The socio-technical fabric of our society more and more depends on systems that are constructed as a collective of heterogeneous components and that are tightly entangled with humans and social structures. Their components increasingly need to be able to evolve, collaborate and function as a part of an artificial society.

Video: FoCAS – Connecting Collective Adaptive Systems Research

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by Luke Muehlhauser 

Milind Tambe is Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor in Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He is a fellow of AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), as well as recipient of the ACM/SIGART...

Homeland Security Risk Research

Homeland security risk researchers talked about how their work was being used to improve homeland security. They discussed the public’s response to attacks, terrorist behaviors, and potentially vulnerable targets. They spoke at an event marking the 10th anniversary of the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The center was the first university research center funded by the Homeland Security Department.

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