Analysis and optimization of dynamical processes on networks
funded by: Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Nagakute, Japan (TCRDL)
Dynamical processes on networks are relevant in many application areas like transportation networks, communication networks, economic networks and production networks in flexible manufacturing systems. It is a common aim in all these cases to better understand and finally optimize the corresponding dynamical processes and networks. In this regard, one major interest is the investigation of macroscopic pattern formation on the network structures. Examples for such patterns are technological propagation (traveling front) in economic networks or waves of traffic jams (traveling pulses) in transportation networks.
Duration
project manager:
Starke, Jens
project staff: Berkemer,
Rainer
Industrial cooperation partners:
Satoshi Yamazaki (TCRDL)
Atsushi Kawamoto (TCRDL)
Takahiro Shiga (TCRDL & IIASA)
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as part of the project following the workshop was organized:
Decision Making and Uncertainty in Nonlinear Complex Systems:
International Workshop in Helsingoer, Denmark (from 21-11-2006 to 24-11-2006)
Organizers:
Satoshi Yamazaki & Noboru Kikuchi (TCRDL)
Martin P. Bendsøe & Jens Starke (DTU)
Abstract
The workshop intends to promote the development and application of new methods for decision making and strategic planning in particular with respect to Uncertainty and Nonlinear Effects in Complex Systems through the discussion of a limited number of invited scientists with different research background from various fields. The invited talks address these topics either directly or discuss methods with potential applications thereby.
Program:
S. Yamazaki (TCRDL): Planning of R&D Strategies in Business
M. Makowski (IIASA): Certain decision-making for uncertain problems
T. Brenner (MPI Jena): A stochastic model of industry location - The case of the automobile industry in Germany
R. E. Wilson (Bristol): Road Traffic Modelling: Nonlinear Dynamics, Data, and Future Multiscale Directions
J. Casti (Santa Fe/IIASA): Would-be worlds: Toward a theory of complex systems
K. Sneppen (NBI): Communication and topology in networks
M. Eiswirth (FHI Berlin): Stoichiometric network analysis
M. Labbe (Universite Libre de Bruxelles): Reliable communication network design: models and solution methods
F. Schweitzer (ETH Zürich): The role of local effects in collective decision processes
C. Siettos (National Technical University of Athens): Coarse-grained computations for agent-based market models: An equation-free approach to nonlinear analysis and control of complex systems
G. Silverberg (UNU-MERIT/ University of Maastricht): What a Difference a Dimension Makes: Collective Search and “Rationality“ in Complex Technology Spaces