11–14 December 2005

Brisbane, Australia

Conference 6039
Room: Z-503
Monday-Wednesday 12-14 December 2005
Proceedings of SPIE Vol. #6039

Conference Chair: Axel Bender, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia)

Monday 12 December

SESSION 1

Room: Z-503 Mon. 10.10 to 12.20

Complex Systems in Defence

10.10: Co-Adaptation (Invited Paper), A. Grisogono, DSTO (Australia) [6039-01]

10.40: The effect of asynchronous change on a complex system's behaviour, J. Mansfield, Univ. of South Australia (Australia) [6039-02]

11.10: CAS framework for addressing complex problems, A. Grisogono, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia) [6039-03]

11.40: Complexity associated with the determination of capability requirements in a given operation, A. H. Pincombe, A. Bender, G. Allen, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia) [6039-04]

12.00: Adaptive battle agents: complex adaptive combat models, I. Mann, K. L. Lim, R. Santos, B. Tobin, M. J. Berryman, D. Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [6039-05]

Lunch Break 12.20 to 13.30

SESSION 2

Room: Z-503 Mon. 13.30 to 16.00

Multi-Agent Systems

13.30: Intelligent agents, adaptive systems: understanding route choice problems on complex networks (Invited Paper), S. W. Gourley, N. F. Johnson, Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom) [6039-06]

14.00: Advancing past the basics of forecasting using an artificial market model, N. Gupta, R. Hauser, N. F. Johnson, Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom) [6039-07]

14.30: Evolving capabilities in WISDOM, H. A. Abbass, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia) [6039-09]

15.00: Modeling of military electronic communications: systems dynamics meets social networks, C. V. Copas, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia) [6039-11]

15.30: Bubbles in a minority game setting with real financial data, F. D. R. Bonnet, A. G. Allison, D. Abbott, Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [6039-37]

Tuesday 13 December

SESSION 4

Room: Z-503 Tues. 10.30 to 11.50

Mathematical Modelling of Complex Systems

10.30: Coupling induced oscillations in overdamped bistable systems (Invited Paper), A. R. Bulsara, V. In, A. Kho, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (USA); W. Rappel, Univ. of California/San Diego (USA); J. Lindner, College of Wooster (USA); S. Baglio, B. Ando, V. Sacco, Univ. degli Studi di Catania (Italy) [6039-14]

11.00: How to use noise to reduce complexity in quantization, M. D. McDonnell, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia); N. G. Stocks, Univ. of Warwick (United Kingdom); C. E. Pearce, D. Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [6039-13]

11.20: Estimation for time-changed self-similar stochastic processes, W. Arroum, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom); O. D. Jones, The Univ. of Melbourne (Australia) [6039-15]

Lunch Break 11.40 to 13.30

SESSION 5

Room: Z-503 Tues. 13.30 to 16.20

Complex Real Systems

13.30: Materials and complexity (Invited Paper), T. Aste, T. Di Matteo, The Australian National Univ. (Australia) [6039-17]

14.00: Hysteresis and drift in a carbon-polymer composite strain sensor, R. F. Cumming, M. D. Solomon, J. P. Hayes, E. C. Harvey, Swinburne Univ. of Technology (Australia); A. R. Wilson, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia) [6039-19]

14.20: Hierarchic self-assembly in block-copolymer nanoparticles, H. Yabu, T. Higuchi, M. Shimomura, Hokkaido Univ. (Japan) [6039-20]

14.40: Advanced text authorship detection methods and their application to biblical texts, T. Putnins, D. Signoriello, S. Jain, M. J. Berryman, D. Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [6039-21]

Afternoon Tea 15.10 to 15.40

15.40: Modeling of plasma oscillations excitation and terahertz photomixing in HEMT-like heterostructure with lateral Schottky junction, M. Ryzhii, V. Ryzhii, Univ. of Aizu (Japan); M. S. Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) [6039-23]

16.00: Numerical simulation of self-organized nanoislands in plasma-based assembly of quantum dot arrays, I. Levchenko, K. Ostrikov, The Univ. of Sydney (Australia) [6039-24]

Wednesday 14 December

SESSION 7

Room: Z-503 Wed. 10.30 to 12.00

Networks I

10:30 am: Connecting the dots to disconnect them: a study into network dynamics and evolution (Invited Paper), H. A. Abbass, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia) [6039-27]

11:00 am: Mapping lessons from ants to free-flight air traffic control, S. Alem, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia) [6039-28]

11:30 am: Contagion across networks: colds, crimes, currencies, and cancer, M. J. Berryman, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia); N. F. Johnson, Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); D. Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [6039-29]

Lunch Break 12:00 to 1:30 pm

SESSION 8

Room: Z-503 Wed. 1:30 to 2:50 pm

Networks II

1:30 pm: Mapping complex systems into hyperbolic networks (Invited Paper), T. Di Matteo, T. Aste, The Australian National Univ. (Australia) [6039-30]

2:00 pm: Multi-objective genetic algorithm for investigating the trade-off between pleiotropy and redundancy, Z. Ong, A. H. Lo, M. J. Berryman, D. Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [6039-31]

2:20 pm: Scale-free networks in complex systems, M. Bartolozzi, D. B. Leinweber, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia); A. W. Thomas, Jefferson Lab (USA); A. W. Williams, T. Surungan, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [6039-32]

SESSION 9

Room: Z-503 Wed. 2:40 to 3:30 pm

Biological and Bio-Inspired Complex Systems

2:40 pm: Multilevel modeling for the inference of genetic regulatory networks, S. Ng, K. Wang, G. J. McLachlan, The Univ. of Queensland (Australia) [6039-33]

3:10 pm: Automatic detection of sleep disorders in children, D. P. Baraglia, M. J. Berryman, S. W. Coussens, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia); Y. Pamula, D. Kennedy, A. J. Martin, Women's and Children's Hospital (Australia); D. Abbott, The Univ. of Adelaide (Australia) [6039-35]

The University of Adelaide (Australia)

Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Adelaide (Australia)