- Seminars 2016-2017
- Exponential Self-Organization: Measures and Mechanisms
- When Slower is Faster
- Organized Complexity: is big history a big computation?
- Information: Ultimate Notion Common to Computer Science, Biology, and Human Cognition
- What are the mechanisms of power, and how can we organize ourselves against it?
- The Buffering-Challenging Strategy for Health, Fitness and Life-extension
- Digital Literacy for Humanity in the State of Flux: An Urban Narrative
- Patterns that Connect: Exploring the Concept of Pattern in the Face of Growing Complexity
- Demarcating mathematical understanding and the understanding subject
- Adaptation by Product Hacking
- A Mimetic View on the Firm
- Consequences of the Symbolic-Imaginary for Big History
- THE MACHINE (pt. 1)
- Deploying CAS within the Urban Fabric: Conceptualizing how partitioning, stigmergic signaling, and mutability support emergent unfolding
- Dancing Observer: An Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- United Humanity Ledger as a bedrock for the fair, sustainable, and creative future: A case for an existential opportunity exploration
- Patterns that connect: theatre and cybernetics
- Creativity as an Ideal: Stochastic Notion of Creativity Under the Auspices of a Teleodynamical Ground of Reference
- A transdisciplinary impact assessment of the metasystem transitions
- Seeking evolution from social sciences: Scientific abstracts on dynamic processes as machine learning material
- Service-oriented communities: A novel architecture for smarter systems and organizations
- From theory to action: leveraging the global brain
- Seminars 2015-2016
- Seminars 2014-2015
- Seminars 2013-2014
- Seminars 2012-2013
- Seminars 2011-2012
- Seminars 2010-2011
- Seminars 2009-2010
- Seminars 2008-2009
- Seminars 2007-2008
- Seminars 2006-2007
- Seminars 2004-2005
- Seminars 2005-2006
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 |