12 Dec 2009
Reggio Emilia, Italy
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WORKSHOP on COMPLEXITY, EVOLUTION AND EMERGENT INTELLIGENCE
12 December 2009 Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Satellite workshop of
AI*IA 2009 International Conference of the
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
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* * * CALL FOR PAPERS *** EXTENDED DEADLINE October 11 **********
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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
WORKSHOP WEBSITE
Updated information can be found on the workshop section of the
conference website, http://www.aixia09.unimore.it
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:
ceei@unimore.it
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 11, 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)