The 2010 CoSMoS workshop will be held as a one day satellite workshop of AlifeXII in Odense, Denmark, on 19th August 2010.
Programme
A provisional programme is now available. Download here.
Important Dates
- Paper Submission: 3 May 2010
- Notification of acceptance: 24 May 2010
- Camera ready copies: 14 June 2010
- CoSMoS Workshop: 19 August 2010
Call for Participation
The 3rd workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation (CoSMoS) will take place as a satellite event of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (AlifeXII). Previous CoSMoS workshops have provided a forum for research examining all aspects of the modelling and simulation of complex systems. This year, we aim to complement the main themes of Alife XII by focusing the workshop on the engineering aspects of modelling and simulating (artificial) living systems [...].
Plenary Speaker
The plenary speaker at the workshop will be Prof. Paul Humphreys from the Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia. The title of his talk is:
“Some Relations between Formal Structure and Conceptual Content in Simulations”.
Abstract
One of the striking features of complex systems modeling, 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 formal structure of the models, is also related to how higher level conceptualizations of the subject matter that is being simulated are derived. My talk will explore some issues concerning the relation between the formal and conceptual content of simulations with some remarks about first, how the answers affect the relations between simulations and experiments and second, how conceptual innovation and a particular kind of emergence found in complex systems are connected.