About the program: Complex adaptive systems involve purpose-driven agents that receive payoffs for their actions and may adjust their behavior to optimize those payoffs. There are familiar mathematical models that offer examples of such systems, including the iterated prisoners dilemma, the hawk-dove game, and more recently the El Farol problem (whether or not to go to an Irish pub for music based on how crowded the pub is expected to be). In each of these cases, mathematical ideals from evolutionary game theory suggest a particular outcome that should be expected, such as an evolutionary stable strategy. Simulations show, however, that these systems may not arrive at these outcomes when even slight changes are imposed. The results provide a cautionary tale about our understanding of complex adaptive systems and our ability to provide effective models with sufficient fidelity.
About the Speaker: Dr. David Fogel is CEO of Natural Selection, Inc. in La Jolla, CA. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and the general chairman of the 2002 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. He will serve as the general chairman of the 2007 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in Honolulu, Hawaii (www.ieee-ssci.org) and was elected president-elect (2007) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE CIS.
Time/Place: Wednesday Aug 9, Wednesday 6:00 P.M. Lockheed Martin, 4770 Eastgate Mall San Diego, California 92121. Food served starting at 6:00 p.m., talk will begin sharply at 6:30. Directions and lecture background materials available at the SD CIS website. http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/san_diego/cis/
Free for IEEE members, $5 otherwise.
Reservations/Information: Andrew Diamond (IEEE CIS San Diego Chapter Chair) (858) 509-3115, adiamond@EnvisionSystemsLLC.com