ECCS'10 European Conference on Complex Systems

List of papers accepted for oral presentation at the ECCS'10 main conference tracks:

Track A: Policy, Planning & Infrastructure

20' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "Sustainable Urban Design Experiments"
  Author: Matthew Cook
  
  
• "Modeling the growth of distributed energy generation for a low carbon economy: Part I the approach"
  Author: Liz Varga
  
  
• "Innovation policy modeling from a complex systems perspective"
  Author: Petra Ahrweiler
  
  
• "Healthcare Organizations as Complex Adaptive Systems: Lessons for Nurse Leaders"
  Authors: Holly G. Johnson and Sergio Camorlinga
  
  
• "A complex adaptive system perspective on the peri-urban area: exploring transitions in urban-rural relationships"
  Authors: Ward Rauws and Gert de Roo
  
  
• "Control as Learning Process in Human Complex Adaptive Systems: A few Remarks for Policy Making"
  Authors: Simone Landini and Sylvie Occelli
  
  
• "A Multi-Agent System for the simulation of urban dynamics"
  Authors: Julien Perret, Florence Curie, Julien Gauri, and Anne Ruas
  
  
• "Performance of Self-organizing Control in a Cellular Automaton Model of City Traffic"
  Author: Jacek Szklarski
  
  
• "Measuring Critical Infrastructures dependency by means of the Phase Synchronization"
  Authors: Vincenzo Fioriti, Silvia Ruzzante, Elena Marchei, Alberto Tofani, and Gregorio D’Agostino
  
  
• "MAS approach to political prospection and alliance analysis"
  Authors: A.N.Proto and C.Costea
  
  
• "Design Complexity Management through Systematic Decomposition and Formulation"
  Authors: Anas Alfaris, Afreen Siddiqi, Charbel Rizk, Olivier de Weck, and Davor Svetinovic
  
  
• "Urban Built Form Grows Critical"
  Authors: Romulo Krafta, ,Vinicius de Moraes Netto, and Leonardo Lima
  
  
• "A Case Study in the Application of an Agent-Based Approach in the Formulation of Policies for UK Transport Emission Reduction"
  Authors: Araz Taeihagh and René Bañares-Alcántara
  
  
• "Rebuild vs. Renovate vs. Buy: Decision-making for the Enterprise Software Industry"
  Authors: Paul Abraham, Srini Chari, and Vishal Sikka
  
  

Track B1: Philosophy of Science

35' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "Complexity and Context-Dependency"
  Author: Bruce Edmonds
  
  
• "Models and representations of knowledge organization"
  Author: Olga Pombo
  
  
• "Complexity and Laws of Nature"
  Author: John Symons
  
  

20' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "Structural Coherence of Knowledge Representations in Learning Science"
  Authors: Ismo T. Koponen and Maija Pehkonen
  
  

Track B2: Collective Human Behaviour and Society

35' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "Compensations in the Shapley value and the compensation solutions for forest games"
  Authors: Sylvain Béal, Eric Rémila, and Philippe Solal
  
  
• "Simulating Opinion Dynamics in Heterogeneous Communication Systems"
  Authors: Walter Quattrociocchi, Rosaria Conte, and Elena Lodi
  
  
• "Power-Law Distributions in Scientific Publishing and Reviewers’ Workload"
  Author: Ding-wei Huang
  
  
• "Modeling Cognitive Dynamics: self-organization in crowd dynamics"
  Authors: Armando Bazzani, Luca Cerboni, Bruno Giorgini, and Sandro Rambaldi
  
  
• "Schelling's segregation model for an open city: emergence of physical frontiers from a socio-spatial dynamics"
  Authors: Laetitia Gauvin, Jean-Pierre Nadal, and Jean Vannimenus
  
  
• "Effective free energy for individual dynamics"
  Authors: Sébastian Grauwin, Eric Bertin and Pablo Jensen
  
  
• "HedN Game, a Relational Framework for Network Based Cooperation"
  Authors: F. Delaplace and P. Lescanne
  
  

20' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "Cooperation in the International Relations System"
  Author: Matus Halas
  
  
• "Labour mobility, industry evolution and social networks: a co-evolutionary model"
  Author: Ricardo Mamede
  
  
• "On Positional Consumption and Technological Innovation – An Agent-Based Approach"
  Authors: João Bernardino and Tânya Araújo
  
  
• "Optimal Life Insurance, Consumption and Investment Decisions"
  Authors: I. Duarte, D. Pinheiro, A. A. Pinto, and S. R. Pliska
  
  
• "The determinants of network formation: a dynamic perspective"
  Authors: Lorenzo Cassi and Anne Plunket
  
  
• "Inferring Significance of Meeting Groups in Human Contact Networks"
  Authors: Eiko Yoneki and Dan Greenfield
  
  

Track C: Interacting Populations and Environment

35' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "A stochastic model of social interaction in wild house mice"
  Authors: Nicolas Perony, Barbara Konig, and Frank Schweitzer
  
  
• "Population Dynamics on Complex Food Webs"
  Authors: Gian Marco Palamara, VInko Zlatic, Guido Caldarelli (speaker)
  
  
• "Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: agent based versus structured metapopulation models"
  Authors: Marco Ajelli, Bruno Gonçalves, Duygu Balcan, Vittoria Colizza, Hao Hu, José J. Ramasco, Stefano Merler, and Alessandro Vespignani
  
  
• "Modeling Settlement Patterns in Real Territories"
  Authors: Joaquim Carvalho, João Tojo, and Rui Lopes
  
  
• "Ecotoxicity risks during influenza pandemic"
  Authors: Andrew C. Singer, Vittoria Colizza, Heike Schmitt, Johanna Andrews, Duygu Balcan5, Wei E. Huang, Virginie D. J. Keller, Alessandro Vespignani, Richard J. Williams
  
  
• "Spatial sampling in HMRF mapping problems: Static and adaptive algorithms"
  Authors: Nathalie Peyrard, Régis Sabbadin, Daniel Spring, Ralph Mac Nally, and Barry Brook
  
  

20' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "Mixing patterns among epidemic groups"
  Author: Christel Kamp
  
  

Track D: Complexity and Computer Science

35' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "Modularity Measure of Networks With Overlapping Modules"
  Authors: Anna Lazar, Danel Abel, Tamas Vicsek
  
  
• "On Coverage Bounds of Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks"
  Authors: Joydeep Chandra and Niloy Ganguly
  
  
• "The Web of Data is a Complex System - first insight into its multi-scale network properties"
  Authors: Christophe Guéret, Shenghui Wang and Stefan Schlobach
  
  

20' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "Network synchronization interval and local Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy"
  Authors: Acilina Caneco, Sara Fernandes, Clara Grácio, and J. Leonel Rocha
  
  
• "The Observatorium – The structure of news: topic monitoring in online media with mutual information"
  Author: David Rodrigues
  
  
• "Context-Aware Agent-Based Modeling of Social Complex Systems"
  Authors: Tarek Ben Mena, Narjès Bellamine-Ben Saoud, Mohamed Ben Ahmed, and Bernard Pavard
  
  

Track E: From Molecules to Living Systems

35' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "A stochastic model of autocatalytic reaction networks"
  Authors: Alessandro Filisetti, Roberto Serra, Marco Villani, Rudolf M. Fuchslin, Norman Packard, Stuart A. Kauffman, and Irene Poli
  
  
• "Integrating Heterogeneous Gene Expression Data for Gene Regulatory Network Modelling"
  Authors: Alina Sîrbu, Heather J. Ruskin, and Martin Crane
  
  
• "Towards an Integrated Understanding of Protein Graph Characteristics for Protein Folding"
  Author: Susan Khor
  
  
• "Estimation of time-variant risks by Physarum polycephalum"
  Authors: Bernd Meyer, Cedrick Ansorge, and Toshiyuki Nakagaki
  
  

20' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "Increased specificity in a model with molecular frustration"
  Authors: Andre M. Lindo and Fernao V. de Abreu
  
  
• "Agent Based modelling of realistic molecules"
  Authors: Sara Fortuna and Alessandro Troisi
  
  
• "Extending the ‘Life’ Concept to Complex Systems"
  Author: Jean Le Fur
  
  
• "Water dynamics in the hydration shell of a protein"
  Authors: J. Servantie, C. Atilgan, and A. R. Atilgan
  
  
• "Knockouts, Robustness and Cell Cycles"
  Authors: Gunnar Boldhaus, Nils Bertschinger, Johannes Rauh, Eckehard Olbrich, and Konstantin Klemm
  
  
• "Evaluating Robustness of a Complex Multiscale Biochemical Model with an Algorithmic Model Reduction Technique"
  Authors: Panayotis D. Kourdis and Dimitris A. Goussis
  
  

Track F: Mathematics and Simulation

35' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tree-Based Theory for Bond Percolation on Networks with Clustering"
  Authors: Sergey Melnik, Adam Hackett, Mason A. Porter, Peter J. Mucha, and James P. Gleeson
  
  
• "Statistical and Spectral Properties of Self-Organizing Macromolecular Systems"
  Authors: Deniz Turgut, Ali Rana Atilgan, Canan Atilgan
  
  
• "How opinion dynamics generates group hierarchies"
  Authors: F. Gargiulo and S. Huet
  
  
• "Beyond Lyapunov"
  Author: R. Vilela Mendes
  
  
• "Modeling of Demand in Housing Market through Multi-Agents Behavioral Modeling"
  Author: Maryam Esmaeili
  
  
• "Noisy Random Boolean Networks and Cell Differentiation"
  Authors: Marco Villani, Roberto Serra, Alessia Barbieri, Andrea Roli, Stuart A. Kauffman, and Annamaria Colacci
  
  

20' oral presentation + 10' discussion

• "Using Wavelet Analysis to Disentangle the Different Movement Regimes of Foraging Animals"
  Authors: Arnold Fertin and Vincent Fourcassié
  
  
• "The soft consensus model: dynamics, complexity, and modularity"
  Authors: G. Campanella, T. Araújo, and R. A. Marques Pereira
  
  
• "Characterising Steady-State Topologies of SIS Dynamics on Adaptive Networks"
  Authors: Stefan Wieland, Tomás Aquino, Andrea Parisi, and Ana Nunes
  
  
• "Parametric Resonance in Time-Dependent Networks of Hopf Oscillators"
  Authors: Julio Rodriguez and Max-Olivier Hongler
  
  
• "Controlling the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld model"
  Authors: Daniel O. Cajueiro and Roberto F. S. Andrade
  
  
• "Possible thermodynamic structure underlying the laws of Zipf and Benford"
  Authors: Carlo Altamirano and Alberto Robledo
  
  

The papers accepted for presentation at the ECCS'10 Satellite Meetings will be announced in each meeting website.