[CoCo Seminar Series] [What is CoCo?] [What Are Complex Systems?] [Research Foci] [Projects] [Contact Us]
What's New?
- NSF Human and Social Dynamics project page launched
- CoCo research project on collective decision making featured as a cover story in the Binghamton University Magazine!!
- CoCo featured in the 2009 Binghamton University Research Magazine (see original article (.pdf, 483kb))
- Check out our YouTube channel
CoCo Informal Seminar Series: Fall 2009
Wednesday 9:00-10:00am
Biotechnology Building, Room 2221 (ITC Conference Room)
With refreshments; followed by free discussions
September 9: Shelley Dionne (School of Management)
"An Examination of Team Emergent Processes, Mental Models, and Decision Making with Agent-Based Modeling"
September 23: Hiroki Sayama (Bioengineering)
"Swarm Morphogenesis through Local Information Transmission and Random Differentiation"
October 7: Benjamin Bush (Systems Science with Biosystems Concentration)
"Shirokuro as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem"
October 21: Hao Chen (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
"Comparison of Immunity-Inspired Collaborative Defense Techniques in a Small World Network"
November 4: Yibo Sun (Computer Science)
"Embedding Complex Networks in a Metric Space"
November 18: Pam Mischen (Public Administration)
"Simulating Trust: Personal, Dyadic and Network Influences"
December 2: Matthew Hoffmann (Systems Science with Biosystems Concentration)
"Agents and Networks for High Speed Ground Transportation"
What Is CoCo?
CoCo is a campus-wide interdisciplinary research group at Binghamton University that studies the collective dynamics of various types of interacting agents as complex systems. Its goals are to
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advance our understanding about the collective dynamics of physical, biological, social, and engineered complex systems through scientific research,
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promote interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty and students in different schools and departments, and
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translate the understanding to products and processes which will improve the well-being of people at regional, state, national and global scales.
With the active participation of faculty members with diverse backgrounds, CoCo has been playing a key role in producing several new interdisciplinary research projects for the last couple of years.
There is a mailing list run by the CoCo group for general discussions on complex systems. To subscribe, please contact Hiroki Sayama.
List of Faculty Participants
See news article on CoCo in the 2009 Binghamton University Research Magazine
What Are Complex Systems?
Complex systems are networks of many components with nonlinear interactions which arise and evolve through self-organization, such that the system is neither completely regular nor completely random, permitting the development of emergent behavior. These properties can be found in many real-world systems, e.g., gene regulatory networks in a cell, physiological systems, brains and other neural systems, food webs, stock markets, the Internet, and social networking systems. We study their structural/dynamical properties to obtain general, cross-disciplinary implications and applications.
Research Foci
Social Dynamics: The utilization and extension of agent-based modeling, evolutionary theory, game theory, and network theory to model, analyze and improve the behaviors of social systems. Current research topics include group decision making dynamics, multi-level analysis of organizational behavior, strategies in social interactions, and models of local community interactions, as well as their application for the improvement of the heathcare systems in local community.
Network Dynamics: The utilization and extension of complex network theory to explore the connectivity between elements, growth and self-organization, and dynamical evolution of various complex networks. Current research topics include theoretical models of coevolutionary adaptive networks and social network analysis.
Swarm Dynamics: The investigation of collective behavior and pattern formation in massive populations of biological or biomimetic autonomous agents. Current research topics include decentralized control and interactive design methods for homogeneous and heterogeneous self-propelled particle swarms and the application of particle models for ecological systems.
Projects
- Evolutionary perspective on collective decision making
- Teaching social complexity and multidisciplinary team building
- Linking youth and community through Information Technology
- Generative network automata and its applications
Network analysis of real-world multi-dimensional social relationships - Self-organization of large-scale heterogeneous self-propelled particle swarms
- Milling behavior of particle swarms and its sensitivity to sensory blind zones
- Developing interactive demonstrations of complex systems simulation
- Binghamton Neighborhood Project
Contact Us
Hiroki Sayama, DSc
Director, CoCo Research Group
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Binghamton University, State University of New York
sayama@binghamton.edu
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