Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006

Tentative Titles of the Invited Talks by the Keynote Speakers

Albert-László Barabási:
The Science of Complex Networks and its Relevance for Mobile Phone Companies

Armando Bazzani:
A Complex Systems Approach to Urban Mobility Governance

Eric Bonabeau:
Business life is a miracle

Stefan Bornholdt:
Physics of Networks: Tools for a Complex World

Vince Darley:
From Theory to Practice: Obstacles and Solutions to the Application of Complexity Science to Business Problems

Jean-Louis Deneubourg:
Learning from Social Insects and Applications of Ants Algorithms

Dario Floreano:
Swarms of Autonomous Robots: Design, Control, and Experimentation

Peter Hofmann:
Complexity Management in Technological Systems

Bernardo A. Huberman:
Harvesting Organizational Knowledge

Neil F. Johnson:
The Making and Breaking of Partnerships based on Money, Power, Love and War

Karl Kempf:
Complexity and Evolution in Seminconductor Supply Chains

Kai Nagel:
Societies as Complex Systems: How to Organize them Better

Oliver Rose:
Benefits and drawbacks of simple models for complex production systems

Dick Sanders:
Why Complexity Science Is So Important To Business Today And Why It Is So Difficult To Get This Message Across