Written by Simon Garnier on August 10, 2011 – 9:40 am
Next year, Springer will publish the last book of Dirk Helbing, "Social self-organization", on large-scale social behaviors in human beings. Hereafter is the presentation text of the book. More information about the book can be found here.
What are the principles that keep our society together? This question is even more difficult to answer than the [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on August 31, 2010 – 3:40 pm
Leslie Marsh, Assistant Director of the New England Institute of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Studies, informed me of a coming special issue of Cognitive Systems Research dedicated to stigmergy. Along with Margery Doyle (Air Force Research Lab), he will be editor of this special issue and invite all researchers interested in stigmergic behaviors and communication [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on May 20, 2010 – 11:00 am
On November 8-12, 2010, Andreas Deutsch, Guy Theraulaz and Tamas Vicsek will organize an international workshop on "Statistical Physics and Biology of Collective Motion". This workshop will be dedicated to the identification and documentation of new unifying principles describing the essential aspects of collective motion in living systems. The workshop will hold at the Max Planck Institute for [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on May 11, 2010 – 5:51 pm
On June 7-9, 2010, the MIBS project (Modeling and Information Processing for Systems Biology) organizes a workshop on "Modeling complex dynamics in biological systems". MIBS is an interdisciplinary project involving all academic and research institutions of the Toulouse area (France), with the goal of promoting and developing a strong and wide expertise on systems biology in Toulouse.
Systems [...]