NSF 00-22 BIOCOMPLEXITY: SPECIAL COMPETITION Integrated Research to Understand and Model Complexity Among Biological, Physical, and Social Systems DEADLINE DATES: MESSAGE OF INTENT - JANUARY 31, 2000 RESEARCH PROPOSALS - MARCH 1, 2000 INCUBATION ACTIVITIES - MARCH 1, 2000 The following document (nsf0022, replaces nsf9960) is now available from the NSF Online Document System Title: Biocomplexity: Special Competition 2000 Type: Program Announcements & Information Subtype: Biology, Computer/Information Sciences, Crosscutting Programs, Engineering, Geosciences, Math/Physical Sciences, NSF-wide, Polar Programs, Social/Behavioral Sciences It may be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0022 Short Description/Synopsis of Program: This special competition will support integrated research to better understand and model complexity that arises from the interaction of biological, physical, and social systems. Biocomplexity arises from dynamics spanning several levels within a system, between systems, and/or across multiple spatial (microns to thousands of kilometers) and temporal (nanoseconds to eons) scales. This special competition will specifically support Research Projects which directly explore nonlinearities, chaotic behavior, emergent phenomena or feedbacks within and between systems and/or integrate across multiple components or scales of time and space in order to better understand and predict the dynamic behavior of systems. The competition will also support Incubation Activities that enable groups of researchers who have not historically collaborated on biocomplexity research to develop projects via focused workshops, virtual meetings, and other types of development and planning activities. NOTE: The Biocomplexity initiative calls for interdisciplinary research. In particular, CISE researchers are encouraged to collaborate with biologists and researchers in other fields on solving biocomplexity problems while advancing the CISE research fields. E.g. (from the annoucement): "Decades of fruitful research, following the reductionist paradigm, generated a vast wealth of knowledge about the living and non-living subcomponents of many environmental systems. Now researchers from a broad spectrum of fields, armed with burgeoning databases and a new array of computational, observational, and analytical tools can undertake the integrative research necessary to tackle biocomplexity. The study of biocomplexity offers many challenges to modeling methods, including mathematical and computational ones. Descriptions of aggregate behavior, nonlinear phenomena, networks with distributed or local control, or combinations of continuous and discrete behavior as well as new visualization methods can be applied to address biocomplexity. Genome sequencing, DNA-chips, robotics, computer simulations, new sensors and monitoring systems, along with satellite-based imaging of the land and seas, all contribute to the flood of data relevant to the understanding of biocomplexity. Knowledge discovery techniques (e.g., datamining, visualization, summarization, trend extraction, etc.) are being developed to convert the volumes of data into new knowledge." Cognizant Program Officer for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Y. T. Chien Phone: (703) 306-1980 E-mail: ytchien@nsf.gov ----- You are encouraged to subscribe to the NSF Custom News Service http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm and receive relevant information as soon as it becomes available. ------
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