On November 13, 2025, Prof. Andrea Clementi (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) will give a lecture titled “Together we stand: Investigating the collective behaviour of elementary agents.”
The event will take place at Campus SophiaTech, Templiers, Room F222, INRIA LAB (France) and will also be available online.
Abstract:
Most distributed systems, in both real and artificial worlds, are inherently dynamic; that is, they evolve over time. Moreover, their typical evolution is characterized by the Complexity from Simplicity phenomenon: simple and local interaction rules among the system’s nodes generate complex, self-organizing global behavior. Over the last decades, using the computational lens of distributed computing, an active theoretical research line has obtained significant results that have greatly increased our knowledge of such important phenomena. Furthermore, this research has allowed us to exploit these systems to perform important computational tasks in an efficient and resilient way. Within this framework, this talk will provide an overview of, and discuss, the research project our team started in 2008. This project focuses on the design and analysis of dynamics in evolving graphs, where the dynamics are simple and local interaction rules that can be applied by the nodes of a graph that evolves over time.
When: November 13, 2025 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Where: Campus SophiaTech, Templiers, Room F222, INRIA LAB (France) and online
More info and Zoom Link to follow the lecture: Link to the event