Introduction
Started from an idea of
Prof. Mario Rasetti, that we should promote research cooperation between EU and
China in the area of
Complexity Sciences, the first meeting took place in Torino, Italy
in 2006. We set out the goal to organize once a year a summer school to bring
together young students from various areas to interact and to have lectures
from world's leading natural and social scientists.
In 2007 september Prof.
Jianwei Zhang and Yi-Cheng Zhang have organized such a school in Beijing, where numerous students from China, Europe, and India participated an exciting
event of two weeks. This year it is Europe's turn; we choose the venue in Warsaw for its
dynamism, energy, and many young students who are active in the complexity
Sciences there. The aim is to bring students from both natural and social
sciences together, the fields represented will be psycology, sociology,
information technology, computer sciences, physics, as well as online
activists. There will be a small group of Chinese students (about ten) and
European students (about twenty), plus some Eastern European participants and
local students.
The school will last 4
days and with two extra days for social events. No participation fee is asked
and to cover other local expenses, a limited number of fellowships is
available for a few students. Besides, the organizers will try to assist in
finding inexpensive accommodation.
Applications should be
addressed to: agata_zablocka@wp.pl until 16 May 2008.
Scope
With the rapid advance of
WWW many new challenges emerge that demand an interdisciplinary approach that
is unprecedented. On the one hand we have the biwildering array of web2.0
applications like Facebook, Del.icio.us, Wikipedia, digg, et al pioneering in
making people connected and information aggregated show fascinating promises
and inspirations; on the other hand the scientific community slowly catching
up with the trend and start to take a serious look as how to tackle the many
phenomena that traditional tools are no longer suitable.
At this unique gathering
we shall explore cooperations between the East and West, between Hard
Sciences and Soft Sciences, and between Theory and Applications. Young
students and researchers from very different background are strongly
encouraged to attend. We shall have morning lectures and afternoons are
devoted to working groups around various themas, for example: algorithms for
reputation or quality, tagging and semantics, web user-dynamics, new startup
models, etc.
PLACE OF CONFERENCE
‘Sala Balowa’ Tyszkiewiczów-Potockich Palace
University of Warsaw
Krakowskie Przedmieście
26/28
00-927 Warsaw
Program
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1st June (Sunday)
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10:15 - 11:30
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Andrzej Nowak
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11:30 - 11:45
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BREAK
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11:45 - 12:45
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Wang Yi
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13:00 - 14:00
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LUNCH
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14:30 - 15:15
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Tao Zhou
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15:15 - 16:00
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Seminars and working groups (headed by
Andrzej Nowak)
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2nd June (Monday)
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09:15 - 10:45
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Li Xiaoming
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10:45 - 11:15
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BREAK
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11:15 - 12:00
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Li Xiaoming
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12:00 - 12:45
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Hassan Masum
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13:00 - 14:00
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LUNCH
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14:30 - 15:30
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Seminars and working groups (headed by
Yi-Cheng Zhang)
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3rd June (Tuesday)
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09:15 - 10:45
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Guido Caldarelli
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10:45 - 11:15
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BREAK
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11:15 - 12:00
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Guido Caldarelli
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12:00 - 12:45
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Hassan Masum
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13:00 - 14:00
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LUNCH
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14:30 - 15:30
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Seminars and working groups (headed by
Tao Zhou)
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4th June (Wednesday)
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09:15 - 10:45
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Vittorio Loreto
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10:45 - 11:15
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BREAK
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11:15 - 12:00
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Vittorio Loreto
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12:00 - 12:45
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Hassan Masum
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13:00 - 14:00
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LUNCH
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14:30 - 15:30
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Seminars and working groups (headed by Matus Medo)
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5th June (Thursday) – working extra day
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09:15 - 10:45
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Workshop and working groups (headed by Dr. She Li)
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10:45 - 11:15
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BREAK
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11:15 - 12:45
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Workshop and working groups (headed by Mr. Lei Ting)
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13:00 - 14:00
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LUNCH
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14:30 - 15:30
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conclusions and new ideas for the
future work (headed by Dr. She Li
and Mr. Lei Ting)
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6th June (Friday) – working extra day
Place
of the conference: Department of Psychology; Stawki
5/7 Street; Mail Holl
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9:00 – 14:00
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Participation in the Open Conference “Social
Psychology: New Ideas and Challenges” Organized by Department of Psychology
University of
Warsaw and Polish Association of Social Psychology (PSPS). http://cbu.psychologia.pl/newideas/
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Suggested reading
- Hassan Masum and Yi-Cheng
Zhang, Manifesto for the Reputation Society, First Monday 9, July
2004 (link)
- Ciro
Cattuto, Vittorio Loreto, and Luciano Pietronero, Semiotic dynamics
and collaborative tagging, PNAS 104, 2007, 1461-1464 (link)
- Nigel
Gilbert and Klaus G. Troitzsch, Simulation for the Social Scientist,
Open University Press, 2005 (
PDF, a newer version is available with ISBN 0 335 21600 5)
- Yi-Cheng
Zhang et al, Recommendation model based on opinion diffusion, EPL
80, 2007, 68003 (link)
- Albert-Laszlo
Barabasi, The Architecture of Complexity - From Network Structure to
Human Dynamics, IEEE Control Systems Magazine 27, 2007, 33-42
- B.
H. Wang and T. Zhou, Traffic flow and efficient routing on scale-free
networks: A survey, J. Korean Phys. Soc. 50, 2007, 134 -141 (PDF)
- Guido
Caldarelli, Scale-Free Networks, Oxford University
Press, 2007
- Andrzej
Nowak and Robin R. Vallacher, Information and influence, IEEE:
Intelligent Systems 1, 2005, 90-93 (PDF)
- Steven
H. Strogatz, Exploring complex networks Nature 410, 2001, 268-276
(link)
- David
Hales, Self-Organising, Open and Cooperative P2P Societies-From Tags
to Networks, Lect. Notes. Artif. Intell. 3464,
2005, 123-137
- Douglas
Rushkoff, Open Source Democracy, Demos, 2003 (PDF)
If you will attend the
summer school and you have problem accessing some of these works, please
contact us. We will send you electronic copies of the papers by e-mail.
Scientific Advisory
Board
- Mark
Jelasity (University of Szeged and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
- Xiaoming
Li (School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, China)
- Joe
McCauley (Physics Department University
of Houston Houston & IDEAS, USA)
- Johan
Pouwelse (Delft
University of
Technology, Netherland)
- Mario
Rasetti (Polytechnic Institute of Turin,
Italy)
- Sidney
Redner (Physics Department, Boston
University, USA)
- Sorin
Solomon (Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem & ISI, Israel)
- Jianwei
Zhang (Computer Science Department, University of Hamburg, Germany)
Invited Speakers
- Guido
Caldarelli (Centre Statistical Mechanics and Complexity, University La Sapienza, Italy):
Models of human dynamics
- Xiaoming Li (School of Electronic
Engineering and Computer Science, Peking
University, China):
Internet in China:
from peer-to-peer communities to search engines
- Vittorio
Loreto (University La
Sapienza, Italy): Tagging and
semantics
- Hassan
Masum (McLaughlin-Rotman Centre, Canada): Reputation
society
- Andrzej Nowak (Center for
Complex Systems Research and Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland): Information
Technology Trends in Social Transitions
- Wang
Yi (Google, China): Search engines
- Tao
Zhou (Department of Physics, University
of Fribourg):
Traffic flow and efficient routing on complex networks
Organizers
- Andrzej
Nowak (Center for Complex Systems Research and Institute for Social Studies,
University of Warsaw,
Poland)
- Yi-Cheng
Zhang (Department of Physics, University
of Fribourg,
Swizerland)
Organizing Committee
Team
- Matus
Medo (Department of Physics, University
of Fribourg,
Swizerland)
- Tao
Zhou (Department of Physics, University
of Fribourg,
Swizerland)
- Zoltan
Kuscsik (Department of Physics, University of Fribourg,
Swizerland)
- Zike
Zhang (Department of Physics, University
of Fribourg,
Swizerland)
local Organizing
Committee Team
- Agata Zabłocka-Bursa
(Center for Complex Systems Research and Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Magdalena
Roszczyńska (Department of Psychology and
Center for Complex Systems Research, Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Karolina Lisiecka
(Department of Psychology and Center for Complex Systems Research, Institute
for Social Studies, University
of Warsaw, Poland)
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