Month: December 2023

Call for Tutors – Complexity72h (Madrid, Spain, June 24th to 28th)

Complexity72h is an interdisciplinary workshop designed for young researchers in complex systems, where participants collaborate in a project for 72 hours. Next edition will be held in Madrid from June 24th to 28th. These projects are led by experienced researchers who propose and guide them throughout the week. *The Call for Tutors is currently open until January 8th*.

Individuals interested in tutoring during the workshop should apply by submitting an abstract of the proposed project. While the project doesn’t need to be fully developed at this stage, applicants should provide a clear idea of their focus, list the required data, and be prepared to supply it to participants. These projects will be undertaken by a group of approximately 6-8 workshop participants.

Tutors will receive accommodation and meals for the entire five days, and travel expenses may be partially or fully covered based on the budget. All relevant information can be found at https://complexity72h.com/call-for-tutors/.

If you are interested in becoming a tutor and leading a project, please don’t hesitate to apply and spread the word among your fellow researchers and mentors!

More at: complexity72h.com

Postdoctoral Positions at the Center for Network Dynamics, Northwestern University

The newly launched Center for Network Dynamics at Northwestern University is actively seeking postdoctoral researchers interested in complex systems and networks. We welcome applications from individuals with expertise in various aspects of network theory, including temporal, multilayer, and higher-order interactions. Additionally, we are seeking applicants with interest in network modeling of biological, physical, and engineering systems. The projects are theoretical and computational but benefit from empirical data and close collaborations with experimental colleagues. If you are passionate about advancing the understanding of networks and their applications in diverse fields, we encourage you to apply to our dynamic research team. For information on how to apply, please visit cnd.northwestern.edu

French Regional Conference on Complex Systems FRCCS 2024. May 29-31, Montpellier, France

FRCCS 2024 is the 4th edition of the French Regional Conference on Complex Systems. It aims at bringing together the French scientific community working in complex systems. It intends to federate the French community.
We encourage researchers from various disciplines supporting interdisciplinary exchanges to respond to this call (archaeology, biology, computer science, economics, geography, history, linguistics, management, mathematics, medicine, physics, statistics, sociology, …). FRCCS 2024 is an opportunity to promote the cross-fertilization of ideas by presenting recent research work, industrial developments, and original applications. Special attention is given to research topics with a high societal impact from the perspective of complexity science from the complexity science perspective.

More at: iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr

Towards self‐organizing logistics in transportation: a literature review and typology

Berry Gerrits, Wouter van Heeswijk, Martijn Mes

Intl. Trans. in Op. Res. 0 (2023) 1–66

Deploying self-organizing systems is a way to cope with the logistics sector’s complex, dynamic, and stochastic nature. In such systems, automated decision-making and decentralized or distributed control structures are combined. Such control structures reduce the complexity of decision-making, require less computational effort, and are therefore faster, reducing the risk that changes during decision-making render the solution invalid. These benefits of self-organizing systems are of interest to many practitioners involved in solving real-world problems in the logistics sector. This study, therefore, identifies and classifies research related to self-organizing logistics (SOL) with a focus on transportation. SOL is an interdisciplinary study across many domains and relates to other concepts, such as agent-based systems, autonomous control, and decentral systems. Yet, few papers directly identify this as self-organization. Hence, we add to the existing literature by conducting a systematic literature review that provides insight into the field of SOL. The main contribution of this paper is two-fold: (i) based on the findings from the literature review, we identify and synthesize 15 characteristics of SOL in a typology, and (ii) we present a two-dimensional SOL framework alongside the axes of autonomy and cooperativity to position and contrast the broad range of literature, thereby creating order in the field of SOL and revealing promising research directions.

Read the full article at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com