Mallorca (Spain) and Dresden.

The Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden (MPIPKS) and the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, Palma de Mallorca (IFISC) announce the launch of a joint workshop program on "Trends in Complex Systems". The program consists of a series of IFISC-MPIPKS workshops, to be held in Mallorca and Dresden. The Program will run initially during the period 2008-2010.

Blacksburg, Virginia (USA), October 1-3, 2010.

The purpose of this interdisciplinary Symposium is to present recent advances in our understanding of statistical physics far from equilibrium and to highlight the growing importance of its application to biological and soft matter systems. A special session will be held in honor of Prof. Royce K. P. Zia and will celebrate his outstanding achievements in 40 years of research in fields as diverse as particle physics, statistical physics, nonequilibrium physics, and biological physics.

Acquafredda di Maratea (Italy), October 2-7, 2010.

The digital revolution and the advent of the Internet are transforming the way we work, how we spend our free time. These phenomena are also changing how we communicate with each other and the way in which we establish and maintain our social relations. The relationship between Internet and society is complex and bidirectional, leading to a co-evolution of the two systems. In fact, the Internet exists because humans need networking and the Internet evolution is ultimately driven by our ever-increasing use of it. The complexity of the current Internet structure and its future developments cannot be understood without taking a full multi-disciplinary approach. Such an approach must necessarily be based on the science of complex systems, and in particular complex network theory. It must also depend on social sciences and humanities to elucidate the underpinnings of the Internet at a societal and economic level. This conference will bring together experts in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), social scientists, as well as experts in the area of complex systems They will assess the state-of-the-art, identify new trends and envision future developments in the intertwined domains of future Internet and society.

PSALIDI, KOS (Greece), October 3-8, 2010.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), October 7-9, 2010.

This international workshop on complex networks (CompleNet) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on areas related to complex networks. In the past two decades we have been witnessing an exponential increase on the number of publications in this field. From biological systems to computer science, from economic to social systems, complex networks are becoming pervasive in many fields of science. It is this interdisciplinary nature of complex networks that CompleNet aims at addressing.

Paris (France), October 8, 2010.

Savannah, Georgia (USA), October 13-15, 2010.

Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs, are cyberteams of self-motivated people with a collective vision, to innovatively collaborate by sharing ideas, information, and work enabled by technology. Although COINs have been around for hundreds of years, they are especially relevant today because the concept has reached its tipping point thanks to the Internet. COINs are powered by swarm creativity, wherein people work together in a structure that enables a fluid creation and exchange of ideas. 'Coolhunting'?discovering, analyzing and measuring trends and trendsetters?puts COINs to productive use. Patterns of collaborative innovation frequently follow an identical path, from creator to COIN to collaborative learning network to collaborative interest network. The theme of the conference combines a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as social network analysis, social networking, group dynamics, design and visualization, information systems, and the psychology and sociality of collaboration.

Timisoara (Romania), October 14-17, 2010.

The IADIS WWW/Internet 2010 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just technical anymore but other aspects have arisen. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as non-technological issues related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (see below). However innovative contributes that don't fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

Boston (USA), October 18-20, 2010.

Global leaders are faced with business complexity of unprecedented scale and interconnectedness. The conference addresses this complexity through three main themes: corporate longevity; self-organization; and innovation.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province (China), October 24-26, 2010.

Hasselt (Belgium), October 25-27, 2010.

ESM'2010 aims to provide an overview of academic research in the field of computer simulation. A number of major tracks of simulation research are presented next to specific workshops, which capture the art and science of present-day simulation research.

Salamis Bay Conti Resort Hotel (North Cyprus), October 27-29, 2010.

The main goal of this conference is to present and discuss new trends in applied sciences and social sciences.

Hannover and Essen (Germany), November 2-6, 2010.

It is the objective of the conference to further the exchange of ideas among established as well as upcoming young researchers, politicians, business people, and decision-makers. Eminent speakers such as Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, Homi K. Bhabha, Paul Collier and Nancy Birdsall have already confirmed their participation. The Volkswagen Foundation offers up to 100 grants for highly motivated young researchers from all over the world and invites them to attend the conference, take part in the plenary sessions, topical workshops, and panel discussions.

Berlin (Germany), November 6-10, 2010.

The program will consist of lectures and seminars held by leading figures from international politics, academia, international development, and civil society, as well as debates and panel discussions. In addition to attending the academic components, participants will have the opportunity to experience Berlin's rich cultural landscape and network with each other through a series of cultural and social events. The event is scheduled parallel to the historic international celebrations taking place in Berlin on November 9th, commemorating 21 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. On the evening of Tuesday, 9th September, participants will have the unique opportunity to celebrate the 21st Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall on the streets of Berlin.

Malaga (Spain), November 10 - 12, 2010.

The AmI-10 conference brings together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working in the field of technologies and applications of Ambient Intelligence. Ambient Intelligence represents a vision of the future where we shall be surrounded by invisible technological means, sensitive and responsive to people and their behaviors, deliver advanced functions, services and experiences. Ambient intelligence combines concepts of ubiquitous technology, intelligent systems and advanced user interfaces putting the humans in the center of technological developments.

Auckland (New Zeland), November 30 - December 3, 2010.

What are the transition pathways to a more sustainable future? What can engineers and scientists do to help this change? The Conference in December 2010 will build momentum for that transition by showcasing current successes, sharing the challenges and highlighting the directions and connections required to Transition to Sustainability.

Sydney (Australia), December 1-4, 2010.

Methodology develops so quickly these days that it is hard to keep abreast of innovations and current best practice. This conference provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary methods, as applied in a range of settings and disciplinary contexts, to get a sense of emerging methods, tools, techniques and technologies, and to discover what resources are available to social science researchers and users of research.

Whistler (Canada), December 10-11, 2010.

Computational social science is an emerging academic research area at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and the social sciences, in which quantitative methods and computational tools are used to identify and answer social science questions. The field is driven by new sources of data from the Internet, sensor networks, government databases, crowdsourcing systems, and more, as well as by recent advances in computational modeling, machine learning, statistics, and social network analysis. The related area of social computing deals with the mechanisms through which people interact with computational systems, examining how and why people contribute to crowdsourcing sites, and the Internet more generally. Examples of social computing systems include prediction markets, reputation systems, and collaborative filtering systems, all designed with the intent of capturing the wisdom of crowds. Machine learning plays in important role in both of these research areas, but to make truly groundbreaking advances, collaboration is necessary: social scientists and economists are uniquely positioned to identify the most pertinent and vital questions and problems, as well as to provide insight into data generation, while computer scientists contribute significant expertise in developing novel, quantitative methods and tools. To date there have been few in-person venues for researchers in these traditionally disparate areas to interact. This workshop will address this need, with an emphasis on the role of machine learning. The primary goals of the workshop are to provide an opportunity for attendees to meet, interact, share ideas, establish new collaborations, and to inform the wider NIPS community about current research in computational social science and social computing.

London (UK), December 10-12, 2010.

This conference invites oral and poster presentations containing computational or financial econometric components. Those papers that contain strong computational, statistical, or econometric elements or substantive data-analytic components will also be considered for publication either in the newly-launched CSDA Annals of Computational and Financial Econometrics or regular issues of Computational Statistics & Data Analysis.

Rutgers University (US), December 19-21, 2010.

Koloa, Hawaii (USA), January 4-7, 2011.

HICSS-44 offers a unique, highly interactive and professionally challenging environment that attendees find "very helpful -- lots of different perspectives and ideas as a result of discussion." HICSS sessions are comprised primarily of refereed paper presentations; the conference does not host vendor presentations.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina (USA), January 5-8, 2011.

Dynamics Days is an annual conference that gathers together a variety of researchers with overlapping interests in topics in nonlinear dynamics. About 150 people generally attend, spanning a wide range of disciplines making use of the language of nonlinear dynamics.

Zurich (Switzerland), January 27-29, 2011.

The conference brings together economists, political scientists and other scholars to address political-economy issues related to international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the European Union, and also other international organizations that have yet received less attention in the academic literature.

Rome (Italy), January 28-30, 2011.

The purpose of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in these areas. Two simultaneous but strongly related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work within the area of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general, including web applications, on one hand, and within the area of non-distributed AI, including the more traditional areas such as Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception and also not so traditional areas such as Reactive AI Systems, Evolutionary Computing and other aspects of Computational Intelligence and many other areas related to intelligent systems, on the other hand.

Karlsruhe (Germany), February 23-25, 2011.

The workshop addresses self-organization different types of technological networks, for example, but not limited to: Communication and computer networks; Transportation networks; Energy networks; Robot networks.

New York City (US), February 25-27, 2011.

The NYC Computational Economics & Complexity Workshop is a regularly meeting workshop for faculty and graduate students in the New York City area interested in agent-based, heterogeneous agent, computational economics and related areas. The meetings are held at New School University. The workshop is an opportunity for researchers to present work in any stage of development in order to get feedback and discuss ideas and topics.

Beijing (China), March 1 - April 1, 2011.

This five-week program (28 Feb-01 April, 2011) is a continuation of the 2008 KITPC program "Collective Dynamics in Information Systems". the first two weeks focus on 'Statistical Physics of constraint satisfaction problems and learning problems' and 'Statistical physics of Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems',and the last two weeks focus on topics 'Statistical physics of complex networks and 'Network-based information physics', and the middle week will discuss issues that are interesting to both the spin-glass/information science community and complex network community.

Hammamet (Tunisia), March 3-5, 2011.

CCCA'11 is intended to serve as a major international forum for the exchange of ideas. It is intended to provide a platform for effective interaction between pioneers and researchers in the relevant area to share their innovative and creative views and to present their original contributions.Its purpose is to be a forum for technical exchange amongst scientists having interests in Communications/Information Technology, Computer Science and Control.

Marrakesh (Morocco), March 20-23, 2011.

Tsukuba (Japan), June 1-3, 2011.

The theme for ICCS 2011 in Tsukuba is "The Ascent of Computational Excellence in the Land of the Rising Sun", to mark the ever-increasing importance of and progress in computational science theory and practice, and the important role of Japan in this development. The conference will be a unique event focusing on recent developments in methods and modelling of complex systems for diverse areas of science, scalable scientific algorithms, advanced software tools, computational grids, advanced numerical methods, and novel application areas where the above novel models, algorithms and tools can be efficiently applied such as physical systems, computational and systems biology, environmental systems, finance, and others.

Geneva (Switzerland), June 10, 2011.

Interested researchers are invited to submit completed paper proposals of both theoretical and empirical nature. Topics include but are not limited to: Local interaction games on financial networks; Risk-sharing and contagion within financial networks; Analysis of banking networks; Implications of network theory for financial markets and banking regulation; Strategic financial network formation; Social networks in finance

Changchun (China), June 17-19, 2011.

CSIE 2011 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss recent advances and new techniques in computer science and information engineering. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, data mining & data engineering, intelligent systems, software engineering, computer applications, communications & networking, computer hardware, VLSI, & embedded systems, multimedia & signal processing, computer control, robotics, and automation.

Ascona (Italy), June 23-25, 2011.

The 16th Workshop on Economics and Heterogeneous Interacting Agents offers an opportunity to present the latest research on various aspects of the economy as a complex system made up of multiple heterogeneous interacting agents. Research from various domains – networks, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, learning, the theory of self-organizing systems can all be helpful in developing more satisfactory approaches to (macro)econometrics and (macro)economic theory.

Leon (Spain), September 5-8, 2011.

The Conference "Physics and Control 2011? will focus on the borderland between Physics and Control with emphasis on both theory and applications. Topics will include (but will be not limited to): nonlinear dynamics, micro- and nanotechnologies, self-organization and complexity, controlled systems in physics, engineering, mathematics, chemistry, biology and other natural sciences.