[alife] IEEE CEC COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS - deadline 11 April
Chrystopher Nehaniv
C.L.Nehaniv at herts.ac.uk
Tue Mar 22 05:53:16 PST 2005
Complex Adaptive Systems:
Towards Predictive Methodologies
at the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Edinburgh, Scotland - 2-5 September 2005
Scope and Theme:
This special session is concerned with fostering the formation
of an active multi-disciplinary community on Complex Adaptive
Systems. We especially intend to increase the awareness of
researchers in many fields sharing the common view on combining
agent-based modeling and the evolutionary computation model in
order to develop insight and foster predictive methodologies.
Complex adaptive systems involve the study of many agents
(constituent components, generally active ones with a simple
structures, whose behavior is assumed to follow local rules) and
their rich interactions. A basic methodology is to specify how
the agents interact, and then observe properties that occur at
the collective level in order to discover predictive principles
and key descriptive variables for understanding and/or shaping
and harnessing the resulting dynamics.
Generally the high-dimensional, non-linear nature of the
resulting dynamical systems makes them difficult or impossible
to analyze using traditional methods. Agents follow local rules
under various constraints (including possibly, e.g. spatial
connectivity, geometric, physical, genetic, evolvability,
ecological, interactional, sensorimotor, energetic, and
information-processing constraints). The resulting dynamics are
not necessarily derivable from any principles of analytic
calculation. Under the action of evolution, such agents adapt to
their environments and other agents' behaviors. The adaptation
processes can be massively parallel, depending on the number of
agents, and we especially need to explore the relationship
between at the individual level and at the collective level. The
idea of combining evolutionary computation and agent-based
modeling is particularly rich and fresh and applicable to answer
these issues.
The emergent phenomena arising from interactions even among a
small number of agents and their environment are not
well-understood, e.g. in the evolution signaling, communication,
and interaction dynamics.
We will invite high quality contributions on a wide variety of
topics relevant to the wide research areas of Complex Adaptive
Systems. We will especially cover in-depth of important areas
such as:
Topics of Interest:
* Collective Behavior
* Complex Networks of Adaptive Agents
* Multiscale Robustness and Plasticity
* Applications in Robotics & Sensor Evolution
* Information-Theoretic Methods and Dynamical Systems Analyses
for Complex Adaptive Systems
* Signaling, Communication and Social Networks
* Unconventional Computing Media Substrates for Complex
Adaptive Systems
* Applications and Models for Systems Biology
* Multicellular Complex Adaptive Systems (applications, e.g.
in biology, cell sorting and morphogenesis)
* Role of Constraints in Dynamics of Complex Adaptive Systems
* Sensor-Actuator Evolution
* Agent-based models: Theory and Simulations
* Co-evolutionary Learning
* Collective Learning
* Particle Swarms
* Replicator Dynamics
* Applications to Nanotechnology and Medicine
* Evolutionary Games
* Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning Interacting Particle
Systems
* Learning of heterogeneous agents
* Learning in Games,
* Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems
* Scalable, Evolvable, Emergent Developmental Systems
Session Chairs:
Akira Namatame (nama at nda.ac.jp)
Department of Computer Science, National Defense Academy,
1-10-20 Hashirimizu, Yokosuka, Japan, 239-8686
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (C.L.Nehaniv at herts.ac.uk)
Algorithms & Adaptive Systems Research Groups, School of
Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane,
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom AL10 9AB
Scientific Program Committee Members
* Hussein Abbass (University of New South Wales, Australia)
* Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, UK)
* Andreas Albrecht (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
* Takaya Arita (Nagoya University, Japan)
* Aude Billard (EPFL, Switzerland)
* Ren=E9 te Boekhorst (Univ. Hertfordshire, UK)
* Terry Bossomaier (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
* Peter Cariani (Tufts University, USA)
* Dario Floreano (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(EPFL), Switzerland)
* Robert A. Freitas, Jr (Institute for Molecular
Manufacturing, USA)
* David Green, (Monash University, Australia)
* Peter McOwan (Queen Mary Univesity of London, UK)
* Auke Jan Ijspeert (EPFL, Switzerland)
* Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* James M. Goodwin (UCLA, USA)
* Paul Marrow (British Telecom, UK)
* Julian F. Miller (University of York, UK)
* Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
* Stefano Nolfi (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and
Technology, Italy)
* Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
* Daniel Polani (Univ. Hertfordshire, UK)
* Keiki Takadama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
* Richard Tateson (British Telecom, UK)
* Hugo Touchette (Imperial College, UK)
* Frank Schweitzer (Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous
Intelligent Systems, Germany)
* David Wolpert (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
* Janet Wiles (University of Queensland, Australia)
Submissions and Important Dates
Submissions Deadline: 11 April 2005
Notification to Authors: 11 May 2005
Camera-Ready Copies Due: 11 June 2005
All submissions will be peer-reviewed according to IEEE
standards. Submissions should be in IEEE two-column format up to
6 pages according to instructions on IEEE CEC website giving
format and uploading requirement details. (Authors should
indicate this special session when uploading their submission.)
Organized with the support of:
The IEEE Working Group on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive
Systems
The U.K. EPSRC Network on Evolvability in Biological and
Software Systems
Special Session Homepage and Updates:
http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~nehaniv/IEEE-CEC05-CAS.html
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Prof. Dr. Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Research Professor of Mathematical & Evolutionary Computer Sciences
Adaptive Systems & Algorithms Research Groups
School of Computer Science
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB
United Kingdom
e-mail: C.L.Nehaniv at herts.ac.uk
phone: +44-1707-284-470
fax: +44-1707-284-303
URL: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~nehaniv/welcome.html
Director, EPSRC Network on Evolvability in Biological & Software Systems
Associate Editor, BioSystems
Associate Editor, Interaction Studies
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