Connectionists: CCS17 Satellite: Information Processing in Complex Systems

[Eckehard Olbrich]

Call for Abstracts

The Information Processing in Complex Systems (IPCS'17 
https://ipcs.computationalscience.nl/) satellite meeting is organized 
during the Conference on Complex Systems. Our objective is to provide a 
forum for researchers who follow an information-theoretic approach to 
complex systems. Here they can present recent achievements and discuss 
promising hypotheses and further research directions.
It will be a one-day event in September 20, 2017, as part of the 
Conference on Complex Systems (CCS'17 <http://ccs17.unam.mx/>). This 
conference is the official annual conference of the Complex Systems 
Society and is scheduled to convene in September 17-22, 2017.

Background

All systems in nature can be considered from the perspective that they 
process information. Information is registered in the state of a system 
and its elements, implicitly and invisibly. As elements interact, 
information is transferred. Indeed, bits of information about the state 
of one element will travel – imperfectly – to the state of the other 
element, forming its new state. This storage and transfer of 
information, possibly between levels of a multi level system, is 
imperfect due to randomness or noise. From this viewpoint, a system can 
be formalized as a collection of bits that is organized according to its 
rules of dynamics and its topology of interactions. Mapping out exactly 
how these bits of information percolate through the system reveals 
fundamental insights in how the parts orchestrate to produce the 
properties of the system.

A theory of information processing would be capable of defining a set of 
universal properties of dynamical multi level complex systems, which 
describe and compare the dynamics of diverse complex systems ranging 
from social interaction to brain networks, from financial markets to 
biomedicine. Each possible combination of rules of dynamics and topology 
of interactions, with disparate semantics could be translated into the 
language of information processing which in turn will provide a lingua 
franca for complex systems.

Based on the success of the previous year, IPCS’17 will again combine 
classical and quantum information approaches. If you would like to 
attend this scientific discourse then you only need to register for 
CCS’17. Note that the deadline for early registration is June 15.

Abstract Submission

We invite abstracts for oral presentations of work where information 
theory is used to tackle a complex systems problem. Our submission page 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipcs17) is open until June 30, 
2017.
Please keep the word count for the abstract to max. 300. There is the 
possibility to upload an extended anstract (single page pdf, one figure).


Organizing committee

Rick Quax (University of Amsterdam)
Eckehard Olbrich (MPI Leipzig)
Mile Gu (Nanyang Institute of Technology)
Manlio de Domenico (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

For further informations or questions please contact ipcs17 at easychair.org


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Dr. Eckehard Olbrich
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstrasse 22
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany

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E-mail: olbrich at mis.mpg.de