GSO-2012-Program

Program of GSO-2012

	Wednesday, Sept. 26 GSO Theory	Thursday, Sept. 27 Swarms and Bio-inspired Systems	Friday, Sept. 28 Networks and Complexity
9:15 am	Peter Robinson, University of Sydney Introduction to GSO	start at 9:30	start at 9:30
9:30 am	Carlos Gershenson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Complexity and Information: Measuring Emergence, Self-organization, Homeostasis, and Autopoiesis at Multiple Scales	Madeleine Beekman, University of Sydney How does an informed minority of scouts guide a honeybee swarm as it flies to its new home?	Randall Beer, Indiana University Information and Dynamics in Minimally Cognitive Agents
10:40 am	Break	Break	Break
11:00 am	Christoph Salge, University of Hertfordshire Approximation of Empowerment in the Continuous Domain	Naomi Kuze, Osaka University Proposal and Evaluation of Ant-based Routing with Prediction	Eran Agmon, Indiana University Action Switching in a Dynamical Agent
11:30 am	Virgil Griffith, California Institute of Technology Three new measures of irreducibility	Jerome Buhl, University of Sydney From individuals to mass migration: a theoretical and experimental study of locust hopper bands	Joseph Lizier, CSIRO, Sydney and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in The Sciences Analytic relationship of synchronizability and computational properties to network structure and motifs
12:00 pm	Lunch (on your own)	Lunch (on your own)	Lunch (on your own)
1:20 pm	Georg Martius, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig Information driven self-organization of complex robotic systems	Louis Rossi, University of Delaware Modeling and analyzing large swarms with covert leaders	Nihat Ay, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig Causal implications based on observations
2:30 pm	Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, Georg Martius Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig Predictive information in reinforcement learning of embodied agents	X. Rosalind Wang, CSIRO, Sydney Quantifying and Tracing Information Cascades in Swarms	Research Highlights: 2:30 pm: Eran Agmon, Indiana University A Dynamical Account of Probabilistic Inference 2:45 pm: A. B. M. Nasiruzzaman, University of New South Wales, Canberra Prevention of Power Grid Blackouts by Guiding Self-Organization of Interacting Components - A Bus Dependency Matrix Based Approach
3:00 pm	Klaus Dorer, Hochschule Offenburg Extended Behavior Networks and their Application in RoboCup	Catherine Antoniou, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Germany DHMP: Distributed Hierarchal Multi- resolution Planner	Marc Piggott, CSIRO, Sydney Mean-field Estimation of Fisher Information in Random Boolean networks
3:30 pm	Break	Break	Break
3:45 pm	Claudius Gros, Goethe University Frankfurt Generating functionals for guided self- organization	Fabio Boschetti, CSIRO, Perth Guided Self Organisation in the social sciences	Benedikt Schmidt, University of Koblenz Joschka Boedecker, University of Osaka, Oliver Obst, CSIRO, Sydney Computing local active information storage in input-driven systems
4:15 pm	Mikhail Prokopenko, CSIRO, Sydney Fisher Information, Phase Transitions, and Order Parameters	Alexander C. Kalloniatis, DSTO, Canberra 'Guided' or 'Self' Synchronisation? Modelling the role of 'staff' in complex organisations	Somwrita Sarkar, University of Sydney Striking absence of modularity in large- scale, evolving, self-organized peer to peer networks
4:45 pm	Wrap up; self-organization for dinner	Wrap up	Panel Discussion (leader: Claudius Gros): Modules for guided self organization until 5:30pm

Keynote talks, highlighted in blue, are one hour long followed by 10 min Q&A. Regular talks are 30 minutes long (including Q&A). Research highlight talks are 15 minutes long (including Q&A).

Location: University of Sydney, School of Physics, Physics Lecture Theatre 2 (Rm 424).