Download - CS-DC newsletter num1 Sept 2014

Contents

!★ Editorial by Paul Bourgine

★ Call for new CS-DC e-Laboratories and e-Departments

★ Meeting of the UNESCO UniTwin CS-DC at ECCS’14: Science, Policy, and Applications

★ International workshop on Contagion Dynamics in Socio economic Systems

★ Tools: CS DC web conferencing tool

★ News from the CS-DC e-Laboratories

★ e-Laboratory on Education

★ e-Laboratory on Climate System / Human System Interaction

★ e-Laboratory on Human-trace

★ e-Laboratory on Situated Collective Intelligence

!!!NEWSLETTER #1 !September 2014

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Dear CS-DC Colleagues, !This Newsletter is the first one. Its function is to share in our UniTwin CS-DC community what are the main news. "Community" comes from the latin "com"-"munus" that means "shared gift". !That is the first role of the CS-DC: sharing all what is necessary for Complex Systems Science as the trans-disciplinary science of the theoretical transversal questions and as a place for launching new integrative multi-level trans-disciplinary sciences about their multi-level systems: for example, with physicists and chemists (complex matter,from atoms to macromolecules and materials), with biologists (from molecules to organisms), with environmental scientists (from organisms to ecosphere), with cognitive scientists (from neurotransmitters to the brain, from the brain to social cognition), with human and social scientists (from individuals to the society), etc ... !

The CS-DC roadmap is our first main resource to be publicly shared. In our roadmap, each transversal question and each multi-level system has its own chapter with its publicly shared scientific challenges. Each e-laboratory is organizing the whole sharing for one challenge of a chapter. Several e-laboratories have the opportunity to constitute a CS-DC e-department for organizing the whole sharing at the level of a chapter. All this process, year after year, will transform our roadmaps into a living worldwide roadmap. This process can be, at all geographical scales, very useful both for responding to calls with e-laboratories project-teams and, even, for helping research agencies to write new calls. !The CS-DC website will present all the e-departments with their e-laboratories as any scientific campus. Each e-department and e-laboratory will present all what is shared for dealing with their scientific challenges. Furthermore, the challenges are also publicly shared on the CS-DC Wikiversity site and submitted to

EDITORIAL by Paul Bourgine

Web: http://www.unitwin-cs.org | Scoopt.it! - http://www.scoop.it/t/complex-systems-digital-campus | Twitter - @CSDigitalCampus

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community. !The CS-DC annual e-conference, as decided by the CS-DC Council, is distributed on the different continents with an e-access for each working groups in your University. Each track is organized in sessions by a CS-DC e-department and its e-laboratories existing or to be created. The annual e-conference is a remarquable occasion for creating new e-laboratories and e-departments with their scientific committees. !The CS-DC is integrating and sharing its results. Integrating progressively all types of our scientific results just enhance our individual strategies of publication:

publications are ameliorated through internal discussions in e-teams and e-laboratories. But individual results can be published again and again for more and more integrated models in more and more high level journals. Sharing is not only unavoidable in our complex systems community but also mutually beneficial at all the level of our community and, beyond, for all the society. And a strong conjecture in ecological systems is that mutualism is a great guarantee for long term co-viability. !As said, the Newsletter is our main way to sharing of the main news. It is a crucial instrument for our new community. You are all invited to propose little articles for our Newsletter.


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EDITORIAL by Paul Bourgine

Paul Bourgine President of the CS-DC

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Proposals should be submitted using the CS-DC template for respectively e-laboratories and e-departments available at : !https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Complex_Systems_Digital_Campus

!and sent to [email protected]

Call for new CS-DC e-Laboratories and e-DepartmentsCall

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gThe UNESCO UniTwin Complex Systems Digital Campus (http://unitwin-cs.org/ ) will organize a kickoff meeting as a Satellite Meeting at the ECCS'14 (European Conference on Complex Systems http://www.eccs14.eu/ ) that will be held in Lucca, from the 22nd to the 26th of September, 2014. This satellite meeting will bring together members of the CS-DC, from all over the world, to review progress and assess challenges

related to the coordination and sharing of research and educational resources among more than hundred universities and institutions worldwide. The sessions would combine physical and remote presentations to include members attending ECCS in Lucca and those unable to do so. !The meeting calls for proposals of new CS-DC e-laboratories and e-departments.

UNESCO UniTwin CS-DC: Science, Policy, and ApplicationsCS-DC Kickoff Meeting at ECCS’14 September 25th, 2014

Deadline : September 8th



https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Complex_Systems_Digital_Campus


https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Complex_Systems_Digital_Campus

This symposium brings together researchers specialized in the interaction between the dynamics of information dissemination in technological networks (often called “virtual” as the agents do not necessarily know each other personally) and the society in real world. Recent examples, like the Arab Spring or the Spanish riots of May 15th, show clearly how the activities of opinion groups formed in socio-technological networks like Tweeter of others, have direct socio economic consequences in the real world. !Confirmed Speakers: - Alan Barrat - Stefano Battiston - Ciro Catuto - Vittoria Colizza

- Bruno Gonçalves - Yamir Moreno - Agnieska Rusinowska Organisers:- Laura Hernández email: [email protected] Yamir Moreno email: [email protected] Website : www.u-cergy.fr/contagion-dynamics-in-socio-economic-systems Please note that the participation is free but, the number of places being limited, registration is mandatory. Deadline for registration is extended until September 5th 2014.

International workshop on Contagion Dynamics in Socio economic Systems

!Call !!For !!Participation

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Unitwin CS-DC is offering some tools to improve collaborations between members. One of them is BigBlueButton (BBB). ! !!!!!BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system for on-line learning. BigBlueButton enables you to share documents (PDF and any office document), webcams, chat, audio and your desktop. It can also record sessions for later playback.

You can access this web conferencing tool as an administrator (to sheduled a conference) or as a user (participant or moderator profile). Everybody can participate, you just need the conference room password. !URL : http://visio.litislab.fr or directly http://visio.litislab.fr/join/<your conference room> !In the next newsletter, I will show you how to schedule / manage a conference.

CS DC web conferencing tool

Tools by Julien Baudry

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The Étoile Coordination Action - http://etoilecascadesideas.eu has been finally evaluated during last July. The Étoile team (Open University, École Polytechnique, and IUL-Lisbon

University Institute) presented the different outputs of the Action, including the complementary Étoile Platform (http://www.etoileplatform.net) and the Étoile Peer-Marking Platform.

e-Laboratory on Education !The Étoile Coordination Action has been evaluated

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The Étoile Platform will continue to be offered to the community

After an initial phase, supported by the European Commission, Étoile evolved and is more than ever needed for presenting, organising, and structuring the new Complex Systems Science, and serving the research and educational communities. The platform

enters a new phase, continuously been improved, with new concepts and functionalities to be offered in the future. !Our newsletter will stay attentive to the Étoile news!

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e-Laboratory on Climate System / Human System Interaction

Today, one of the main challenges for future generations of man is to understand how highly complex systems such as the human and the climate systems interact, what place conscious individuals occupy in this mega-system, and how to provide realistic pathways to sustainable development from both global and inter-generational perspectives. Facing this challenge with cooperation across scientific disciplines will create an integrative vision of different aspects of the interaction of complex human and climate systems: (physics, climatology, agronomy, hydrology, environmental engineering, geography, ecology, economics, political sciences, anthropology, psychology, linguistics, neurobiology, educational sciences, etc). Including mathematicians can permit the development of models. Taking into consideration inter-cultural, inter-regional and inter-sectorial visions can provide research with a very wide data base and a large

variety of situations. The objective of the CSHSI laboratory is to create an international forum with an interdisciplinary perspective and an integrative as well as predictive approach to the organisation, adaptation, modification and transformation of the highly complex “mega-system” of interactions between the human and the climate systems. This international and multidisciplinary project involves twelve 19 scientists from 12 countries in several scientific field. The CSHSI e-laboratory will provide important findings about sustainable development, incorporating climatic, societal and individual parameters that take into account territorial as well as global systems. It will focus on extreme situations and on perspectives and limits of prevention, adaptation and transformation as well. The project allows local experiences and individual characteristics to to be included in an integrative model.

Responsible for the e-laboratory : Annamaria Lammel ([email protected] ), Jean-Marc Meunier ([email protected]) Laboratory Paragraphe, University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France. http://http://paragraphe.info/

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Director / Founder:

Béatrice GALINON-MELENEC

IDEES-LH CNRS UMR 6266, LE HAVRE, FRANCE

[email protected],

Deputy director:

Sylvie LELEU MERVEL

DEVISU, EA 2445, VALENCIENNES, FRANCE

[email protected]

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In the 'irst half of 2014, the e-‐Laboratory on Human-‐trace has : !-‐ organized several scienti'ic events to encourage new developments in research on the trace. See memory on :

https://ent.unr-‐runn.fr/'ilex/get?k=2NFgsQAHa4br6vakLmc !-‐ participated in the ICCSA 2014 (june 23 University -‐ Normandy Le Havre) !In « The future of the "Homme-Trace" : a substantial societal challenge », Béatrice Galinon-Mélénec presents the theoretical project du e.laboratory. This text is available on : http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01009385. Abstract: Having observed that the notion of trace is used in disciplines whose subjects and methods often stand far apart, the author has put forward some definitions from French anthroposemiotic research (signe-trace, signe-signal, "echoing of traces" etc.). The propositions result from her own findings in professional situations of communication. In this article, B. Galinon-Mélénec explains that confusing the sign and the trace is an anthropocentric view and that "if any sign is, in fact, a "signe-trace", a trace is not necessarily a sign". The latest scientific discoveries have led the author to propose a new anthropological definition spanning time: the Homme-Trace. Revealed by both anthropology and astrophysics, traces of the distant past make it possible to question the trace in terms of processes, interactions (human or nonhuman), systems and complexity. This paper serves as a basis for debate within the international and interdisciplinary e.laboratory "Human-Trace-Complex-Systems", with the aim of developing a collective intelligence of the notion of Trace. All disciplines are invited to respond to this substantial societal challenge. !


e-Laboratory on Human-trace

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!The E-Lab main focus is the enhancement of a system capability to devise projective actions meant to shape more socially, environmentally, economic and institutionally viable developmental paths in situated contexts, such as regional and local communities. Its activities will be policy oriented, with a strong emphasis on application, and on the possibilities to leverage the various ICT based tools for improving the whole policy production process.

Discussion among the partners has identified two main domains of attention :

1. one dealing with the approaches, tools, techniques, which are to be developed and tested. The e-lab is therefore expected to be a repository for selected experiences , while providing orientations for novel ones;

2. the other addressing the most sensitive policy fields, where the need to apply the above mentioned “menu” is likely to be most urgently felt (healthcare, e-gov and mobility).

A Memorandum of Understanding is being prepared and will provide the guidelines for the E-Lab functioning and organisation (rules for new members, scientific and steering committees).

Local seminars and a main meeting during the ECCS main conference in Lucca are planned in 2014.

The e-Laboratory on Situated Collective Intelligence has been established by a group of institutions with a relatively diverse set of competences, dealing with ICT infrastructures and tools, large scale data management, computer science, and social systems: !1. Centre for Policy Modelling,

Manchester Metropolitan University 2. Piedmont Consortium for Information

System 3. Centre for Excellence for ICT

Research and Development 4. Socio Economic Research Institute of

Piedmont 5. Institute for Scientific Interchange

Foundation (ISI Foundation) 6. Torino Piemonte Internet Exchange

(TOP-IX) 7. Research Centre on Behavioural,

Complexity and Experimental Economics at the University of Turin

Detailed description at: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Complex_Systems_Digital_Campus/E-Laboratory_on_Piemonte_for_Situated_Collective_Intelligence_in_Complex_Societies

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e-Laboratory on Situated Collective Intelligence

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Contributors for this issue of the CS-DC Newsletter:

Sylvie Occelli, Laura Hernandez, Béatrice Galinon-Mélénec, Julien Baudry, Jean-Marc Meunier, Paul Bourgine, Jorge Louçã.

Editors of this issue of the CS-DC Newsletter:

Jorge Louçã, Paul Bourgine, Anna Scius-Bertrand.

Contact: [email protected]

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