| 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 |
University of Washington, USA (Agent-Based Social Network) |
1. Introduction to Social Networks
2. Agent-Based Modeling and Social Networks 3. Maps and Networks |