Modes of Thinking (in) Complexity: Key Challenges for Theory, Research and Practice

This workshop embraces the urgency of reflecting upon the possibilities and limitations afforded by different modes of thinking (in) Complexity and of building more complex and adaptive modes. It adopts a collaborative and dialogical format, based on a methodology specifically designed to support complex relational dialogues and facilitate emergence (e.g. of new ideas; approaches; levels of understanding; solutions or approaches). This workshop aims at identifying key theoretical, empirical methodological and pragmatic challenges and questions pertaining to how we think, build, coordinate and practice different Modes of Thinking (in) Complexity.

Workshop II | 6 May 2022 | This event has different time blocks, to cover working hours in different time zones and will span from the 5th to 7th of May 2022, depending on the time Zone, Online

More at: ces.uc.pt

A global synchronization theorem for oscillators on a random graph

Martin Kassabov, Steven H. Strogatz, Alex Townsend
Consider n identical Kuramoto oscillators on a random graph. Specifically, consider \ER random graphs in which any two oscillators are bidirectionally coupled with unit strength, independently and at random, with probability 0≤p≤1. We say that a network is globally synchronizing if the oscillators converge to the all-in-phase synchronous state for almost all initial conditions. Is there a critical threshold for p above which global synchrony is extremely likely but below which it is extremely rare? It is suspected that a critical threshold exists and is close to the so-called connectivity threshold, namely, p∼log(n)/n for n≫1. Ling, Xu, and Bandeira made the first progress toward proving a result in this direction: they showed that if p≫log(n)/n1/3, then \ER networks of Kuramoto oscillators are globally synchronizing with high probability as n→∞. Here we improve that result by showing that p≫log2(n)/n suffices. Our estimates are explicit: for example, we can say that there is more than a 99.9996% chance that a random network with n=106 and p>0.01117 is globally synchronizing.

Read the full article at: arxiv.org

Connectogram – A graph-based time dependent representation for sounds

İlker Türker, Serkan Aksu

Applied Acoustics
Volume 191, 30 March 2022, 108660

We propose a novel time-graph representation method for sounds and time series.
Quantized amplitude levels serve as nodes, while neighborhood of these nodes in time domain define connections.
Applying various undersampling rates, a multilayer graph representation is achieved, further composed as RGB images.
Flattened graph representations from each time frame are tiled to compose a time-graph representation.
The proposed representation improves classification accuracy when used in combination with mel-spectrograms.

Read the full article at: www.sciencedirect.com

Conference on Complex Systems 2022: Call for Satellite Proposals

19-20/10/2022, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Deadline for submission: April 10th, 2022 (strict deadline). 

The call for satellites at the Conference on Complex Systems 2022 (CCS 2022) is officially open. Following the successful tradition of previous editions, CCS 2022 will host satellite events within the main conference.
A satellite session is a full-day or half-day meeting with a focus on a specific topic of complex systems and its applications. Each satellite is organized and managed by its own committee, although the coffee-breaks and lunch will be offered by the CCS organization. The satellite organizers are responsible for reviewing proposed papers and working with their presenters.

More info on satellite events and submission can be found at:

Tenth International Conference on Guided Self-Organization (GSO-2022)

The 10th International Conference on Guided Self-Organization takes place during 12-13 December 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand. GSO-2022 is organized jointly by the Te Pûnaha Matatini (Centre for Complex Systems) at The University of Auckland, the Centre for Complex Systems at The University of Sydney, and The International Association for Guided Self-Organization (TIA-GSO).

Keynote Speakers
Susan Stepney, University of York, UK
Peter Wills, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Sara I. Walker, Arizona State University, USA
Mike Steel, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

If interested in participating, send an extended abstract (two pages, pdf) by June 30th, 2022

Read the full article at: www.guided-self.org