autonomous sensory agents
• *MARINA A. EPELMAN - A fictitious play approach to large-scale complex systems optimization
• *BENJAMIN KOO - Architecting Systems Under Uncertainty with Object-Process Networks
• *DANIEL D. FREY - Effect Sparsity, Heirarchy, and Inheritance: How System Structure Affects Robust Design of Engineering Systems
• *JONATHAN R. A. MAIER - Understanding the Complexity of Design
• WEIHUA SHENG - Modeling, Analysis and Design for Multi-robot Exploration Based on Petri Nets
• PELIN G|VEN - SEPARATION OF REAL WORLD MIXED ACOUSTIC SIGNALS BY USING FREQUENCY DOMAIN APPROACH

Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation

• *BHARAT KHUSHALANI - Polyhedral Pattern Formation
• *HARRINGTON ILAN - Design and robustness of delayed feedback controllers for discrete systems
• *SATISH T.S. BUKKAPATNAM - Complex Nonlinear stochastic dynamics of precision grinding operations: Implications for health monitoring and control
• REZA RASTEGAR - Chaotic Dynamics of Cellular Learning Automata
• V. M. KENKRE - Analytic Considerations in the Study of Spatial Patterns Arising from Non-local Interaction Effects in PopulationDynamics
• *DAVID GOMEZ MIGUEZ - Directional grow in chemical and biological pattern formation systems
• YOUNGHAE DO - Extraordinarily superpersistent chaotic transients

Evolution and Ecology

• *CHIN-KUN HU - Quantum Spin Systems as Models for Biological Evolution
• ARTURO H. ARINO - The Complexity of Natural History Collections
• *YUZURU SATO - Hierarchical Structures in Collective Adaptation
• *JAVIER A. ALCAZAR - A Multi Agent Based Approach to the Multi-Predator Multi-Prey Pursuit Domain
• *MARGARETA SEGERSTAHL - Coupling sexual reproduction and complex multicellularity
• *DANIEL SOLOW - Mathematical Models for Explaining the Emergence of Specialization in Performing Tasks

Physical Systems

• MARIO NICODEMI - Statistical Mechanics of Jamming in non-thermal systems: the case of granular media
• PABLO I. HURTADO - Escape from Metastable States in a Nonequilibrium Environment
• *WM. C. MCHARRIS - Chaos as a Bridge between Dewterminism and Probability in Quantum Mechanics
• EMILIA LA NAVE - Liquid Stability Limits and the Energy Landscape Approach: physics of the liquid-liquid critical point.
• EVESQUE PIERRE - Efficient reduction of complexity and non ergodicity due to dissipation: the case of a single ball in a vibrating box
• ALEXANDER L. BURIN - Dephasing and Many-body Delocalization in Strongly Disordered Systems
• BRIAN UTTER - Diffusion, Elastic Energy, and Force Measurements in Sheared Granular Materials
• DAVID SAAKIAN - Universality classes of complexity

6:15PM-7:45PM BANQUET

Global Social Systems and the Prevention of Tragic Conflict and Human Suffering

• *ROBERT S. MCNAMARA - Interview: Lessons from Experience

7:45PM-9:30PM BANQUET SESSION

• *KEITH CAMPBELL - Cloning Dolly

THURSDAY, May 20

9:00AM-12:20PM ENGINEERING & INNOVATION

*ERIC BONABEAU - Engineering & Innovation

• *JERRY SUSSMAN - Engineering complex systems
• *DOUGLAS O. NORMAN - Complexity in the engineering of the Air and Space Operations Centers: Enterprise Engineering
• *BUD MISHRA - Bio engineering
• *CARLISS BALDWIN - Design rules

2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS

*DAVID WOLPERT - Collectives

• *BILL MACREADY - Experimental tests of product distribution theory
• *NEIL F. JOHNSON - Network Engineering and Evolution Management: theory and practice
• *JEFF SHAMMA - Multiagent Repeated Games and Convergence to Nash Equilibria
• *ILAN KROO - Collectives, Optimization, and Distributed Design
• *STEFAN BIENIAWSKI - Using Product Distributions for Distributed Optimization

Engineering Systems

• *DAVID ALDERSON - The Role of Design in the Internet and Other Complex Engineering Systems
• NANCY LEVSEON - A Systems Theoretic Approach to Safety Engineering in Socio-Technical Systems
• DAVID HALES - Tags for All - Understanding and Engineering Tag Systems
• PETER FISHER - A Self-Organizing Readout for a Time Projection Chamber
• *FRED M. DISCENZO - Dynamic Reconfiguration of Complex Systems to Avoid Failure
• *NAM P. SUH - Fundamental Long-Term Stability Conditions for Design of Complex Systems: Equilibrium and Functional Periodicity
• LIANG ZHAO - Cascading breakdown of scale-free networks

Networks / Systems Biology

• *JANET WILES - Mapping biology onto computation: modelling and analysis of artificial genetic regulatory networks
• ROCHA, L.M. - Extraction and Semi-metric Analysis of Social and Biological Networks
• *ETAY ZIV - Systematic identification of statistically significant network measures
• VICTOR M. EGUILUZ - Scale-free brain functional networks
• RON MILO - Simple building blocks of complex networks: network motifs and super-families
• *ALI ZARRINPAR - Optimization of Specificity in a Cellular Protein Interaction Network by Negative Selection
• MARKUS BREDE - Constructing Scale-Free Networks by a Matrix Stability Criterium
• XIN, HUOLIN - SARS in Hong Kong : A Case Study of Virus Spreading in Social Community

*ALLAN R. ROBINSON - Oceanography

• *GLENN FLIERL - Multiscale Physical Ocean Dynamical Processes
• *BRIAN ROTHSCHILD - Biological Patchiness in Interdisciplinary Ocean Dynamics
• *JAMES MCCARTHY - Climate Processes and Ocean Event Dynamics
• *JAMES BELLINGHAM - Systems Oceanography: Ocean Observing and Prediction Systems
• *PIERRE LERMUSIAUX - ITR-Based Data Driven Systems for Ocean Science
• *IRA DYER - The End-to-End Sonar System (Physical-Meteorological-Ocean Acoustics-Geoacoustics) for Naval Operations

2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON EXTENDED TALK SESSIONS

Social Systems

• *PHILIP V. FELLMAN - Adaptation and Coevolution on an Emergent Global Competitive Landscape
• *MATT GROSSMANN - Group Allegiance & Issue Salience in Factional Competition
• *DMITRI PUSHKIN - Bank-mergers as scale-free coagulation
• YURI MANSURY - Power-Law Size Distribution in an Externality-Driven Model of City Systems
• *MERCEDES BLEDA-MAZA DE LIZANA - Regional Innovation Systems and Complex Systems Theory: Towards a Common Agenda
• *FRANCESCA GINO - Complementarity, frustration and complex organizations. A constraint satisfaction network model.
• *KATHLEEN M. CARLEY - BioWar: Scalable Agent-based Model of Bioattacks
• UROOJ Q. AMJAD - Self-organizing Social Networks: Issues with Hierarchy, Power Dynamics in Decision Making

7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Systems Biology

• *J.R. SEMEIKS - Biological information networks of genetic loci and the scientific literature
• *SWAT, MACIEJ - BIFURCATION ANALYSIS OF REGULATORY MODULES IN CELL BIOLOGY
• *SABRINA L. SPENCER - An ordinary differential equation model for the multistep transformation to cancer
• *PROFESSOR JONATHAN VOS POST - The Evolution of Controllability in Enzyme System Dynamics
• *JESUS PANDO - Multiscale Analysis of Protein Sequence Data
• *RENHUA LI - Modeling pleitropic genetic systems: Relating bone density and body size to genes

Agents

• *WILLIAM A. GRIFFIN - Small n Evolving Structures: Dyadic Interaction between Intimates
• *JEFFREY SCHANK - A Multi-Modeling Approach to the Study of Animal Behavior
• *MICHAEL E. ROBERTS - Modeling Complex Foraging Behavior
• *BURTON W. ANDREWS - Social Foraging Theory for Multiagent Decision-Making System Design
• PROF. DAVE CLIFF - Dynamics of Artificial Evolution for Auction-Market Mechanism Design and Optimization
• *FELIX REED-TSOCHAS - Navigating through Network Structures in Strategic Decision Space
• *ROBERT GHANEA-HERCOCK - Security Agents and Network Immunology

7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING EXTENDED TALK SESSIONS

Engineering Systems

• KAGAN TUMER - Coordination in Large Collectives
• DARIO MANCINI - Design, development, management and social organization of new very large scientific plants. The case study of the GMT (Giant Modular Telescope)
• *CARLOS GERSHENSON - Protocol Requirements for Self-organizing Artifacts: Towards an Ambient Intelligence
• *JORGE FINKE - The Ecological Ideal Free Distribution and Resource Allocation in Distributed Computing and Control: Theory and Cross-Fertilization for Applications
• *GIOVANNA DI MARZO SERUGENDO - Trust as an Interaction Mechanism for Self-Organising Engineered Systems.
• *MARK KLEIN - Handling Resource Oscillations Through Selective Misinformation
• *MASAHIRO KIMURA - Modeling Share Dynamics by Extracting Competition Structure
• *TOMOHISA YAMASHITA - Effective Information Sharing based on Mass User Support for Reduction of Traffic Congestio
• *DR. DAVID L. GROSE - Understanding and Managing Design as a Chaotic Process
• PROF. CLAUDIO ZIZZO - A methodology for complex system modelling applied to automotive systems, bio-engineering and predictive decision making modelling.
• NAGENDRA MARUPAKA - Whisperers and Shouters: Random Wireless Sensor Networks with Asymmetric Two-Tier Connectivity

7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING PARALLEL SESSIONS

Social Systems

• *SURESH SOOD - Patterns of Negotiation - A new way of looking at marketplace B2B Negotiations
• *DR. JOHN A. BROADBENT - An evolutionary systems view of civilizational sustainability
• *ANDREAS KEMPER - Network Externalities in Corporate Financial Management
• JAMES K. HAZY - Modeling Social Structure as Network Effects: Computational Evidence That Rewarding Learning Improves Performance
• *ROSANNA GARCIA - An Exploration into the Uses of Agent-Based Modeling in Innovation/New Product Development Research
• KEN JORDAN - The Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next-Generation Internet
• *JENNIFER GOLBECK - Complex Systems Analysis on the Semantic Web
• *RICH COLBAUGH - Explaining economic and social phenomenon: models with low cognition, interacting agents
• *CZESLAW MESJASZ - Security as Property of Complex Social Systems
• *DAVID PETER STROH - Using Systems Thinking to Facilitate Organizational Change
• PASCAL MOSSAY - Economic Geography and Rational Expectations
• PAUL AVERY - System Dynamics Modeling Exploring Design And Control Within A Decentralized Electric Power System
• *C. JASON WOODARD - Individuals and Institutions in Strategic Network Formation

FRIDAY, May 21

9:00AM-5:00PM SPECIAL DAY ON SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

*DON INGBER - Systems Biology

• *STUART KIM - Global discovery of conserved genetic modules
• *JIM FERRELL
• *HOWARD BERG
• *SUI HUANG

*TOM KNIGHT - Systems Biology

• *JIM COLLINS
• *JOHN DOYLE
• *CASSANDRA L. SMITH - Schizophrenia: A Complex and Multifactorial Disease
• BONNIE BERGER

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