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Monday, September 15, 2008

Morning
Plenary Wise
09:00
 Sorin Solomon Conference Chair, Welcome and Opening Address
09:40
 Eugene Stanley "Applications of Statistical Physics to Understanding Complex Systems"
10:20
 Coffee Break - Wise Gallery
10:50
 Moshe Idel Complexities: Synchronic and Diachronic
11:30
 Duncan J. Watts  "Social science 2.0?"
12:10
 Lunch break Poster Session

Afternoon
Special Invited
Wise		 Biology and Bioinformatics
Sprinzak 1		 Economics and Social Sciences
Kaplan		 Information and Communication Technologies
Rothberg		 Computational, Physical and Mathematical Methods
Popick
13:30
 Ricard Sole  "title" Lewi Stone   "The nonlinear dynamics of seasonal epidemics" Anastasia Yartseva  "Model of elders’ activity via their interactions with social networks"    Reinhart Kühne  "Statistics of extremes, natural disasters and traffic jams"
13:50
 Samuel Shye  "Faceted models for behavioral systems: examples from quality of life and intelligence / creativity research" Gregory Provan  "On the use of higher- order functional constraints for graph generators"
14:10
 Bernard Derrida  "Genealogies in models of evolution with selection" Rene Doursat   "A morphogenetic model of controlled self- organization" Lucian-Liviu ALBU  "Gas emission in eu: a theoretical and empirical investigation of spatial distribution" Jeffrey Johnson  "The multilevel dynamics of very large complex road systems" Claudio Tebaldi   "Reduction properties and synchronization in logistic networks with adaptive competition"
14:30
 Debora Slanzi  "Probabilistic networks for biological complex systems" Sylvie Occelli  "The agency perspective in policy modelling: conceptual underpinnings and an application to regional policies" Edna Pasher   "Effectiveness of ict rtd impacts on the eu innovation system" Saburo Higuchi  "Susceptibility propagation for constraint satisfaction problems"
14:50
 Luciano Pietronero  "Minimal agent based model for the origin and self-organization of financial markets" Adiel Loinger   "Stochastic simulations of genetic regulatory networks" Niloy Ganguly  "Hierarchical organization of railway networks" Danny Bickson  "A gaussian belief propagation solver for large scale support vector machines" Guy Kelman   "Time slicing, percolation time and their induced hierarchies of clusters"
15:10
 Guillaume Beslon  "Modeling evolution of genetic regulation in artificial bacteria" Shay Ben yosef   "Social networks - qualitative perspective"
15:30
 Sol Efroni  "Title" Harold Scheraga  "Evolution of experimental and theoretical approaches to determine protein structure and protein folding pathways" Damien Challét  "The therapy to shock therapy: optimal dynamical policies for transition economies." Yoram Louzoun  "Direct Measurement of Information Network's Evolution" Nadav Shnerb   "From companies to colonies: Pareto-like distributions in ecosystems."
15:50
16:10
Coffee Break
Chair:
Andrea De Martino
16:40
 Stefano Boccaletti  "Scale-free topologies emerging from a dynamical entrainment of a complex network"    Lucien Benguigui  "The rank- size representation of the income distributions" Volker Nannen   "Convergence in evolutionary agent based economics" Paolo Verrocchio   "Growing amorphous order in glass- forming liquids"
17:00
17:20
 Santo Fortunato  "Towards a physics of society" Eric Fanchon  "A constraint based declarative methodology for the construction and revision of biological network models" Nils Ferrand  "The social fabric of jeans’ - assessing the social: coupling social simulation and assessment methods" Chih-Chun Chen  "Multi- level hypothesis testing with agent- based simulations of the colonic crypt" Antonio Gordillo-Guerrero  "Quenched disorder effect on a first- order phase transition in 3d"
17:40
 Anat Ninio  "Self- organized criticality and the properties of English" Corina Saman  "Predictability and complexity in macroeconomics. case of the romanian economy" Richard Baron   "Average tree solutions for graph games" Jack Raymond  "Characteristic behaviour of composite systems with two scale interactions"
18:00
 Dietrich Stauffer  "Demography - Who pays my pension ?" Miguel Nicolau  "Evolving specific network statistical properties using a gene regulatory network model" Thomas Conlon  "Multiscaled cross- correlation dynamics in financial time series" Pejman Iravani  "From micro to macro dynamics in multi- agent robotic systems"   
18:20
 Itzhak Aharon  "The relationship between rationality and the mechanisms of human decision-making: Inputs from Neuroeconomis" Matteo Marsili  "Volatility and the emergence of social networks" Luis M. A. Bettencourt  "The rules of information aggregation and the advantages of collective information processing" Eyal Lubetzky   "Glauber dynamics for the mean- field ising model"
18:40
 Discussion
19:00
End
More events on Monday
14:00-16:10
Sprinzak 4		 14:00-19:00
Feldman 2		 14:00-19:00
Feldman 1		 16:40-19:00
Sprinzak 4		 19:00-20:00
Wise Gallery		 20:00
Wise Auditorium
CSS Council Meeting The GSD network workshop Workshop on Large Databases in Biomedical Complex System Research Embracing complexity and design Refreshments Audio-Visual Event





Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Morning
Plenary Wise
09:00
 Shlomo Havlin  "Complex networks: theory and applications"
09:40
 Prabhakar Raghavan  "Changing the world of web search"
10:20
 Coffee Break - Wise Gallery
10:50
 Marc Mezard  "Can nature solve hard problems?"
11:30
 Tandy Warnow  "Computational problems involved in-large scale phylogeny estimation"
12:10
 Lunch break Poster Session

Afternoon

Special Invited
Wise		 Biology and Bioinformatics
Rothberg		 Economics and Social Sciences
Kaplan		 Information and Communication Technologies
Feldman 2		 Computational, Physical and Mathematical Methods
Sprinzak 1
13:30
 Albert-Laszlo Barabasi  "Human Mobility Patterns" Dumitru Iulian Nastac  "Flexible forecasting intelligent model for nonstationary time series" A.Kirman  "The economy as a complex system."    Marco Tarzia  "Group testing with random pools: phase transitions and optimal strategy"
13:50
 Walter Riofrio   "On biological computation, information and molecular networks" Gal Oestreicher-Singer  "The visible hand of social networks: evidence from amazon’s copurchase recommendations"
14:10
 Janos Kertesz  "Modeling social networks on large scale" Irene Poli  "Model- based evolutionary designs for biological complex systems experimentation" Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal  "Urban networks – a simulation model for urban evolution" Claudio Fontanari   "Wireless sensor networks as hierarchical complex systems" Francesco Zamponi   "Relationship between clustering and algorithmic phase transitions in the random k- xorsat model and its np- complete extensions"
14:30
 Ganna Rozhnova  "Oscillations and stochastic fluctuations in infectious disease dynamics" Jeffrey Johnson  "Policy and design: the in- vivo laboratory for the science of complex systems" David Chavalarias  "Reconstructing the multi- scale phylogeny of science"
14:50
 Shintaro Funahashi  "Prefrontal cortex and decision-making" Fabien Tarissan  "Biological regulatory network reconstruction: a mathematical programming approach" Andrea Mario Lavezzi  "Social networks' topology, firms' recruitment strategies and labor market mobility" Peter Haga   "Packet- pair dispersion with arbitrary traffic matrix" Shi Zhou   "Rewiring networks preserving rich- club structure only"
15:10
 James Decraene   "Exploring evolutionary stability in a concurrent artificial chemistry" Philippe Caillou   "Modelling a centralized academic labour market: efficiency and fairness" Telmo Menezes  "Artificial brains as networks of computational building blocks" Marc Ponsen  "The evolutionary dynamics of poker"
15:30
 Gur Yaari  "The case of the altruist meme" P.Ivanov  "title" Fabrizio Lillo  "How markets slowly digest changes in supply and demand" Gábor Vattay  "Network discovery beyond mean- field approximation" Andrea De Martino  "Cellular metabolism as a constrained optimization problem"
15:50
16:10
Coffee Break
16:40
 Willi Semmler  "Dynamic Decisions, Multiple Equilibria and Complexity " O. Biham  "Efficient stochastic simulations of reaction networks with fluctuations" Vladimir Marbukh  "Towards modeling network self- organization/ evolution: effects of fairness, risk averseness, competition, and economic pressures" Stanislaw Drozdz   "Complexity in "ulysses"" Elchanan Mossel  "Combinatorial statistics of markov models on trees and networks"
17:00
 Vladimir Belitsky   " stability analysis with applications of a two- dimensional dynamical system arising from a stochastic model for asset market" Joachim De Beule  "The multiple word guessing game"
17:20
 Imre Kondor  "Strong random correlations in complex systems" George Mitchell   "Predicting unknown elements of cell signalling networks using an evolutionary approach" Simona Cantono   "A percolation theory model of eco- innovation diffusion: the relationship between diffusion, learning economies and subsidies" Masatoshi Funabashi  "Detecting context as significant order- wise correlations in text data" Sebastien Roch  "Reconstruction of markov models on trees from few samples beyond the ks transition"
17:40
 Alon Manor  "Signs of warning- potential desertification forecasting through spatial and spatio- temporal self organization" Ferdinando Semboloni
   "Real estate market, segregation, and percolation in the urban dynamics"		 Li Daqing   "Overlapping synchronization"
18:00
 Irun Cohen  "A Paradigmatic Complex System: The Immune System" Nathaniel Wagner  "Symmetry and order in systems chemistry" Kamil Rakocy  "Modelling the diffusion of epidemic considering change in behaviour. the case study of poland" Gabriel Istrate  "Grammatical inference and symbolic dynamics" Federico Ricci-Tersenghi   "Phase transitions in random constraint satisfaction problems and algorithmic implications"
18:20
 Amir Ayali  "Form and function of neuronal systems: general principles and insights gained from the study of a simple in- vitro system" J.P.Nadal  "Pricing of Goods with Bandwagon Properties: Entanglement between Demand and Supply" Vittorio Loreto  "Collective dynamics of social annotation"
18:40
 Discussion
19:00
End
More events on Tuesday

14:30-16:40
Feldman 1		 14:15-19:00
Sprinzak 4		 20:00
Bible Lands Museum
Workshop on Large Databases in Biomedical Complex System Research Soft Complexity - Human Complex System Conference dinner





Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Morning

Plenary Wise
10:50
 Jennifer Dunne  "Conservation of ecological network structure over space and deep time"
11:30
 David Lane  "Complexity perspectives on innovation and social change"
12:10
 Misha Tsodyks  "Information processing in cortical neural networks with dynamic synaptic connections"
12:50
 Lunch break Poster Session

Afternoon
Special Invited
Wise		 Biology and Bioinformatics
Sprinzak 4		 Economics and Social Sciences
Sprinzak 1		 Information and Communication Technologies
Feldman 2		 Computational, Physical and Mathematical Methods
Rothberg
14:10
 Nir Shaviv  "Predicting Climate Change?" Bunimovich Svetlana   "Multi- level model for bladder cancer tumor growth and treatment." Daniel Shapira  "Zooming in: self- emergence of movements in new product growth" Michael Golosovsky   "Evolution of citation distribution with time" Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns  "Interaction- driven condensation with pair- factorizing steady states in higher dimensions"
14:30
 A. Muñoz Diosdado   "Complexity and multifractality in physiological time series: cardiac interbeat intervals in sleep and wake phases"
14:50
 Leanne Ussher  "Marked to Market Leverage with Zero-Intelligent Agents " S. Randall Thomas  "Elements of a core modeling environment toolbox for the (renal) physiome" Andrea De Martino  "Dynamical instabilities in a simple minority game with discounting" Isabelle Joncour  "Scientific knowledge analysis: a study of a weighted complex network." David A. Kessler  "Novel exponents control the quasi- deterministic limit of the extinction transition"
15:10
 Michal Or-Guil  "Using antibody reactivity profiles to find biomarkers for diagnostics: a case study" Karol Wawrzyniak  "Multi- market minority game: breaking the symmetry of choice" Daniel Abel  "To cluster or not to cluster - a meta- analytic approach"
15:30
 John-Dylan Haynes  "Decoding mental states from human brain activity" A.Zahavi  "The use of the Handicap Principle to understand the messages encoded in hormones." Mi Jianing  "A complex case study of yichun in china: developing virtualisation tools to support policy appraisal" Baruch Barzel  "Is it really a small world - network connectivity revisited" Thierry Mora  "Statistical mechanics of natural images"
15:50
 Adriana Agapie  "A bounded rationality approach in modeling customer expectations: guessing versus learning" Ani Calinescu   "Formalising emergence"
16:10
 Andrzej Nowak  "Dynamics of Information and Evaluation on Social Networks"    Anna Carbone   "Detrending Moving Average Algorithm (DMA)" Maximilian Schich   "Dissecting the canon: visual subject co- popularity networks in art research" Naftali Tishby   "Information theory, predictive information, and the perception-action-cycle"
16:30
16:50
Coffee Break
17:20
 Haim Taitelbaum "Complex Patterns in Reactive-Wetting Interface Dynamics" M.H.Jensen  "Modelling Ultradian Oscillations and Segmentation: The p53, NF-kB and Wnt-Notch Systems" Zhanna Mingaleva   "Innovation is the key to succeed" Ricardo Baeza-Yates   "Complex Networks Derived from Queries" Sergio Curilef  "Complex systems and probability distribution in a quantitative linguistic problem"
17:40
 Fernando Buendia  "Self- organizing markets" Bercovici Sivan  "Deciphering the ancestry of admixed individuals"
18:00
 Nathalie Questembert-Balaban  "Non-Genetic Individuality in a Predator-Prey system" Stanislaw Cebrat  "Evolution of sex chromosomes – why y chromosome shrinks" Kousuke Yakubo   "Fractality and small- world property of complex networks" Anna T. Lawniczak  "Ddos attacks: their detection using entropy and their effects on network performance" Avishalom Shalit  "In- play bet prices follow a simple probiblistic model"
18:20
 Yosef E. Maruvka  "New method for inferring ancient migration rates, using genetics variation, applied to prehistoric human migration" Zeev Posner   ""who is afraid of complexity based culture research"" Yakir Berchenko   "Competing spreading processes on networks – even a few localized edges give you the winning edge." Francesca Tria   "A statistical mechanics approach to the quadratic assignment problem. graphs alignment and travel salesman"
18:40
 Francois Kepes  "Epigenomics and Morphodynamics" Andrea Parisi  "Modelling infection dynamics with arbitrary recovery profiles" Lucila Carvalho L. L.   "Four kinds of models of emergent representations resulting from the decomposition individual/ collective and internal/ external" Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva   "Modelling group decision- making process using a phase transition approach" Gabriel Istrate  "Stochastic stability in schelling's segregation model with contagion"
19:00
 Balázs Papp  "Robustness revisited: The condition dependency of genetic interactions"       Olivier Rivoire  "Protein sectors: a case study"
19:20
 Discussion
19:40
End
More events on Wednesday
09:00-10:20
Wise		 14:10-19:00
Kaplan		 15:00-19:00
Feldman 1
Public Plenary TT Event, Wise Auditorium Workshop on Large Databases in Social and Economic Complex Systems Complexity and Interdisciplinarity at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem




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