From System Complexity    To Emergent Properties    -- Book Skeleton

Call for survey chapters and original papers to be published as the book volume From System Complexity to Emergent Properties M.A. Aziz-Alaoui & Cyrille Bertelle (eds) -- Book Skeleton -- Preface draft The aim in this book is to study emergent properties arising through dynamical processes in various types of natural and artificial systems. The session is concerned with multidisciplinary approaches for getting representations of complex systems and using different methods to extract emergent structures. Equations formulation can lead to the study of emergent features such as self organization, opening on stability and robustness properties. Invariant techniques can express global emergent properties in dynamical evolution systems. Artificial systems such as a distributed platform for simulation can be used to search emergent placement during simulation execution. M.A. Aziz-Alaoui & Cyrille Bertelle        Important Dates January 10th, 2008: full paper submission deadline March 10th, 2008: notification of acceptance Authors Notification The submissions must be send to M.A. Aziz Alaoui and Cyrille Bertelle, using the link here The submissions must be sent by email using the LaTeX Springer author kit archive, using the link here . Preliminary Contents Part I: Concepts for Complexity Modelling M.A. Aziz-Aaloui and Cyrille Bertelle Emergent Computing for Natural Complex Systems Renate Sitte About the Predictability and Complexity of Complex Systems Michel Cotsaftis What make a system complex? An approach to self organization and emergence Chih-Chun Chen, Sylvia B. Nagi, Christopher D. Clack A calculus for multi-level emregent behaviours in component-based systems and simulations Part II: Geographical Systems Complex Modelling André Dauphiné Theory of reaction-diffusion and emergence of the geographical forms Eric Daudé, Edwidge Dubos-Paillard, David Gaillard, Emmanuel Eliot, Patrice Langlois, Eliane Propeck-Zimmermann, Damienne Provitolo and Thierry Saint-Gerand Industrial risks and complex systems Damienne Provitolo A proposition for a classification of the catastrophes based on complexities criteria Rawan Ghnemat, Cyrille Bertelle and Gérard H.E. Duchamp Community swarm optimization Part III: Dynamic Artificial or Natural Complex Networks Antoine Dutot, Frédéric Guinand, Damien Olivier and Yoann Pigné On the decentralized dynamic graph coloring problem Andrzej Gecow Emergence of growth, complexity threshold and structural tendencies during adaptive evolution of system Nathalie Corson, M.A. Aziz-Alaoui Dynamics of the Hindmark-Rose complex neuronal system Ian Oliver Design and validation of a distributed computation environment for mobile devices Part IV: Transport and Traffic Flow Cyrille Bertelle, Michel Nabaa, Damien Olivier and Pierrick Tranouez A decentralised approach for the transportation on demand problem An Caris, Gerrit K. Janssens and Cathy Macharis A Simulation Approach to the Analysis of Intermodal Freight Transport Networks William Conley A Non-Linear transportation Problem with One Hundred Variables Gabor Lencse, Gyor and Laszlo Muka Investigation of the Spatial Distribution Algorithm of the Traffic Flow Analysis of the Entity Flow Phase analysis Ourania Hatzi, Stephanos Thomas, Vassilis Dalakas, Mara Nikolaidou and Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos An Integrated Environment for Traffic Flow Simulation Using Cellular Automata Part V: Decision Support Systems Katrien Ramaekers and Gerrit K. Janssens A simulation-optimisation framework for determining a best strategy in inventory decision making and demand forecasting for intermittent demand Barna Laszlo Iantovics Cooperative medical diagnoses elaboration by physicians and artificial agents Eduard Babkin, Habib Abdulrab and Tatiana Babkina AgentTime: a distributed multi-agent software system for university's timetabling Karim Mahboub, Cyrille Bertelle, Véronique Jay and Evelyne Clément Emotion: appraisal-coping model for the “Cascades” problem