Dear YRS Participants,

We’d like to thank you for the excellent presentations that we had this year in the Young Research Session at ECCS’10. Without your collaboration it would be impossible to have the success that we had. As most of you know, right after ECCS’10 a group of young researchers had an informal meeting to discuss the future of young researchers collaboration. A page was created at the Complex Systems Society ( http://cssociety.org/Yoco ) to deal with these issues. We invite you to register with CSS and participate in this discussion.

See you in ECCS’11,

All the best,

David Rodrigues
Iain Kusel
Larisa Mihoreanu
Andrea Apolloni
Martine J. Barons
António Fonseca

PS - We have some Photos from YRS @ ECCS'10

• 9:00 Anders Lyhne Christensen - Experiments In Swarm Robotics

• 10:30 Sérgio Bacelar - Evolution of social norms in a dynamic scale free network
• 10:45 Yixian Song - Maintenance of sexual reproduction in a world of structured resources
• 11:00 Araz Taeihagh, Zun Wangand René Bañares-Alcántara - Formulation of Transport Emission Reduction Policies: A Case Study in the Application of Network Analysis
• 11:15 José António Silva - A tool for relations detection
• 11: 30 Fabien Held - Exploring the Dynamics of Economic Networks using Agent-Based Modeling
• 11:45 Laura Wise, Sérgio A. Carvalho, Alberto G. Murta, João P. Carvalho - Modelling fleet behaviour with rule-based fuzzy cognitive maps.
• 12:00 Sofia Torrão, Francisco Restivo - A Dynamic Approach to Spatio-temporal Collaborative Filtering

• 14:00 Vitorino Ramos - Assembling the superset of 4 critical research areas in Complexity: Evolution, Self-Organization, Cognition, Network Topology
• 15:00 José Loff - A Framework for Hypernetwork Modelling and Analysis
• 15:15 Sebástien Grauwin - Modeling for a Tardean Quantitative Sociology
• 15:30 Martine Barons - Predicting patient outcomes: artificial neural network analysis of a complex intervention for back pain.
• 15:45 Manuel Tânger - Network characteristics of news text sources

• 16:30 Iain Kusel - The emergence of linear sequencing in children: A continuity account and a formal model
• 16:45 Demo
• 17:00 Steven Hill, Yiling Lu, Jennifer Molina, Gordon B. Mills, Sach Mukherjee, - Dynamic Bayesian analysis of protein signalling connectivity reveals heterogeneity within single breast cancer subtype
• 17:15 David Chavalarias - TINA: mapping the science for scholars and decision-makers

Bursaries to Attend ECCS'10

At pivotal moments throughout history, technological innovation triggers massive social and cultural transformation. Apparently unrelated developments, which had been gradually unfolding for years, suddenly converge to create changes that are as disruptive as they are creative. We are currently living in a moment of extraordinary complexity when systems and structures that have long organized life are changing at an unprecedented rate. Such rapid and pervasive change creates the need to develop new ways of understanding the world and of interpreting our experience. (Marc C. Taylor, “The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture”)

In the last decade there has been a growing interest in the study of complex systems. The concept of complexity is pervasive in many fields of research, from social sciences such as politics and economics to 'hard' sciences such as theoretical physics and systems biology. This growing interest and concurrent widening of research domains creates the need to develop new ways of understanding and interpreting the world. This is particularly important for young researchers tackling their initial research questions within the domain of complex systems.

The Young Researchers Session @ ECCS'10 seeks to bring together a group of complex systems science researchers at an early stage in their careers (graduates, M.Sc., Ph.D., Postdoctoral researchers and Lecturers), to facilitate a dialogue beween individuals and groups from an intentionally diverse set of domains. We aim to encourage the presentation of experimental results within this supportive, interdisciplinary group, and to foster collaboration between people from within the complex systems community who may not otherwise have come across experimental techniques and approaches from outside their 'comfort zone'.

Emphasis will therefore be on creating a stimulating and interactive environment, with a focus also on the bigger questions at large within complex systems research. To this end, presenters will be asked to allude to the 'bigger picture' questions within their domain and in complex systems science as a whole from their perspective. Crucially, we aim to establish a collaborative environment that will continue after ECCS'10 to foster these links.

David Chavalarias - TINA: mapping the science for scholars and decision-makers

CNRS Researcher at the Complex Systems Institute Paris Ile-de-France and Center For Research in Applied Epistemology (CREA, Ecole Polytechnique), Team Complex Systems, Adaptive Rationality and Social Cognition

Vitorino Ramos - Assembling the superset of 4 critical research areas in Complexity: Evolution, Self-Organization, Cognition, Network Topology

LaSEEB - Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering Lab., IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PORTUGAL.

GeNeura Team Lab. - Department of Architecture and Computer Technology, University of Granada (UGR), Granada, SPAIN. (GeNeura)

Anders Lyhne Christensen - Experiments In Swarm Robotics

Assistant Professor at Lisbon University Institute, Portugal.

The workshop will take place on September 15th, 2010, and will focus on a limited number of pre-selected contributions, incorporating group discussions.

Some important issues that may be discussed:

• How to ensure a research activity trajectory from Ph.D. students to all early career researchers.
• Research methodologies, tools, datasets and related problems.
• Current research programs.
• Current 'state of the art' experimental results within complex systems science.
• How to set up social media presence for complex systems science young career researchers.
• How to network curricula.
• Integration with online presentation of educational materials e.g. assystcomplexity.eu, videolectures.net
• SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis of young researchers personal resources.
• Ph.D. v's M.Sc. v's job opportunities for complex systems science graduates.
• What to publish, how to publish, when to publish.

• 30/6: Deadline for submissions
• 15/7: Notification of acceptance
• 31/7: Final (amended) manuscripts due
• 15/9: Satellite Meeting

Graduates, Masters and Ph.D. students are invited to submit a presentation as a short 300 word abstract on a subject within complex systems science or a longer (six pages) full scientific paper on topics concerning research and academic careers, complex systems domains and applications, job opportunities for complex systems science graduates, curriculum networking, skills matrices for complex systems studies as a whole or any other relevant matter.

Please use the following template when preparing your paper (but not mandatory):

• Template for LaTeX2e

• Template for LaTeX

• Template for Office 2007 Word

To submit, please send the produced PDF to phd@eccs2010.eu.

Deadline for submission is 30/6.

If you encounter any problem, please contact David Rodrigues at phd@eccs2010.eu

Andrea Apolloni, Institut des Systemes Complexes Rhone-Alpes (IXXI) and Laboratoire de Physique,ENS-Lyon, (France)

António Fonseca, DCTI, ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, (Portugal)

David Rodrigues, DCTI, ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, (Portugal)

Iain Kusel, Design Group, Open University (UK)

Larisa Mihoreanu, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, King's College London, (UK)

Martine J. Barons, Complexity Science Centre and DTC , University of Warwick, (UK)

Questions should be addressed to the Young Researchers Session @ ECCS’10 Organizing Committee through the e-mail address phd@eccs2010.eu