Speaker(s): Dr. David Fisher

Date/Time: Thursday November 15, 2012 at 1pm.
Location: SITE 5084, SITE Building, University of Ottawa
Parking: Parking fees apply.
Registration: Free to attend, but registration is required. To ensure a seat,
please register by contacting Eric Karmouch (ekarmouch@ieee.org).
Organizer: Eric Karmouch
Organizer e-mail: ekarmouch@ieee.org
Organized by: Ottawa Section Computer Society Chapter
Url: http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/cs

Abstract: Emergent behaviors are pervasive, but poorly understood, phenomena in many fields including physics, biology, and the social sciences.
They include cascade effects, epidemics, phase transformations, dissipative structures, and spontaneous synchronization.
Emergent properties are irreducible to properties of their constituents, but instead arise from interactions among their constituents.
Agent-based modeling and simulation are essential to research in emergence, but are impaired by limitations inherent in current software methods and languages.
This presentation proposes a new property-based programming paradigm that overcomes not only barriers to emergent research but to accuracy, reusability, and
expressiveness in many computing domains.