Joint Kickoff Meeting of the graduate schools "MuSAMA" and "dIEM oSiRiS"

Understanding Adaptive Multi-Component Systems: Applications in Biology and Ubiquitous Computing

Taking place November 9-10, 2006

University Aula / FhG Rostock

 

Systems which are able to organize themselves from an ensemble of individual components and that show coherent behavior with respect to the changing demands of an external environment are becoming increasingly important. Biological systems exhibit this capability e.g. during stem cell differentiation or responses of the immune system.

 

Ubiquitous computing needs this capability in order for the "smart appliances" embedded into the user's environment to provide spontaneous and coherent assistance. Understanding the various strategies that can be used by multi-component systems to provide "self-X" capabilities is therefore an essential part for both research areas. Clearly, there is a highly interesting middle-ground between biology and smart environments.

 

The two new graduate programs "dIEM oSiRiS" (Integrative Development of Modeling and Simulation Methods for Regenerative Systems) and "MuSAMA" (Multimodal Smart Appliance Ensembles for Mobile Applications) will investigate adaptive multi-component systems from the perspectives of regenerative medicine and smart environments, respectively. With this international kick-off Workshop, we want to emphasize the common ground of these two research areas, in order to initiate a fruitful and synergetic cooperation between the scientific disciplines involved.

Thursday, Nov 9 (University of Rostock, Auditorium)

13:00-13:05	Welcome Address	Thomas Strothotte (President of the University of Rostock, Germany)
13:05-13:15	Opening, Goals of Workshop	Adelinde Uhrmacher & Thomas Kirste (University of Rostock, Germany)
13:15-14:00	Hierarchical Graph Maps	James Abello (Rutgers University, USA)
14:00-14:45	Break & Discussion
14:45-15:15	Modularity at the Cellular Level	Herbert Sauro (Keck Graduate Institute, USA)
15:15-15:45	Exchange, standards and databases	Lena Strömbäck (Linköping University, Sweden)
15:45-16:15	Break & Discussion
16:15-16:45	Organic Computing	Hartmut Schmeck (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
16:45-17:30	Discussion
18:00- open	Visit of Rostock and social event (Ratskeller)

Friday, Nov 10 (Fraunhofer Institute, Lecture Hall)

09:00-09:30	Functionality Sharing in Open Environments	Birgitta König-Ries (University of Jena, Germany)
09:30-10:00	Overview: MuSAMA & dIEM oSiRiS	Adelinde Uhrmacher & Thomas Kirste (University of Rostock, Germany)
10:00-10:30	Break & Discussion
10:30-11:00	Ambient Intelligence and Appliance Ensembles: Controlling the Invisible Computer	Thomas Kirste (University of Rostock, Germany)
11:00-11:30	Individual-based approaches for modeling and simulation adhoc network scenarios and biological systems	Adelinde Uhrmacher (University of Rostock, Germany)
11:30-12:15	Artificial Biochemistry	Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, UK)
12:15-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-14:30	A Game-Theoretical Approach to the Analysis of Microbial Metabolic Pathways	Stefan Schuster (University of Jena, Germany)
14:30-15:00	Sensor Networks	Dirk Timmermann (University of Rostock, Germany)
15:00-15:30	Break
15:30-17:00	Closing Discussion , "Top Ten Challenges of Self-X" Brainstorming
18:00-open	Visit of Warnemünde and social event

venue

Thursday, Nov 9:

University of Rostock, Universitätsplatz 1, Auditorium

 

Friday, Nov 10:

Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Joachim-Jungius-Straße 11, Lecture Hall

 

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