For the CCS’15 Satellite Meeting: INFORMATION PROCESSING IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS (IPCS’15) you can submit your abstracts before 20 June: http://www.computationalscience.nl/ipcs2015/

Summary

All systems in nature have one thing in common: they process information. Information is registered in the state of a system and its elements, implicitly and invisibly. As elements interact, information is transferred. Indeed, bits of information about the state of one element will travel – imperfectly – to the state of the other element, forming its new state. This storage and transfer of information, possibly between levels of a multi level system, is imperfect due to randomness or noise. From this viewpoint, a system can be formalized as a collection of bits that is organized according to its rules of dynamics and its topology of interactions. Mapping out exactly how these bits of information percolate through the system could reveal new fundamental insights in how the parts orchestrate to produce the properties of the system. A theory of information processing would be capable of defining a set of universal properties of dynamical multi level complex systems, which describe and compare the dynamics of diverse complex systems ranging from social interaction to brain networks, from financial markets to biomedicine. Each possible combination of rules of dynamics and topology of interactions, with disparate semantics, would reduce to a single language of information processing.

The final meeting of the Sophocles project will takes place from 20-21 October 2015 in Amsterdam, and will be hosted by the University of Amsterdam.  During the last meeting in Mallorca many ongoing publication activities were discussed. We will work on their progress and the finalisation of our Sophocles deliverables.

Goals of WP2 meeting is to conceive a first draft formulation of the overall generic framework for information processing in dynamic complex systems.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2015.

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The fifth All Hands Meeting (AHM) of the Sophocles project takes place from 18-20 May 2015 on Mallorca, and will be hosted by the Universitat de les Illes Baleares. The meeting will last for 3 days and the whole consortium will come together to discuss their ongoing work, including updates about theory of information processing; theory of criticality, emergence, tipping points and self-organisation; computational exploratory; and socio-economic datasets.

At the European Conference for Complex Systems Sophocles organizes a Satellite event. The focus of IPCS’14 will be on information processing as a novel paradigm in understanding and modelling complex systems. For more information, please visit the conference website.

The fourth All Hands Meeting (AHM) of the Sophocles project takes place from 1st-3rd December 2014 in Bled, and will be hosted by the Insitut Jozef Stefan (JSI). The meeting will last for 3 days and the whole consortium will come together to discuss their ongoing work, including updates about theory of information processing; theory of criticality, emergence, tipping points and self-organisation; computational exploratory; and socio-economic datasets.

The third All Hands Meeting (AHM) of the Sophocles project takes place from 2-4 June 2014 in Geneva, and will be hosted by the University of Geneva (UNIGE). The meeting will last for 3 days and the whole consortium will come together to discuss their ongoing work, including updates about theory of information processing; theory of criticality, emergence, tipping points and self-organisation; computational exploratory; and socio-economic datasets.