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<h2 style="margin-bottom:0;font-size:20px;padding-right:10px">Host: New England Complex Systems Institute</h2>
<h1 style="color:#2059A6;margin:2px 0 5px 0;padding:0 0 0 0;font-size:30px;">Ninth International Conference<br>on Complex Systems (ICCS 2018)</h1>
<h2 style="color:#898989;font-style:italic;font-size:25px;border-bottom:1px solid #2059A6;padding:0 0 8px 0;margin:5px 0;">Abstract Submission Deadline Monday</h2>
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<td width="165" style="padding-right:10px" valign="top"><p style="font-size:16px;color:#898989;"><i>July 22 - 27, 2018<br>
Hyatt Regency<br>
Cambridge, MA, USA<br><br>
<a href="http://www.necsi.edu/events/iccs2018/"><b>Click here to register</b></a></i></p>
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<td><p style="font-size:16px;">The International Conference on Complex Systems is a unique interdisciplinary forum that unifies and bridges the traditional domains of science and a multitude of real world systems. Participants will contribute and be exposed to mind expanding concepts and methods from across the diverse field of complex systems science.</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Special Topic - Artificial Intelligence:</b> This year’s conference will include a day on AI, including its development and potential future. This session will be chaired by Iyad Rahwan of MIT's Media Lab.</p>
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<h2 style="font-size:20px;border-bottom:1px solid #2059A6;padding:0 0 8px 0;margin:5px 0;color:#2059A6;">ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION:</h2><p style="font-size:16px;"> • The deadline for abstracts submission is this Monday, March 12, 2018.
<br> • Abstracts on already-published work can be submitted.
<br> • Abstracts submitted after March 12 will be considered on a rolling basis as time
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<br> • Authors who have already submitted abstracts may continue to revise them until
<br> March 12.</p><p style="font-size:16px;">For presentation at the conference, authors should submit an abstract through <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs_2018"><b>EasyChair</b></a>. All the accepted abstracts will be published in the online proceedings on the conference website. Authors of accepted abstracts may submit full papers for inclusion in the online proceedings. Full paper submission is optional.
Make sure to <a href="http://www.necsi.edu/events/iccs2018/register.php"><b>register</b></a> for the conference on our website in addition to submitting to EasyChair.</p>
<h2 style="font-size:20px;border-bottom:1px solid #2059A6;padding:0 0 8px 0;margin:5px 0;color:#2059A6;">IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES</h2>
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<td width="190" style="" valign="top"><p style="font-size:16px;">Abstract submission:</p>
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<td style=""><p style="font-size:16px;">March 12, 2018</p>
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<td width="190" style="" valign="top"><p style="font-size:16px;">Notification to authors:</p>
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<td style=""><p style="font-size:16px;">March 30, 2018</p>
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<td width="190" style="" valign="top"><p style="font-size:16px;">Early registration:</p>
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<td style=""><p style="font-size:16px;">April 13, 2018</p>
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<td width="190" style="" valign="top"><p style="font-size:16px;">Camera-ready abstract<br>& full paper submission:<br>
(full paper submission is optional)</p>
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<td style=""><p style="font-size:16px;">May 4, 2018</p>
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<td width="190" style="" valign="top"><p style="font-size:16px;">Late abstract submission:</p>
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<td style=""><p style="font-size:16px;">June 1, 2018</p>
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<td width="190" style="" valign="top"><p style="font-size:16px;">Conference:</p>
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<td style=""><p style="font-size:16px;">July 22-27, 2018</p>
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<h2 style="font-size:20px;border-bottom:1px solid #2059A6;padding:0 0 8px 0;margin:5px 0;color:#2059A6;">INVITED SPEAKERS</h2><p style="font-size:16px;">Albert-László Barabási (Northeastern University, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Real World Risk Institute, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Marta González (University of California Berkeley, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Stuart Kauffman (Institute for Systems Biology, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Peter Turchin (University of Connecticut, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Mercedes Pascual (University of Chicago, USA)
<br><i>Pending confirmation</i></p><p style="font-size:16px;">Iyad Rahwan (MIT Media Lab, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Natalia Komarova (University of California Irvine, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Theresa Whelan (U.S. Department of Defense)
<br><i>Pending DOD approval</i></p><p style="font-size:16px;">Simon DeDeo (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">César Hidalgo (MIT Media Lab, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Jessica Flack (Santa Fe Institute, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Ricardo Hausmann (Harvard University, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Sandy Pentland (MIT Media Lab, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Carmen Reinhart (Harvard Kennedy School, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Olaf Sporns (Indiana University Network Science Institute, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland, USA)
</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Cameron Kerry (MIT Media Lab, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Irving Epstein (Brandeis University, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Steven Hassan (Freedom of Mind, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">John Sterman (MIT Sloan School of Management, USA)
<br><i>Pending confirmation</i></p><p style="font-size:16px;">Spencer Wells (The Genographic Project, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Stephen Grossberg (Boston University, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Hyejin Youn (Kellogg School of Management, USA)</p>
<h2 style="font-size:20px;border-bottom:1px solid #2059A6;padding:0 0 8px 0;margin:5px 0;color:#2059A6;">WORKSHOPS</h2><p style="font-size:16px;">The following workshops have been confirmed for ICCS 2018:</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence</b>
<br> Ágnes Horvát (Northwestern University, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery and Design</b>
<br> Ed Addison (Cloud Pharmaceuticals, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Evolution and Lifespan</b>
<br> Mark Kon (Boston University, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Blockchain Networks and Information Flow</b>
<br> Yaniv Altshuler (MIT Media Lab, USA)
<br> Sandy Pentland (MIT Media Lab, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>How Nations Learn: Knowledge diffusion in society and the economy</b>
<br> César Hidalgo (MIT Media Lab, USA)
<br> Cristian Jara (MIT Media Lab, USA)
<br> Cristian Candia (MIT Media Lab, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Complex Systems in Bio Medicine</b>
<br> Edna Pasher (Edna Pasher PhD & Associates, Israel)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Network Interventions Social Good</b>
<br> Flávio L. Pinheiro (MIT Media Lab, USA)
<br> Cristian Candia (MIT Media Lab, USA)
<br> Diana Orghian (MIT Media Lab, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Global Warming</b>
<br> Charles DeLisi (Boston University, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Causal Inference</b>
<br> X. San Liang (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Risk, Fat Tails, and Precaution</b>
<br> Joseph Norman (Freelance complex systems and data scientist)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Law and Complexity</b>
<br> Enrique Cáceres Nieto (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Social, Political and Economic Events Through Social Media</b>
<br> Rosa M. Benito (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
<br> Juan C. Losada (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Shifting Paradigms: Complex Adaptive Systems In Neuroscience and Psychotherapy</b>
<br> Yakov Shapiro (University of Alberta, Canada)
<br> J. Rowan Scott (University of Alberta, Canada)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Complex Systems: Literacy and Learning</b>
<br> Catherine Cramer (New York Hall of Science, USA)
<br> Evelyn Panagakou (Northeastern MOBS Lab,USA)
<br> Hiroki Sayama (Binghamton University, USA)
<br> Steve Uzzo (New York Hall of Science,USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Network Cascades: Unfolding, Modeling, and Control</b>
<br> Adilson E. Motter (Northwestern University, USA)</p>
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