MODELING ANTICIPATIVE SYSTEMS

["Teiling, Bernard"]

Dear Colleagues,

Here is the electronic version of a call for paper to present a Keynote
Address at the Baden-Baden Symposium "MODELING ANTICIPATIVE SYSTEMS", August
14-18, 1996.

We would like to invite you to present a Keynote Address in the area of your
research interests at the Special Focus Symposium "MODELING ANTICIPATIVE
SYSTEMS" of the 8th International Conference on Systems Research,
Informatics and Cybernetics to be held August 14-18, 1996 in Baden-Baden,
Germany.

Hereafter follows some practical information for participating.
In the hope that it will be possible for you to accept this invitation, we
look forward to the pleasure of hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Dr. Ir. Daniel M. DUBOIS, Bernard Teiling,
University of Liege, Belgium. Nestle, USA
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InterSymp96:
8th International Conference on Systems Research,
Informatics and Cybernetics
to be held
August 14-18, 1996
at the Markgraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium in Baden-Baden, Germany
Sponsored by
The International Institute for Advanced Studies
in Systems Research and Cybernetics
and
Society for Applied Systems Research
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=============SPECIAL FOCUS SYMPOSIUM==========

******** MODELING ANTICIPATIVE SYSTEMS ********

organized and chaired by Dr. Ir. Daniel DUBOIS, University of Liege,
Belgium
and Bernard TEILING, Nestle, USA

This symposium will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of
short reports on methods for modeling anticipative systems in engineering,
economics, biology, cognitive science, computer science and other related
areas.
Classically, many models only deal with past events to represent the
dynamics of systems, and in this view, nothing new can emerge (all is in the
past).
Many systems in the reality show that anticipation plays a central role for
the actions to be realized at the present time.
Control theory is a particular case where a set point or a trajectory is
defined by men: the anticipation implicitly embedded in feedback systems is
not the result of a computation by such systems but given by an external
agent.
The purpose of this symposium is to present concepts, methods and tools for
defining systems where the present action depends not only on past measured
data but also to a selection of multiple potential future objectives. These
objectives are emergent properties of such systems and not imposed by an
external agent. Such anticipative systems could explain evolution and
cognition.

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REGISTRATION FORM

NAME .....................TITLE...........
Institution/Organization..........
Mailing Address...............
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Home phone............... Office
phone............Fax............E-mail.......
Tentative title of my presentation...................
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Special Focus Symposium "Modeling Anticipative Systems" by D. Dubois and B.
Teiling.
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This Symposium is one of the sessions to take place in parallel during the
International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics.
Information about the conference can be obtained from Daniel Dubois, or from
the office of the president Dr. George E. Lasker, at the following
addresses:
** before June 12, 1996 ** Dr. George Lasker, School of Computer Science,
University of Windsor - Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4
** After June 12, 1996 ** Dr. George Lasker, Hautpostlagernd, D-7001
Stuttgart, Germany.

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YOU WILL RECEIVE BY MAIL ALL PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR HOTELS LIST,
PREPARATION OF THE FINAL PAPER, etc. from Dr. G. Lasker.
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Please send by e-mail this registration form with your abstract to Daniel
DUBOIS.
The draft of your paper (5 pages) must be sent to Daniel Dubois before June
1, 1996. All accepted papers will be reviewed for publication.


Dr. Ir. Daniel M. Dubois
UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE - Institut de Mathematique (D1)
15, avenue des Tilleuls, B-4000 LIEGE - BELGIUM
Tel.: *-32-(0)41-66.94.96 (66.93.47)
Fax: *-32-(0)41-66.94.89
e-mail: dubois@lema.ulg.ac.be

PS: Few of you may know the institute in reference: it is a "low profile"
association, mostly composed of professors from universities around the
world. It is characterized by its extremely international participation and
diversity of nationalities. For the past 20 years, the founders and
directors of the board have shared the principles of System Thinking,
although using different terms: "Systems Research, Informatics and
Cybernetics".
Bernard Teiling
e-mail: usgle000.teilinb@wcsmvs.infonet.com