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| − | Proposed EDU 2012 Theme:<BR>
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| − | === The Physics of Performance Curves: Transition Definitions, Growth Curve Hypotheses, and Future Scenarios ===
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| − | '''Purposes:'''<BR>
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| − | What models do we have for the physical basis of technology and complexity performance curves?<BR>
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| − | Are these curves representative of undiscovered physical law or constraint, of economic or psychological expectations, or some other effect?
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| − | Can we develop general theories for any classes of performance curves?
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| − | How do functional (physical process) performance curves differ from computational and informational performance curves?
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| − | When does exponential performance end in any performance curve? When does it substitute?
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| − | What explains the "smoothness" and predictability we find in many performance curves?
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| − | What physical processes differentiate superexponential, exponential, logistic, life cycle, and other curves?
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| − | What do exponential and superexponential performance and efficiency curves imply for the future of technological innovation and sustainability?<BR>
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| − | We wish to seek out and network transition scholars, periodization, and acceleration, multi-level evolution and development scholars, world system modelers, and their critics. Scholars who approach evolutionary transitions from thermodynamic, informational-computational, evolutionary, developmental, integrative, and systemic perspectives are particularly desired. We will seek to compare logistic, exponential, and superexponential models arising from a variety of complexity transition definitions, and finally, explore a range of scenarios these models propose for the future of innovation and sustainability, underscoring the great technical, political, economic, and social value of better scholarship and science in this area.<BR>
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| − | '''Location:''' (TBD).
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| − | We are presently developing a proposal to host EDU 2012 at a U.S. venue. If you have an interest in working on the EDU 2012 conference development committee, sponsoring the event, or providing other assistance, please contact [[Clément Vidal]] and/or [[John Smart]].
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