conference announcement Chaos and Society Conference

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Sent from the cyberdeck of: Pierre_Lemieux () UQAH UQuebec CA


TO: Lemieux_Pierre/UQAH@Panoramix


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Dear Colleague:


Following is the list of the papers accepted by the Organizing
Committee for the Chaos and Society Conference, to be held at the
Universite du Quebec a Hull (Hull, Canada) on June 1-2, 1994.


You can find a complete description of the conference (including
registration fees and form) on the Gopher of the Universite du Quebec.
You can access this server Gopher through your own client Gopher. The
address to ask for is:
asterix.uqss.uquebec.ca
or
gopher.uquebec.ca
Once in the Universite du Quebec Gopher, go to item CONGRES ET
COLLOQUES (which means Meetings and Conferences). There, choose
item 2: CHAOS AND SOCIETY / CHAOS ET SOCIETE - ENGLISH VERSION.
If you prefer the French version, choose item 1. Although the contents is not
currently up to date, it will have been updated in one week or so.


I also remind you that Feb. 28 is the last date to register at the
special registration fee of $150 (Can.), which includes three meals,
as well as the conference proceedings to be published later.
(We secretly hope that not too many participants will take advantage
of this bargain.)


PAPERS TO BE DILIVERED AT THE CHAOS AND SOCIETY
CONFERENCE - UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A HULL, JUNE 1-2, 1994:


Alain Albert
Departement des Sciences Administratives Universite du Quebec a
Hull (Canada)
[Workshop on Artificial Anarchy. Forthcoming]


Pat Baker
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Mount Allison University (Canada)
"From the Interstices of Chaos to the Heart of Complexity:
Perspectives on Time and Society"


Paul Bourgine
Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle et de Vie Artificielle
CEMAGREF (France)
"Les etats critiques auto-organises "/ "Self-organizing Critical
States"


Renaud Cazoulat et Bernard Victorri
LAIAC, ELSAP
Universite de Caen (France)
"Etude de la dynamique des populations par simulation" / "Simulating
Population Dynamics"


Richard Cohen
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Michigan (U.S.A.)
"How Useful is the Complexity Paradigm Without Quantifiable Data? A
Test Case: The Patronage of 5th-6th Century Buddhist Caves in India"


William P. Collins
Samford University (U.S.A.)
"The Dynamics of Spontaneous Social Order"


Peter Danielson
Center for Applied Ethics
U.B.C. (Canada)
"Evolving Artificial Moralities"


Jean-Paul Delahaye et Philippe Mathieu,
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille
Universite de Lille (France)
"Strategies complexes dans le dilemme itere des prisonniers" /
"Complex Strategies in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma"


Walter J. Freeman
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California at Berkeley (U.S.A.)
"Nonlinear Brain Dynamics as a Basis for Conscious Experience"


Ted G. Goertzel
Director
Forum for Policy Research
Rutgers University (U.S.A.)
"Attitudes as Chaotic Attractors: Rethinking the Anita Hill/Clarence
Thomas Affair"


Jeffrey Goldstein
Department of Administrative Sciences
Adelphi University (U.S.A.)
"Using the Concept of Self-Organization to Understand Social System
Change: Strengths and Limitations"


Lillian Greeley
Education
MIT (U.S.A.)
"The Nonlinear Dynamics of the Attention System of the Cognitive
Generative Learning Process"


Bernardo Huberman
Dynamics of Computation Group
Xerox PARC
and Stanford University (U.S.A.)
[Exact title forthcoming]


Stephen H. Kellert,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Indiana University (U.S.A.)
"Bridging the Gap Between Physics and Society: Preconditions for the
Extension of Nonlinear Dynamics to the Social Sciences"


Philip S. Kronenberg
Center for Public Administration and Policy
Virginia Tech (U.S.A.)
"Chaos and Re-thinking the Public Policy Process"


Pierre Lemieux
Departement des Sciences Administratives
Universite du Quebec a Hull (Canada)
"Chaos et anarchie" / "Chaos and Anarchy" [Workshop on Artificial
Anarchy]


Mark Michaels
Management and Organizational Behavior Program
Illinois Benedictine College (U.S.A.)
"The Seven Fundamentals of Complexity for Social Science Research"


George Mptisos
Mark O. Hatfield Marine Science Center
Oregon State Univeristy (U.S.A.)
"Attractor Gradients: Architects of Network Organizations in
Biological Systems"


H Richard Priesmeyer
Department of Management
St. Mary's University (U.S.A.)
"Logistic Regression: A Method for Describing, Interpreting, and
Forecasting Social Phenomena with Nonlinear Equations"


Hector Sabelli and Linnea Carlson-Sabelli
Psychiatry
Rush University and Midwest Neuropsychiatric Associates, Ltd.
(U.S.A.) "Sociodynamics: The Application of Process Methods to the
Social Sciences"


Norman Schofield
Director
Center in Political Economy
Washington University in St. Louis (U.S.A.)
"Rules, Equilibrium and Beliefs in a Political Economy"


David Smith
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
U.P.E.I. (Canada)
"Social Engineering in the Post-Modern World: Implications of Non-
Linear Dynamics for Social Policy"


Ralph Stacey
Business Administration
University of Hertfordshire (U.K.)
"The Role of Chaos and Self Organization in the Development of
Creative Organizations"


Jean-Francois Thibault
Departement de Science politique
Universite du Quebec a Montreal (Canada)
"La representation de l'ordre en relations internationales: l'allegorie
anarchique a la lumiere des dynamiques non-lineaires" / "The
Representation of Order in International Relations: the Anarchistic
Metaphor in Light of Nonlinear Dynamics"


Please do not hesitate to e-mail me for any question related to the
conference.


Sincerely,


Pierre Lemieux
Organizing Committee
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   [mod's note: Got this additional message:]


Please add the following name to the list of papers to be
delivered at our June 1-2 Chaos and Society Conference (it had
been mistakenly omitted):


Gottfried Mayer-Kress
Center for Complex Systems Research
and Department of Physics
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (U.S.A.)
"The Global Brain as a Modelling Paradigm"