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

Program

August 3, Thursday   August 4, Friday   August 5, Saturday

August 3, Thursday

09:00 - 09.05 Imre Kondor
(Collegium Budapest, Institute of Advanced Study, HU)
Welcome Address by the Rector of the Collegiums Budapest
[mp3]

09:05 - 09.25 Dirk Helbing
(Dresden University of Technology, Inst. for Transport and Economics, D)
Introduction to the Workshop
[mp3] [pdf]

09:25 - 09.55 Self-Introduction of the Keynote Speakers and Their Fields
[mp3]

09:55 - 10.40 Bernardo A. Huberman
(Hewlett Packard, USA)
Harvesting Organizational Knowledge
[mp3] [pdf]

10:40 – 11:05 Group Photograph + Coffee Break

11:05 - 11.50 Stefan Bornholdt
(University of Bremen, Inst. for Theoretical Physics, D)
Physics of Networks: Tools for a Complex World
[mp3]

11:50 - 12.35 Jean-Louis Deneubourg
(University of Brussels, B)
Learning from Social Insects and Applications of Ants Algorithms
[mp3]

12:35 – 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 14.30 Neil F. Johnson
(University of Oxford, UK)
The Making and Breaking of Partnerships based on Money, Power, Love and War
[pdf]

14:30 - 15.15 Dick Sanders
(SCA Packaging, B)
Why Complexity Science Is So Important To Business Today
And Why It Is So Difficult To Get This Message Across
[mp3] [ppt]

15:15 – 15:35 Lunch

15:35 - 16.20 Hani Mahmassani
(Transportation Initiative, University of Maryland, USA)
Repeated Auction Games and Learning Dynamics in Electronic Logistics
Market-places: Regulation Through Information
[mp3] [ppt]

16:20 - 17.05 Oliver Rose
(Dresden University of Technology, Inst. for Applied Computer Science)
Simple Models and Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation of
Complex Manufacturing Systems
[mp3] [ppt]

17:05 – 19:05 Poster Session
The Keynote Speakers Form the Committee to Determine the 3 Best Posters

19:15 – 22:00 Social Dinner


August 4, Friday   Top

09:00 - 09.45 Albert-László Barabási
(Notre Dame, USA)
Complex Networks, and Applications
[mp3]

09:45 - 10.30 Karl Kempf
(INTEL, USA)
Complexity and Evolution in Semiconductor Supply Chains
[mp3] [ppt]

10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 11.35 Vince Darley
Eurobios, UK)
From Theory to Practice: Obstacles and Solutions to the
Application of Complexity Science to Business Problems
[mp3] [ppt]

11:35 - 12:20 Armando Bazzani
(Bologna, I)
A Complex Systems Approach to Urban Mobility Governance
[mp3]

12:20 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:15 Eric Bonabeau
(Icosystems, USA)
Business Life is a Miracle
[mp3]

14:15 - 14:45 Gabor Vattay
(Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
Measuring the Spatial Structure of Traffic Congestion in the Internet
[mp3] [ppt]

14:45 - 15:15 Markus Kirkilionis
(University of Warwick, Mathematics Institute, UK)
Modularity in Dynamical Networks
[mp3] [pdf]

15:15 – 15:35 Coffee Break

15:35 - 16:20 Dario Floreano
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, CH)
Swarms of Autonomous Robots: Design, Control, and Experimentation
[mp3]

16:20 - 17:05 3 Selected Poster Contributors
Sefan Lämmer [mp3] [ppt]
Martin Schönhof [mp3] [ppt]
Jan Lorenz [mp3] [pdf]
Presentations of 3 Best Posters (15 minutes each)
The Keynote Speakers Determine the Winner of the Best Poster Award
(Jan Lorenz)


August 5, Saturday   Top

Contributed Talks

09:00 - 09.25 Janusz Holyst
(Warsaw University of Technology, Dept. of Physics, PL)
Ferromagnetic Fluid as a Model of Social Impact
[mp3] [ppt]

09:25 - 09.50 Markus Christen
(ETH Zürich, CH)
From Small World to Hierarchic Business Information Networks
by Reorganizations - A Real World Study of a Failure
[mp3] [ppt]

09:50 - 10.15 Jens Christian Claussen
(University of Kiel, D)
Fluctuations and Finite-Size Effects in Co-Evolutionary Dynamics:
Unifying Approaches from Evolutionary Game Theory Lay Further Grounds
for Quantitative Modelling of Multi-Agent Systems
[pdf]

10:15 - 10.40 Bertrand de la Chapelle
(French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, F)
The Emergence of the Notion of Multi-Stakeholder Internet
Governance During the WSIS Process
[mp3] [ppt]

10:40 – 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 - 11.35 Karsten Peters
(TU Dresden, Institute for Transport & Economics, D)
Logistic Networks - Coping with Nonlinearity and Complexity
[mp3]

11:35 - 12.00 Konstantin Klemm
Leipzig University, Bioinformatics, D)
The Structure of Directory Trees
[mp3] [pdf]

12:00 - 12.25 Alexander Zumdieck
(Institut Curie, Paris, F)
Self-organization in Substructures of the Cytoskeleton
[mp3]

12:25 - 12.50 Carsten Murawski
(University of Zurich, Swiss Banking Institute, CH)
Systemic Risk in Financial Markets - A Network Approach
[mp3] [pdf]

12:50 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14.25 Maciej A. Nowak
(M. Kac Center for Complex Systems Res., Jagiellonian Uni., Cracow, PL)
Free Random Variables - Matrix-Valued Probability Theory for Complex Systems
[mp3][ppt]

14:25 - 14.50 Stefano Battiston
(ETH Zurich, CH)
Avalanches and Self-Organized Robustness in Evolving Networks
[mp3] [pdf]

14:50 - 15.15 Volker Barth
(University of Oldenburg, D)
A Model of Opinion Dynamics Among Firms
[mp3] [pdf] [ppt]

15:15 - 15.40 Laszlo Gulyas
(AITIA Int. Inc./ Eötvös Loránd University , Budapest, Hungary)
Robust Networks From Local Optimization: A Bottom-Up Model
To Generate Networks With SkewedDegree Distributions
[mp3] [ppt]

15:40 - 16.05 Atsushi Tero
Hokkaido University,Creative Research Initiative, Sapporo, J)
Solving the shortest path problem by Physarum solver -
Modeling of the Adaptive Network of True Slime Mold
[mp3] [ppt]

16:05 – 16:20 Best Poster Award Ceremony (3,000 EUR)
[mp3]

16:20 – 16:30 Closing of the workshop

 

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