International Conference on Complex Systems 2006

第六届复杂系统国际会议将在前五届会议成功的基础上，于2006年6月25日至30日举行。该系列会议由新英格兰复杂系统研究所（NECSI）组织，是一个致力于复杂动力系统统一研究的国际会议。NECSI是一个教育和研究机构，来自新英格兰，美国各地和国际上的主要学术机构的教师参与。它致力于复杂系统的跨学科沟通和协作。会议的中心目的是建立一个致力于这一新领域的国际社会。美国国家科学基金会的支持对于使在其他领域接受培训的学生和博士后能够接触到该领域不断增长的研究机会至关重要。对于代表性不足的群体来说尤其如此，他们有独特的机会接触这一开创性领域的研究。有一个新的和不断增长的努力，以了解复杂的系统和复杂性，吸引了很多的兴趣，在科学界。在系统生物学、工程学和生物社会和工程网络的跨学科研究方面的新努力的增长说明了这些发展的重要性。各种会议和讲习班讨论了这一不断发展的领域的各个方面。然而，这是唯一一个将广泛多样的研究人员聚集在一起的重大国际会议系列，展示了这些努力的跨学科但连贯性。在这一领域的研究及其各种应用的兴奋一直在扩大，会议一直在增长，我们预计一个更大的会议比以前的。学生和博士后研究员的兴趣继续增长，复杂系统国际会议为他们回顾历史进展和新进展提供了必要的曝光。会议的更广泛的影响包括物理学家，计算机科学家，工程师，数学家，生物学家，生态学家，心理学家，社会学家，人类学家，语言学家，管理人员和医生之间的跨学科交流。这种联系超出了学术界的范围，包括专业人士和公众。理解复杂系统的新的科学努力吸引了不同领域的专业人士的注意-高科技，生物技术，医疗保健，金融服务和公司管理。它也吸引了大量的公众关注，因为它涉及个人心理学，社会和经济变化的动力学以及生态学等普遍关注的主题;并且可以解决新出现的问题，如全球恐怖主义和国土安全。ICCS会议将包括适合专业人士和公众的教育会议。会议将在波士顿举行，可乘坐公共交通工具。国际犯罪分类过去一直是，预计将继续作为公众认识科学对社会重要性的工具。

The Sixth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS) is being organized for June 25-30, 2006, building on success of five previous conferences. This conference series, which is organized by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), is an international conference dedicated to the unified study of complex dynamical systems. NECSI is an educational and research institution with the participation of faculty from major academic institutions from New England, around the United States, and internationally. It is dedicated to interdisciplinary communication and collaboration on complex systems. Central to the purpose of the conference is building an international community that is devoted to this new field. Support by the National Science Foundation is essential to enable students and postdocs who are trained in other fields to gain exposure to the growing research opportunities in this field. This is particularly true for underrepresented groups that are given a unique opportunity of exposure to research in this pioneering area. There is a new and growing effort to understand complex systems and complexity that has attracted a lot of interest in the scientific community. The growth of new efforts in systems biology, engineering, and cross disciplinary studies of biological social and engineered networks illustrates the importance of these developments. Various conferences and workshops have addressed aspects of this growing field. However, this is the only major international conference series to bring the wide diversity of researchers together, demonstrating the interdisciplinary but coherent nature of these efforts. The excitement of research in this field and its diverse applications has been expanding and the conferences have been growing and we anticipate a much larger conference than the previous ones. Interest among students and postdoctoral fellows continues to grow and the International Conference on Complex Systems provides essential exposure for them to review the historical progress and new advances. The broader impacts of the conference include interdisciplinary cross-fertilization among physicists, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, biologists, ecologists, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, managers and physicians. The contact extends beyond the academic community to include professionals as well as the public. The new scientific effort to understand complex systems has attracted the attention of professionals in diverse areas -- high technology, biotechnology, health care, financial services, and corporate management generally. It has also attracted significant public attention because it addresses topics such as individual psychology, dynamics of social and economic change, and ecology, that are of general concern; and can address new problems as they arise, like global terrorism and homeland security. The ICCS conference will include educational sessions that are appropriate for professionals and the public. The conference will be located in Boston and will be accessible to public transportation. The ICCS has in past and is expected to continue to serve as a vehicle for public awareness of the importance of science to society.