We call for submissions for oral and poster presentations on a wide variety of complex systems research. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

Theoretical foundations of complex systems
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
Systems theory, information theory, and systems science
Game theory, decision theory, and socio-economical applications

Self-organization, pattern formation, and collective behavior
Structure and dynamics of complex networks
Sustainability and adaptability of complex systems
Bio-inspired systems, machine learning, and evolutionary computation

Data-driven approaches to complex systems
Applications to the humanities, art, and literature
Historical and philosophical aspects of complex systems
Complex systems and education

Submissions should be made as a single PDF file via EasyChair, in either extended abstract format (preferred; 1 page, including one figure) or full paper format (optional; 8 pages max.).

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Submissions will be evaluated and selected through a rigorous peer review process.

Best Paper / Best Poster Awards: NERCCS 2019 will offer the Best Paper and Best Poster Awards. The winner will be selected from accepted papers and posters by the judge panel, which will be recognized with a certificate at the conference. Our sponsor publishers, Hindawi and MDPI, will offer prizes for these awards (publication fee waiver of Complexity for the Best Paper Award, and publication fee waiver of Systems for the Best Poster Award).

Award Winners:

Best Paper: Simone Evans and Anca Radulescu (SUNY New Paltz)
"Universality of the Configuration-Dynamics Relationship in Nonlinear Networks"

Prize (publication fee waiver of Complexity) offered by Hindawi

Best Poster: Ruimin Chen, Farhad Imani and Hui Yang (Pennsylvania State University)
"Heterogeneous Recurrence Analysis of Disease-Altered Spatiotemporal Patterns in Multi-Channel Cardiac Signals"

Prize (publication fee waiver of Systems) offered by MDPI

Poster Competition Honorable Mentions:
Farhad Imani, Bing Yao, Ruimin Chen, Prahalada Rao and Hui Yang: "Markov Decision Process and Multifractal Analysis for Image-Guided Additive Manufacturing"
Megan Chiovaro and Alexandra Paxton: "What the Buzz Is All About: Apis mellifera As a Model for Collective Intelligence"
Oleg Pavlov and Evangelos Katsamakas: "Dynamics of Complex Service Systems"

Important Dates:

We will publish post-conference proceedings as a special issue of the Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS), an open-access online journal hosted by the Open Repository @ Binghamton (ORB). No publication fee will be required. This will be an ideal venue for authors to publish an extended full paper on the work they present at NERCCS. There will be no strict length limit to full papers for the post-conference proceedings (but with an expected length no more than about 10,000 words). Interested authors should contact the Publication Chairs (Barney Ricca and Georgi Georgiev).