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Conceptual and Mathematical Foundations of Embodied Intelligence Leipzig, February 27 - March 01, 2013
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences http://www.mis.mpg.de/calendar/conferences/2013/ei.html In the last few decades, an overwhelming number of case studies produced the evidence that intelligent behavior of naturally evolved agents efficiently involves the embodiment as part of the underlying control process. Nowadays, there is no question that the exploration and exploitation of the embodiment represent important mechanisms of cognition. The shift from the classical view to the modern embodied view, also referred to as the cognitive turn, not only framed a novel way of thinking about intelligence but also identified a number of fundamental principles that intelligent systems obey. Well known examples are the principle of cheap design, morphological computation, and information self-structuring. Although there is general consensus on the intuitive meaning of such principles, the field of embodied intelligence currently lacks a formal theory. We think that the mathematical foundations of the core concepts have to be advanced and unified, in order to be able to realize and better understand cognitive systems that exploit their embodiment in an autonomous and completely intrinsic way. Information theory, dynamical systems theory, and information geometry already turned out to be useful in this regard. However, there is much more, and also much more to do. Summarizing, the goal of the workshop is to identify the core concepts and to advance the theoretical foundations of embodied intelligence.
International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI14) | 13 - 18 July 2014 | Cairns, Australia http://www.iussi2014.com
IWSOS 2013
7th International Worshop on Self-Organizing Systems
Palma de Mallorca, 9-10th of May, 2013 IWSOS 2013 is the seventh International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, a multidisciplinary event dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems, including techno-social systems.
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NeuroEng 2013: Australian Workshop on Computational Neuroscience 30-31 January 2013 Abstracts due 31 October 2012 NeuroEng 2013 aims to bring together researchers in Australia who are working at the interface between neuroscience and engineering, including researchers working in mathematical and computational neuroscience, neural modelling, neuro-imaging, EEG analysis, neuro-morphic engineering, and neuro-prostheses. This workshop will precede the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, to be held at the Melbourne Convention Centre 3–6 February 2013. The workshop will feature presentations by two highly respected international keynote speakers: Professor Steven Schiff, Director of Penn State Center for Neural Engineering, and another speaker soon to be confirmed. http://www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/neuroengineering/neuroeng2013/
June 15, 2012: Workshop and panel proposals due. July 31, 2012: Acceptance notification for workshop proposals. September 24, 2012: Final papers due. NEW EXTENDED DATE! November 15, 2012: Acceptance notification for paper authors and panel organizers. December 31, 2012: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers and panelist position papers due. Opportunities and challenges for implementing highly complex, efficient, and dependable business and control systems have been steadily increasing, driven by the continuous growth in the power, intelligence, adaptiveness and openness of technologies and standards applied in computing, communication and control systems. Dynamically changing social and economic situations demand the next-generation of systems to be based on adaptive, reusable, and internet and Web-enabled technologies and applications. Such systems are expected to have the characteristics of living systems composed of largely autonomous and decentralized components. Such systems are called Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ADS). The International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized System (ISADS) has been the premier events in the past twenty-two years to have successfully addressed these challenges. The 11th ISADS 2013 will continue to focus on the advancements and innovations in ADS concepts, technologies, applications strategic issues, and other related topics. The special topic for ISADS 2013 is the smart cities and e-applications.
Via Ashish Umre
January 7 - 18, 2013
NECSI Winter School
January 7 - 11, 2013 Complex Physical, Biological, and Social Systems January 13, 2013 Computer Programming and Complex Systems January 14 - 18, 2013 Complex Systems Modeling and Networks Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA Early Registration Deadline: November 5, 2012 http://www.necsi.edu/education/school.htm l TARGET AUDIENCE The NECSI Winter School is intended for faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, professionals and others who would like to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of complex systems for application to research in their respective fields, or as a basis for pursuing complex systems research. The winter school offers two intensive week-long courses. The courses consist of lectures, discussions, and supervised group projects. Though the second week builds on material covered in the previous week, CX201 is not a prerequisite for CX202. You may register for either or both weeks. If desired, arrangements for credit at a home institution may be made in advance.
4th Annual Complexity in Business Conference
Friday, November 9, 2012 • Washington, DC Abstract submission deadline is September 9, 2012. Keynote Speaker Dr. Eric Bonabeau
XLII Winter Meeting on Statistical Physics
Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico. January 8th to 11th, 2013
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IWSOS 2013 is the seventh International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, a multidisciplinary event dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems, including techno-social systems. Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, 2013/05/8-10
CMCC2012
II Congreso Mexicano de Ciencias de la Complejidad
Ciudad de México, Octubre 22-24, 2012 C3-2012 es un congreso clave en México para el año 2012. Busca reunir a la comunidad nacional de interesados en la investigación, docencia y práctica de los Sistemas Complejos.
El evento durará tres dias con sesiones de conferencias, mesas redondas y carteles.
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The 2013 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life April 15 – 19, 2013 Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore At the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2013
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Hiroki Sayama
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Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks
November 8 - 9, 2012
MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA http://wids.lids.mit.edu/
"Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Representation for STEM Research and Education".
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR) Mumbai, India, Jan 10-12, 2013
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The Eighteenth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics
(AROB 18th)
Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2013
Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, KOREA
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Hiroki Sayama
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The 2013 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life April 15 – 19, 2013 Singapore
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Mark your calendars. NetSci 2013 will take place during June 3-7, 2013 in the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. Our program committee is working hard to make this a conference worth remembering.
SocInfo 2012, the 4th International Conference on Social Informatics...
Via FuturICT
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Khalid El-Arini
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Call for Papers
Social network and social media analysis: Methods, models and applications
workshop in conjunction with:
26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2012)
December 7 or 8 (TBD), 2012 Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA
http://snap.stanford.edu/social2012/
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, September 16, 2012
Notification of decision: Sunday, October 7, 2012
Complex Networks 2012
Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications International workshop co-located with: The 8th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS, (SITIS 2012), Sorrento - Naples, Italy, 25-29 November 2012
Download the July 2012 issue of Physics World on "physics and sport". This special issue of Physics World looks at how physics principles underpin sporting success.
Discover the effects of technology and rule change on sporting performance in sprinting, swimming and the javelin.
Find out about the physics of the prosthetic devices that are helping disabled sports stars like Oscar Pistorius to perform almost as well as the top able-bodied athletes.
See how gymnasts, long jumpers and divers are all unconscious masters of the law of conservation of angular momentum.
Enjoy our interview with physicist Crispin Duenas, who is representing Canada in archery at this summer's Olympic Games.
Find out what athletes really "know" about physics, in the eyes of Physics World columnist Robert P Crease. http://physicsworld.com/cws/download/jul2012
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This international workshop on complex networks (CompleNet) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on areas related to complex networks. In the past two decades we have been witnessing an exponential increase on the number of publications in this field. From biological systems to computer science, from economic to social systems, complex networks are becoming pervasive in many fields of science. It is this interdisciplinary nature of complex networks that CompleNet aims at addressing. Workshops are scheduled around the world on an yearly basis. The first edition of the workshop took place in May 2009 in Catania, Italy; the 2nd took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the 3rd in Melbourne, Florida, USA. This year we will be Berlin at the campus of the Freie Universitaet Berlin CompleNet 2013
Berlin, Germany March 13-15, 2013
Hosted by
Institut fuer Informatik
Freie Universitaet Berlin https://cs.fit.edu/Projects/complenet/2013/CompleNet_2013/Home.html
EvoStar 2013 will take place 3-5 April 2013 at the Vienna University of Technology. Calls for papers are available at the five separate EvoStarconferences:
EuroGP, EvoBIO, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART and EvoApplications Submission deadline is 1 November 2012 http://www.evostar.org/
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Joseph Lizier
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BIONETICS 2012
The 7th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems 10-12 December 2012, Lugano, Switzerland http://www.bionetics.org/ BIONETICS 2012 aims to provide a world-leading and unique opportunity for bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that seek the understanding of the fundamental principles and design strategies in biological systems, and leverage those understandings to build bio-inspired systems for problem-solving and engineering applications, with a special focus on: networking, distributed systems, information processing, multi-agent systems, single and multi-robot systems, biomimetics, optimization, bioinformatics, and modeling of biological and bio-synthetic systems. Paper submissions due Sept 20, 2012
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Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2013/07/6-10
IV International Conference on Science Matters Humanities as Science Matters June 25-27, 2013 Porto, Portugal Science Matters (SciMat) is the new discipline that treats all human-dependent matters as part of science, wherein, humans (the material system of Homo sapiens) are studied scientifically from the perspective of complex systems. That “everything in Nature is part of science” was well recognized by Aristotle and da Vinci and many others. Yet, it is only recently, with the advent of modern science and experiences gathered in the study of evolutionary and cognitive sciences, statistical physics, complex systems and other disciplines, that we know how the human-related disciplines can be studied scientifically [1]. Humanities, the knowledge about humans, are thus a part of SciMat. Like in any other subject, humanities could be studied at three different levels or with three approaches—empirical, phenomenological and the bottom-up approach. The first two approaches were and are still employed in the last 2,500 years since the early Greeks and ancient Chinese. They brought fruitful results, as witnessed by the large number of books published and the enormous programs found in every respectable university. However, it was in the last 20 years that we saw the blossoming development of the bottom-up approach in the study of humanities. This development—in the forms of “neurohumanities” and “evolutionary humanities” in particular—raises the scientific level and provides mechanisms, deepening the understanding of humans. Such development is at its initial stage in the West but seems to be absent in China. The conference will emphasize Arts (including Literature), History and Philosophy. This fourth international conference in the biannual series[2] will feature reviews by top experts from around the world, plus contributed papers.[3] The conference covers all three approaches, with particular attention to the bottom-up approach. The first three SciMat conferences were held in Portugal. Keeping the series of international conferences on SciMat in Portugal will help to maintain the leadership of Portugal in new research disciplines among European countries and around the world. [1] For further discussion on the motivation, concept, method and implications of Science Matters, see Chapter 1 in Science Matters: Humanities as Complex Systems, edited by M. Burguete and L. Lam (World Scientific, Singapore, 2008), downloadable from the publisher’s website. For the SciMat program, see the webpage: www.sjsu.edu/people/lui.lam/scimat/. [2] See Appendix below for the previous SciMat conferences. [3] This conference is under the auspices of the International Science Matters Committee; members: Manuel Bicho (Portugal), Peter Broks (UK), Maria Burguete (Portugal), João Caraça (Portugal), Paul Caro (France), Patrick Hogan (USA), Brigitte Hoppe (Germany), Lui Lam (USA), Bing Liu (China), Dun Liu (China), John Onians (UK), David Papineau (UK), Nigel Sanitt (UK), Ivo Schneider (Germany), Michael Shermer (USA) and Robin Warren (Australia).
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