From r.gross at sheffield.ac.uk Tue Aug 14 03:58:56 2012 From: r.gross at sheffield.ac.uk (Roderich Gross) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:58:56 +0100 Subject: [Swarm-Modelling] Call for Participation: ANTS 2012, Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence Message-ID: <3B86875B-B232-4A36-92BC-76870D04316A@sheffield.ac.uk> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ANTS 2012 Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence September 12-14, 2012. Brussels, Belgium Registration online: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012 Full program online: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012 Swarm intelligence is a relatively new discipline that deals with the study of self-organizing processes both in nature and in artificial systems. ANTS 2012 will give researchers in swarm intelligence the opportunity to meet, to present their latest research, and to discuss current developments and applications. --------------------------------------------------------------- Invited talks: Prof. Nigel R. Franks (University of Bristol, UK) on "Ants, Bees and Brains", Prof. Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania, USA) on "Architectures, abstractions, and algorithms for large teams of robots", Prof. Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) on "Towards Simulating the Foundations of Society" --------------------------------------------------------------- Best Paper Award: A best paper award will be presented at the conference. Continuing the tradition of the ANTS Conference Series, the prize winner will receive a sculpture of an ant expressly created for the ANTS Conference by the Italian sculptor Matteo Pugliese. --------------------------------------------------------------- Publication: Conference proceedings: vol. 7461 of LNCS, Springer, 2012; Selected papers in Swarm Intelligence journal --------------------------------------------------------------- We are looking forward to seeing you in Brussels. Marco Dorigo General Chair, ANTS 2012 Mauro Birattari and Thomas Stuetzle Organization Chairs, ANTS 2012 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2012 ants at iridia.ulb.ac.be -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wrand at rhsmith.umd.edu Thu Aug 23 17:12:59 2012 From: wrand at rhsmith.umd.edu (William M Rand) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:12:59 -0400 Subject: [Swarm-Modelling] CFP for 2012 Complexity in Business Conference Message-ID: Center for Complexity in Business - Call for Papers The Center for Complexity in Business invites you to submit an abstract for consideration for the 4th Annual Complexity in Business Conference. The conference will be held in Washington DC on November 9th, 2012. Keynote Speaker: Eric Bonabeau, Founder and Chairman -- Icosystem Corporation Submissions are encouraged that apply complex systems methods to any area of management science. Areas of focus include agent-based modeling, network science (social network analysis), nonlinear optimization (machine learning), spatial modeling (geographic information systems) and other techniques to analyze and solve problems that arise when large numbers of entities (consumers, employees, traders, firms, etc.) interact in ways that are too complex to be understood by more traditional management research tools. Interesting submissions could be based in practically any area of modern management, including marketing, information systems, operations and logistics, finance, and organization science. Specific topics might include: ? Computational Consumer Behavior Modeling ? Geography and Computational Modeling ? Diffusion of Innovation ? Network-based Organizational Learning ? Advanced Data Mining and Agent-based Modeling ? Leverage Points and Scenario Analysis ? Understanding the Economic and Cultural Implications of Internet-enabled Social Media Preference for academic abstracts will be given to more rigorous analytical, empirical, and behavioral approaches. Presentations should be 25 minutes in length. Abstracts may be submitted only via our conference page at EasyChair. Abstracts should be no longer than 1 page. The deadline for submissions is Sunday, September 9th, 2012 at 23:59, Eastern-Standard Time. The conference committee will select abstracts on a competitive basis, and authors will be notified by September 16th, 2012. Conference information is available at http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/ccb/conference/2012/ Center for Complexity in Business Robert H. Smith School of Business -- William Rand Phone: 301-405-7229 Fax: 301-405-0146 Director, Center for Complexity in Business, http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/ccb/ Asst. Prof. in Marketing, Decision, Operations & Information Technology, and Computer Science Robert H. Smith School of Business 3457 Van Munching Hall University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742-1815 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 6.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 31584 bytes Desc: not available URL: