[agents] Information Processing in Complex Networks

[David Rodrigues]

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            Information Processing in Complex Networks
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               www.computationalscience.nl/ipcs2013


                        As part of the
          European Conference on Complex Systems ( www.eccs13.eu )
            in Barcelona, Spain, on September 16-20, 2013
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Abstracts due:                        June 15
Decision of admission:                July 20
Satellite meeting:                    September 18

Dear researcher,

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 multilevel 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 multilevel 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 combination of rules of dynamics and topology of interactions,
with disparate semantics, may even reduce to a single language of
information processing.

                Please submit your abstract via
            www.computationalscience.nl/ipcs2013

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