Qlectives Blog

QLectives features in PerAda Magazine

Wed, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000

I wrote an piece about QLlectives (and the P2P mentality) that has been included in the PerAda Magazine. I promised this months ago and kept putting it off but finally I wrote it. Anyhow, it can be found at:

http:www.perada-magazine.euview.php?source=003444-2010-12-06

In the introduction and conclusion I made reference to what I believe are the defining characteristics of the P2P approach (it's more than a technology). I believe that we're on the winning side and major changes are coming.

Report back on the PerAda-ASSYST summer school Budapest

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:04:17 +0100

The PerAda-ASSYST summer school took place from the 21st-27th of September in Budapest, co-located and overlapping with the SASO conference . The workshop was co-sponsored by PerAda and ASSYST . It was structured in the following way: attendees were assigned to groups. Each group had the task of selecting and addressing a key application area in pervasive adaptation. At the end of the summer school each group produced a presentation outlining their application. The idea was not to produce completed solutions but rather to give a convincing presentation of how pervasive technology might be applied to solve an open

Report back on the [k]NO(w)BODY workshop @ ECCS2010

Wed, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000

I had the privilege of attending the [k]NO(w)BODY workshop @ ECCS2010 in Lisbon.You can see details about it here . Why did I go? Because a number of people told me I might find it interesting and recently I've been trying to listen to people rather than judge them. I'm glad I went because in some ways I felt the workshop had a transformative effect on the the way I think. That's a big statement and I can not hope to capture it in a short text on an EU project blog (that nobody reads anyway). But I will give it a go. The workshop was run by João Fiadeiro who is a dance practitioner. It was about improvisation. His background is dance. First let me discuss my intelligence gathering on the the way you pronounce "Jo&

Report back from European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS2010)

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:33:19 +0100

The European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS2010) took place last month in Lisbon. A number of QLectives people attended including myself. This conference brings together major European researchers within the complex systems area and is highly interdisciplinary. It was people meeting at this conference series (which started in 2004 in Torino, Italy) that led to the COSI-ICT area which funds projects such as QLectives and other complexity related ICT projects. Consequently many colleagues from other related projects and groups were present and it was great to catch-up with them.

From my perspective ECCS2010 was everything a conference in this area should be. Given the highly interdisciplinary nature of complexity science you need a

Towards a Science of Socially Intelligent ICT - Videos of talks now online

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:40:11 +0100

The videos of the presentations from the August COS-ICT workshop "Towards a Science of Socially Intelligent ICT" are now availible on the ASSYST website. I described the workshop previously like this:

The Science of Socially Intelligent ICT workshop at Imperial was pretty interesting. It was a truly interdisciplinary affair with real points of overlap. This is quite rare in my experience and on that basis the workshop was a success. I think the questions Jeff Johnson asked the speakers to consider in the their talks (see previous blog post) helped to create lines of connection and highlight also the differences in approaches. Agai