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Conference on Complex Systems 2022: Call for Abstracts

17-21/10/2022, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Deadline for submission: May 31st, 2022 (strict deadline). 
Author notification: end of June.
Author registration: end of July.
The call for contributions to the Conference on Complex Systems 2022 (CCS 2022) is officially open. Share the news!
Accepted abstracts will be presented following one of the three possible formats:
  • oral presentation (12-min talk + 3-min questions) during a parallel session
  • lightening presentation (5-min talk) during a plenary session
  • poster presentation during poster sessions
Abstracts must be prepared using CCS2022 official template (Latex or Word) and submitted through Easychair as a PDF file.
More info on abstract submission can be found at:

The TAP equation: evaluating combinatorial innovation

Marina Cortês, Stuart A. Kauffman, Andrew R. Liddle, Lee Smolin
We investigate solutions to the TAP equation, a phenomenological implementation of the Theory of the Adjacent Possible. Several implementations of TAP are studied, with potential applications in a range of topics including economics, social sciences, environmental change, evolutionary biological systems, and the nature of physical laws. The generic behaviour is an extended plateau followed by a sharp explosive divergence. We find accurate analytic approximations for the blow-up time that we validate against numerical simulations, and explore the properties of the equation in the vicinity of equilibrium between innovation and extinction. A particular variant, the two-scale TAP model, replaces the initial plateau with a phase of exponential growth, a widening of the TAP equation phenomenology that may enable it to be applied in a wider range of contexts.

Read the full article at: arxiv.org

[Classics] The Architecture of Complexity (1962)

Herbert A. Simon
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Vol. 106, No. 6 (Dec. 12, 1962), pp. 467-482

A number of proposals have been advanced in recent years for the development of “general systems theory” which, abstracting from properties peculiar to physical, biological, or social systems, would be applicable to all of them. We might well feel that, while the goal is laudable, systems of such diverse kinds could hardly be expected to have any nontrivial properties in common. Metaphor and analogy can be helpful, or they can be misleading. All depends on whether the similarities the metaphor captures are significant or superficial.

Read the full article at: www.jstor.org

Also at https://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/ArchitectureOfComplexity.HSimon1962.pdf 

CCS 2022 Warm-up – yrCSS

Coinciding with the Conference on Complex Systems, and profiting from the opportunity offered by the presence of a wide variety of experts in different topics, we are organising three-day school for PhD students and early-stage researchers. The school is an informal two-day event that offers early-stage scientists the opportunity to hear talks from prominent young researchers, learn about the scientific and life experience of young and senior researchers, socialise and have fun playing the specifically tailored trivia.

The school is going to be to be held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on October 14-16, 2022, before the main CCS conference. The preliminary school schedule consists of four lectures from young scientists, scientific writing workshop session, project-making event, pub quiz and social event on-site. The sessions will be divided by informal coffee breaks, where participants may chatter with their peers.

More at: yrcss.cssociety.org

Complexity and change: thinking, practices and processes for addressing global challenges 

Conference | 5 – 9 September 2022, Online

This conference builds upon the experience of the CES Winter School 2020 named “Sustainable development, complexity and change: thinking and practices for the SDG and other objectives”. It is based on a logic of deep interdisciplinarity, oriented towards promoting productive, collaborative, critical and creative dialogues between different disciplines and modes of thinking, between theory and research and the practices that “in the real world” enact and realise, critique or present alternative or complementary proposals to addressing critical global challenges. 

This conference is organised around key challenges, targeting the following themes: 
(1) Being and Thinking Together (in) Complexity
(2) Knowing Together: Grasping the Complexity of the World 
(3) Living Together: Peace and Communities of Well-Being 
(4) Learning and Teaching Together
(5) Changing and Acting Together

More at: ces.uc.pt