International Conference on Complex Systems in Business, Administration, Science and Engineering12 - 14 May, 2015
New Forest, UK
Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK
The Open University, UK
Overview
The Conference aims to bring together practitioners of a variety of
disciplines interested in developing and discussing the new approaches
for resolving complex issues that cannot be formulated using
conventional, mathematical or software models. Applications in modelling
complex issues using multi-agent technology and similar distributed
approaches, which have achieved credible results, are welcomed.
The Conference is particularly focused on methods for resolving complex issues that exhibit some of the following attributes:
Connectivity - A system consists of a large number of diverse
components, referred to as Agents, which are richly interconnected.
Autonomy - Agents are not centrally controlled; they have a degree of
autonomy but their behaviour is always subject to certain laws, rules
or norms.
Emergence - Global behaviour of a complex system emerges from the
interaction of agents and is therefore unpredictable but not random; it
generally follows discernible patterns.
Nonequilibrium - Global behaviour of a complex system is far from
equilibrium because frequent occurrences of disruptive events do not
allow the system to return to the equilibrium between two such events.
Nonlinearity - Relations between agents are nonlinear, which
occasionally causes an insignificant input to be amplified into an
extreme event (butterfly effect).
Self-Organisation - A system is capable of selforganizing in response
to disruptive events, a feature termed Adaptability. Self-organisation
may also be initiated autonomously by the system in response to a
perceived need, a feature termed Creativity.
Co-Evolution - A system irreversibly coevolves with its environment.
High level dynamics of such systems, which are usually expressed
through the frequent occurrence of unpredictable disruptive events, make
conventional optimizers, batch schedulers and resource planning systems
unworkable.
Complex Systems occur in an infinite variety of problems, not only in
the realm of physical sciences and engineering, but encompassing fields
as diverse as the economy, environment, humanities, social and
political sciences. Further examples are given in the list of topics
which although incomplete gives an idea of the themes to be covered by
the meeting.
The conference objective is to bring together researchers, developers
and users of complex systems, aiming to form a community directed at
solving complex issues in novel ways.
Conference Topics:
- Complex ecological systems
- Complexity science and urban developments
- Complex energy systems
- Complex issues in biological and medical sciences
- Extreme events: natural and human made disasters
- Climate change
- Complexity of the internetbased global market
- Complex business processes
- Supply chain complexity
- Transportation complexity
- Logistics complexity
- Closed and open systems
- Attractions and chaotic systems
- Complex adaptive software
- Complexity of big data
- Management of complexity
- Global economy as a complex system
- Complexity in social systems
- Complex political systems
- Administrations as complex systems
- Complexity in engineering
- Complexity and environment
- Complexity and evolution
- Complexity in linguistics, literature and arts
Webpage
View the conference website, which has full details about the conference objectives, topics and submission requirements at: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/15-conferences/complex-systems-2015/page-2.html
