The 5-th International Symposium
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Strategies for Complex Systems
--- Constructive and Descriptive Approaches ---
SYMPOSIUM: March 10-12, 1999, at Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
PUBLIC LECTURE March 13, 1999, at Yamaha Hall, Ginza, Tokyo
Objective:
It has been about ten years since the advent of the "Complexity" paradigm, which has attracted the attention of many people as a new approach to the analysis of complex systems. "Complexity" aims to analyze a complex system in the real world by simulating a model which describes the process with simple structual concepts.
However, this is not the only approach to analyzing complex systems. Statistical science has been providing methodologies and models for quantitative analysis of many types of data from complex real situations. For example, it has been useful in the prediction and control of complex systems in engineering and science. Also, recent studies in Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence have been developed on the basis of statistical concepts.
Clearly, these two methodological approaches are complementary to each other in that the former deductively constructs a virtual world while the latter inductively analyzes the complexity in the real world.
Likewise, simulations using the "Complexity" approach are somewhat different from the conventional computer intensive simulations based on some deducted fundamental laws, although both simulation approaches aim to realize experiments of a complex system which cannot be carried out in the real world.
The differences between the various methods cannot be explained by only the concepts of deductionism and anti-deductionism. In order to establish further fruitful breakthroughs in the research of complex systems, we need to make opportunities to compare and clarify the different objectives and methodologies between the two approaches in various specific research projects.
It is hoped that this interdisciplinary symposium supported by the Graduate University of Advanced Studies will provide us with a foundation to find further useful methods for the analysis of complex systems.
Schedule and Programme:
In the following, speakers and titles in blue color are fixed ones, and the others are all tentative. The speakers are asked to give proper titles for their lectures as soon as possible, also abstracts and their photos for the printed programme.
Symposium (10-12 March)
March, 10 (Wednesday)
11:00-14:00 Registration (at Shonan Village Center, Hayama)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
11:00-14:00 Preparation for Poster session
14:00-14:10 Welcome Address by Eiji Hirota, President of SOKEN-DAI
14:10-14:20 Opening Address by Yosihiko Ogata, Organizing Committee Chair
Session 1. Simulation of Complex Systems - Realism and Simple Modeling
16:30-16:50 Coffee break
19:00-21:00 Welcome Party
21:00-22:00 Preparation for Poster Session
March, 11 (Thursday)
Session 1 continued
Session 2. Poster Session
10:10-12:40 Poster Session (with coffee)
12:40-13:40 Lunch
Session 3. Dynamics - Nonlinear Phenomena and Time Series Analysis
15:40-16:00 Coffee break
19:00-20:30 Dinner
March, 12 (Friday)
Session 4. Symbols in the Mind - Emergence versus Description
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
12:10-13:30 Lunch