[alife] First Announcement: DECOI2006
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kdiwold at few.vu.nl
Mon Apr 10 04:49:53 PDT 2006
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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
711 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.
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