Conference: Modeling Complexity Across Levels: Social Insect Societies As Multilevel Integrated Systems to be held at the Santa Fe Institute, on May 22-26, 2002.

会议：跨层次复杂性建模：社会性昆虫社会作为多层次集成系统，将于 2002 年 5 月 22-26 日在圣达菲研究所举行。

• 批准号: 0202646
• 负责人: Sandra Mitchell
• 金额: $ 1.05万
• 依托单位: Santa Fe Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-04-01 至 2003-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0202646&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Modeling; Complexity; Across; Levels

"Modeling complexity across levels: social insect societies as multilevel integrated systems."Social insect colonies provide a "model system" for understanding biological complexity. They are exemplars of multi-component, multi-level causal structures. All levels of organization are involved in the production, maintenance and modulation of behavior in a colony of ants, bees, wasps or termites from genetic effects on neurological process and behavior to selection effects at the group and individual levels The recent explosion of research on complex systems in general has produced a variety of new theoretical, mathematical and computational tools with which to model spatial and temporal dynamical processes. Models of self-organization, evolutionary computation, functional genomics, data mining, multi-agent simulations, etc. can clearly aid in the understanding of complex social insect behavior. The PIs will bring together graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty members who study processes at different levels of organization of social insects with those developing some of the current array of modeling methods. The purpose of this workshop is to educate the next generation of researchers about multilevel approaches to behavior science, and to tighten the connection between empirical studies and abstract modeling efforts. The workshop will be held at the Santa Fe Institute, and is structured as a tutorial. That is, it will be highly interactive with hands-on applications of the models to current research questions and data. The PIs expect that new collaborations will arise from this workshop, that generalizations about integrating models will be discovered, and that these results will be relevant to a wider scientific community investigating complexity.

“跨层次建模复杂性：社会昆虫社会作为多层次集成系统。群居昆虫群落为理解生物复杂性提供了一个“模型系统”。 它们是多成分、多层次因果结构的范例。在蚂蚁、蜜蜂、黄蜂或白蚁的群体中，从遗传对神经过程和行为的影响到群体和个体水平的选择效应，所有层次的组织都参与了行为的产生、维持和调节 最近爆炸的研究复杂系统一般产生了各种新的理论，数学和计算工具来模拟空间和时间的动态过程。自组织、进化计算、功能基因组学、数据挖掘、多智能体模拟等模型可以帮助理解昆虫复杂的社会行为。 PI将汇集研究生，博士后和初级教师谁研究过程中的不同层次的组织社会昆虫与那些开发一些当前的建模方法阵列。 本次研讨会的目的是教育下一代的研究人员对行为科学的多层次方法，并加强实证研究和抽象建模工作之间的联系。 讲习班将在圣菲研究所举行，采用辅导形式。 也就是说，它将与模型对当前研究问题和数据的实际应用高度互动。 PI希望这次研讨会能产生新的合作，发现关于整合模型的一般化，并且这些结果将与更广泛的科学界调查复杂性有关。