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Systems Thinking for a Complex World: Engineering the eNetwork DNA of Cyber-Physical Ecosystems| old_uid | 4525 |
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| title | Systems Thinking for a Complex World: Engineering the eNetwork DNA of Cyber-Physical Ecosystems |
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| start_date | 2008/04/04 |
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| schedule | 16h30 |
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| online | no |
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| details | vin et fromage à 16h |
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| summary | How to craft the nervous systems of our eNetworked world to enable seamless evolution through challenging times and adaptation not only to meet the unexpected and survive it, but thrive on it? Wireless networks and nano-machines already blend the virtual and physical world in creative ways merging single devices / departments / enterprises into a larger and more complex infrastructure animating industrial, artistic, learning, scientific and other Cyber-Physical Ecosystems (CPE). The Global Collaborative Ecosystem becomes more and more hybrid, inclusive and capable of almost everything imaginable. With every new wireless connection, sensor network or router added to the communication infrastructure, with every artifact that we animate with the ability to infer our context and thus to add more services to a forever growing ambient environment that anticipates our needs and wants more and more steadily and accurately - we are not only increasing our degree of comfort and quality of life, but also the price we have to pay for unmanageability of the surrounding complexity.
Where are the limits of the impossible? And are we ready to touch them with the same daring attitude which fuels our drive to push continuously the technological frontiers? In our race for technological growth we have approached and are competing with nature! While there is immense difference in the detailed structure of the elementary components - their complex collective behavior is analogous - whether the basic elements are man-made or natural ones. Thus the loop is beautifully closing as we finally reached the point in our evolution from where we can help decipher the mysteries of evolution itself by the way we actually create it through our technologies. The incremental technological complexity of an ever evolving eNetwork mirroring natural evolution is helping biologists understand better the phenomenology through which natural complexity emerged to give rise to superior structures that enabled the emergence of life itself. Using the latest knowledge of complexity science a methodological framework for evolving large scale CPE will be introduced.
We will unravel the 'eNetwork DNA' and put it to work similarly to how DNA molds the fundamental cells in natural systems such that they can evolve to accommodate gradual or abrupt change in the environment or internal operating conditions. Various applications will be presented among which: blackout-free electricity generation and distribution, optimization of energy consumption, disaster response through deployment of holistic security ecosystems, pandemic mitigation, networked transportation and manufacturing, environmental monitoring and sustainability assessment. |
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| oncancel | séance annulée |
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| responsibles | Bourgine |
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