The University of Warwick, the EPSRC Manufacturing Complexity Network, the
ESRC Business Processes Resource Centre, and the ESRC Network in Sustainable
Complex Systems are organising an international conference on Complexity and
Complex Systems in Industry on the 19th -20th September 2000.
The Conference will promote understanding of the various known and emerging
bodies of work dealing with complexity and complex systems and how they
relate to each other in terms of knowledge application and levels of
industrial activity. Such knowledge has brought new insights for managing
and promoting complex systems from their ability to allow the detection of
emergence, innovation, control, management, learning and adaptation in the
complex system.
The Conference will be held at the University of Warwick, which is in the
heart of beautiful and historic Shakespeare country. Attractions such as
Warwick Castle, the Roman Spa Town Leamington Spa and the Bard's birthplace,
Stratford upon Avon are all less than 15 miles away.
The keynote speakers will be Professor John Casti (Santa Fe Institute) and
Professor Bill McKelvey (UCLA).
Papers are invited on the following applications and knowledge themes:
Knowledge themes:
1. Complex systems modelling and entropic measures
2. Agent based modelling and simulation methods
3. Evolutionary programming, simulated annealing and genetic algorithms
4. Evolutionary dynamics of organisations and fitness landscape theory
5. Memetics, knowledge and learning
6. Edge of chaos, theory and dissipative structures
7. Sustainability, autopoiesis and self-organising systems
8. Industrial and manufacturing strategy
Applications:
1. Product design, development and introduction
2. Supply chain management and logistics
3. Human resource management
4. Scheduling and production control
Abstracts, not exceeding 750 words and including the paper titles, author(s)
full names, and full contact information should be sent by 1st May 2000 to:
Thierry Rakotobe-Joel
International Manufacturing Centre
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-247 657 3152
T.Rakotobe-Joel@warwick.ac.uk
Those invited to develop their abstract into a full paper must do so by 5th
July 2000.
All submitted papers are subject to a full review process.
Detailed information about the conference is available on line at
http://www.wmg.org.uk/mcn/conference.html
Christos D. Tsinopoulos
Research Fellow
The University of Warwick
International Manufacturing Centre
Warwick Manufacturing Group
Coventry
CV4 7AJ
UK
Tel: +44(0)2476573152
Fax: +44(0)2476524307
email: c.d.tsinopoulos@warwick.ac.uk
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