Santa Fe Institute

Collective Cognition Workshop Schedule
Mathematical Foundations of Distributed Intelligence





January 22-26, 2002
Santa Fe Institute
Santa Fe, New Mexico


Organized by:
Jim Crutchfield and Cosma Shalizi (Santa Fe Institute)
Kagan Tumer and David Wolpert (NASA Ames Research Center)

Tuesday, 22 January 2002

Morning Session: Jim Crutchfield, Chair
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast @ SFI
9:00 AM Welcome: TOM KEPLER, SFI VP: Welcome to SFI
   CRUTCHFIELD/SHALIZI: Focus and Goals
9:30 AM AXTELL: A Positive Theory of Emergence for Reactive Multi-Agent Systems
10:30 AM Discussion
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM DROSSEL: A Simple Model for the Formation of a Complex Organism
12:00 AM Discussion
12:15 PM Lunch

Afternoon Session: David Wolpert, Chair

2:00 PM JOHNSON: Anatomy of Extreme Events in a Complex Adaptive System Comprising Competing Agents
3:00 PM Discussion
3:30 PM Break
3:45 PM HOGG: The Behavior of Computational Ecologies
4:45 PM Discussion

Wednesday, 23 January 2002

Morning Session: Cosma Shalizi, Chair
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast @ SFI
9:00 AM LERMAN: Three Agents are Better than One: Distributed Control in Multi-Agent Systems
10:00 AM Discussion
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM STONE: Autonomous Learning Agents in Dynamic, Multiagent Environments: Bidding in Auctions and Playing Soccer
11:45 AM Discussion
12:15 PM Lunch

Afternoon Session: Kagan Tumer, Chair

2:00 PM NAGEL: Distributed Intelligence in Large Scale Traffic Simulations on Parallel Computers
3:00 PM Discussion
3:30 PM Break
3:45 PM KROO: Aeronautical Applications of Collaborative Optimization and Collective Design
4:45 PM Discussion

7:00 PM Workshop Dinner, El Farol

Thursday, 24 January 2002

Morning Session: David Wolpert, Chair
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast @ SFI
9:00 AM TOROCZKAI: Spreading of Information with Global Currency Value in Highly Networked Societies
9:30 AM CHIALVO: Per Learning
10:00 AM Discussion
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM WELLMAN: Collective Cognition in Market Protocols
11:45 AM Discussion
12:15 PM Lunch

Afternoon: Off, for individual or group activities

Friday, 25 January 2002

Morning Session: Cosma Shalizi, Chair
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast @ SFI
9:00 AM LAWSON/TUMER: Intro to COINs, Designing Agent Collectives...
10:00 AM Discussion
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM WOLPERT: The Theory of COINs
11:45 AM Discussion
12:15 PM Lunch

Afternoon Session: Jim Crutchfield, Chair

2:00 PM POWERS: Dispersion Games: General Definitions and Some Specific Learning Results
3:00 PM Discussion
3:30 PM Break
3:45 PM FONTANA: Emergence of Collective Organization
4:45 PM Discussion

Saturday, 26 January 2002

Morning Session: Kagan Tumer, Chair
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast @ SFI
9:00 AM KIRKPATRICK: How Smart Does an Agent Need to Be?
10:00 AM Discussion
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM CRUTCHFIELD/SHALIZI: Causal Architectures for Collectives
11:45 AM Discussion
12:15 PM Lunch

Departures