International Conference on Complex Systems
Nashua, June 9-14, 2002
Self-Organization and Complexity in Large Networked
Information-processing Systems.
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger
Vounckx
PERMIS-2002
Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems
Gait
hersburg, MD, August 13-15, 2002
Lifelike
Robotic Collaboration Requires Lifelike Information Integration
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger
Vounckx.
IPCAT 2001
IPCAT-2001: Fourth International Workshop
on Information Processing
in Cells and Tissues
Organized jointly by EVOL and the Biocomputation Research Centre, Liverpool
Conferences in 2001
SEE-II
Second International Conference on
Semiosis, Evolution & Energy
Semiosis of the Biological, Physico-Chemical,
Computer-Robotics, Socioconceptual & Cosmic Realms
University of Toronto, Canada
Friday 5th October - Monday 8th October, 2001
Invited Paper:
Cross-scale, richness, cross-assembly, Logic 1, Logic 2, pianos and builders
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
IPCAT-2001
Fourth International Workshop on
Information Processing in Cells and Tissues
The Nature and Processing of Biological Information
InterUniversity Micro Electronics Center, Belgium
Monday 13th August - Friday 17th August, 2001
Some Thoughts about Thinking Things
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
ISSS-2001
Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of
ISSS International Society of System Sciences
Asilomar, Pacific Groove, California, USA.
Friday July 8 - 13, 2001
Artificial Minds?
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
Conferences in 2000
ECHO-IV
Fourth International Conference on Emergence
Emergence, Complexity, Hierarchy, Organisation
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Monday 31st July - Friday 4th August, 2000
"
Establishment of a Complementary Bilateral
Hierarchical Entity-Ecosystem Rationality
"
by Willy Ranson, Ron Cottam & Roger Vounckx
"
Executing Emergence!
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
ISSS-2000
World Congress of the Systems Sciences
Understanding Complexity
Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada
Sunday 16th July- Saturday 22nd July 2000
In session "Foundations of Information Science"
"
Attributing a Value to Information
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
In session "What is Life/Living"
"
Emergence Inversion: the Genesis of Life
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
GWAL-2000
Fourth German Workshop on Artificial Life
Abstracting the Essential Features and Dynamics of Living Systems
University of Beyreuth, Germany
Wednesday 5th April - Friday 7th April, 2000
"
Progressive C++mulation of a Multilevel Evolutionary Hierarchy
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
"
Balls & Sticks, Complexity & Life
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
Conferences in 1999
IASS/AIS-99
Seventh Word Congress of the
International Association for Semiotic Studies
Sign Processes in Complex Systems
Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Wednesday 6th October - Monday 11th October, 1999
"
A Biologically-Consistent Diffuse Semiotic
Architecture for Survivalist Information-Processing
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
IPCAT-99
Third International Workshop on
Information Processing in Cells and Tissues
The Nature and Processing of Biological Information
University of Indianapolis, USA
Monday 23rd August - Tuesday 24th August, 1999
"
A Diffuse Biosemiotic Model for Cell-to-Tissue Computational Closure"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
CASYS-99
Third International Conference
on Computing Anticipatory Systems
Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems
HEC, Liège, Belgium
Monday 9th August - Saturday 14th August, 1999
"
A Biologically Consistent Hierarchical Framework
for Self-Referencing Survivalist Computation
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
ISSS-99
Forty-Third Meeting of the
International Society for the System Sciences
The Systemic Foundations of the Information Age
Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Groove, California, USA
Sunday 27th June - Friday 2nd July, 1999
"
Life as its own Tool for Survival
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
Conferences in 1998
ICCS-2
Second International Conference on Complex Systems
Emergence Structure & Function, Informatics,
Complexity, Dynamics, Self-Organisation
New England Complex Systems Institute, Nashua, NH, USA
Sunday 25th October - Friday 30th October, 1998
"
Diffuse Rationality in Complex Systems
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
GWAL-98
Third German Workshop on Artificial Life
Artificially Living and Life-Like Systems
University of Dortmund, Germany
Thursday 17th September - Friday 18th September, 1998
"
Consciousness: the Precursor to Life?
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
ECHO-III
Third International Conference on Emergence
Emergence, Complexity, Hierarchy, Organisation
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Monday 3rd August - Friday 7th August, 1998
"
Emergence: Half a Quantum Jump? "
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
Analogy-98
Workshop on Advances in Analogy Research
Integration of Theory and Data from the Cognitive,
Computational and Neural Sciences
New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria
Friday 17th July - Monday 20th July, 1998
"
AQuARIUM: A Hierarchically-Supported
Mono-Symbolic Language for Analogic Integration
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
Tucson-III
Toward a Science of Consciousness
Philosophy, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Psychology,
Physical and Biological Sciences, Culture & Phenomenology
University of Arizona, USA
Monday 27th April - Saturday 2nd May, 1998
"
Approach to Consciousness
through Hierarchical Metastatic Evolution
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Nils Langloh & Roger Vounckx
Conferences in 1997
MCB-97
International Workshop on
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Computational Morphogenesis,
Hierarchical Complexity and Digital Evolution
University of Aizu, Japan
Tuesday 21st October - Saturday 25th October, 1997
"
A Unified Quasi-Particulate Framework for Evolution
"
by Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Nils Langloh & Roger Vounckx
IPCAT-97
Second International Workshop on
Information Processing in Cells and Tissues
The Nature and Processing of Biological Information
University of Sheffield, UK
Monday 1st September - Thursday 4th September, 1997
"
Localisation and Nonlocality in Computation
"
by Ron Cottam, Nils Langloh, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
AIDRI-97
Seventh Conference of the International Association
for the Development of Interdisciplinary Research
Learning: from Natural Principles to Artificial Methods
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Monday 23rd June - Thursday 26th June, 1997
"
Post Digital Computation
"
by Ron Cottam, Nils Langloh, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
GWAL-97
Second German Workshop on Artificial Life
Artificially Living and Life-Like Systems
University of Dortmund, Germany
Thursday 17th April - Friday 18th April, 1997
"
Computability as an Evolutionary Context
"
by Ron Cottam, Nils Langloh, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
NCPW-4
Fourth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
Connectionist Representations : Theory and Practice
Imperial College, London, UK
Wednesday 9th April - Friday 11th April, 1997
"
Evolutionary Partial Comprehension
"
by Ron Cottam, Nils Langloh, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
Conferences prior to 1997
EinMag-95
Einstein Meets Magritte
Conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel: an interdisciplinary reflection
on science, nature, human action and society
Brussels Free University (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
Monday 29th May - Saturday 3rd June, 1995
"
Humble Unification Theory:
Partial Comprehension in a Quasi-Particulate Universe
"
by Ron Cottam, Nils Langloh, Willy Ranson & Emilie Cottam
WOIT-91
Workshop on Optical Information Technology
An ESPRIT Basic Research Workshop
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Monday 16th December - Tuesday 17th December, 1991
"
Towards Distributed Statistical Processing - Aquarium:
A Query and Reflection Interaction Using Magic:
Mathematical Algorithms Generating Interdependent Confidences
"
by Nils Langloh, Ron Cottam, Roger Vounckx & Jan Cornelis
"
A Passive Crystal Pixel Interchanger
"
by Cathleen De Tandt, Willy Ranson,
Patrick Schrey, Roger Vounckx & Ron Cottam
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