COSS News

Together with the From Game Theory to Computational Social Science and Beyond block course, the From Game Theory to Computational Social Science and Beyond workshop is held at the chair of computational social science.

The Climate City Cup is a competition for finding the most useful means in fighting climate change and spurring social collaboration on the city level. It aims to enable citizens to take on fast actions, get engaged and activated without waiting for national or international regulatory pressure.

With a critical view on most of today's "cryptoeconomic designs", Michael will speak about how to structure complexity, the role of blockchain technology for socio-technical systems, and how he uses a new simulation tool to inform design decisions.

Acceptance of two papers at the very competitive symposium of SEAMS2019:

From today, February 2nd, BETH19 starts

Intersecting blockchain and science has a great potential for incentivizing collaboration and openness in science, finding new ways of funding research projects, and empowering the scientific community.Join the discussion about the place of peer-to-peer technologies in the scientific ecosystem organized by the ETH Zurich Spinoff Validity Labs and the ETH Library Lab

Evangelos Pournaras gives a talk at the GI Dagstuhl seminar, titled 'Self-adaptive Learning in Decentralized Combinatorial Optimization'. The talk took place at Schloss Dagstuhl, August 19 – 24, 2018.

Heinrich Nax is co-organizing a workshop titled "Computation and Society". The workshop will be held at the Bernoulli Center, EPFL, on the 22^nd of May, 2018.  

Nax, Newton and Pradelski organized a one-day workshop in Oxford on Dynamics in buyer-seller markets: Behavioral evidence and theory. The workshop took place on the 29^th of November, 2017, at Oxford-Man Institute, Eagle House, Walton Well Road, Oxford, OX2 6ED.  

Dr. Evangelos Pournaras will be among the keynote speakers at the "International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions" with a contribution titled Participatory Self-management Systems for Resilient Smart Cities.

The 3rd International Workshop on Data-driven Self-regulating Systems (DSS 2017) will be held along with the 11^th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO). SASO is part of the Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*).

Are you studying in a field related to computer science / engineering / mathematics? Do you want to be among the first people worldwide to profit from top-notch hands-on free education in Blockchain and Internet of Things?

How can we use technology, arts and research for peace, towards transformation? This is the core question of the conference, which will take place on September 9 - 11, 2016 in Zürich, Switzerland.

at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) in Augsburg (DE) on the 12.09.2016.  

22nd and 23rd of April, COSS hosts the first nervousnet Hackathon! Developers, entrepreneurs, data specialists, early adopters, end users and everybody else interested in building digital democracy together, join us for the first nervousnet Hackathon!

Join us for the PEERE Workshop at ETH Zurich on April 21 and 22 to discuss the future of peer review.

Visit the workshop and block course which takes place in the week of May 26-29, 2015 in the main building of the ETH Zurich.

Evangelos Pournaras and Izabela Moise will organize a Workshop on 24-26 August 2015 in Rome, Italy.

From open data to crowdsourcing and bottom-up society: models, algorithms, and applications. July 12-18, 2015, Lipari Island.