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Complex Adaptive Systems Symposium:
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium
CAS and the Threshold Effect: Views from the Natural and Social Sciences.
Fall Symposium - Nov. 5 - 7, 2009 - Arlington, VA
Submission Deadline: May 29th, 2009
Description from the organizers:
Most interesting phenomena in natural and social systems include transitions and oscillations among their various phases. Companies, societies, markets, and humans rarely stay in a stable, predictable state for long. Randomness, power laws, and human behavior ensure that the future is both unknown and challenging. How do events unfold? When do they take hold? Why do some initial events cause an avalanche while others do not? What are the characteristics of these threshold phenomena that differentiate a sea change from a non-event?
Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) have proven to be a powerful tool for exploring threshold phenomena. We characterize a general CASmodel as having a significant number of self-similar agents that:
- utilize one or more levels of feedback;
- exhibit emergent properties and self-organization;
- produce non-linear dynamic behavior.
Advances in modeling and computing technology have led to a deeper understanding of complex systems in many areas, and have raised the possibility that similar fundamental principles may be at work across these systems, even though the underlying principles may manifest themselves differently.
We therefore invite submissions from the community of CASresearchers that address the threshold phenomena in any of the Natural, Physical, or Social Sciences. It is our belief that by bringing together researchers from diverse fields who study these complex systems, we can leverage a deep understanding of one domain to gain insight into others.
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Also!
10th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage:
7th Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage
September 22-25, 2009, Malta
Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2009
Description from the organizers:
-Towards a “digital agenda” for the integration of technologies into Archaeology and Cultural Heritage-
Nearly every organization whose mission includes promoting access to cultural information, is well aware of the value of digital applications, and digital technologies are finding their way into cultural organizations. Nevertheless, a clear-cut division still exists between humanities researchers, computer science researchers, information scientists, librarians, and campus technologists, which prevents a complete achievement of the potential represented by the integration of these disciplines. Each community has distinctive practices, lingo, assumptions, and concerns. Understanding technology needs of the humanities, and more specifically of Archaeology, Libraries and Cultural Heritage, has particular relevance to the future of knowledge and education delivery, as well as, to develop shared technology services to enhance humanities research now and in the future.
The main goal of this VAST is to bring together professionals from all fields to start a true dialogue on CH needs and ICT solutions and achieve a true integration of disciplines. This VAST aims at disseminating the idea of a more systematic integration of digital practices in research and education programs for CH, exploring good practices, guidelines and skills development possibilities to structure long-term initiatives and move towards a “digital agenda” for Archaeology, Libraries and CH.