[alife] Second Call-For-Participation DECOI2006

kdiwold@few.vu.nl kdiwold at few.vu.nl
Fri Jun 2 05:27:41 PDT 2006


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

>>> 9 June: Early registration deadline <<<


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 hands-on experience
with the implementation of several models. Participants are also encouraged to
present their own work / projects.

** SUMMERSCHOOL SETUP
The workshop consists of a series of lectures (in the mornings)
focusing on the design of collective intelligence. The lectures will
cover a large spectrum and different fields dealing with the topic in
order to provide the students with different views on the subject and
knowledge of how the subject is used in various disciplines. A
programming project assigned during the workshop will give the
participants the opportunity to deepen and reinforce the learned
topics (in the afternoons). This project will be carried out in
groups, with the results presented at the end of the workshop. The
workshop also provides students with the opportunity to present
projects they are working / have already worked on.

** TARGET AUDIENCE
Master/graduate students in computer science, artificial intelligence, business
informatics, bioinformatics and related fields.

** LECTURE PROGRAMME
Monday 7 august
9:30-10:45  Martijn Schut: Introduction
11:15-13:00 Gusz Eiben: "Evolutionary Methods"

Tuesday 8 august
9:00-10:45  Edwin de Jong: "Co-evolution"
11:15-13:00 Gerald de Jong: "Evolution of 3D morphology"

Wednesday 9th
9:00-10:45  Pim Haselager: "Embodied embeddedness of cognition"
11:15-13:00 Paul Vogt: "Evolutionary linguistics"

Thursday 10th
9:00-10:45 Charlotte Hemelrijk: "Social Organisation"
11:15-13:00 William Veerbeek: "Self Organising Urban Planning"

** IMPORTANT DATES
9 June       Early registration deadline
1 July       Submission deadline of student abstracts
7-11 August  DECOI2006 summer school

** REGISTRATION FEE
50 euro - early registration fee (before 9 june)
75 euro - late registration fee (after 9 june)
You can find the registration form on the website.

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

** ACCOMMODATION
We offer the possibility of accommodation in Amsterdam at the campus
of the Vrije Universiteit near the site of the summerschool. There is
a fixed fee of euro 160,- which includes a private room, sheets,
towels, etc. You can indicate when registering, if you want to make
use of this.

** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Martijn Schut, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Konrad Diwold, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
William Veerbeek, Din_arch and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

For more information please contact Martijn Schut (decoi at few.vu.nl).

Kind regards,
DECOI2006 organizing committee.




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