Notice Board

Upcoming Events

• Publications: abaci has just published a book called "Complexity Demystified - A Guide for Practitioners". There's a summary here..
• Causality of Change: abaci members have been invited to participate in an international collaborative project to push the current state of the art on “Understanding and Influencing the Causality of Change in Complex Socio-Technical Systems”.

Our Achievements

• Collaborative Strategies Network: Members of abaci have been selected to be members of this prestigious international ‘Think Tank’.
• Exploiting Causality: abaci’s Research Director is a member of the organising committee of an international group co-authoring a book on Causality in Complex Systems.
• Invited Paper Reviewers: abaci members have been active on the Technical Programme Committee for “Complex 09” in Shanghai, China.
• Alternative Energy Challenge: abaci submitted an entry to the Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2008 which has been chosen for inclusion on their ‘Ideas Index’.

Past Events

• Aid on the Edge of Chaos: abaci members attended the research seminar ‘Exploring Complexity Sciences in International Development and Humanitarian Work’ at the LSE on 22 April 2010.
• Terrorism and Complexity of Soft Targets: abaci’s Research Director participated in the ESRC Complexity Seminar on the Case of the Tourism Industry as a Soft Target. The seminar took place at Oxford Brookes University on 10 March 2010.
• Critical National Infrastructure: abaci attended the Delivering Secure Critical National Infrastructure Conference 2010 in London on 9 March 2010.
• Causality in Complex Environments: abaci attended a Workshop on this topic from 26-27 November 2009 in association with the International Conference on Emergence in Geographic Space: concepts, methods and models, Paris.
• Agent-based Modelling: abaci’s Research Director, Patrick Beautement, gave an invited talk at University College London on the 25th November 2009 as part of the EC-funded Global System Dynamics and Policies project. The talk covered the strengths and weaknesses of using agent-based models to investigate complex environments.
• Practitioners Workshop: abaci organised and facilitated a very successful Workshop “Putting Complexity to Work, Supporting the Practitioners” at the European Conference on Complex Systems 2009 in Warwick, UK (21 - 25 September, 2009). The output has been published by abaci as a White Paper (see the ECCS Workshop page).
• Enterprise Networking: abaci participated in the Growing Gloucestershire Conference 2009 in Cheltenham, UK (25 June 2009).
• Digital Ecosystems: abaci attended the DEST 2009 Conference in Istanbul, Turkey (1 - 3 June, 2009).
• Energy and Climate Change: abaci participated in an ESRC Complexity Seminar held at the LSE on the 24 March 2009.
• Complexity Science Conference: abaci presented two papers at the Complex 2009 conference in Shanghai, China (23 - 25th February, 2009). The presentations are available to download in the abaci Library.

[Updated 27 June 2010]