DSTO Complex Systems Reading Group
From COSNet
The aim of the DSTO Complex Systems Reading Group (CSRG) is to establish a community of practice for complex systems applications in defence. It covers complex systems from theory to practice, and from hardware to organisational applications.
Complex systems is focused on the behaviours of systems with many interacting parts. Typical features of complex systems include:
- The system is composed of many parts which interact in a non-trivial fashion.
- The system is open to its environment (information and/or energy flow in and out).
- The system has collective properties that are not present in the individual parts (often referred to as "emergence").
- Complex systems exhibit decentralised behaviour, and often are naturally described as networks.
- Many complex systems adapt, where coherent patterns may emerge through coevolution with the environment.
Complex systems is a fundamentally interdisciplinary science, and the CSRG will expose the participants to a broad range of research, covering papers from the following areas:
- Systems biology
- Systems engineering
- Socio-technical systems
- Ecological systems
- Dissipative systems
- Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Life
- Machine Learning
- and more
A reminder that this web site is hosted externally of DSTO, and viewable by the public, and as such is unclassified.
A list of DSTO CSRG paper proposals and discussion can be added to, and past and proposed papers can be discussed.
Meetings
Meetings can take a large variety of forms, from discussions of papers, to presentations of work in progress, to invited lectures. Meetings are held weekly, usually on Thursday afternoons at the DSTO Edinburgh site.
If you would like to be added to the CSRG mailing list so that you receive an email invite to attend the meetings please send an email to Vanja Radenovic
Next meeting
Past meetings
Past CSRG meetings can also be accessed.
