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ETH Zurich's Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modelling and Simulation, led by Prof. Dirk Helbing, the scientific coordinator of the FuturICT project, is looking for 2 highly motivated Postdocs
Call for Applicants The New England Complex Systems Institute has funding for postdoctoral and predoctoral research stipends and scholarships starting immediately. We look for applicants with outstanding training in physics, mathematics or computer science. We value strong writing abilities. Candidates should be interested in contributing to a wide range of NECSI's research areas (...) http://www.necsi.edu/education/postdocstudent.html
Agent-based modeling is a vital technique for studying Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) as evidenced by the growing body of literature spanning disciplines ranging from Biology to the Social Sciences to Computer Science. This inaugural special issue of Springer Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (CASM) will publish key papers documenting multidisciplinary methods and applications for agent-based modeling of CAS. Agent-based modeling has become essential for the study of CAS. Many documented techniques and proven applications have emerged. This inaugural Special Issue will help consolidate these diverse ideas in a single volume and also help to introduce CASM to relevant communities. http://www.casmodeling.com/
Over the last decade, in the same formal space, VIDA has been bringing together inter-disciplinary projects that respond to new development in Artificial Live. By means of formal strategies that defy the boundaries between existing practices, these projects offer new ways of reflecting on what we understand by life. Fundacion Telefonica announces the Vida 14.0 Art & Artificial Life International Competition, which for the last fourteen years has awarded prizes for artistic projects using technological mediums offering innovative approaches to research into artificial life. The projects may be based on systems which emulate, imitate or speculate on the notion of life through current research and technology. These systems may involve attributes of agency and autonomy which display specific behaviour, are dynamic, react to their surroundings and evolve, and which question the frontiers between what is alive and what is not, between synthetic and organic life.
Cities cannot be meaningfully recognized by their parts – they function as whole – and their character is emergent being co-authored by its communities. Cities are being robbed of their relationship to people and reduced into modular, meaningless items. The City as an Ecosystem Rachel Armstrong http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/06/13/the-city-as-an-ecosystem/
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Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (CASM) is a highly multidisciplinary modeling and simulation journal that serves as a unique forum for original, high-quality peer-reviewed papers with a specific interest and scope limited to agent-based and complex network-based modeling paradigms for Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS).
3 PhD positions on evolution of speech Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium Deadline: July first 2012 Envisaged starting date: September 2012 The AI-lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is looking for three PhD students that will work on Bart de Boer’s European Research Council project “ABACUS”. The ABACUS project investigates (evolution of) cognitive mechanisms for dealing with combinatorial speech. It uses a combination of iterated learning experiments, individual learning experiments and computational modeling. For each of these lines of research, a PhD position is available. The PhDs of the different projects are expected to cooperate closely with each other.
Our group based at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, is looking for a PhD candidate to work on the analysis of dynamical social networks and the adaptive benefit of individual strategies in a population of wild house mice. Name: Nicolas Perony Email: nperony@ethz.ch
Intelligent systems and robots are expected to become an integral part of our daily lives. In order to be accepted by, and interact efficiently and naturally with humans, they have to adapt to changing environments as well as the users they interact with. Intelligent systems are not only expected to automatically acquire and manage knowledge through a variety of sensors but also to learn and optimise their behaviour over time. This International Master’s programme aims to provide students with the ability to create these intelligent adaptive systems and to prepare them for a future market, where intelligent behaviour is considered the standard for computer systems.
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Complex Systems Society: Job Market Portal
Valparaíso Complex Systems Institute website has a new image
The Complex Systems Society is launching a Liquid Journal of Complex Systems. It is an online journal that allows the possibility of the publication to evolve with community feedback until it reaches a state ready for printed publication.
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Udacity is a totally new kind of learning experience. You learn by solving challenging problems and pursuing udacious projects with world-renowned university instructors (not by watching long, boring lectures). At Udacity, we put you, the student, at the center of the universe.
DDLab update June 2012 Announcing two alternative updates, ddlabm08 and ddlabx09, including source code, and compiled versions -- 64-bit for Linux, 32-bit for Linux, Mac, Cygwin and DOS. http://www.ddlab.org/
Peerage of Science is... …a community of Peers, formed through invitations between scientists who trust each other as scientists. The community is meant to become inclusive, so that eventually anyone considered a scientist by another scientist can join Peerage of Science. Membership in Peerage of Science is not anonymous. …a web application offering automatically controlled, standardized, rigorous, fully anonymous peer review. In Peerage of Science, all the automatically enforced deadlines are known in advance by everyone, and the peer review is always on time. Each manuscript is peer-reviewed before submission to any journal, and only once.
CALL FOR PAPERS Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling Special Issue on Multidisciplinary Applications of Complex Networks Modeling, Simulation, Visualization & Analysis Deadline October 1st http://www.casmodeling.com/
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The PyCX Project aims to develop an online repository of simple, crude, yet easy-to-understand Python sample codes for dynamic complex systems simulations, including iterative maps, cellular automata, dynamical networks and agent-based models.
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Welcome to the Network Science in Education site of the Center for Polymer Studies (CPS) Science Education Group at Boston University. Our science education work is a significant aspect of the goals of our interdisciplinary research center in the Physics Department and Science and Mathematics Education Center. Our research is devoted to interdisciplinary study of aspects of polymer, random, fractal and complex systems.
Network Science is a new journal for a new discipline -- one using the network paradigm, focusing on actors and relational linkages, to inform research, methodology, and applications from many fields across the natural, social, engineering and informational sciences. Given growing understanding of the interconnectedness and globalization of the world, network methods are an increasingly recognized way to research aspects of modern society along with the individuals, organizations, and other actors within it.
The 21st century is currently witnessing the establishment of data-driven science as a complementary approach to the traditional hypothesis-driven method. This (r)evolution accompanying the paradigm shift from reductionism to complex systems sciences has already largely transformed the natural sciences and is about to bring the same changes to the techno-socio-economic sciences, viewed broadly.
Editors-in-Chief Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zürich Alessandro Vespignani, Northeastern University
10 years of "A New Kind of Science"
Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science was published almost 10 years ago on May 14, 2002. As a part of the 10th anniversary celebration, they are inventorying advances in NKS from the past decade: published and unpublished work motivated by NKS, including papers, artwork, programs, and products. Should you have or known a project motivated by NKS (completed or in progress) they would love to hear from you. Please send information about the project to nks-advances@wolfram.com.
Join our mission to find 5 people in different cities around the world in a day! If you help us win the challenge to locate all 5 of them, you will earn yourself a share of the cash prize!
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Animals are proof that complete cognitive systems can be realized in neural substrates. It is thus natural that engineers from AI and machine learning have tried to design advanced cognitive systems on the basis of artificial neural networks. This has led to illuminating concepts and architectures in fields like computational linguistics, dynamic pattern recognition, autonomous agents, or evolutionary robotics. However, if one takes a close and critical look, one finds that nowhere do artificial systems close to biological levels of performance. One important cause for this gap is a lack of appropriate mathematical concepts. Biological neural systems are high-dimensional, nonlinear, heterogeneous, multiscale, nonstationary, stochastic, and heavily input-driven - a cocktail of properties which overwhelms current dynamical systems theory. Inasmuch as we do not possess mathematical models for such systems, we cannot understand them; and inasmuch as we do not understand, we cannot engineer. ...
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