[alife] First Announcement: DECOI2006

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First Announcement
1st International Summer School on Collective Intelligence and Evolution
August 7-11 2006
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.decoi2006.nl/

The First International Summer School on the Design Of Collective Intelligence 
(DECOI2006) will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands during August 7-11 2006. 
This summer school aims to provide master/graduate students with the 
opportunity to learn techniques and methods for designing collective 
intelligence. The summer school will cover a spectrum of topics within this 
field to provide students with knowledge about methods and techniques 
(evolutionary computing, artificial life models, self organizing systems) as 
well as related research domains (biology, linguistics). The summer school is 
set up as a lecture/workshop environment where students learn about theories 
and tools for modeling and analyzing complex systems and get hand on experience 
with the implementation of several models. Participants are also encouraged to 
present their own work / projects.

** TARGET AUDIENCE
Master/Graduate Students in computer science, artificial intelligence, business 
informatics, bioinformatics and related fields  

** TOPICS 
Selected topics that will be taught at the summer school are:
   Evolutionary Computing 
   Artificial Life Models
   Self Organizing Systems
   Multi Agent Systems
   Evolutionary Linguistics
   Social Systems

** IMPORTANT DATES
1 May        First Call for Participation, Registration opens
9 June       Early registration deadline
1 July       Submission deadline of student abstracts
7–11 August  DECOI2006 summer school

** VENUE
DECOI2006 is hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the Vrije 
Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

For more information please contact Martijn Schut (schut at cs.vu.nl).

Kind regards,
DECOI2006 organising committee.