Sixth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems

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Vallée, R. (2006), "Sixth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems", Kybernetes, Vol. 35 No. 1/2. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2006.06735aab.009

Sixth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems

Sixth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems

The 6th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems (CASYS’03) has been held from 11 to 16 August 2003, at the Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Liège. Sponsors and sponsorships were: Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ministère de la Communauté Française de Belgique, Euro View Services, HEC-Liège and other local bodies, World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics, Union Européenne de Systémique and Washington Evolutionary Systems Society. The President and Vice-President were Professors Daniel M. Dubois and Robert Vallée.

At the opening session Prof. Daniel M. Dubois, President of the Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems (CHAOS), gave a lecture on “New developments in computing anticipatory systems”. Prof. Robert Vallée (President of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC), spoke about “Localization in quantum mechanics”. This session was followed by a reception at the City Hall.

In the afternoon a plenary session was devoted to an invited lecture on “Non-linear dynamics, artificial cognition and galactic export” by Prof. Otto E. Rossler (Germany) to whom was presented the “CHAOS Award”. On 12 August, for the second plenary session, Dr Laurent Nottale (France), invited speaker, proposed “The theory of scale relativity” and received the “CASYS’03 Award”. For the last plenary session, keynote lecture, on 15 August, Prof. Lofti A. Zadeh (USA), invited speaker, spoke on “A perception-based approach to causality and anticipation”.

The Conference was divided into ten symposia dealing with: anticipation, incursion, hyper incursion, soft computing, fuzzy systems, neural networks, mathematical modelling, chaos theory, physical systems, classical physics, quantum mechanics, relativity, computing systems, discrete models, simulation, information systems, cognitive systems, psychology, consciousness, biological systems, evolution, ecology, social and economic systems, engineering and industrial systems, universe. An Abstract Book (D.M. Dubois, ed.) was distributed at the beginning of the congress. Papers were published in Casys International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems (Vols. 14-16, Chaos, 2004) or in AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 718, American Institute of Physics, 2004).

On 14 August, participants met at the official banquet in a traditional restaurant of the city. Despite the weather (extremely high temperature not seen in Europe since years) the conference was a real success thanks to the quality of the communications and of the organization.

Robert Vallée(2005)