Connectionists: Workshop on Collective Behaviours and Social Dynamics @ECAL 2013 - News and info

[Vito Trianni]

Workshop on Collective Behaviours and Social Dynamics @ECAL 2013 - News and info

1. News: Confirmed Invited Speakers
2. Info: Call for Contributions - deadline is approaching
3. Info: Workshop program



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1. News: Confirmed Invited Speakers

The workshop will feature two outstanding invited speakers covering the collective behaviours and social dynamics (see also the program below):
Dr. Simon Garnier from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers University (http://www.theswarmlab.com) will give a talk titled "Ant wuz here! Following the trail of recent ant network research".
Dr. Andrea Baronchelli from the Northeastern University (https://sites.google.com/site/andreabaronchelli), will give a talk on "Modeling interaction networks of mobile individuals: from artificial agents to human gatherings".



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2. Call for contributions - deadline is approaching: June the 30th, 2013! 

Workshop on Collective Behaviours and Social Dynamics
ECAL 2013, the 12th European Conference on Artificial Life
Taormina, Italy, September 2-6, 2013
http://laral.istc.cnr.it/collective-and-swarm-robotics.html

=== About the Workshop ===
This workshop is at the intersection of several disciplines, from ethology to swarm intelligence, from collective robotics to evolutionary linguistics. Despite very heterogeneous, these disciplines share a common ground when they refer to the mechanisms and the dynamics of social interaction. Despite the similar scientific questions, the study of collective behaviour and social dynamics is characterised by very different approaches, and few places for discussion and comparison are available. Therefore, the workshop represents a unique occasion in which such a juxtaposition of diverse disciplines can take place. The goal of the workshop is to confront the current trends and advancements in the study of collective behaviour and social dynamics, and to promote cross-fertilisation and contamination between disciplines and approaches that rarely meet together.

We solicit presentation proposals about both published (e.g., to a top-ranking journal) and unpublished work. Selected presentations of unpublished work will be invited to submit a full-length paper to the Swarm Intelligence journal, and will benefit of a fast-track reviewing process.

The workshop is supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF) under the EUROCORES program EuroBioSAS.
http://www.esf.org/coordinating-research/eurocores/running-programmes/eurobiosas.html

=== Submission Instructions ===
Applicants are asked to submit an abstract or short paper (up to 2 pages) of the planned presentation. Specify whether the work has been already published elsewhere.
Important Dates:
	• Submission due: June 30, 2013.
	• Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2013
	• Conference: September 2-6, 2013
Applications should be submitted via e-mail to: Workshop.Collective.Robotics at gmail.com

For additional information, see http://laral.istc.cnr.it/collective-and-swarm-robotics.html



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3. Workshop program. 
This full day workshop features two invited talks and selected presentations from submitted contributions. At the end of the day, an open discussion among the workshop participants will cover the workshop topics, trying to identify common aspects, peculiarities and trends in the study of collective behaviours and social dynamics.

9:00	welcome notes by the workshop organisers
9:15	keynote talk by Dr. Simon Garnier: "Ant wuz here! Following the trail of recent ant network research"
10:00	coffee break
10:30	session on collective behaviours in natural and artificial systems
13:00	lunch break
13:45	keynote talk by Dr. Andrea Baronchelli: "Modeling interaction networks of mobile individuals: from artificial agents to human gatherings"
14:30	session on social dynamics: from opinion sharing to language evolution
16:00	coffee break
16:30	round table
17:30	conclusions by the workshop organisers


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Vito Trianni, Ph.D.					vito.trianni@(no_spam)istc.cnr.it
ISTC-CNR							http://www.istc.cnr.it - http://laral.istc.cnr.it/trianni
currently visiting at:					
IRIDIA-CoDE, CP 194/6				vtrianni@(no_spam)ulb.ac.be
Université Libre de Bruxelles			Tel: +32 (0)2 650 2712
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1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
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