[Biomedical-cybernetics] 3 More Days: 4th Int'l Nonlinear Science Conference -- Call for Abstracts

[Johannes W. Dietrich]

Dear colleagues,

please find attached an invitation to a 
conference in Palermo, Italy, that may be 
relevant for some of you.

Yours,

J. W. D.

At 11:16 Uhr -0600 18.12.2009, Guastello, Stephen wrote:
>
>Call for Papers & Invitation to Participate
>
>4th International Nonlinear Science Conference
>University of Palermo
>Palermo, Sicily, March 15-17, 2010
>
>The broad mixture of the disciplines represented 
>at the INSC indicates that many bodies of 
>knowledge share common principles of nonlinear 
>dynamics. Growth in any of these areas is 
>facilitated by scholarly exchange across 
>disciplines.
>
>The topics covered by the conference include 
>applications of nonlinear dynamical systems 
>theory and techniques to problems encountered in 
>any area of the behavioral, social and life 
>sciences including psychology, sociology, 
>economics, management sciences, anthropology, 
>aesthetics, education, biology, physiology, 
>ecology, neuroscience and medicine. One or more 
>of the following nonlinear concepts must be an 
>explicit part of the presentation: attractors, 
>bifurcations, chaos, fractals, solitons, 
>catastrophes, self-organizing processes, 
>cellular automata, agent-based models, network 
>analysis, genetic algorithms and related 
>evolutionary processes, econophysics, dynamical 
>diseases, or closely related constructs. 
>Contributions from other disciplines such as 
>computer science, mathematics and engineering 
>are also welcome provided the main focus of the 
>paper, poster, or symposium is an application of 
>nonlinear science in the behavioral, social or 
>biological sciences.
>
>
>
>Featured Speakers:
>René Lefever: "Deeply gapped vegetation patterns 
>and desertification: A topical Ostwald ripening 
>process." Rosario Mantegna:"Empirical 
>investigations of economic and social complex 
>systems." Rolf Pfeifer, "Self-organization, 
>embodiment, and biologically inspired robotics." 
>Paul van Geert, [Nonlinear dynamics and human 
>development, title TBA].
>Submit Abstracts for papers, posters, and symposia to the INSC2010 website:
>http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/insc/2010/ 
>. The deadline for abstracts is: December 21, 
>2009.  The conference committee will respond to 
>your submissions as quickly as possible as they 
>arrive. Additional information is posted on the 
>conference web site, which will be updated as 
>events unfold.
>
>Publication Opportunities:
>
>The abstracts to the INSC conference will be 
>indexed in PsycEXTRA, produced by the American 
>Psychological Association. A post-conference 
>edition of the INSC abstracts will be available 
>in PDF on the SCTPLS web site along with 
>editions of abstracts from earlier conferences.
>
>
>
>All speakers at the INSC conference are invited 
>to submit their finished articles for review and 
>possible publication in Nonlinear Dynamics, 
>Psychology, and Life Sciences, which is the 
>refereed quarterly research journal published by 
>the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & 
>Life Sciences. For manuscript preparation 
>instructions and related information about 
>NDPLS, see 
>www.societyforchaostheory.org/ndpls<http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/ndpls>
>
>Conference Committee:
>Prof. Gaetano L. Aiello, University of Palermo, 
>Chair: 
>aiello at difter.unipa.it<mailto:aiello at difter.unipa.it> 
>or 
>tanoaiello at unipa.it<mailto:tanoaiello at unipa.it>
>Prof. Stephen J. Guastello, Marquette University
>Dr. Dimitrios Stamovlasis, Aristotle University
>
>Dr. Dick Thompson, SCTPLS President
>
>Sponsored by:
>The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences
>
>and University of Palermo

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