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September 17-22 http://ccs17.unam.mx/ Abstract booklet Carlos Gershenson & José Luis Mateos General Co-chairs Gerardo Iñiguez, Carlos Piña, Tom Froese, Gonzalo Castañeda, Roberto Murcio, Mariana Benítez- Keinrad, Jesús Siqueiros, Denis Boyer, Ruben Fossion Track Chairs Carlos Pineda & Gabriel Ramos-Fernández Satellite Co-Chairs Program Committee Abril Cid, Adilson Motter, Alain Barrat, Albert Diaz-Guilera, Alberto Antonioni, Alberto Robledo, Alberto Russo, Alessandro Flammini, Alessio Cardillo, Alex Arenas, Alexander Riegler, Alfonso Valiente-Banuet, Andrea Baronchelli, Andrea Nanetti, Andrea Roventini, Andrea Teglio, Andreas Krause, Andreas Roepstorff, Andreas Schadschneider, Andres Baeza, Andrew Philippides, Angels Massip-Bonet, Antonio Lopolito, Anxo Sanchez, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Arturo Serrano, Brian Keegan, Bruce Edmonds, Bruno Lara, Carlos Gershenson, Carlos Piña, Celine Rozenblat, Chen Zhong, Chiara Poletto, Christopher Monterola, Christopher Stephens, Claudio Castellano, Clémentine Cottineau, Cyrille Bertelle, Daniel Abrams, Daniel Heymann, Daniela Paolotti, David Chavalarias, David Dean, Denis Boyer, Denise Pumain, Dmitri Krioukov, Eduardo Altmann, Eduardo Izquierdo, Elisa Omodei, Emilio Ferrara, Emilio Rodriguez, Eran Agmon, Erika Fille Legara, Eugenio Azpeitia, Fabio Duarte, Federico Bassi, Felipe Lara-Rosano, Filippo Radicchi, Francesc Font-Clos, Francis Heylighen, Francisco C. Santos, François Leyvraz, Frank Schweitzer, Gábor Vásárhelyi, Gabriele Tedeschi, Gemma De Las Cuevas, Gerardo Iñiguez, Ginestra Bianconi, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Giovanni Petri, Giulia Iori, Gleb Oshanin, Gonzalo Castaneda, Gonzalo Ruz, Guido Caldarelli, Guillaume Deffuant, Gustavo Martínez-Meckler, Guy Lansley, Hadrien Salat, Haifeng Zhang, Hang-Hyun Jo, Herbert Dawid, Hiroki Sayama, Hiroyuki Iizuka, Hugo Tovar, Hyejin Youn, Ignacio Garzón, J. Mario Siqueiros, Jacopo Grilli, Janos Kertesz, Jari Saramäki, Javier Borge- Holthoefer, Johannes Jaeger, Jorge Louçã, Jorge M. Pacheco, Jose Fernando Mendes, José I. Santos, Jose J. Ramasco, José M. Miotto, Juan Carlos Rocha Gordo, Juan Ignacio Perotti, Julio César Amador Días López, Klaus Jaffe, Koen Frenken, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Luca Maria Aiello, Luca Ricetti, Luciano Pietronero, Luis M. Rocha, Luis Martinez Vaquero, Luis Mendoza, Luis R. Izquierdo, M. Ángeles Serrano, Maja Schlüter, Manlio De Domenico, Manuel Bedia, Manuel Castañón-Puga, Marc Santolini, Marcelo Kuperman, Marco Alberto Javarone, Marco Janssen, María Elena Lárraga, Mariana Benítez Keinrad, Marija Mitrovic, Markus Mueller, Marta Sales-Pardo, Martin Hanczyc, Márton Karsai, Mason Porter, Matjaz Perc, Matthew Egbert, Mauro Napoletano, Maxi San Miguel, Michael Lees, Michael Szell, Michele Tizzoni, Mikko Kivela, Misako Takayasu, Muaz Niazi, Myong-Hun Chang, Natalia Mantilla-Beniers, Nelson Fernández, Nick Vriend, Nicola Perra, Nigel Gilbert, Nobuyuki Hanaki, Oliva Garcia Cantu Ros, Olivier Hamant, Örjan Bodin, Pablo Suárez-Serrato, Paul Bourgine, Paul Expert, Paul Verschure, Philip Samuel Chodrow, Philippe Mathieu, Rahmatollah Beheshti, Raja Kali, Ralf Metzler, Raúl Alejandro Mejía Pedroza, Reka Albert, Remi Louf, Renaud Lambiotte, Rene Doursat, Riccardo Boero, Rick Quax, Robert Lowe, Roberto Murcio, Rodrigo Garcia, Roland Terborg, Rossana Mastrandrea, Ruben Fossion, Sabine Hauert, Sabine Pfleger, Sandro Meloni, Sarah Laborde, Segismundo Izquierdo, Serafin Martinez Jaramillo, Sergi Valverde, Sergio Antonio Alcala-Corona, Serguei Saavedra, Simone Alfarano, Simone Glansante, Stanislav Sobolevsky, Stefano Ruffo, Stefano Zapperi, Stephan Leitner, Steven Gray, Sune Lehmann, Suzy Moat, Takashi Ikegami, Thierry Dauxois, Tim Evans, Tobias Preis, Tom Froese, Tom Lenaerts, Tony Belpaeme, Victor M Eguiluz, Vittorio Loreto, Wander Jager, Yamir Moreno, Ying Long, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Yosune Miquelajauregui. "1 Plenaries Mario Molina Climate Change: Science, Policy and Solutions SPEAKER: Mario Molina ABSTRACT. Climate change is the most serious environmental challenge facing society in the 21st century. The average temperature of the Earth's surface has increased so far by about one degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution, and the intensity of extreme weather events such as heat waves and floods is also increasing, most likely as a consequence of this temperature change. The consensus among climate change experts is that it is very likely that human activities, mainly burning fossil fuels, are causing the observed changes in the Earth’s climate in recent decades. The basic science is very clear, although there are scientific uncertainties, because the Earth’s climate is a complex system. The risk of causing dangerous changes to the climate system increases rapidly if the average temperature rises more than two or three degrees Celsius; society faces an enormous challenge to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid such dangerous interference with the climate system. To achieve this goal, it is important to consider not only the science, but also economic, social and policy issues connected with climate change. Luis Bettencourt Cities as Open-Ended Complex Adaptive Systems SPEAKER: Luis Bettencourt ABSTRACT. There are many examples of complex systems sharing both common and different properties, from organisms to ecosystems, or from firms to cities. In this talk, I will emphasize particular open-ended complex systems - such as ecosystems or cities - and the especially interesting demands they pose on modeling and theory. I will show how many properties of cities can be understood in terms of modern network models of coupled social and spatial processes, such as scaling or agglomeration effects. However, I will also demonstrate that such models are not sufficient to understand the evolution and growth of cities overtime, nor aspects of their heterogeneity and inequalities. To address these issues, I will show that one requires a new type of statistical mechanics that bridges statistical physics and evolutionary theory. Such theory has universal properties that allow us to derive the general statistics of cities, even in the presence of fast and open-ended growth. Marta C. Gónzales A Complex Systems approach to study Human Mobility SPEAKER: Marta C. Gónzales ABSTRACT. I present a complex system approach applied to large data sets. I characterize how humans interact with built environment and to plan for better usage of urban resources. First I present a modeling framework, TimeGeo, that generates individual trajectories in high spatial-temporal resolutions, with interpretable mechanisms and parameters capturing heterogeneous individual travel choices at urban scale. Then I assign these trips to the streets. I demonstrate that the percentage of time lost in congestion is a function of the proportion of vehicular travel demand to road infrastructure capacity, and can be studied in the framework of non-equilibrium phase transitions. "1 Antonio Lazcano Prebiotic evolution and the emergence of life: Did it all happen in a warm little pond? SPEAKER: Antonio Lazcano ABSTRACT. Analysis of carbon-rich meteorites and the laboratory simulations of the primitive Earth suggest that prior to the emergence of the first living systems the prebiotic environment was indeed rich in a large suite of organic compounds of biochemical significance, many organic and inorganic catalysts, purines and pyrimidines, i.e., the potential for template-dependent polymerization reactions; and membrane-forming compounds. The remarkable coincidence between the monomeric constituents of living organisms and those synthesized in Miller-type experiments appears to be too striking to be fortuitous and strongly supports the possibility that life emerged from such a mixture. There is little doubt that self-organization phenomena played a role in the emergence of life from such primitive soup as shown, for instance, by the remarkable spontaneous assembly of amphiphiles into micelles and bilayer membranes, as well as the dynamical self-assembly properties of nucleic acids. Biological evolution, however, requires an intracellular genetic apparatus able to store, express and, upon reproduction, transmit to its progeny information capable of undergoing evolutionary change. Current biology indicates that the biosphere could have not evolved in the absence of a genetic replicating mechanism insuring the stability and diversification of its basic components. How did such replicating genetic polymers appear? Stefano Battiston Price of Complexity and Complexity of Price in Financial Networks SPEAKER: Stefano Battiston ABSTRACT. Financial institutions form multiplex networks by engaging in contracts with each other and by holding exposures to common assets. As a result probabilities of default and prices of assets are interdependent. While some level of financial complexity is useful it comes at the cost of several unintended consequences, including financial instability, inequality and allocation of capital at odd with the goal of sustainability. What can we learn from network science to make the financial system more resilient to shocks and bubbles, and to make it better serve society by channeling funds towards environmentally and socially sustainable investments? Raissa D'Souza Collective behaviors at three scales: nanoscale oscillators, interdependent infrastructure, and macaque societies (Springer Complexity Lecture). SPEAKER: Raissa D'Souza ABSTRACT. Results from a multi-year research effort aimed at understanding the behaviors of
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