International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity in Information and Communication Technology

Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy, September 6-8, 2004

Organized by

• Societa Italiana Caos e Complessita (SICC)
  In Cooperation with
  Centro di Ricerca sui Sistemi Elettronici per l'Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecommicazioni, Universita di Bologna
  Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Universita di Ferrara
  Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano
  Instituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecommuniczioni, CNR

Venue

• Aula di San Giovanni in Monte, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Organizing Committee

• Gianluca Setti (Chair)
• Sergio Callegari
• Stefano Maggi
• Fabio Pareschi
• Carlo Piccardi
• Riccardo Rovatti

Session Organizers

• Mario Di Bernardo - Power Electronics and Switching Systems
• Gianluca Setti - Traffic in Communication Networks
• Riccardo Rovatti - Communication and Coding
• Roberto Genesio - Complex Coupled Systems
• Luigi Fortuna - Self-Organizing Autonomous Agents
• Gianluca Setti - Posters

Invited Keynote Speakers

1. Michael Tse - Bifurcation Analysis in Power Electronics and Applications
2. Jose Luis Rodriguez Marrero: The Frobenius-Perron Operator: Applications to Chaotic Dynamics
3. Patrick Thiran - System Theory and Communication Networks: An Overview on Some Recent Results
4. Ljiljana Trajkovic - Modelling and Characterization of Traffic in Deployed Networks
5. Ruediger Urbanke - Shannon's Challenge and Iterative Coding Systems
6. Ljupco Kocarev - Nonlinear Dynamics of Iterative Decoding Systems
7. Guanrong Chen - Complex Networks: Small World, Scale Free and Beyond
8. Chai Wah Wu - Synchronization in Networks of Coupled Nonlinear Systems with Delay in Nonreciprocal Time-Varying Coupling
9. Manuel Velarde - Mulristability, Clustering and Other Interesting Behaviors in Simple Driver-Dissipative Lattices
10. Pier Paolo Adriani - Mobile Agents in Innovatove System Modelling