René Doursat, Ph.D. Habil.

Research Scientist,
   Research Group in Biomimetics (GEB),
   Universidad de Málaga (UMA)

Fmr. Director, Complex Systems Institute
   Paris Ile-de-France (ISC-PIF)

Elected Full Member, CREA Laboratory,
   Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS (UMR 7656)


phone: +34 952 137 036







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Research
Teaching
Publications (43+45)
   • Journals (8+2)
   • Books (3+1)
   • Conferences (13+5)
   • Abstracts (18+32)
   • Other (1+5)
   • Seminars
Activities & Grants
Industry
Extracurricular
Full CV (March 12, 2012)

Summary
43 refereed papers & (extended) abstracts / book chapters / patents
  • 8 refereed papers in international journals
  • 3 book chapters
  • 13 refereed conference papers in international proceedings
  • 18 refereed conference & workshop (extended) abstracts
  • 1 patent
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45 invited (non-refereed) papers & conference talks / edited journals, books & proceedings / technical reports
  • 1 guest-edited special journal issue, 1 invited journal paper
  • 1 edited book
  • 3 edited conference proceedings, 2 invited conference & workshop papers
  • 6 invited conference & workshop keynotes, 26 invited conference & workshop talks (abstracts)
  • 5 technical documents, internal & technical reports
47 individual seminars, 3 media appearances
 
Journals — Full Papers, Guest-Edited Issues (8 + 2)
Refereed papers in international journals (8)
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Fernández, J. D., Lobo, D., Martín, G. M., Doursat, R. & Vico, F. J. (2012) Emergent diversity in an evolving virtual community. Artificial Life 18(2): 199-222. [24 pages] PAPER
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Ulieru, M. & Doursat, R. (2011) Emergent engineering: A radical paradigm shift. International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS) 4(1): 39-60. [22 pages] PAPER
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Hoelzer, G., Drewes, R., Meier, J. & Doursat, R. (2008) Isolation-by-distance and outbreeding depression are sufficient to drive parapatric speciation in the absence of environmental influences. PLoS Computational Biology 4(7): e1000126. [11 pages; no page numbers] PAPER
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Doursat, R. (2008) The self-made puzzle: Integrating self-assembly and pattern formation under non-random genetic regulation. InterJournal: Complex Systems 2292. [13 pages; no page numbers] PAPER
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Doursat, R. (2006) The growing canvas of biological development: Multiscale pattern generation on an expanding lattice of gene regulatory networks. InterJournal: Complex Systems 1809. [10 pages; no page numbers] PAPER
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Doursat, R. & Petitot, J. (2005) Dynamical systems and cognitive linguistics: Toward an active morphodynamical semantics. Neural Networks 18(5-6): 628-638. [11 pages] Selected and extended for this special issue among less than 10% of the papers accepted at IJCNN 2005. PAPER
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Bienenstock, E. & Doursat, R. (1994) A shape-recognition model using dynamical links. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 5(2): 241-258. [18 pages] PAPER
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Geman, S., Bienenstock, E. & Doursat, R. (1992) Neural networks and the bias/variance dilemma. Neural Computation 4(1): 1-58. [58 pages] Cited 2200 times per Google Scholar. PAPER
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Guest-edited special journal issues
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Dorigo, M., Birattari, M., Di Caro, G., Doursat, R., Engelbrecht, A., Gambardella, L. M., Groß, R., Sahin, E. & Stützle, T., eds. (2011) Special issue: Extended best papers from the ANTS 2010 proceedings. Swarm Intelligence 5(3-4). [228 pages] EDITORIAL
Invited journal papers (1)
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Doursat, R. (2011) Morphogenetic engineering weds bio self-organization to human-designed systems. PerAda Magazine: Towards Pervasive Adaptation, 18 May 2011. [6 pages; no page numbers] PAPER
Books — Chapters, Edited Books (3 + 1)
Book chapters (3)
     Doursat, R. (2011) TBA. In Morphogenetic Engineering: Toward Programmable Complex Systems, R. Doursat, H. Sayama & O. Michel, eds., NECSI "Studies on Complexity" Series. Springer-Verlag. In preparation.
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Doursat, R. & Petitot, J. (2011) Chapter 3: Relations. In Cognitive Morphodynamics: Dynamical Morphological Models for Constituency in Perception and Syntax, by J. Petitot, in collaboration with R. Doursat: pp. 119-170. Peter Lang, ISBN 978-3-0343-0475-7. [52 pages] CHAPTER
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Doursat, R. (2008) Chapter 8: Organically grown architectures: Creating decentralized, autonomous systems by embryomorphic engineering. In Organic Computing, R. P. Würtz, ed.: pp. 167-200. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-77656-7. [34 pages] CHAPTER
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Bienenstock, E. & Doursat, R. (1991, 2009) Chapter 4: Issues of representation in neural networks. In Representations of Vision: Trends and Tacit Assumptions in Vision Research, A. Gorea, Y. Frégnac, Z. Kapoula & J. Findlay, eds.: pp. 47-67. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521115056. [21 pages]
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Edited books
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     Doursat, R., Sayama, H. & Michel, O., eds. (2012) Morphogenetic Engineering: Toward Programmable Complex Systems, in NECSI "Studies on Complexity" Series, Springer-Verlag. In preparation. OVERVIEW
     Kowaliw, T., Bredeche, N. & Doursat, R. (2012) Growing Adaptive Machines: Integrating Development and Learning in Artificial Neural Networks, in "Studies in Computational Intelligence" Series, Springer-Verlag. In preparation.
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Petitot, J., in collaboration with Doursat, R. (2011) Cognitive Morphodynamics: Dynamical Morphological Models for Constituency in Perception and Syntax. Peter Lang, ISBN 978-3-0343-0475-7. [306 pages] INTRO
Conferences & Workshops — Full Papers, Edited Proceedings (13 + 5)
Refereed conference papers in international proceedings (13)
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Joachimczak, M., Kowaliw, T., Doursat, R., and Wróbel, B. (2012) Brainless bodies: Controlling the development and behavior of multicellular animats by gene regulation and diffusive signals. In Artificial Life XIII: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife XIII), July 19-22, 2012, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. To appear. [8 pages]
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Fernández, J. D., Vico, F. J. & Doursat, R. (2012) Complex and diverse morphologies can develop from a minimal genome. Generative & Developmental Systems Track (GDS 2012), in Proceedings of the 21st Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012), July 7-11, 2012, Philadelphia, PA. To appear. [8 pages] Best paper of the GDS track.
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Fernández, J. D., Doursat, R. & Vico, F. J. (2012) The evolution of controller-free molecular motors from spatial constraints. Spatial Computing Workshop (SCW 2012), in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012), June 4-8, 2012, Valencia, Spain. To appear. [6 pages]
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Doursat, R. (2009) Facilitating evolutionary innovation by developmental modularity and variability. Generative & Developmental Systems Track (GDS 2009), in Proceedings of the 18th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), July 8-12, 2009, Montreal, Canada; F. Rothlauf, ed.: pp. 683-690. ACM, ISBN 978-1-60558-325-9. [8 pages] PAPER
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Doursat, R. (2008) Spatial self-organization of heterogeneous, modular architectures. Spatial Computing Workshop (SCW 2008), in Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops (SASOW 2008), October 20-24, 2008, Venice, Italy: pp. 306-312. IEEE, ISBN 978-0-7695-3553-1. [7 pages]
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Doursat, R. & Ulieru, M. (2008) Emergent engineering for the management of complex situations. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems (Autonomics 2008), September 23-25, 2008, Telecom Italia Labs, Turin, Italy; A. Manzalini, ed.: No. 14. ICST, ISBN 978-963-9799-34-9. [10 pages; no page numbers] PAPER
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Doursat, R. (2008) The growing canvas of biological development: Multiscale pattern generation on an expanding lattice of gene regulatory networks. In Unifying Themes in Complex Systems Vol VI: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2006), June 25-30, 2006, New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), Boston, MA; A. A. Minai, D. Braha & Y. Bar-Yam, eds.: pp. 205-210. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-85080-9. [6 pages] This volume selected 77 papers from over 300 presented at ICCS 2006.
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Doursat, R. (2008) Programmable architectures that are complex and self-organized: From morphogenesis to engineering. In Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife XI), August 5-8, 2008, University of Southampton, Winchester, UK; S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. Watson & M. A. Bedau, eds.: pp. 181-188. MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-28719-7. [8 pages] PAPER SLIDES
  5. Vert, G., Doursat, R. & Nasser, S. (2006) Towards utilizing fuzzy self-organizing taxonomies to identify attacks on computer systems and adaptively respond. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2006), July 16-21, 2006, Vancouver, BC, Canada: pp. 2216-2222. IEEE, ISBN 0-7803-9488-7. [7 pages] PAPER
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Doursat, R. & Bienenstock, E. (2006) Neocortical self-structuration as a basis for learning. 5th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2006), May 31-June 3, 2006, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. IU, ISBN 0-9786456-0-X. [8 pages; no page numbers] PAPER SLIDES POSTER
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Doursat, R. & Petitot, J. (2005) Bridging the gap between vision and language: A morphodynamical model of spatial categories. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2005), July 31-August 4, 2005, Montréal, Canada: Vol. 5, pp. 2903-2908. IEEE, ISBN 0-7803-9048-2. [6 pages] PAPER SLIDES 1 SLIDES 2
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Bienenstock, E. & Doursat, R. (1990) Spatio-temporal coding and the compositionality of cognition. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Temporal Correlations and Temporal Coding in the Brain, April 25-27, 1990, Paris, France; R. Lestienne, ed.: pp. 42-47. [6 pages]
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Bienenstock, E. & Doursat, R. (1989) Elastic matching and pattern recognition in neural networks. In Neural Networks: From Models to Applications, Proceedings of the nEuro'88 Conference, June 6-9, 1988, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI), Paris, France; L. Personnaz & G. Dreyfus, eds.: pp. 472-482. IDSET, ISBN 2-9036-6703-9. [11 pages]
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Edited conference proceedings
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  3. Lenaerts, T., Giacobini, M., Bersini, H., Bourgine, P., Dorigo M. & Doursat, R., eds. (2011) Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ECAL 2011), August 8-12, 2011, Paris, France. MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-29714-1. [909 pages]
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Dorigo, M., Birattari, M., Di Caro, G. A., Doursat, R., Engelbrecht, A. P., Floreano, D., Gambardella, L. M., Groß, R., Sahin, E., Sayama, H. & Stützle, T., eds. (2010) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), September 8-10, 2010, Brussels, Belgium, LNCS 6234. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-642-15460-7. [542 pages]
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Ulieru, M., Palensky, P. & Doursat, R., eds. (2009) IT Revolutions: Proceedings of the 1st International ICST Conference, Revised Selected Papers, December 17-19, 2008, Venice, Italy, LNICST 11. Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-642-03977-5. [259 pages]
Invited conference & workshop papers (2)
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Doursat, R. (2011) The myriads of Alife: Importing complex systems and self-organization into engineering. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE-ALIFE 2011), April 11-15, 2011, Paris, France: pp. xii-xix. IEEE, ISBN 978-1-61284-061-1. [8 pages]
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Doursat, R. & Petitot, J. (1997) Modèles dynamiques et linguistique cognitive: vers une sémantique morphologique active. Le mouvement: Des boucles sensori-motrices aux représentations cognitives et langagières, Actes de la 6ème Ecole d'été de l'Association pour la Recherche Cognitive (ARCo), July 5-13, 1997, Bonas, France: pp. 167-183. [17 pages]
Conferences & Workshops — (Extended) Abstracts, Invited Talks (18 + 32)
Refereed conference & workshop (extended) abstracts - oral presentations (9)
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Joachimczak, M., Kowaliw, T., Doursat, R. & Wróbel, B. (2012) Evolving morphologies and controllers for soft-bodied multicellular animats using gene regulatory networks and artificial embryogenesis. Evolutionary Developmental Robotics Workshop (EvoDevoRobo 2012), at 21st Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012) July 7-11, 2012, Philadelphia, PA. To appear. [8 pages]
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Doursat, R. (2008) A morphogenetic model of controlled self-organization. 5th European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2008), September 14-19, 2008, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. [4 pages; no proceedings]
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Doursat, R. (2008) From morphogenesis to embryomorphic engineering. "From Amorphous to Spatial Computing" Workshop, July 7-8, 2008, Paris, France. [8 pages; no proceedings]
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Hoelzer, G., Drewes, R. & Doursat, R. (2008) Speciation through spatial self-organization of the gene pool. 12th Evolutionary Biology Meeting (EBM 2008), September 24-26, 2008, Université de Provence, Marseille, France. [1 page; no proceedings; presenter: G. Hoelzer]
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Doursat, R. (2007) The self-made puzzle: Integrating self-assembly and pattern formation under non-random genetic regulation. 7th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2007), October 28-November 2, 2007, New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), Boston, MA. [1 page; no page numbers] ABSTRACT SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2006) The growing canvas of biological development: Multiscale pattern generation on an expanding lattice of gene regulatory networks. 6th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2006), June 25-30, 2006, New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), Boston, MA. [1 page; online proceedings] ABSTRACT SLIDES
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Hoelzer, G., Drewes, R. & Doursat, R. (2006) Temporal waves of genetic diversity in a spatially explicit model of evolution: Heaving toward speciation. 6th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2006), June 25-30, 2006, New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), Boston, MA. [1 page; online proceedings; presenter: G. Hoelzer] ABSTRACT SLIDES
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Bienenstock, E. & Doursat, R. (1989) Of shapes, graphs and neural codes. NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Neuro Computing: Algorithms, Architectures and Applications, February 27-March 3, 1989, Les Arcs, France. [presenter: E. Bienenstock]
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Bienenstock, E. & Doursat, R. (1988) Graph-matching and shape recognition in neural networks. 1st Conference on Image Recognition and Neural Networks: From Signal Processing to Representation (NEURO-IMAGE 1988), October 6-7, 1988, Université de Bordeaux II, France.
Refereed conference & workshop (extended) abstracts - posters (9)
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Doursat, R. (2009) Heterogeneous collective motion or moving pattern formation? The "self-made puzzle" of embryogenesis under the light of multi-agent modeling. 1st International Conference on Morphogenesis in Living Systems (MLS 2009), May 14-16, 2009, Université Paris Descartes, France. [1 page; no proceedings]
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Doursat, R. & Bienenstock, E. (2007) How activity regulates connectivity: A self-organizing complex neural network. Ladislav Tauc Conference in Neurobiology 2007: Complexity in Neural Network Dynamics (Tauc 2007), December 13-14, 2007, Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard (INAF), CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. [1 page; no proceedings] ABSTRACT POSTER
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Doursat, R., Goodman, P. H. & Zou, Q. (2007) Neocortical locks and keys: Coherence induction among complex, heterogeneous neuronal patterns. Ladislav Tauc Conference in Neurobiology 2007: Complexity in Neural Network Dynamics (Tauc 2007), December 13-14, 2007, Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard (INAF), CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. [1 page; no proceedings] ABSTRACT POSTER
  6. Faure, E., Lombardot, B., Luengo-Oroz, M., Campana M., Peyriéras, N., Doursat, R. & Bourgine, P. (2007) Active machine learning for embryogenesis. 4th European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2007), October 1-5, 2007, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. [1 page; online proceedings] POSTER
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Doursat, R. (2007) Embryomorphic engineering: How to design hyper-distributed architectures capable of autonomous segmentation, rescaling and shaping. Unconventional Computation Conference (UC 2007), March 21-23, 2007, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Santa Fe Institute (SFI), Santa Fe, NM. ABSTRACT POSTER OCP Science Best Poster Award in Unconventional Computing (2008) International Journal of Unconventional Computing 4(2): i-ii. AWARD
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Goodman, P. H., Doursat, R., Zou, Q., Zirpe, M. & Sessions, O. (2007) RAIN brains: Mammalian neocortex as a hybrid analog-digital computer. Unconventional Computation Conference (UC 2007), March 21-23, 2007, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Santa Fe Institute (SFI), Santa Fe, NM. ABSTRACT POSTER
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Doursat, R. & Bienenstock, E. (2006) How activity regulates connectivity: A self-organizing complex neural network. 6th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2006), June 25-30, 2006, New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), Boston, MA. ABSTRACT POSTER
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Doursat, R. & Bienenstock, E. (2006) The self-organized growth of synfire patterns. 10th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS 2006), May 17-20, 2006, Boston University, MA. ABSTRACT POSTER
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Doursat, R. & Goodman, P. H. (2006) Neocortical keys and locks: A neural model of associative learning by coherence induction between spike patterns and ongoing membrane potentials. 10th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS 2006), May 17-20, 2006, Boston University, MA. ABSTRACT POSTER
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Invited conference & workshop keynote presentations (abstracts)
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Doursat, R. (2011) Artificial evo-devo: Bringing back self-organized multi-agent systems into evolutionary computation. International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA 2011), October 24-26, 2011, Université d'Angers, France. Keynote address.
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Doursat, R. (2011) Embryomorphic Engineering: Growing architectures from self-positioning and self-identifying agents. 1st Workshop on Middleware and Architectures for Autonomic and Sustainable Computing (MAASC 2011), May 12, 2011, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France. Keynote address.
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Doursat, R. (2011) The myriads of Alife: Importing complex systems and self-organization into engineering. 2011 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE Alife), April 11-15, 2011, Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), Paris, France. Keynote address.
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Doursat, R. (2010) Architecture and self-organisation: Heading for the best of both worlds. Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit, May 17-18, 2010, London, UK. Keynote address. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2010) Embryomorphic Engineering: From biological development to self-organized computational architectures. 4th EmergeNET Meeting: Engineering Emergence (EmergeNET4), April 19-20, 2010, University of York, UK. Keynote address. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2007) How to plan self-organization, control decentralization, and design evolution: Addressing the paradoxes of complex systems engineering with metaphors from biological development. 2nd International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS 2007), December 10-13, 2007, Budapest, Hungary. Keynote address. SLIDES
Invited conference & workshop talks (abstracts) (26)
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Doursat, R. (2012) Complex systems and morphogenetic engineering: New avenues toward self-organized architecture. Frontiers of Natural Computing Workshop (FNC), September 10-12, 2012, University of York, UK.
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Doursat, R. (2012) [TBA]. 11th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2012) September 3-7, 2012, Université d'Orléans, France.
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Doursat, R. (2012) Morphogenetic engineering: Reconciling architecture with self-organization. Evolutionary Developmental Robotics Workshop (EvoDevoRobo 2012) (EvoDevoRobo 2012), at 21st Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2012) July 7-11, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.
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Doursat, R. (2011) Morphogenetic "neuron flocking": The dynamic self-organization of neural activity into mental shapes. Workshop on Mathematical Models of Cognitive Architectures, December 5-9, 2011, International Center of Mathematics Meetings (CIRM), Université d'Aix-Marseille, France. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2011) Toward Morphogenetic Engineering: Biological development as a new model of programmed self-organization. 2nd International Workshop on New Worlds of Computation (NWC 2011), May 23-24, 2011, Université d'Orléans, France.
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Delile, J., Kowaliw, T., Peyriéras, N. & Doursat, R. (2011) Automated inference of 4-D cell polarization fields in an agent-based model of early vertebrate embryogenesis. Workshop on the 4-D Visualization of Vertebrate Morphogenesis, at Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists (AAA 2011), at Experimental Biology (EB 2011), April 9-13, 2011, Washington, DC. [presenter: J. Delile]
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Doursat, R. (2010) A computational model of multicellular development. 1st Conference on Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Complex Systems (COMMISCO 2010), October 11-13, 2010, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Bondy, France.
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Doursat, R. (2010) Heterogeneous collective motion or moving pattern formation? The exemplary status of multicellular morphogenesis at the border between "informed" physics and "physical" computation. 9th Complex Systems Dynamics Workshop (DySCo 2010), September 27-28, 2010, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. & Petitot, J. (2010) Cognitive morphodynamics: Viewing semantic categorization as a pattern formation process in complex neural systems. Symposium on Structured Flows on Manifolds: A General Dynamical Framework to Cognition, at "Cognition, Emotions and Society" Conference of the French Psychology Society (SFP), September 7-9, 2010, Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3, France. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2010) Embryomorphic Engineering: From biological development to self-organized computational architectures. "Evolutionary Transitions of Brain-Body Couplings" Workshop, at 11th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2010), August 24, 2010, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France.
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Doursat, R. (2010) Embryomorphic Engineering: From biological development to self-organized computational architectures. 2nd Summer Solstice International Conference on Discrete Models of Complex Systems (SOLSTICE 2010), June 16-18, 2010, LORIA, CNRS, Nancy, France. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2009) Causing and influencing patterns by designing the agents: Complex systems made simpler. 4th Workshop on Causality in Complex Systems, co-organized by DSTO, CSIRO (Australia), and ONR, AFRL (US), in association with the Conference on Spatial Simulation for the Social Sciences (S4), November 25-27, 2009, Complex Systems Institute, Paris Ile-de-France. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2009) Heterogeneous collective motion or moving pattern formation? The two sides of embryogenesis combined by multi-agent modeling into a "self-made puzzle". Workshop on Quantitative Tissue Biology and Virtual Tissues (Biocomplexity X), October 28-November 1, 2009, The Biocomplexity Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2009) Evolutionary developmental systems as "self-made puzzles" that can be programmed: Lessons from biological morphogenesis. Invited panelist (of 6), Generative & Developmental Systems Workshop (GDS 2009), at 18th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), July 8-12, 2009, Montreal, Canada. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2009) Heterogeneous collective motion or moving pattern formation? The self-made puzzle of embryogenesis under the light of multi-agent modeling. 2nd Paris Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Biology at Meso or Macroscopic scales (MASBio 2009), June 23, 2009, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2009) Embryomorphic engineering: How elaborate, modular architectures can be self-organized, too. 1st International Morphogenetic Engineering Workshop (MEW 2009), June 19, 2009, Complex Systems Institute, Paris, France.
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Doursat, R. (2009) The self-made puzzle: Complex systems science as a design activity. Workshop on "Aesthetic at the Heart of Science", at European Future and Emerging Technologies Conference (FET 2009): "Science Beyond Fiction", April 21-23, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Doursat, R. (2009) Mouvement collectif hétérogène ou formation de motifs en mouvement? Le puzzle auto-façonné de l'embryogenèse à la lumière des modèles multi-agents. 5ème Ecole interdisciplinaire d’échanges et de formation en biologie (Berder 2009): "Spatialisation et localisation", March 29-April 4, 2009, Formation du CNRS, Berder (Brittany), France. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2008) Paradox in approaching complexity: From natural to engineered complex systems. IT Revolutions 2008, December 17-19, 2008, Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice, Italy. ABSTRACT SLIDES
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Doursat, R. & Ulieru, M. (2008) Guiding the emergence of structured network topologies: A programmed attachment approach. "Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks II" Workshop (DOON II), at 5th European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2008), September 14-19, 2008, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. ABSTRACT SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2007) Of tapestries, ponds and RAIN: Toward fine-grain mesoscopic neurodynamics in excitable media. International Workshop on Nonlinear Brain Dynamics for Computational Intelligence, at 10th Joint Conference of Information Systems (JCIS 2007), July 20, 2007, Salt Lake City, UT. PROGRAM ABSTRACT SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2007) Multiscale Embryomorphic Architectures. Workshop on Scaling in Biological and Social Networks, July 9-13, 2007, Santa Fe Institute (SFI), Santa Fe, NM. ABSTRACT SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (2007) Embryomorphic systems meta-design: Preparing for self-assembly, self-regulation and evolution. 7th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium (UCS 2007), May 14-17, 2007, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. ABSTRACT SLIDES POSTER
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Goodman, P. H. & Doursat, R. (2007) Large-scale biologically realistic models of cortical mesocircuit dynamics. Computational Neuroscience, Sensory Augmentation, and Brain-Machine Interface, April 25-26, 2007, Office of Naval Research (ONR), Arlington, VA. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. & Petitot, J. (2005) Notes on the possibility of embodied computation based on the emergence of singularities in a large-scale complex dynamical system. Workshop on Neurodynamics and Intentional Dynamic Systems, at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2005), August 5, 2005, Montréal, Canada. SLIDES
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Doursat, R. (1995) The microdynamics of mental schemas. Workshop on Morphodynamic Models for Language and Perception, December 11-13, 1995, International Centre for Semiotic and Cognitive Studies (Umberto Eco & Patrizia Violi, dirs.), University of San Marino, Italy.
Other — Patents, Documents, Reports (1 + 5)
Patents (1)
  1. Guyon, I., Reiss, E. P., Doursat, R, Weston, J. A. E. & Lewis, D. D. (2002, 2008) Data Mining Platform for Bioinformatics and other Knowledge Discovery. US Patents 7,444,308 and 7,542,947. [see Industry/BIOwulf]
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Technical documents
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  2. Doursat, R. (2000) How to write "wrapper" code for merchant websites (an internal development guide for use by the engineering team). RedCart.com, Inc. [30 pages; see Industry/RedCart]
  1. Doursat, R. (1995) CodeGen: Automated C/C++ code generation and regeneration (technical specifications and user programming manual). NeuronData, Inc. [41 pages; see Industry/NeuronData]
Internal & technical reports (3)
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Petitot, J. & Doursat, R. (1998) Modèles dynamiques et linguistique cognitive: vers une sémantique morphologique active. Technical Report 9809, in Rapports et documents du CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.
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Doursat, R., von der Malsburg, C. & Bienenstock, E. (1995) Coding metric with delayed temporal correlations: An oscillator model of graph-matching. Technical Report, Institute for Neural Computation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. SLIDES
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Doursat, R., Konen, W., Lades, M., von der Malsburg, C., Vorbrüggen, J. C., Wiskott, L. & Würtz, R. P. (1993) Neural mechanisms of elastic pattern matching. Internal Report IRINI 93-01, Institute for Neural Computation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Seminars — Individual Talks
Academic Institutions
47. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (host: Christoph von der Malsburg), Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), March 16, 2012 — Morphogenetic "neuron flocking": The dynamic self-organization of neural activity into mental shapes. SLIDES
46. Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany (hosts: Markus Diesmann, Sonja Grün), Computational and Systems Neuroscience Group, March 15, 2012 — Morphogenetic "neuron flocking": The dynamic self-organization of neural activity into mental shapes. SLIDES
45. Université d'Aix-Marseille, France (host: Viktor Jirsa), Theoretical Neuroscience Group (TNG), May 18, 2011 — Uncovering the shapes of brain dynamics.
44. Université de Lille, France (host: Sophie Tison), Fundamental Computer Science Laboratory, Lille (LIFL), April 19, 2011 — How to design self-organization in multi-agent systems.
43. Université d'Aix-Marseille, France (host: Alexis Nasr), Fundamental Computer Science Laboratory, Marseille (LIF), April 12, 2011 — Self-organization and architecture: Heading for the best of both worlds.
42. Universidad de Málaga, Spain (host: Francisco J. Vico), Research Group in Biomimetics, School of Computer Science, April 8, 2011 — Architecture and self-organization.
41. Université d'Orléans, France (host: Jérôme Durand-Lose), Fundamental Computer Science Laboratory, Orléans (LIFO), March 21, 2011 — Unconventional architectures: The art of programming self-organization.
40. Université de Strasbourg, France (host: Pierre Collet), Image Science, Computer Science and Remote Sensing Laboratory (LSIIT), March 18, 2011 — How to design self-organization: Bringing back evolutionary computation into multi-agent systems.
39. Université de Nancy & INRIA, France (host: François Charpillet), Lorraine Laboratory of Research in Computer Science and its Applications (LORIA), March 17, 2011 — The myriads of Alife: Importing complex systems and self-organization into engineering.
38. University of Bristol, UK (host: Luca Giuggioli), Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences (BCCS), November 9, 2010 — Heterogeneous collective motion or moving pattern formation? The exemplary status of multicellular morphogenesis at the border between "informed" physics and "physical" computation.
37. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France (hosts: Guillaume Beslon, Pablo Jensen), Complex Systems Institute of Rhône-Alpes (IXXI), November 4, 2010 — A computational model of multicellular development.
36. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (hosts: Marco Dorigo, Hugues Bersini), Institute of Interdisciplinary Research & Development in Artificial Intelligence (IRIDIA), March 19, 2010 — Embryomorphic engineering: From biological development to artificial multi-agent organisms. SLIDES
35. Université de Nantes, France (hosts: Julien Cohen, Alexandre Dikovsky), Computer Science Laboratory, Nantes Atlantique (LINA), February 11, 2010 — Ingénierie morphogénétique : du développement biologique aux systèmes auto-organisés programmables. SLIDES
34. Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France (host: Michel Gho), Developmental Biology Laboratory (LBD), December 11, 2009 — Heterogeneous collective motion or moving pattern formation? The self-made puzzle of embryogenesis under the light of multi-agent modeling. SLIDES
33. University of West England, Bristol, UK (host: Alan F. T. Winfield), Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), October 19, 2009 — Embryomorphic engineering: From biological development to artificial multi-agent organisms. SLIDES
32. London School of Economics, UK (host: Eve Mitleton-Kelly), Complexity Research Programme, June 26, 2009 — Complex systems as "self-made puzzles" that can be programmed: Lessons from biological morphogenesis. ABSTRACT
31. Genopole, Evry, France (hosts: Martine Beurton-Aimar, François Képès), Epigenomics Project, June 25, 2009 — Complex systems and agent-based modeling in biology.
30. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK (host: Jeff Johnson), Department of Design and Innovation, April 1, 2009 — The self-made puzzle: Complex systems and design.
29. Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France (host: Laura Hernandez), Laboratory for Theoretical Physics and Modelling, February 5, 2009 — A multi-agent computational model of biological morphogenesis based on non-random, programmable pattern formation and self-assembly.
28. New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), Cambridge, MA (host: Yaneer Bar-Yam), NECSI Winter School 2009, January 8, 2009 — Self-organization and variability of complex modular architectures as a prerequisite to evolutionary innovation.
27. Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France (host: Michelle Thieullen), Probabilities and Random Models Laboratory (PMA), December 12, 2008 — A multi-agent computational model of biological morphogenesis based on non-random, programmable pattern formation and self-assembly.
26. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (host: Ricard Solé), Complex Systems Laboratory, December 5, 2008 — Self-organization and variability of complex modular architectures as a prerequisite to evolutionary innovation. SLIDES
25. Université Paris-Sud 11 & INRIA, Orsay, France (hosts: Nicolas Bredeche, Marc Schoenauer), Computer Science Research Laboratory (LRI), Machine Learning and Optimization Team (TAO), November 10, 2008 — Spatial self-organization of heterogeneous, modular architectures.
24. Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS, Paris, France (host: Paul Bourgine), Research Center in Applied Epistemology (CREA), March 25, 2008 — Architectures that are self-organized and complex: From morphogenesis to engineering.
23. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (host: Martin Purvis), Department of Information Science, Feburary 12, 2008 — Architectures that are self-organized and complex: From morphogenesis to engineering. ABSTRACT SLIDES
22. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (host: Marcus Frean), Artificial Intelligence Group, School of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, February 5, 2008 — Architectures that are self-organized and complex: From morphogenesis to engineering. ABSTRACT SLIDES
21. Complex Systems Institute, Paris Ile-de-France, "Morning Seminar" Series, January 18, 2008 — The self-made puzzle: Integrating self-assembly and pattern formation under non-random genetic regulation.
20. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (host: Dario Floreano), Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Institut d'Ingénierie des Systèmes, January 16, 2008 — The self-made puzzle: Integrating self-assembly and pattern formation under non-random genetic regulation.
19. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (hosts: Felix Schürmann, Sean Hill, Henry Markram), Blue Brain Project, Brain Mind Institute, January 16, 2008 — Toward a spiking mesoscopic neurodynamics.
18. Utrecht University, The Netherlands (host: Paulien Hogeweg), Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics Group, Department of Biology, December 17, 2007 — The self-made puzzle: Integrating self-assembly and pattern formation under non-random genetic regulation.
17. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (host: James Glazier), The Biocomplexity Institute, May 31, 2007 — Embryomorphic architectures. ABSTRACT SLIDES
16. INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France (host: Hugues Berry), ALCHEMY Research Laboratory, January 23, 2007 — Organically grown architectures: Embryogenesis and neurogenesis as new paradigms for decentralized systems design. SLIDES
15. Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS, Paris, France (host: Paul Bourgine), Research Center in Applied Epistemology (CREA), December 5, 2006 — Building the mesoscopic foundations of cognition: emergence and interaction of spatiotemporal patterns in complex dynamical neural systems.
14. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (host: Christoph von der Malsburg), Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), November 3, 2006 — Genetics and epigenetics: Two models of self-organization in biological development. SLIDES 1 SLIDES 2
13. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (host: Rolf Würtz), Institute for Neural Computation (INI), October 31, 2006 — Locks and keys in complex neural networks: The "mesocircuits" of cognition. SLIDES
12. Binghamton University SUNY, Binghamton, NY (host: Hiroki Sayama), Department of Bioengineering, July 25, 2006 — Locks and keys in complex biosystems: From coherence induction to regulation. SLIDES 1 SLIDES 2
11. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (host: Hava Siegelmann), Biologically Inspired Neural & Dynamical Systems (BINDS) Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, July 24, 2006 — Locks and keys in complex biosystems: From coherence induction to regulation. SLIDES 1 SLIDES 2
10. Université de Sherbrooke, Canada (host: Jean Rouat), Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, July 18, 2006 — Toward a rich neurodynamics at a mesoscopic level: Two models of resonance among networks of oscillatory and excitable units. SLIDES 1 SLIDES 2
  9. McGill University, Montréal, Canada (host: Andrew Hendry), Evolution & Ecology Groups, Department of Biology, July 13, 2006 — Temporal waves of genetic diversity in a spatially explicit model of evolution: Heaving toward speciation. SLIDES
  8. Université Laval, Québec, Canada (host: Guy Mineau), Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, July 6, 2006 — Spatial language and linguistic space: Two models of conceptual categorization based on visual icons and semantic networks. SLIDES 1 SLIDES 2
  7. Université de Montréal, Canada (host: Lael Parrott), Complex Systems Laboratory, Department of Geography, July 4, 2006 — From evo to devo: Two spatially extended models showing speciation and pattern formation. SLIDES 1 SLIDES 2
  6. The MITRE Corporation, Washington, DC (host: Brandon S. Minnery), Emerging Technology Office, May 2, 2006 — Neuromorphic mesocircuits: From neural computation to cognitive architectures via analog VLSI. SLIDES
  5. University of Nevada, Reno, NV (host: George Bebis), Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, June 24, 2004 — Structural graph matching and morphological image transforms: Two paths toward the categorization of geometrical patterns.
  4. University of Nevada, Reno, NV (host: Philip H. Goodman), Brain Computation Laboratory, Department of Computer Science & Engineering / School of Medicine, May 25, 2004 — An epigenetic development model of the nervous system.
  3. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (host: Willem Levelt), Language Production Group, November 1992 — Compositionality in neural networks.
  2. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (host: Christoph von der Malsburg), Institute for Neural Computation (INI), April 1991 — Representations in the nervous system and in artificial neural networks.
  1. Université de Montréal, Canada (host: Jan Gecsei), Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO), April 1988 — Graph matching and shape recognition.
General public & media appearances
  3. French National Public Radio (France-Culture), Paris, France (host: Xavier de la Porte), Show: "Place de la Toile" ("Web Square"), January 15, 2010 — What are complex systems? (30-mn interview) AUDIO
  2. "La Cantine", Paris, France (host: Christel Sorin, Fmr. Head of Research at France Telecom), Coworking Space for High-Tech Entrepreneurs, May 27, 2009 — The Web as a complex system: A self-organization that can be controlled?
  1. Conseil Régional d'Ile-de-France (Regional Government of the Paris Metropolitan Area), France (host: Marc Lipinski, Vice President for Research & Innovation), Public Forum on Research in Ile-de-France, March 3, 2009 — Best practices for the coordination of research (panel discussion)