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The next Complex Systems and Computational Social Science Roundtables are listed below:

 Topic    Communication on the Web

Speakers

  • Loet Leydesdorff (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

“Meaning” as a sociological concept: A review of the modeling, mapping, and simulation of the communication of knowledge and meaning

http://www.leydesdorff.net/meaning.2011/index.htm

 

  • Padraig Cunningham (CASL, UCD)/ CLIQUE Research Programme

Time         2.30-4.30 pm

Date          30th March 2011

Location:  Geary Institute Seminar Room, UCD

 

 

Topic    Diffusion of Norms

Speakers

  • Frederic Amblard  (IRIT, University of Toulouse, France)

Title:  Agent-based models of the diffusion of (norms, opinions, information, attitudes ...)

Abstract: From a computer scientist point of view, there are few general models that are used to render diffusion mechanisms in agent-based society. I will first present a global framework that enables to describe all these models. Then I will present what could be considered as building blocks for the construction of diffusion models in social simulation. I will then question this core library to see if there are some specificity of norms that would imply the use of one model rather than another

  •   Jos Elkink (School of Politics and International Relations, UCD)

Time         2.30-4.30 pm

Date         20th April 2011

Location:  Geary Institute Seminar Room, UCD

 

 

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Topic    Agent Based Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences

Speakers

  • Nigel Gilbert 

Modelling complex social systems: opportunities and challenges

Abstract: Social systems are almost invariably complex and thus amenable to some of the techniques developed by physicists and mathematicians for the analysis of complex systems.  However, they are not the same as complex physical systems, and the differences are important.  In this talk, I shall compare the two, identify the features that make social systems special, and consider the implications of the differences.  This will lead me on to discuss some of the challenges that have to be faced in modelling social systems, especially using agent-based models, and to review the potential for this style of research.

 


Nigel Gilbert is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation at the University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom. His research interests include innovation, agent-based modelling and research methods. He is the author of Simulation for the Social Scientist (with Klaus G. Troitzsch), (2005) Open University Press, and Agent Based Models (2007) Sage, and editor of the recently published four volume set, Computational Social Science (2010) Sage.

 

 

 

  • Petra Ahrweiler and other IRU colleagues at UCD

Innovation policy modelling from a complex systems perspective

Abstract: This presentation will outline a coherent framework for researching innovation in complex social systems. Complexity perspectives are highly relevant to innovation policy modelling. After a short introduction to innovation as a topic for research, the currently widely applied use of computational network analysis to investigate collaborative innovation arrangements will be discussed focusing on structural properties of these configurations. To include procedural and dynamic features of innovation in support of policy issues, a systemic perspective will be confirmed for social systems to connect agent-based modelling to the emerging integrated research program. Examples are given from current research projects on innovation policy modelling.

 

Time         2.30-4.30 pm

Date         16th February 2011

Location:  Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, UCD

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