Second International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2009)

Just a quick post to advertise The Second International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2009) which I'm planning on attending in August.

A few pertinent clips from the workshop's website:

"... by its very nature, self-organization more often than not has its own way. To be useful in practice, methods of guiding self-organization towards prespecified goals have to be developed. Adding and controlling constraints provides one possibility to this end.
Many properties of self-organisation can be characterised formally (e.g., information-theoretically). However, the lack of agreement of what is meant by complexity, constraints, etc, as well as a common methodology across multiple scales leaves any definition of self-organisation somehow vague, indicating a clear gap. Filling this gap and identifying common principles of guidance are the main themes of GSO-2009. The workshop will put particular emphasis on principles based on information flows through the perception-action loop of embodied systems."

GSO-2008 was a really interesting week, so am hoping for the same level of inspiration this time round.

Registration is open, hope to see you there.