Opening Keynote
Reda Benkirane. Lost in Complexity: Welcome to the Real World
Keynote
Peter Turchin. The Great Holocene Transformation: What Complexity Science Tells Us About The Evolution of Complex Societies.
Panel 1 – Complexity, Society & Global Challenges
• Carlos Álvarez Pereira. No Limits to Hope: Escaping from the unreasonable effectiveness of Modernity
• David Chavalarias. The Artificialization of Cultural Evolution: the Impact of Very Large Digital Infrastructures on Individuals and Society
• Louis Klein. Noospheric Singularity and the Mirror of Tamkeen
Panel Chair: Karima Kadaoui
Panel 2 – Rethinking Knowledge in the Age of Complexity
• Helena Knyazeva. Dancing with Complexity: How the World Thinks Through Us
• Carlos Gershenson. The Implications of Complexity
• Leonardo Rodríguez Zoya. Can Statistics Think? Complexity, Future, and Freedom in the Age of Large Language Models
Panel Chair: Nigel Gilbert
Parallel Session 1
Track 1 – Agent-Based and Social Complexity
• Julian Arevalo. Adaptive Readiness: an Agent-Based Model of Peace Negotiations
• Remah Dahdoul. Campaign-Spending Driven Polarization Transition in a Double-Random Field Model of Elections
• Nicholas Roxburgh. Exploring Interdependencies in an Island Economy
• Saida Hachimi El Idrissi. Formation of Complex Societies: An Agent-Based Model Inspired by Freudian Theory
Track 2 – Foundations and Dynamics of Complex Systems
• Giuseppe Orlando. Entropy-Based Recurrence Diagnostics for Tipping Points in Complex Dynamical Systems: Evidence from Cryptocurrency Markets
• Stanisław Drożdż. Complexity Characteristics of Natural Language: The Special Role of Punctuation
• Marcin Wątorek. Filtering Amplitude Dependence of Correlation Dynamics in Complex Systems
• Tomoko Sakiyama. Multi-Perspective for Probability Coordination Brings SOC in Game of Life
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Keynote
Abderrazak El Albani. Emergence of Intercellular Cooperation: At the Origins of Eukaryotic Complexity
Keynote Speaker
Nigel Gilbert. Policy in a Complex World: Towards Complexity-Aware Policymaking
Parallel Session 2
Track 1 – Agent-Based and Social Complexity
• Peter Jones. Presenting a Universal and Simple Conceptual Workbench to Situate and Encompass Complexity
• Nisrine Jarmoune. The Ontology of Behavior: Formalizing the Institutional Project as a Complex System
• Lionel Scotto d’Apollonia. Participatory Action Research with and for Society: The Case of “Oasis of Fraternity”
• Harvey Spencer Sánchez-Restrepo. Topological Patterns of Academic Success: Insights from Complex Network Analysis
Track 3 – Artificial Intelligence and Computational Systems
• Wafae Mkhimri. Integrating Human-AI Collaboration for Automated Product Backlog Generation in Agile Development
• Hind Es-Sobbahi. Deep and Handcrafted Feature Descriptors for Iris Recognition: A Comparative Study
• Rahul Balamurugan. Emergent Consensus-Weighted Neural Network for Optic Disc-Cup Segmentation in Glaucoma
• Ayachi Ouafa. A ROS2-Based Indoor Mapping Dataset Acquired Using TurtleBot4
Keynote Speaker
Chris Bauch. Critical Transitions in Coupled Human-and-Natural Systems and their Early Warning Signals
Keynote Speaker
Abdelmajid Ibenrissoul. Public Decision-Making and Complexity: What Rationality for Evaluation?
Parallel Session 3
Track 4 – Socio-Ecological and Environmental Systems Session chair: Mohamed Bakhouya
• Stephan Peter. Climate Change and Necessary Actions
• Luis Comolli. Emergence in Designed Agroecosystems: Collective Dynamics in a Perennial Multi-Species Agroforestry Network
• Masatoshi Funabashi. Socio-Ecological Evaluation of Synecoculture Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Shuntaro Aotake. Measuring Plant Biodiversity across Scales: The αβ Scale Diversity Model with Image-Based AI Estimation
Track 3 – Artificial Intelligence and Computational Systems
• Carlo Lucheroni. Electricity Market Time Series Forecasting by Machine Learning Methods
• Meryem Abtane. Optimization of Sensor Placement for Detecting Axle Bearing Faults in High-Speed Trains
• Salma Ariche. Embedded Mamdani Fuzzy Control of HVAC Systems in Battery Electric Vehicles
• Abderrahmane Boudribila. Automating PLC Code Generation from Textual Requirement Specifications
Wednesday, 22 April 2026
Keynote Speaker
Karoline Wiesner. The Physics of Political Change: Diffusion, Stability, and Regime Dynamics
Parallel Session 4
Track 1 – Agent-Based and Social Complexity
• Gerardus Bukkems. Mapping Regeneration through Viability Geometrics: Configurational Diagnosis beyond the Anthropocene
• Meriem Timouyas. Activity-Driven Spatial Agent-Based Modeling of Interaction Networks in Urban Systems: Application to epidemic dynamics in Agadir
• Marcela Lopes Alves. Neural Network-Based Parameter Estimation of a Labour Market Agent-Based Model
• Smahane Jebraoui. Agent-Based Approaches in Tourism Studies Insights, Applications, and Future Directions
Track 2 – Foundations and Dynamics of Complex Systems
• Mohamed Hibti. Propositions for Measuring the Complexity of Probabilistic Safety Assessment Models
• Ioana Andreea Jelea. Emergent Polycentricity in Synthetic Cities: From Agent-Centre Assignment to Evolutionary Urban Dynamics
• Jiří Nedomlel. Life Grows and Evolves by Adapting Its Exploration to the Environment
• Stefano Calzati. Being as Technics A Quantum-Informed Conjecture on Complexity
• Patrik Christen. Parallel Computation of Agent-Based Economic Models with Entity-Component-System Architecture