Seminars 2004-2005
This is the program of seminars that took place during the acdemic year 2004-2005. ECCO seminars normally took place each Friday (sometimes Thursday) at 17h30 in room 3C204 (Building C, 3rd floor), at the VUB Campus Etterbeek.
Everyone interested is welcome, although the largest group of attendants are usually ECCO full researchers. The seminars are very interactive, with small groups (about 8 people). The intention is to discuss in depth the research being proposed, and to look for interdisciplinary connections with other ECCO-related themes. Seminars last about two hours, after which the remaining participants go to take a drink in the Opinio Café on the campus, to continue the discussion in a more relaxed setting.
| Date... | Speaker | Topic |
| 09 Nov | Andreas Loengarov | Network Analysis of Food Webs |
| 09 Dec | Klaas Chielens et al. | Developing an ECCO wiki |
| 16 Dec | Mixel Kiemen | Implementation of the CRAB system |
| 28 Jan | Carlos Gershenson | Self-organizing traffic lights (pdf presentation - paper - simulation) |
| 04 Feb | Marko Rodriguez | A Self-Organizing and Collective-Intelligence Approach to the Peer-Review Publication Process (paper - powerpoint - pdf presenatation) |
| 11 Feb | Francis Heylighen | The role of mediators in the self-organization of biological, social and cognitive systems (powerpoint) |
| 18 Feb | Frank Van Overwalle | From Communication between Individuals to Collective Beliefs: a connectionist simulation of distributed cognition (powerpoint) |
| 25 Feb | meeting cancelled | |
| 04 Mar | Dirk Bollen | Applications of situated and embodied cognition |
| 11 Mar | Erden Göktepe | Emergence of Social Organisations: From Stability to Dynamism |
| 18 Mar | F. Heylighen & J. Bernheim! | r-K Selection and Human Development: from quantity to quality of life |
| 25 Mar | Klaas Chielens | Empirical measurement of memetic selection criteria (pdf paper) |
| 01 Apr | no lecture | |
| 08 Apr | Tanguy Coenen | The influence of social software and knowledge sharing on creativity |
| 15 Apr | Nick Deschacht ! | Complexity Theory and Marxism |
| 22 Apr | M. Rodriguez & D. Steinbock & F. Heylighen! | Particle-Flow Networks for Individual and Collective Intelligence Systems |
| 29 Apr | Mixel Kiemen | The primacy of context: bootstrapping from intuitive ideas |
| 06 May | Julien Libbrecht | Application of cybernetic principles to the organization of health care (powerpoint) |
| 13 May | Johan Bollen | Social network indicators of scientific impact |
| 20 May | Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis | Closure and the modular evolution of matter |
| 27 May | Lito Kyritsi | Systems Modelling of Cancer |
| 3 Jun | Laetitia De Jaegher | Towards sustainable development: the precautionary principle as a call for a new theory of law to support multi-dimensional governance |
| 10 Jun | Francis Heylighen | Foundations for an anticipation-control theory of mind (powerpoint) |
| 17 Jun | Carlos Gershenson | A General Methodology for Designing Self-Organizing Systems (paper - pdf presentation) |
| 24 Jun | Tom Erez | Postext: a cognitively-apt formalism for knowledge management |