Speakers & Topics

Professor Topics
Prof. David Sallach

Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago, USA

(Special Lecturer)

1. Social Models: Notional, Empirical, Theoretical

2. Interpretive Agents: Concept and Mechanisms

3. Interaction: Social and Computational

4. Computational Social Science: Challenges and Potential

Prof. Joel Jeffrey

Northern Illinois University, USA

(Artificial Society)

1. Formalism without Reductionism

2. Formalizing Human Action Individually and in Communities

3. Applications to agent-based simulation

Prof. Klaus Jaffe

Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela

(Artificial Society)

1. Biological evolution and how it differs from evolutionary programming and genetic algorithms

2. Evolutionary thinking applied to social sciences and economics

3. Applications of evolutionary agent based simulations

Prof. Thomas Lux

Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany

(Agent-Based Computational Finance)

1. Stochastic Models of Interacting Agents: Structure and Quantitative Modeling Concepts

2. Social Interactions and Opinion Formation among Heterogeneous Agents

3. Agents with Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Martin Rosvall

University of Washington, USA

(Agent-Based Social Network)

1. Introduction to Social Networks

2. Agent-Based Modeling and Social Networks

3. Maps and Networks