DECOS

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4.-7. September 2008, Zadar - Croatia

International Conference Describing Complex Systems - DECOS is a meeting point for scientists, educators, students and experts interested in various aspects of complexity. The main purpose of the conference has remained the same throughout the period of the last ten years – since it started as a workshop CSNSS, the Complex Systems in Natural and Social Sciences - to facilitate the exchange of ideas and to present the state-of-the-art of the complex systems research and education. This year’s meeting will cover a host of interdisciplinary topics ranging from numerical simulations in natural and technical sciences, modelling of social and mental phenomena, to meta-theories and philosophical investigations of complexity.

One of the most pressing issues of contemporary complexity research is how to relate and reconcile the bottom-up and top-down models of complex systems. Since the significant impulse for recognizing the importance of this issue came from Gestalt theory, there will be a special symposium within this year’s DECOS dedicated to the current complex systems approaches to human information processing. The purpose of this symposium, entitled Current Gestalt Issues: Modelling Mental Processing, is to evaluate contemporary contributions from brain sciences and computational modelling of self-organizing processes, and to provide a framework for a broad reflection of these issues within Gestalt theory of science, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and other disciplines.