First IEEE International Workshop on
Engineering Open Complex Systems:
Metasynthesis of Computing Paradigms
(EOCS-MCP 2008)

Theme and Goals

Open complex systems, especially Open Complex Giant Systems (OCGS) are very challenging because of particular system complexities such as large amounts of system constituents, openness, human involvement, and interaction with environment. A few advanced computing paradigms, such as agent-based computing, service-oriented computing, have been proposed and are under development to tackle the system complexities. In recent years, organizational computing and social computing have attracted increasing attention from communities of complex systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, system sciences etc.

To engineer open complex systems, a very promising research and development direction is to encourage and develop the integration of the above paradigms. As a result of the integration of computing paradigms, a new paradigm, metasynthetic computing namely emerges which advocates the collaboration, cooperation, coalition, integration and synthesis of human intelligence and machine intelligence, and targets a human-machine-cooperated and human-centered computing paradigm. The aim of metasynthetic computing is to build computing methodologies, techniques and metasynthetic intelligent information systems.