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Call for Applications/Papers – ESF-COST
Conference - Future Internet and
Society: A Complex Systems Perspective, 2-7 October 2010, Italy
Chair: Romualdo
Pastor-Satorras - Departament
de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear (FIB), Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya, ES
Co-Chair:
Claudio
Castellano - CNR-ISC (Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi) and Dipartimento di
Fisica, Sapienza Universitá di Roma, IT
Programme Committee: Thibaut
Lery, European
Science Foundation, FR; Gian Mario Maggio,
COST
Office, BE; Alain
Peyraube, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS,
Paris), FR; Peter
Richmond, Trinity College Dublin, School of Physics,
IE; Fabrizio
Sestini,
European Commission, DG INFSO, BE
Scientific Committee: Loretta
Anania, European
Commission, BE; Giovanni Colombo,
Information
Society and Technology Advisory Group (ISTAG), IT; Juan Carlos De Martin,
Politecnico
di Torino, IT; Jose
Fernandez-Villacanas, European Commission, BE; Dirk Helbing,
ETH
Zurich, CH; Luciano
Lenzini, University of Pisa, IT; Vittorio Loreto,
University
of Rome "La sapienza", IT; Felix Reed-Tsochas,
CABDyN Complexity
Centre, UK; Maxi
San
Miguel, Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and
Complex
Systems, ES
The digital
revolution and the advent of the Internet are transforming
the way we work, how we spend our free time. These phenomena are also
changing
how we communicate with each other and the way in which we establish
and
maintain our social relations. The relationship between Internet and
society is
complex and bidirectional, leading to a co-evolution of the two
systems. In
fact, the Internet exists because humans need networking and the
Internet
evolution is ultimately driven by our ever-increasing use of it.
The complexity
of the current Internet structure and its future
developments cannot be understood without taking a full
multi-disciplinary
approach. Such an approach must necessarily be based on the science of
complex
systems, and in particular complex network theory. It must also depend
on
social sciences and humanities to elucidate the underpinnings of the
Internet
at a societal and economic level.
This conference
will bring together experts in Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT), social scientists, as well as experts
in the
area of complex systems They will assess the state-of-the-art, identify
new
trends and envision future developments in the intertwined domains of
future
Internet and society.
Topics that will
be covered in the conference include:
- Internet
topology and modelling
- Complex
techno-social networks
- Modelling of
collective social behaviour
- Social and
human dynamics
- Spreading and
epidemics in techno-social systems
- Virtual social
systems
- Co-evolution
of Internet and society
- Internet as a
socio-economical system
- Mobile social
networks
- Internet
enabled applications and business
- Future
Internet as a techno-social system.
We
welcome top-level presentations on the most recent results in analysis
and
modelling, from the point of view of complex systems and other
techno-social
issues.A good number of grants are available for young researchers to
cover the
conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests
should be
made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the paragraph "Grant
application" of the application
form.
Full conference programme
and application form are
accessible online from www.esf.org/conferences/10341.
ESF-COST
Contact for further information: Antje Teegler -
ateegler@cost.esf.org
Closing
date for applications: 1 June 2010
This conference is organised by the European Science
Foundation (ESF) in partnership
with COST
European Cooperation in Science
and Technology
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