Hi,

I thought this may be of interest to some of you.

Paul

> *Apologies for cross posting. Please help forward to interested people*
>
> First CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
> 1st International Summer School on Collective Intelligence and Evolution
> August 7-11 2006
> Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> http://www.decoi2006.nl/
>
> The First International Summer School on the Design Of Collective
> Intelligence
> (DECOI2006) will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands during August
> 7-11 2006.
> This summer school aims to provide master/graduate students with the
> opportunity to learn techniques and methods for designing collective
> intelligence. The summer school will cover a spectrum of topics within
> this
> field to provide students with knowledge about methods and techniques
> (evolutionary computing, artificial life models, self organizing
> systems) as
> well as related research domains (biology, linguistics). The summer
> school is
> set up as a lecture/workshop environment where students learn about
> theories
> and tools for modeling and analyzing complex systems and get hands-on
> experience
> with the implementation of several models. Participants are also
> encouraged to
> present their own work / projects.
>
> ** SUMMERSCHOOL SETUP
> The workshop consists of a series of lectures (in the mornings)
> focusing on the design of collective intelligence. The lectures will
> cover a large spectrum and different fields dealing with the topic in
> order to provide the students with different views on the subject and
> knowledge of how the subject is used in various disciplines. A
> programming project assigned during the workshop will give the
> participants the opportunity to deepen and reinforce the learned
> topics (in the afternoons). This project will be carried out in
> groups, with the results presented at the end of the workshop. The
> workshop also provides students with the opportunity to present
> projects they are working / have already worked on.
>
> ** TARGET AUDIENCE
> Master/graduate students in computer science, artificial intelligence,
> business
> informatics, bioinformatics and related fields.
>
> ** LECTURE PROGRAMME
> Monday 7 august
> 9:30-10:45 Martijn Schut: Introduction
> 11:15-13:00 Gusz Eiben: "Evolutionary Methods"
>
> Tuesday 8 august
> 9:00-10:45 Edwin de Jong: "Co-evolution"
> 11:15-13:00 Gerald de Jong: "Evolution of 3D morphology"
>
> Wednesday 9th
> 9:00-10:45 Pim Haselager: "Embodied embeddedness of cognition"
> 11:15-13:00 Paul Vogt: "Evolutionary linguistics"
>
> Thursday 10th
> 9:00-10:45 Charlotte Hemelrijk: "Social Organisation"
> 11:15-13:00 William Veerbeek: "Self Organising Urban Planning"
>
> ** IMPORTANT DATES
> 1 May First Call for Participation, Registration opens
> 9 June Early registration deadline
> 1 July Submission deadline of student abstracts
> 7-11 August DECOI2006 summer school
>
> ** REGISTRATION FEE
> 50 euro - early registration fee (before 9 june)
> 75 euro - late registration fee (after 9 june)
> You can find the registration form on the website.
>
> ** VENUE
> DECOI2006 is hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the Vrije
> Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
>
> ** ACCOMMODATION
> We offer the possibility of accommodation in Amsterdam at the campus
> of the Vrije Universiteit near the site of the summerschool. There is
> a fixed fee of euro 160,- which includes a private room, sheets,
> towels, etc. You can indicate when registering, if you want to make
> use of this.
>
> ** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
> Martijn Schut, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
> Konrad Diwold, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
> William Veerbeek, Din_arch and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
>
> For more information please contact Martijn Schut (decoi@...
> <mailto:decoi@...>).
>
> Kind regards,
> DECOI2006 organizing committee.




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Dr. Paul Vogt
Researcher in Language Evolution and Computation
ILK / Computational Linguistics, Tilburg University
P.O.Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 13 4663578 Fax: +31 13 4663110 Room Y339
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~paulv/