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A Look Back

Introductions:

NiSIS 2005 was the 1st symposium organised by the European NiSIS Co-ordination Group and took place from 4 - 5 October 2005. The symposium has shown state-of-the-art presentations as well as new developments in Nature inspired Systems with Intelligent Technologies. The focus was on the integration of life and applied sciences/engineering that addresses issues on smart information systems, preferably with special interest to apply this to other real-world problems. The aim also was to investigate Nature- inspired Systems that coordinate perception, reasoning, and action to pursue multiple goals while functioning autonomously in dynamic environments. NiSIS is covering Nature-inspired Data Technology (NiDT), Nature-inspired Networks (NiN), Nature-inspired Systems Modelling, Optimisation and Control (NiMOC).

NiSIS 2005 had parallel sessions where experts presented their developments and applications in different areas. 34 papers were presented and 7 speakers were invited to have a talk in the different sessions of the symposium.

The Programme

In the Opening Session on 4 October at 10:00 h, the NiSIS chairman Prof. Derek Linkens from the University of Sheffield, gave his welcome to the 53 participants and informed them about main objectives of the project work.

The full programme overview and the proceedings are available (see the main window).

To get an impression about the whole symposium, please have a look at the pictures which can be downloaded here from our web site.