The Conference on Complex Systems, the flagship conference of the Complex System Society, is the most important annual meeting for the complex systems research community. Last year, the Conference was fully online because of the Covid-19 pandemics.

For 2021, this annual event will be held in Lyon, France, from October 25 to 29, 2021. We are confident to be able to welcome you in Lyon at this time of the year, for an in-person conference. Still, as we know that there might still be a number of travel restrictions at that time, some sessions will be organized as a hybrid conference.

More at: ccs2021.univ-lyon1.fr

Online event 3rd March 2021, 12.30-14.00 GMT

Complexity theory took off in the 1990s and four of the key people who shaped how these ideas were developed for application to the social world will be represented in this event. In this unique retrospective, we will explore how these four thinkers approached complexity thinking over long careers.

Invited Speakers

Peter Allen – Embracing Complexity
David Byrne – Complexity and the Social Sciences
Chris Mowles in the legacy of Ralph Stacey – Complex Responsive Processes
Rika Preiser in the legacy of Paul Cilliers – Complexity and Postmodernism
The discussion will be hosted by Jean Boulton

Read the full article at: complexity-physics.org

We are happy to announce that the second edition of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) will take place in Washington DC (depending on the Covid-19 situation) from September 27 to October 1, 2021. The ACSOS was founded as a merger of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) and the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO). The goal of the ACSOS is to provide a forum for sharing the latest research results, ideas and experiences in autonomic computing, self-adaptation, and self-organization.

http://2021.acsos.org/ 

The ALIFE conferences are the major meetings of the artificial life research community since 1987. These scientific gatherings are supported by the International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL).​

The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life ALIFE 2021 will take place in Prague (Czech Republic), 19-23 July, 2021.

The conference theme will be

Robots: The century past and the century ahead.

The world-wide used word “robot” comes from Czech. It was first used to depict a fictional humanoid in Czech writer Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R. Although the play is one hundred years old it opens many contemporary questions and many of them are related to artificial life research. It will be great to celebrate this centenary with artificial life community in the Czech Republic!

ALIFE 2021 will be a hybrid conference on artificial life. It will be a combination of a “live” in-person event in Prague with a “virtual” online component.

We hope to create opportunities for all people interested in artificial life to attend our ALIFE 2021 conference. We are looking forward to the return to the traditional conference enabling social gathering. On the other side, hybrid format will enable remote participation by people who might be unable to attend physically due to travel, through a wish to reduce the carbon footprint of the event or because of other constraints.

https://www.robot100.cz/alife2021 

Empowering global communities to end COVID through shared expertise, resources, and actions.

The COVID Community Action Summit (C-CAS) will empower global communities to end COVID-19 through shared expertise, resources, and actions. C-CAS will be held virtually January 26-28 and is free to attend. This international summit will inspire individuals and communities to act while providing the tools and expertise necessary for success. Participants will learn best practices from localities and organizations that have successfully contained COVID. Sessions will provide guidance on combating misinformation, addressing the social determinants of health and supporting patients, including the long-COVID community. By the end of the summit, participants will understand the different ways to support communities, build community alliances and stop the spread of COVID-19. 

https://necsi.edu/c-cas