A very wide range of interests and discipline areas was represented by the scientists at the meeting and we particularly welcomed colleagues from the Universities and other Government Research Organisations who joined and lent their expertise.

The central theme of the 2004 workshop was INTERACTION & LINKAGE across the breadth of CSS experience represented.

Features

Key-Note Talks

• CoPMLEX Update Robert Seymour, Research Director, CoMPLEX - UCL's Interdisciplinary Science Centre
• Lumpiness in Scaling Laws Craig Allen, Research Ecologist, Ecosystem Dynamics Program, US Geological Survey
  
• Building Links Between Social Network Analysis Theory and Participatory Agent Based Modelling Nils Ferrand, Cemagref, Montpellier
• Analytic Results for Cellular Automata (TBA)
• Social Network Analysis (TBA)

Interaction Task Development (1/2 day sessions)

Development of a small set of tasks (researchable CSS questions) that will be used to link activity in different CSS application areas and facilitate knowledge exchange across the different CSS approaches and perspectives.  The Interaction Task areas are

• Emergence (Convener - Fabio Boschetti)
• Human Landscape Interaction (Convener - Freeman Cook)
• Memes (Convener - Roger Bradbury)
• Continuous/Discrete Interaction (Convener - Geoff James)

Each convener will be initiating e-mail/web-based discussion prior to the workshop. Workshop sessions will aim to develop a key question or two in each area, which will become the focus of the IT activity following the workshop.

See also Interaction Tasks.

Links to Keynote and Project Presentations

Social Network Analysis and Complex Systems Science Pip Pattison, University of Melbourne

Resilience and Innovation in Complex Systems Craig Allen, US Geological Survey

Multi-Agent Modelling, Social Networks and Participative Management Nils Ferrand, Cemagref

Analytic Results for Cellular Automata Nalini Joshi, University of Sydney

DAMAN - Directed Assembly in Multi-Agent Networks Geoff Poulton, CSIRO ICT Centre

Interspecific Parasite Interactions and Agent Based Modelling Jo Lello, CSIRO Livestock Industries

Adaptation and Resilience in Rangeland Social-Ecological Systems Art Langston, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

Dynamically Resilient Exploitation Strategies in Complex Landscape Systems Dave Hilbert, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

Safeguarding Transport Systems Frank Horowitz, CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Stability of the Southern Ocean Thermohaline Circulation Simon Marsland, CSIRO Marine Science

Targeting Drug-Like Properties in Chemical Libraries Dave Winkler, CSIRO Molecular Science

DSTO Social Networks of Agents Exploiting a Resource Rich Little and David McDonald, CSIRO Marine Research

For an introduction to the concepts of CSS and the CSIRO Centre for Complex Systems Science,  please visit  http://www.csiro.au/css