[alife] Call for Abstracts for the 5th Int'l Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (Sydney, 26-28 September, 2012)

[Daniel]

Dear colleagues,

This is an announcement and Call for Abstracts for the Fifth
International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2012) to be
held at University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, September 26-28,
2012:

http://prokopenko.net/gso5.html
 
The workshop will bring together researchers from a richly diverse
background who share interest in understanding and designing
self-organising systems. Of particular interest are well-founded, but
general methods for characterising such systems in a principled way
with the view of ultimately allow them to be guided toward
pre-specified goals. Information theory, nonlinear dynamics and graph
theory are core to many of these methods, and quantifying complexity
and its sources is a common theme.

Submissions to the workshop are extended abstracts (one page). If
interested in participating, send an extended abstract (by 16 July
2012) by email to:

prokopenko.mikhail at gmail.com
 
The notifications are expected by 31 July 2012.

Authors of accepted submissions will present the content to the
workshop. It is expected that post-workshop publication of selected
papers will follow in a special journal issue (as has been the case
for previous GSO workshops). Please consult above website for more
information.
 
Best wishes,

Peter Robinson
Mikhail Prokopenko
Mahendra Piraveenan
Daniel Polani
Larry Yaeger