This group is about self-organizing, adaptive and complex systems, which consist of a large number of mutually interacting and interwoven parts. Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are closely related, they describe the same systems. The name CAS is associated with high-level complex phenomena and intricated structures of a complex system, the name MAS is associated with the low-level components and elements. Examples for natural CAS are neural and social networks, nervous and immune systems, economies and ecologies,..

Among the questions we examine are for example the questions about the emergence and appearance of complexity: Why isn't the universe just a turbulent mess of particles tumbling around each other ? Why did the big bang not form a simple gas of particles, or condense into one big crystal ? How can the universe start with a big explosion and end up with life, history, and culture ? And what will be the next major integrative Level of Evolution ?