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3rd CoSMoS Workshop and Artificial Life XII

Paul Andrews — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:28:22 +0000

A large group of the CoSMoS project team will be travelling to Odense, Denmark this week to attend the 3rd CoSMoS workshop and the Artificial Life (Alife) XII conference.

The 3rd CoSMoS workshop is being held as a related event of the Alife conference on Thursday 19th August, so anyone attending the conference is more than welcome to come along to our workshop. We have free copies of the proceedings available on a first come, first serve basis. We hope to see [...]

Engineering Emergence: NACO special issue

Paul Andrews — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:19:58 +0000

As a follow-up to a successful workshop on engineering emergence, we are planning a special issue of the Natural Computing (NACO) Journal to investigate and expand on issues related to engineering emergence in complex systems.

Submissions are due by 1st December 2010, and we invite any contributions that focus on describing engineering issues and approaches used to examine or exploit emergence in natural computational systems.

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CoSMoS 2010 Final Call For Papers, Deadline Extension!

Paul Andrews — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:00:26 +0000

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

2nd CFP for the 3rd CoSMoS Workshop out!

Teodor Ghetiu — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:36:32 +0000

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 [...]

Today’s menu: CoSMoS special session @ICECCS

Teodor Ghetiu — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:47:19 +0000

Hello complex systems enthusiasts and good morning.

It is 06:07 now, meaning that it’s less then 3 hours untill a new ICECCS (International Conference on Complex Computer Systems) session gets underway in Oxford. Collocated with ICECCS is the CoSMoS special session, organised by Paul Andrews, Fiona Polack and Adam Sampson.

Looking through the proceedings, I can see we have quite an interesting day ahead of us. Here are just a few examples of papers to be presented:

Stibor T and Salazar-Banuelos A, “On Immunological Memory as a Function of a Recursive Proliferation Process“: essentially authors present a grid-based model of recursive proliferation of cells, and claim it explains immunological memory. The model is explicitely validated throuh simulation and reference to immunological literature. Kremers E, Viejo P, Barambones O and de Durana J G, “A Complex Systems Modelling Approach for Decentralised Simulation of Electric Microgrids“: [...]

Speaker at CoSMoS 2010 announced!

Jenny Owen — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:32:57 +0000

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 [...]

3rd CoSMoS Workshop

Paul Andrews — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:52:43 +0000

A call for participation for the 3rd in the series of CoSMoS workshops has been announced here. We are going to be running the workshop as a satellite event of the AlifeXII conference so we’ll hopefully have some interesting submissions and discussions at a great hosting venue. Get writing those [...]

ICECCS Special session

Fiona Polack — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:25:22 +0000

The Special Session on CoSMoS at ICECCS 2010 is now finalised: see http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ICECCS2010/ There is a full paper and two posters from the [...]