The final call for papers for the CoSMoS 2010 workshop is out. Deadline for submissions has been extended for a week to the [...]

The second call for papers for the 3rd Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation Workshop, is out! This year, the CoSMoS Workshop is collocated with ALife XII, conference focussed on “critical properties of living systems”.

Here is more from the CFP:

Constructing models and simulations of complex systems is a challenging and interdisciplinary task. Elements might include choice of modelling tools and techniques, simulation infrastructures, concurrency, the process of moving from models to simulations, arguing validity of simulations, and the identification of reusable engineering techniques such as patterns. The CoSMoS workshop series is part of a four-year initiative, based at the Universities of York and Kent, UK, to develop a framework and infrastructure for the construction of of generic complex systems simulations.

We are seeking papers on the engineering aspects of the modelling and simulation of complex systems, with a focus on complex living systems. Areas of interest include, but are [...]

This year we are delighted to have Prof. Paul Humphreys as our invited speaker. Our York research associate Paul Andrews has been telling us for some time about Prof. Humphreys’ book “Extending Ourselves”, so it will be interesting to hear what the man himself has to say!

The title of his talk will be “Some Relations between Formal Structure and Conceptual Content in Simulations”.

Abstract

One of the striking features of complex systems modelling, and simulation more generally, is the ability in many cases to transfer models across domains of application. Models using fitness landscapes that originated in population biology can be used in agent based models in economics, abstract computations developed for Boolean algebras can be mapped onto dilute spin glass models, and Ising models from condensed matter physics have been used to model the synchronization of firefly flashing in certain species. This feature, which derives from the [...]