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Eighth International Workshop on
Guided Self-Organization (GSO-2016)

The 8th International Workshop on Guided Self-Organization is a satellite Workshop at the The Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. ALIFE XV takes place in Cancun, Mexico during 4-8 July 2016.  GSO-2016 is organized by The International Association for Guided Self-Organization (TIA-GSO) and takes place on 5 July 2016 (Cancun, Mexico).
Research Aims and Topics
The goal of Guided Self-Organization (GSO) is to leverage the strengths of self-organization (simplicity, parallelization, adaptability, robustness, scalability) while still being able to direct the outcome of the self-organizing process. GSO typically has the following features: (i) an increase in organization (structure and/or functionality) over some time; (ii) the local interactions are not explicitly guided by any external agent; (iii) task-independent objectives are combined with task-dependent constraints.

Of central interest are well-founded general methods for characterizing such systems in a principled way with the view of ultimately allowing them to be guided toward pre-specified goals. Information theory, nonlinear dynamics and graph theory are core to many of these methods, and quantifying complexity, its sources and effects is a common theme.

The GSO Workshop will bring together invited experts and researchers in self-organizing systems, with particular emphasis on the information- and network-theoretic foundations of GSO and the information dynamics of adaptive systems.  The following topics are of special interest: information-theoretic measures of complexity, nonlinear dynamics, complex networks, information-driven self-organization (IDSO), applications of GSO to complex networks, distributed computation, machine learning, swarm intelligence, bio-inspired systems, computational neuroscience, systems biology, cooperative and modular robotics, etc.


The program includes 1 day, with two keynote talks and eight regular presentations.
Organising Committee
  • Mikhail Prokopenko, CSIRO, Australia
  • Carlos Gershenson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
  • Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Program Committee
  • Nihat Ay, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in The Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
  • David Balduzzi, University of Wellington, New Zealand
  • Joschka Boedecker, University of Freiburg, Germany
  • Markus Brede, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  • Rene Doursat, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
  • Carlos Gershenson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
  • Claudius Gros, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany
  • Heiko Hamann, University of Paderborn, Germany
  • Joseph Lizier, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Georg Martius, The Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
  • Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
  • Mikhail Prokopenko, University of Sydney, Australia
  • Christoph Salge, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
  • Hiroki Sayama, Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA
  • Guy Theraulaz, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  • Vito Trianni, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome, Italy
  • Justin Werfel, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
  • Larry Yaeger, Google Inc., San Francisco, USA
Keynote Speakers
  • Prof Chris Adami, Michigan State University (USA)
  • Prof Takashi Ikegami, University of Tokyo (Japan)
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