Thank you.
Miscellaneous News Items
- New ACE-Related Survey Materials
- A number of new ACE-related survey materials by John Duffy, Blake
LeBaron, Scott Page, and Nick Vriend have been added to the
ACE-Related Surveys
site linked to the ACE web site home page.
Program, Course, and Position Announcements
- Fellows at Large at SFI
- ***Please note: The deadline for applications has been extended to
October 1, 1999.***
- The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is pleased to announce the 2000 SFI
Fellows-at-Large Program. The purpose of the program is to support the
research efforts of young scholars in the area of complex systems, and to
promote the establishment of such research agendas in the individuals' home
institutions.
- The program will provide funds for the participants to invite
SFI-affiliated researchers to visit the Fellows' home institutions for
research talks and short-term collaborations. In addition, the Fellows will
be expected to attend two meetings to be held at the SFI (one meeting at the
beginning of their tenure, and one at the conclusion of their tenure) to
interact with each other, with outgoing Fellows-at-Large, and with SFI
visitors and staff. The duration of the appointment will be one year.
- The SFI Fellowships-at-Large will be awarded annually to individuals
who, at the time of application, are no more than five years beyond their
Ph.D. Unusually well-qualified advanced graduate students are also eligible.
Applicants will be expected to provide evidence of their interest and prior
involvement in complex systems research. Alumni of the Complex Systems Summer
School and the Computational Economics Graduate Workshop are especially
encouraged to apply.
- The program is limited, at this point, to applicants affiliated with
a U.S. research or academic institution who expect that their institutional
affiliation will not change for the duration of their appointment.
- The term of the appointment is January 1-December 31, 2000.
Applications for the 2000 Fellows-at-Large Program may be submitted anytime
up through October 1, 1999. Decisions will be made by October 15, 1999.
Submissions should include a curriculum vitae, a letter of recommendation
from an individual familiar with the candidate's research, a two-page
statement that outlines the applicant's current research efforts in the area
of complex systems, and a letter of support from the candidate's department
head outlining both the candidate's qualifications and the department's
commitment to the activities involved in the Fellowship.
- How to Apply: All applications must be sent by postal mail
and should include an email address and/or fax number. Only complete
applications, including reference letters, will be considered. Applications
must be postmarked no later than indicated deadline. Direct applications to
Christine C. Gonzales, Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New
Mexico 87501. Indicate on the lower left hand corner of the envelope the
program to which you are applying.
- If you have questions, please direct them to Christine Gonzales.
Telephone: (505) 984-8800 ext. 235; Fax: (505) 982-0565; email:
cg@santafe.edu. The Santa Fe Institute is an equal opportunity employer.
Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Christine Gonzales, Telephone
(505) 984-8800 (ext. 235); FAX 982-0565.
-
Complex Systems Fundamentals
- The New England Complex Systems Institute is sponsoring an intensive
one week course on Complex Systems Fundamentals to be held October
4-8, 1999, in the Boston area. Subject matter will include multiple scales,
statistical methods, information, time series analysis, nonlinear dynamics,
computer modeling, networks, informatics, pattern formation, computational
paradigm, evolutionary paradigm, interdependence, adaptation, and emergence
and complexity. Demonstration of the application of complex systems methods
will be made through a case study focusing on the aging of human physiology,
stressing topics such as system structure, dynamic response, function,
physical degradation of non-equilibrium structure, heart rate dynamics,
neural systems, bone tissue, and genetic issues.
- This course is meant for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and
faculty who would like to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of
complex systems and to develop methodological tools for conducting research
in their respective fields. To register, contact Angela Urillo
(angela@necsi.org). For more information, visit
http://www.necsi.org/events/cxintensive/cxintensive.html.
- Postdocs and Ph.D. Students in Evolutionary Economics
- Notice received June 22, 1999: "At the National Research Institute for
Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the
research group on Evolutionary Computation and Applied Algorithmics currently
has postdoc and Ph.D. student positions available in the fields of
evolutionary algorithms and economics. Candidates are sought in the fields
of economics and computer science. Application fields include e-commerce,
game theory, trading software agents, and self-organization in e-markets."
- If you are interested, please contact dr. Han La Poutré
(Research Group Leader, Tel: +31 20 5924082, Email: hlp@cwi.nl), or visit
the CWI Web Site.
- Graduate Minor in Complex Adaptive Systems at ISU
- Iowa State University is initiating a new graduate program for the
Fall semester 1999, a Graduate Minor in Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). The
CAS minor will permit graduate students to apply techniques from areas such
as evolutionary computation, agent-based computational economics, artificial
neural nets, and fuzzy logic to their thesis research within their major
area. The CAS minor program is an outgrowth of the weekly interdisciplinary
CAS Workshop which has been running continuously at Iowa State University
since 1993; for CAS Workshop activities, see
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/caswork.htm.
For more information about the CAS minor program, contact John
Mayfield (Associate Dean of the Graduate College, jemayf@iastate.edu).
Members of the CAS program steering committee can be found by visiting
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/cas.html.
Book Announcements
Note: The following book announcements have been incorporated into the
annotated syllabus of ACE-related readings linked to the ACE web site home
page. Links to publishers (for ordering purposes) can be found on the
journal and book announcements and information page linked to the ACE web
site home page.
- K. K. Dhanda, A. Nagurney, and P. Ramanujam, Environmental
Networks: A Framework for Economic Decision-Making and Policy
Analysis, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999, 400 pp., $65.00
(hardcover). ISBN: 1-84064-041-3
- From the publisher: "This original book presents a new
basis for environmental policymaking: environmental networks. This
framework graphically simplifies the analysis of environmental
problems and emphasizes the spatial nature of economic activity and
pollution dispersion."
- "The book first discusses the foundations of environmental
economics before going on to apply the environmental network
approach to different firm structures. The authors then extend the
analysis to incorporate multiple products and pollutants, the
presence of transaction costs, the availability of investment in
production technologies, and the issue of noncompliance versus
compliance. They also apply the network approach to pollution
caused by transportation and assess the success of permits in
limiting this. The authors then formulate integrated models,
analyzing the use of permits and taxes in firms, producers, and
consumers, as well as transportation and trade routes."
- "This book will be of interest to students, researchers,
practitioners, and policymakers in environmental and transport
economics."
- Kanwalroop Kathy Dhanda is an Assistant Professor at the
School of Business Administration, University of Portland, U.S.;
Anna Nagurney is the John F. Smith Memorial Professor at the
Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, U.S.; and Padma Ramanujam is at the Isenberg School of
Management, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, U.S.
- Howard J. Sherman and Ron Schultz, Open Boundaries: Creating Business
Innovation Through Complexity, Perseus Books, 1998, 256 pp., $26.00
(hardcover). ISBN: 0-738-20005-0
- From the publisher: "Open Boundaries introduces a practical
vocabulary to help managers understand, analyze, and nurture the creative
process by eshewing linear `cause and effect' approaches to decision making
in favor of an approach that thrives on ambiguity and unpredictability.
Showcasing the pioneering efforts of such organizations as Xerox-PARC,
Applied Biosystems, Patagonia, and the United States Marine Corps, the
authors vividly illustrate the power of complexity thinking in action -- from
creating new markets to establishing new ways of spreading emerging knowledge
throughout the company."
- Mary Ann Allison and Susanne Kelly, The Complexity Advantage: How the
Science of Complexity Can Help Your Business Achieve Peak Performance,
McGraw-Hill Companies, 1999, 240 pp., $24.95 (hardcover). ISBN:
0-070-01400-0
- From the publisher: "In The Complexity Advantage, consultants
Susanne Kelly and Mary Ann Allison give us the first truly practical guide
for using the principles of complexity theory to transform any business,
large or small, into one that can consistently redefine itself to keep pace
with today's ever-changing marketplace. Based largely on the insights they
gained from Citibank's successful, pioneering implementation of
complexity-based programs in the workplace, the authors provide a
fascinating first-hand look at how complexity theory was applied in the
company's technology community to meet a broad range of ongoing business
challenges. The Complexity Advantage can show any business leader how
to boost productivity, acquire better ways of leading, and be better able to
understand and influence vital relationships with employees, customers, and
vendors."
- Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Self-Organized Criticality: Emergent Complex
Behavior in Physical and Biological Systems, Cambridge University Press,
1998, 168 pp., $32.95 (paperback, Barnesandnoble.com). ISBN 0-521-48371-9
- From the publisher: "Self-organized criticality (SOC) is based upon
the idea that complex behavior can develop spontaneously in certain
multi-body systems whose dynamics vary abruptly. This book is a clear and
concise introduction to the field of self-organized criticality, and contains
an overview of the main research results. The author presents and analyzes
computer models to describe a number of systems, and he explains the
different mathematical formalisms developed to understand SOC. The final
chapter assesses the impact of this field of study, and highlights some key
areas of new research."
- Michael I. Jordan (ed.), Learning in Graphical Models,
MIT Press, Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series, 1999,
648 pp., $50.00 (paper). ISBN 0-262-60032-3
- From the publisher: "Graphical models, a marriage between
probability theory and graph theory, provide a natural tool for
dealing with two problems that occur throughout applied mathematics
and engineering -- uncertainty and complexity. In particular, they
play an increasingly important role in the design and analysis of
machine learning algorithms. Fundamental to the idea of a graphical
model is the notion of modularity: a complex system is built by
combining simpler parts. Probability theory serves as the glue
whereby the parts are combined, ensuring that the system as a whole
is consistent and providing ways to interface models to data. Graph
theory provides both an intuitively appealing interface by which
humans can model highly interacting sets of variables and a data
structure that lends itself naturally to the design of efficient
general-purpose algorithms."
- "This book presents an in-depth exploration of issues related
to learning within the graphical model formalism. Four chapters are
tutorial chapters: Robert Cowell on Inference for Bayesian Networks;
David MacKay on Monte Carlo Methods; Michael I. Jordan et al. on
Variational Methods; and David Heckerman on Learning with Bayesian
Networks. The remaining chapters cover a wide range of topics of
current research interest."
- For more information about this book, visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/JORLPS99.
- A. E. Eiben and Z. Michalewicz (eds.),
Evolutionary Computation, IOS Press, 1999, 266 pp., $86. ISBN
9-05199-471-1
- From the editors: "Evolutionary algorithms (EA) have received
considerable attention regarding their potential for solving real-world
problems involving various types of tasks. ... These include numerical and
combinatorial optimization, machine learning, optimal control, cognitive
modeling, classical operation research problems (travelling salesman
problem, knapsack problems, transportation problems, assignment problems, bin
packing, scheduling, partitioning, etc.), engineering design, system
integration, iterated games, robotics, signal processing and many others.
The editors of this book are proud to present a collection of papers that
reflects the diversity of the field of evolutionary computing."
- A. E. Eiben is with the Leiden Center for Natural Computing,
Leiden University, The Netherlands. Z. Michalewicz is with the University of
Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
- David Corne, Marco Dorigo, and Fred Glover (eds.), New Ideas in
Optimization, McGraw-Hill,
1999, £34.99. ISBN 0-07-709506-5
- From the publisher: "New Ideas in Optimization
is suitable for advanced undergraduate and masters course modules in Heuristic
Techniques, Optimization, Evolutionary Algorithms and Advance Problem Solving
taught worldwide as part of Computer Science, AI, and Intelligent Systems
degrees. ... (This is) the first book to introduce, in a way suitable for
advanced undergraduates and above, the very latest collection of optimization
techniques in computer science and artificial intelligence. (E)ach of the
new techniques is introduced by either its inventor or a pioneer in its
applications."
- Topics include: ant colony optimization; differential evolution;
immune system methods; memetic algorithms; scatter search and path relinking;
coevolutionary algorithms; cultural algorithms; particle swarm systems;
parallel distributed genetic programming; and probabilistic incremental
program evolution. A companion web site at
http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/corne
provides source code and demonstrations for many of the new techniques
discussed in the book.
- David Corne is with the University of Reading, UK. Marco
Dorigo is a research associate with the Belgian FNRS at the Université
Libre de Bruxelles. Fred Glover is the MediaOne Chaired Professor at the
University of Colorado, USA.
Software
Note: Pointers to the following materials have been incorporated into
the software page linked to the ACE web site home page.
- Cognitive Agent Software Toolkit
- From the developer (CHI Systems, Inc., Pennsylvania, U.S.A.):
"iGEN is a set of software tools that enables users to develop, test
and deploy cognitive agents. iGEN is based on the premise that software
tools called cognitive agents can be developed from models of human
expertise. This premise is supported in iGEN by COGNET (COGnitive NETwork of
Tasks), a cognitive/behavioral analysis method which integrates concepts and
constructs from human engineering, cognitive science, and artificial
intelligence."
- Requests for more information about iGen should be directed
to iGen@chiinc.com, or visit
http://www.chiinc.com.
- Sim_Agent Toolkit
- From the developer (Aaron Sloman, School of Computer
Science, University of Birmingham, UK): "The Sim_Agent Toolkit was
developed within the Cognition and Affect Project at the University
of Birmingham, UK. ... From our work exploring architectural design
requirements for intelligent human-like agents, and other kinds, we
need a facility for rapidly implementing and testing out different
agent architectures, including scenarios where each agent is
composed of several different sorts of concurrent interacting
sub-systems, in an environment where there are other agents and
objects. Some agents should have sensors and effectors, and some
should be allowed to communicate with others. Some agents should
have hybrid architectures including, for example, symbolic
mechanisms communicating with neural nets. We also wanted to be
able to use the toolkit for exploring evolutionary processes...
As a result... a set of ideas for (the Sim_Agent Toolkit)
emerged. The first draft was made available in October 1994 and
since then there have been many extensions. ... The Toolkit uses the
Pop-11 language in the Poplog software development environment."
- A detailed description of the Sim_Agent Toolkit, some uses of the
Toolkit, and the Toolkit itself can be found at
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/cog_affect/sim_agent.html.
- Evolutionary Algorithms Visualizer
- Peter A. N. Bosman (Department of Computer Science, Utrecht
University, The Netherlands) has created the EA Visualizer, a general
framework and development environment for evolutionary algorithms (EAs),
written in Java, that permits researchers to interactively view their EAs at
runtime. Documentation on the system consists of a graduation paper, a
technical modelling issues paper, and a tutorial, all of which can be found
at a computer science web site maintained by Bosman at
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/peterb/computer/computer.html.
The EA Visualizer site linked to this computer science
web site provides information about how to obtain the latest version (1.4) of
the system as well as information about joining a mailing list for system
users. A Java applet version of the system is also available online.
- Macintosh Artificial Life Software
- An annotated archive of artificial life software that runs
on the Macintosh is maintained by Brian Hill (computer programmer, CCNet) at
http://www.ccnet.com/~bhill/elsewhere.html.
Sample entries include MacTierra 1,8.3, models of self-organization, and
MacCellular Automata.
Research Groups and Sites
Note: Pointers to the following research groups and sites have been
incorporated into the ACE-related research groups and sites page linked to
the ACE web site home page.
- Association for Evolutionary Economics
- The Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) is an
international organization of economists and other social scientists
devoted to the analysis of economies as evolving, socially
constructed, and politically governed systems. The intellectual
heritage of AFEE is that of the original institutional economics
created and developed by early twentieth-century economists such as
Thorstein Veblen, John R. Commons, and Wesley Mitchell. The AFEE
sponsors the Journal of Economic Issues, published quarterly,
whose primary mission is to present articles that use and develop
the core ideas of institutional economics in discussions of current
economic problems and policy alternatives.
- For more information about the AFEE, visit the AFEE web
site at
http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/.
- International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society
- The International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (ISS),
hosted by Prof. Dr. Horst Hanusch at the University of Augsburg,
Germany, was founded in 1986 at the initiative of Hanusch and
Wolfgang F. Stolper. The ISS has as its principal aim the scientific
study of the problems of development. Following the ideas of
Schumpeter, it conceives of development as a combination of growth
and structural change. The ISS seeks to foster knowledge in a
scientific and non-ideological way by respecting facts as they are
and not as one wishes them to be.
- Membership in the ISS includes a subscription to the
Journal of Evolutionary Economics. For more information
about the ISS, visit the ISS web site at
http://www.wiso.uni-augsburg.de/vwl/hanusch/iss.htm
- UK Enterprise Project
- The Enterprise Project, with web site at
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~entprise/enterprise/,
is a major initiative by the UK government to promote the use of
knowlege-based systems in enterprise modelling. The Enterprise
Project addresses the key problems of communication, process
consistency, impacts of change, IT systems, and responsiveness.
- From the Enterprise Project web site: "The (Enterprise
Project focuses) on management innovation and the strategic use of
information technology to help manage change. It supports the use
of enterprise modelling methods which capture various aspects of how
a business works and how it is organised. The aim of enterprise
modelling is to obtain an enterprise-wide view of an organisation
which can then be used as a basis for taking decisions. During the
Enterprise Project, the Enterprise Toolset was developed. The
Toolset uses executable process models to help users to perform
their tasks. It is implemented using an agent-based architecture to
integrate off-the-shelf tools in a plug-and-play style. ... the
inclusion of the end-user organisations LLoyd's Register, Unilever
and IBM (has) enabled the evaluation of the Toolset in the context
of real business applications."
- For more information regarding the Enterprise Project and the
availability of the Enterprise Toolset, visit the Enterprise Project web
site.
- Conscious Software
- Stan Franklin, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University
of Memphis, Tennessee, and well-known author of Artificial Minds
(MIT Press, 1995), maintains a web site titled Conscious Software at
http://www.msci.memphis.edu:80/~franklin/conscious_software.html.
- From the web site introduction: "By a `conscious' software agent we
mean a cognitive agent (an autonomous agent with human-like cognitive
features) designed within the constraints of Baar's global workspace theory
of consciousness. Like the Roman god Janus, the conscious software project
has two faces, its science face and its engineering face. Its science side
will flesh out the global workspace theory of consciousness, while its
engineering side explores architectural designs for information agents that
promise more flexible, more human-like intelligence within their domains."
- Accounts of various conscious software projects by Franklin and his
collaborators can be found at the Conscious Software web site.
- Laboratory for Natural and Simulated Cognition
- The Laboratory for Natural and Simulated Cognition (LNSC) at McGill
University in Montreal, Canada, maintains a web site at
http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/labs/lnsc/html/Lab-Home.html.
The LNSC investigates human cognition through a combination of psychological
and computational approaches. Basic psychological phenomena are simulated in
a connectionist framework, often leading to predictions that are tested with
humans. Current projects concern cognitive development, interactions between
knowledge and learning, techniques for analyzing knowledge representations in
neural nets, and cognitive consistency phenomena in social psychology.
- Collective Intelligence
- Researchers David Wolpert, Kagan Tumer, Ann M. Bell, Hal Duncan,
and Sergey Kirshner (Computational Sciences Division, Nasa Ames Research
Center, Moffett Field, California) maintain a web site describing their work
on "Collective Intelligence" (COIN) at
http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/ic/projects/collective-intelligence.html.
A COIN is defined as a large multi-agent system for which two properties
hold: (1) there is little to no centralized communication or control; and
(2) there is provided a world utility function that rates the possible
histories of the system. Applications to date include packet-routing,
the leader-follower problem, and variants of W. Brian Arthur's El Farol
bar problem. Other envisioned applications include routing of air traffic,
control of swarms of spacecraft, and communication among the multiple
processors in a modern computer.
- Primordial Soup Kitchen
- David Griffeath (Department of Mathematics at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, USA) maintains a web site titled The Primordial Soup
Kitchen at
http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/welcome.html
Griffeath specializes in the self-organization of random cellular automata.
For the past ten years he has been producing colorful computer graphics and
animations that illustrate the ability of local parallel update rules to
generate spatial structure from disordered initial states, some of which have
been featured in Nonlinear Science Today, The Scientific
American, and James Gleick's Chaos: The Software. The
Primordial Soup Kitchen provides a gallery for some of this work as
well as providing links to relevant software for those interested in
generating their own graphics and animations.
- Visual Models of Morphogenesis: A Guided Tour
- Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Mark Hammel, and Radomir Mech (Department
of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada) maintain a hypertext
document titled Visual Models of Morphogenesis: A Guided Tour at
http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/projects/bmv/vmm/title.html.
This document reviews models of morphogenesis with a significant visual
component that have been developed or reproduced in the computer science
departments at the University of Regina and the University of Calgary.
Key topics include: morphogenesis; simulation and visualization
of biological phenomena; developmental models; reaction-diffusion;
diffusion-limited growth; cellular automaton; L-systems; and realistic image
synthesis.
Journal Announcements
Note: Pointers to the journals listed below can be found on the
journal and publisher information page linked to the ACE web site home page.
- New Journal on Cognitive Systems Research
- The new journal Cognitive Systems Research, published both
electronically and in hardcopy form by Elsevier, is now officially accepting
submissions. The first issue is expected to appear in print by January 2000.
The official webpage for the journal is available at:
http://www.elsevier.nl:80/inca/publications/store/6/2/0/2/8/8/.
- Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation
- The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation is
published by John Wiley, with N. Magnenat Thalmann (University of Geneva,
Switzerland) and D. Thalmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Switzerland) as Editors-in-Chief.
- From the publisher: "The field of computer animation is
interdisciplinary and attracts those working in the science and arts
applying animation techniques. The topics covered in this journal
range from scenario making through the post-production stage. The
journal publishes research papers on the technological developments
(both hardware and software) that will make animation tools more
accessible to end-users. It also publishes new application areas
for animation films and encourages submissions of case studies to
demonstrate to film makers what techniques have previously been
drawn on and their results."
- For more information, visit the publisher's online journal
catalog at
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journalfinder.html
Workshops and Meetings
Note: The following announcements have been incorporated into the
workshops and meetings page linked to the ACE web site home page.
- The 8th Annual Logic Summer School, December 1999
- The Automated Reasoning Project in the Research School of Information
Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University will host the
8th Annual Logic Summer School during December 6--17, 1999, in
Canberra, Australia. The school will consist of short courses on aspects of
pure and applied logic taught by experts from Australia and overseas. Course
topics include, among others: artificial intelligence (belief revision,
machine learning, and search); computability and incompleteness (computable
and recursive functions, and Gödel's incompleteness theorem); and logic
for programming languages (programs as typed higher-order equational
theories, and declarative and operational semantics).
- For eligibility criteria and application forms, visit the Logic
Summer School's web site at
http://arp.anu.edu.au/lss.
- Workshop on Agents in E-Commerce, December 1999
- A Workshop on Agents in E-Commerce, chaired by Yiming Ye of
the IBM T. J. Watson Resarch Center, USA, will be held as part of the
First Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT'99), Hong Kong, December 14-17, 1999. Topics for submission include
but are not limited to: architectures, environments and languages for
e-commerce agents; action planning for e-commerce agents; adaptation and
learning for e-commerce agents; human and agent interaction in e-commerce;
and virtual agent-based marketplaces.
- The deadline for paper submissions is October 5, 1999. For more
information, visit the workshop web site at
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99/.
- Workshop on Economic Dynamics, January 2000
- The Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF)
at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, will sponsor a Workshop
on Economic Dynamics during January 13--15, 2000. Central workshop
themes include, among others: expectations and learning; bounded rationality;
complex and adaptive systems; nonlinear dynamics; dynamic asset pricing;
market efficiency; and heterogeneous agents.
- For more information, visit the CeNDEF web site at
http://www.fee.uva.nl/cendef.
- First International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in
Economics and Finance, February 2000
- The First International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in
Economics and Finance (CIEF'2000) will be held as a part of the Fifth
Joint Conference on Information Science in Atlantic City, New Jersey,
during February 27--March 3, 2000. Central workshop themes include,
among others: agent-based computational economics; artificial stock markets;
simulation of social processes; evolutionary games and industrial
organization; financial engineering; and financial data mining.
- For more information, visit the CIEF'2000 web site at
http://econo.nccu.edu.tw/ai/conference/CIEF00.htm
or contact Shu-Heng Chen at chchen@nccu.edu.tw.
- Complex Behavior in Economics, May 2000
- A workshop on Complex Behavior in Economics: Modeling, Computing,
and Mastering Complexity will be held in Aix en Provence (Marseilles),
France, May 4--6, 2000. The workshop is sponsored by the Society for
Computational Economics (Special Interest Group on Economic Dynamics) and the
Centre D'Economie et de Finances Internationales (CEFI) at the University of
Aix-Marseille II. The workshop will focus on three main themes: aggregated
models of economic behavior; disaggregated models of economic behavior and
artificial societies; and mastering complex problems in economics, finance,
and management.
- For more information, visit the conference web site at
http://sceco.univ-aix.fr/cefi/aix2000.htm
of contact Professor Christophe Deissenberg (CEFI,
University of Aix-Marseille II) at deissenb@romarin.univ-aix.fr or
cefi@univ-aix.fr.
- Symposium on Neural Computation, May 2000
- The Second International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation
(NC'2000) will be held at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany,
during May 23-26, 2000. NC'2000 will be chaired by Prof. Hans Heinrich Bothe
(Department of Technology Science, Oerebro, Sweden). Topics include, among
others: Computational neural network models; Neurophysiologically inspired
models; Software and hardware implementations; and Neural net applications.
Submissions of papers must be received by October 31, 1999.
- For more information, visit
http://www.icsc.ab.ca/nc2000.htm.
Reminder: Items Requested for ACE News Notes and Complexity
Just a reminder that if you have any ACE-related news items, or
any information about ACE-related teaching materials, software, books,
journals, or conferences that you would like to have considered for inclusion
in the ACE news notes, and/or the Complexity-at-Large section of the John
Wiley journal Complexity, please email them to me (along with web site
information if available) at the following address:
tesfatsi@iastate.edu.
Copyright © 1999 Leigh Tesfatsion. All Rights Reserved.