ARC Complex Open Systems Research Network

ARC Complex Open Systems Research Network

www.complexsystems.net.au
Dr Kirsty Kitto

Dr Kirsty Kitto

 
Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Queensland University of Technology

Address: The Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
GPO Box 2434,
Brisbane Qld 4001alia
Phone: +61 - 7 - 3138 - 9349
Email: Kirsty.Kitto@qut.edu.au
Webpage: http://www.users.on.net/~kirsty.kitto/
Research Node: QLD-1/ACCS
 
 

Role in Network


Academic - Researcher


COSNet Research Themes

    1. Irreversibility and Emergence in Nonequilibrium Systems
    2. Turbulence and Coherent Structures, Control and Computation
    3. Dynamics and Statistics of Multi-Scale Systems
    4. Network Theory
    5. Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation

COSNet Application Areas

    1. Complex Physical Systems
    2. Complex Biological Systems
    3. Complex Computational Systems
    4. Complex Socio-Economic Systems
 

Research Topics

Modelling and generating complex emergent behaviour; Artificial Life; Dynamical theories of Hierarchy generation and evolution; Extracting long term dynamics and structural information from stochastic equations; Connectionism, relational structures and the emergence of new information from within these structures; Modelling complex systems using quantum theories  

Publications

1. K, Kitto, (2002) Dynamical Hierarchies in Fundamental Physics, in Workshop Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALife VIII), pp55-62, Eds. E. Bilotta et al. Sydney: Univ. New South Wales.
2. K. Kitto, (2005), Gauging ALife: Emerging Complex Systems, in Recent Advances in Artificial Life. Advances in Natural Computation vol. 3, pp117-130, Eds. H.A. Abbas, et al. Singapore: World Scientific.
3. K. Kitto, (2007), Process Physics: quantum theories as models of complexity, Invited paper for the Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics Special Issue on the Physics of Emergence and Organization, Volume 4, Issue 16 I, also to be published as a part of a collection by World Scientific.
4. K. Kitto, (2008), High End Complexity, International Journal of General Systems.
5. K. Kitto (2008), Why quantum theory?, Proceedings Quantum Interaction 2008, In Press.
6. P. Bruza, K. Kitto, D. Nelson, C. McEvoy (2008), Entangling words and meaning, Proceedings Quantum Interaction 2008, In Press.