This is the home page for the DynaNets EU FP7 FET Open project, started June 1, 2009.

About DynaNets:

Recent advances in experimental techniques such as detectors, sensors, and scanners
have opened up new windows into physical and biological processes on many levels of
detail. The complete cascade from the individual components to the fully integrated
multi-science systems crosses many orders of magnitude in temporal and spatial
scales. The challenge is to study not only the fundamental processes on all these
separate scales, but also their mutual coupling through the scales in the overall
system, and the resulting emergent properties. These complex systems display endless
signatures of order, disorder, self-organization and self-annihilation.
Understanding, quantifying and handling this information complexity is one of the
biggest scientific challenges of our time. Amazingly nature seems to be able to
process information on many spatial scales simultaneously. DynaNets will study and
develop a new paradigm of computing through Dynamically Changing Complex Networks
reproducing the way nature processes information. It will develop theory and methods
of dynamical networks providing us with new insights into the underlying processes
of nature, economy, and society. As a pilot study we will investigate the dynamics
of the HIV and influenza epidemics from the molecule all the way up to the
population.

DynaNets will study and develop a new paradigm of computing through Dynamically
Changing Complex Networks, reproducing the way nature processes information.

Objective O1: Achieving control by developing a theory of spreading in networks,
e.g. of infections and the transmission of drug resistance

Objective O2: Understanding real-world dynamically changing networks,
for example contact networks such as in HIV

Objective O3: Valorisation of theory in multiple application domains such as ecology and evolution