The Satellite Conferences on October 4 and 5, 2007:

• Complex Networks: Dynamics and Topology Interplay (2 days)
• Developmental Systems Biology: From Molecular Feedback Loops to Spatio-Temporal Patterns (1day)
• Heterogeneous Agent Systems and Complex Networks (1 day)
• Dynamics on and of Complex Networks (1 day)
• Engineering Environment-Mediated Multiagent Systems (1day)
• Evolution and Game Theory (1/2 day)
• Emergent Properties in Natural and Artificial Complex Systems (1 day)
• Social Websites: Complex Dynamics and Structure (1 day)
• Enhancing Social Interaction: Recommendation Systems, Reputation, P2P, Trust and Social Networks
  (1 day)
• Interacting Agents, Complexity and Inter-Disciplinary Applications (IACIA) (1/2 day)
• Molecular Docking, Complexity, and Optimization (1 day)
• Global versus Local Dynamics on Networks (2 days)
• Multi-Agents for Modeling Complex Systems (MA4CS) (1 day)
• Genetic and Biological Networks: Models, Dynamics, and Simulations (1 day)
• Logistics Networks (1 day)
• Critical Infrastructures as Complex Systems (1 day)
• Synchronization and Emergent Coordination (1 day)
• Complexity of Risk (cancelled!)

ECCS'07 offers Satellite Conferences in order to reach a "bottom up" involvement of the complexity science community and to provide space for self-organization and emergent fields. Our goal is a broad exchange of ideas across disciplines.

The idea and rules for organizing Satellite Conferences are as follows:

1) ECCS'07 will provide lecture halls or seminar rooms, local organizational support, food and beverages. Moreover, it is planned to reserve for Satellite Conference Organizers a certain sum of money in order to support invited speakers, wave conference fees, and/or support young scientists, with a focus on new EU member countries and female scientists.

Currently, we are planning to provide 1000 EUR for each half-day Satellite Conference with 15 participants (2000 EUR for a one-day conference with 30 participants and 4000 EUR for a two-day conference with 60 participants). However, these amounts are currently only indicative. They may be subject to change depending on the support by our sponsors and the number of registrations.

2) In exchange we expect that Satellite Conference organizers undertake efforts to attract additional, regularly paying participants to ECCS'07 (at least 15 participants per half-day Satellite Conference, otherwise the support will be proportionally reduced). Half-day Satellite Conferences provide time slots for 1 half-hour invited talk and 14 fifteen minute contributed talks.

3) The obligations of Satellite Conference organizers are as follows:

• Contact their community to participate in the Satellite Conference.
• Ensure the selection of high-quality contributions in their own responsibility.
• Provide the ECCS'07 local organizers with the contact details of participants, particularly e-mail lists.
• Inform the participants that they must to register for ECCS'07.
• Finish the Satellite Conference program and the corresponding internet page, containing the time schedule, speakers and titles of talks (preferably with links to corresponding abstracts) by August 3, 2007. Note that the time slot for the invited speaker is pre-set in order to avoid overlapping invited talks.
• If financial support is asked for, submit a short report by October 31, 2007, particularly containing the details how the money provided for the Satellite Conference is used, indicating the compliance with the guidelines listed in 1)
• Write a 1/2 or 1 page press release by September 14, 2007

4) Note that the reimbursement of travel or accomodation costs within the limits of our financial support of Sateliite Conferences Workshops requires original receipts and takes some weeks after we receive them. We also need an overview of who has been promised what amount of money.

The ECCS'07 organizers would already like to thank you for your great initiative in favour of our community!