Day 1
May 16, Wednesday
 

 

 

 

8:00-8:30
 

Registration (Coffee, muffins)

 

 

8:30-8:45
 

Welcome                                                                                                                                                      Vijay Kumar

Goals of the workshop                                                                                                                              Julia Parrish

 

 

 

 

8:45

9:30

9:50

1. SELFISHNESS, ALTRUISM, AND COOPERATION

Multilevel selection, complex systems, and the evolution of
higher-level adaptations                                                                                                  David Sloan Wilson

Whirligig swarm dynamics predicted by individual differences                                                           Bill Romey

Discussion: Role of selfishness in engineered systems                                                                 David Skelly

 

 

 

 

Coffee Break
 

 

 

 

10:20

11:05

11:25

11:45

12:05

2. EFFECT OF SCALING IN GROUPS

Scaling of coordinated movement in biological and engineered groups                             Danny Grunbaum

Pursuit Laws: theory and data (movie1,movie2)                                                                    P.S. Krishnaprasad

The role of number of individuals and local interaction rules for emerging
group behaviour in schooling fish  (movie1,movie2,movie3,movie4)                                      Rune Vabø

Performance scaling in mobile networks                                                                                         Emilio Frazzoli

Rationality in collective and individual decision-making                                                                  Stephen Pratt

 

 

 

12:25-1:25

Lunch
 

 

 

 

1:25

2:10

2:30

2:50

 

3. DECENTRALIZED ESTIMATION AND CONTROL

From living to artificial complex systems                                                                         Jean Louis Deneubourg

Compiling group behaviors into decentralized estimators and controllers                                    Kevin Lynch

An extremely selfish herd - the evolution of collective motion and decision-making                 Iain Couzin

Swarm algorithms for construction tasks                                                                        Aristides A. G. Requicha

                                                                                                                                                                                             

 

 

 

3:10-4:15

Poster Session and Coffee Break
 

 

 

 

4:15

5:00

 

4. SYSTEMS THEORY AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES

Systems biology and monotone networks                                                                                     Eduardo Sontag

Panel Discussion                                                                                                       moderator: Daniel Koditschek
Fred Cohen, Ali Jadbabaie, Daniel Koditschek and Eduardo Sontag                                                       

 

 

 

6:15

Cocktails & Dinner
Lower Egyptian Gallery

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology (www.museum.upenn.edu)

Click here for a map of the museum, and a map of the area, including the museum

 

 

 

 


Day 2
May 17, Thursday
 

 

 

 

8:15

Coffee, muffins

 

 

 

8:30

9:15

9:35

9:55

 

5. COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR

Evolutionary perspectives on swarming                                                                                                Simon Levin

From animals to robots: modeling, analyzing, and synthesizing group behaviors                       Daniela Rus

Sleeping Swarms: Dangerous Foe or Robust Friend                                                                      Harvey Rubin

Oscillatory methods for coordinated control with limited communication                               Kristi Morgansen

 

 

 

10:15

Coffee Break

 

 

 

 

10:35

10:55

11:15

 

5. COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR (continued)

Controllability and observability of networked systems                                                              Mehran Mesbahi

Real-time simulation of heterogeneous crowds                                                                                         Ming Lin

Distributed Kriged Kalman filter for spatial estimation                                                                      Jorge Cortes

                                                                                                                                                          

 

 

11:55

Lunch
 

 

 

1:10

Break out groups 

 

 

2:45

Report from break out groups
 

 

 

3:15

Coffee
 

 

 

4:00

Discussion: Next steps 

 

 

5:00

Wrap-up