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WORKSHOP on COMPLEXITY, EVOLUTION AND EMERGENT INTELLIGENCE
12 December 2009 – Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Satellite workshop of the
AI*IA 2009: International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
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===================================================================== Preliminary program of the workshop
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| | Speaker | Session | | 8.30 | | 9.00 | | Registration | | | | | 9.00 | | 9.20 | | Welcome | | | | | 9.20 | | 10.10 | | Invited talk: Science and policy: narrativizing mass dynamics | | David Lane | Invited talk | | 10.10 | | 10.30 | | Dynamical critical systems for information processing: a preliminary study | | Marco Villani | Biological systems | | 10.30 | | 11.00 | | Coffee break | | | | | 11.00 | | 11.20 | | Boolean Networks Design by Genetic Algorithms | | Andrea Roli | Biological systems | | 11.20 | | 11.40 | | Extended notion of attractors in noisy random Boolean networks | | Alessia Barbieri | Biological systems | | 11.40 | | 12.00 | | Statistical laws for cognitive systems | | Armando Bazzani | Biological systems | | 12.00 | | 12.20 | | Cultural Evolution as a Knowledge-Base for the Modeling and Simulation of Socio-Ecological Systems | | Zeev Posner | Social systems | | 12.20 | | 12.40 | | Financial Market Simulation: Software Agents modeling Greed and Fear Emotions in Investors | | Filippo Neri | Social systems | | 12.40 | | 13.00 | | How Opinion Dynamics Shapes Social Networks Topology | | Simone Righi | Social systems | | 13.00 | | 14.00 | | Lunch break | | | | | 14.00 | | 14.20 | | Dynamical Load Balancing in Cellular Automata Models | | William Spataro | Optimization | | 14.20 | | 14.40 | | Pareto Partial Dominance MOEA in Many-Objective Optimization | | Hiroyuki Sato | Optimization | | 14.40 | | 15.00 | | COSO: Community Of Scientists Optimization | | Valentino Santucci | Optimization | | 15.00 | | 15.20 | | A New Clustering Boids Algorithm for Data Mining | | Leandro Nunes de Castro | Emergent processes | | 15.20 | | 15.40 | | Empirical assessment of the effects of update synchronization in Particle Swarm Optimization | | Luca Mussi | Emergent processes | | 15.40 | | 16.00 | | Conclusions and discussion | | | | | 16.00 | | 16.30 | | Coffee break | | | |
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LOCATION AND DATE
The Workshop on Complexity, Evolution and Emergent Intelligence will take place in Reggio Emilia (Italy) on December 12, 2009, following the AI*IA 2009: International Conference (9-11 December 2009)
The conference and all the workshops will be hosted in the new building of the Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences and of the Faculty of Communication and Economics, located in the centre of Reggio Emilia
Address: via Allegri 9, I 42100 Reggio Emilia
CALL FOR PAPERS
The workshop aims at bringing together scientists who work from different perspectives, from basic science to applications, on the common theme of systems composed by many components that interact non-linearly.
Due to the different backgrounds and references of the scientific communities of researchers working in these fields, opportunities to exchange ideas and to achieve cross-fertilization are lacking. The aim of the workshop is therefore to try and bridge this gap and reach a better comprehension of the mechanisms underlying such systems, as well as to find new applications based on them.
Such systems (complex systems, or CS for short) very often exhibit interesting features, as self-organisation, robustness, surprising collective processes and occasionally intelligence; in particular, up to now the living CSs are the only systems able to support the last feature.
As already suggested, the contemporary presence of intelligence and complex interactions may not be casual but, instead, able to disclose deeper links between the two characteristics. Are there universal patterns of organization in complex systems, from pre-biotic replicators to evolved beings, to artificial objects? Do these structures allow effective computational processes to develop?
Key questions are how robust structures which develop in such systems are, how information is incorporated into these structures and how computation emerges. The study of complex systems is also interested in determining the contributions of selection, chance and self-organization to the functioning and evolution of complex structures.
The interactions between the communities of Complex Systems Science (CSS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been rather limited so far, although both might benefit from closer interactions. Recent developments – for example in the context of agent-based modelling, distributed and/or evolutionary computation - represent new opportunities for further exploring and strengthening these scientific interactions and connections.
Could methodologies coming from research in Complexity inspire the rise of new paradigms and/or theories in Artificial Intelligence? Or could AI methods deepen the knowledge of complex environments? This workshop would like to encourage the dialogue between the two disciplines and, possibly, recognise that this dialogue is actually already fruitfully commenced.
TOPICS
Authors are invited to submit works dealing either with methodological issues or applications where the CSS point-of-view and computational issues (up to high level AI aspects) are present. Papers dealing with (but not limited to) the following subjects are particularly welcome.
• Agent based models
• Cellular automata
• Evolutionary computation
• Information processing
• Network properties
• Self-organisation, emergent behaviours
• Tangled hierarchies, description levels, reciprocal causality
• Adaptation/exaptation
• Evolution and co-evolution
• Robustness, criticality
• Pattern formation, pattern recognition, collective intelligence
• Non linear dynamics, edge of chaos
• The emergence of mind
• Bio-inspired methods
INVITED SPEAKER
Prof. David Lane (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia – Italy - and Santa Fe Institute – Santa Fe, NM, USA)
David Lane is professor of economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He transferred to Italy in 1992, after many years in the School of Statistics at the University of Minnesota. Since 1988, he has been associated with the Santa Fe Institute (NM, USA), where he is currently a member of the external faculty, the Science Board and the Editorial Board. He also serves on the editorial boards of Complexity and the Journal of Evolutionary Economics and the Science Board of the European Complex Systems Society. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the International Statistics Society and a past fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation. His research interests in the past include stochastic processes, the foundation of statistics, causality assessment of adverse drug reactions, and clinical epidemiology. For the past 15 years, he has been developing a theory of artifact innovation, elements of which have been presented in Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change (Springer, 2009), which he edited with Denise Pumain, Sander van der Leeuw and Geoff West.
PAPER SUBMISSION FORMAT
Papers not exceeding 10 pages, written in English and complying with the LNCS Springer-Verlag format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0) should be submitted electronically. Submissions are due in PDF format attached to an email sent to the following email address:
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Accepted papers will be published on the official CD-Rom of the AI*IA2009 International conference with regular ISBN number.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper submission: October 4, 2009
* Camera-ready of accepted papers: November 11, 2009
* Workshop day: December 12, 2009
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE FEE
Attendance to the conference and to the workshops IS limited to members of AI*IA. Participants are kindly requested to register before the conference, although on-site registration will also be offered.
Attendance to the workshops only (including participation in all the workshops, coffee-breaks and a CD-ROM with the Proceedings of all Workshops; it does not include membership to AI*IA):
Advance registration: 100 Euro On-site registration: 200 Euro
Regular conference fee (including participation in the conference and all the workshops, a copy of the proceedings volume, the conference CD-Rom, coffee breaks for all 4 days; it does not include membership to AI*IA):
Early registration, before August 31, 2009: 350 Euro.
Late registration, since September 1, 2009: 400 Euro.
On-site registration: 500 Euro
Student fee (including proceedings volume and participation to the workshops, not including conference dinner): 130 Euro ** NOT AVAILABLE ON-SITE **
CHAIRS
Marco Villani (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Stefano Cagnoni (University of Parma)
LOCAL OPERATING TEAM
Alex Graudenzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Chiara Damiani (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Luca Ansaloni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Luca Mussi (University of Parma)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Timoteo Carletti (University of Namur)
Mario Giacobini (University of Torino)
Pier Luca Lanzi (Politecnico Milano)
Marco Mirolli (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies - CNR)
Monica Mordonini (University of Parma)
Luca Mussi (University of Parma)
Giuseppe Nicosia (University of Catania)
Irene Poli (University of Venezia – Ca’ Foscari)
Riccardo Poli (University of Essex)
Andrea Roli (University of Bologna)
Roberto Serra (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Andrea Tettamanzi (University of Milano-Crema)
Marco Tomassini (University of Lausanne)
Leonardo Vanneschi (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Download the accepted papers of the Workshop at the following links:
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