SPECIAL CONFERENCE THEMES:
COMPLEX ENGINEERED SYSTEMS (CES)

Complex engineered systems (CES) topics of interest

• Characteristics of Complex Engineered Systems
  Modularity and industrial evolution; Non-linear and chaotic dynamics of engineered systems; Robustness, vulnerability and failure in CES; Self-similarity, critical phenomena, and power laws in CES
• Networks in Complex Engineered Systems
  Network dynamics in CES; Scale-free and small-world networks; Effect of connectivity on CES performance; Robustness and vulnerability in networked complex systems
• CES Paradigms Based on Natural Systems
  Biomorphic networks (Neural nets, artificial immune systems, etc.); Evolutionary approaches; Collective intelligence; Amorphous computing; Swarm robotics; Self-configuring robots, Animats/biomorphic robots; Self-organized sensor networks
• CES Paradigms Based on Human Systems
  Game-theoretic paradigms; Economic paradigms; Social paradigms.
• Product Design and Development
  Complexity-related methodologies in product development; Cooperative workgroups for collaborative product design
• Managing Complex Engineered Systems
  Emergent/self-organized control methods for CES; Human-Computer Interactions; Managing the risk of CES accidents; Managing the risk of vulnerability to targeted attack
• Ethical, Social, Economic and Political Dimensions of CES
  Accountability and responsibility in self-organized, decentralized systems; Dissociation of ownership and control in CES; Security in networked complex systems; Effect of CES paradigms on classical socioeconomic and political models; Resource utilization and costs in CES; Potential hazards of autonomous, adaptive complex systems to human society
• Specific Complex Engineering Systems
  Ecology of the World Wide Web, Collaborating Distributed Micro-satellites, Smart Materials and Structures, Smart Retailing and Warehousing Environments, Intelligent Traffic Networks, Tissue Engineering