SICIS 2018 - 2nd Symposium on Social Interactions in Complex Intelligent Systems (SICIS)

A complex intelligent system is a large network of interacting agents where non‐trivial global patterns and behaviours emerge, normally without a central control, from the combination of simple behaviours of individual units. Social interactions in complex intelligent systems give rise to collective properties that hold at the macroscopic level, whose emergence cannot be easily inferred from the analysis of the behaviour of single agents at the microscopic level. The study of complex intelligent systems represents a novel approach to investigate how social interactions among agents lead to emergent behaviours which exhibit some sort of intelligence.
Methodologically, social interactions concern both local and global phenomena, and therefore they are a key concept to understand the behaviour of a complex intelligent system. The models used to study interactions among agents describe the effects of interactions from a microscopic point of view. Therefore, the derivation of observable behaviours from such interactions may be addressed using various approaches, such as statistical methods, empirical observations, analytic approaches and simulative tools.
Complex intelligent systems are used to describe processes in various fields, such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Mathematics, Biology, Economics, Physics, Sociology, and Economy. Hence, they represent a promising multi‐disciplinary research field.
The symposium is meant to offer an interdisciplinary forum on all aspects related to social interactions in complex intelligent systems. The aim of the symposium is to stimulate discussions and synergies among participants, which are expected to have diverse and complementary research backgrounds.