Difference between revisions of "CS382:Unit-compsoc"

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Socioeconomic modelling. what happens with changes in legislation eg taxes, min wage. model of population behavior. (agent)

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Token non-natural science unit, get non-natural sciences students involved
- Touch an emerging field, we can tell people there's a lot to be discovered yet here
Talk about agent-based modeling

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Need to decide on a particular area to go forward with
Economics is currently very mathematically-based, could do something along these lines
- Could also do something on a smaller scale in class, see a hands on social interaction or how played out

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 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_sociology Computational Sociology (wikipedia)]
 * [http://www.personal.kent.edu/~bcastel3/ brian castellani sociology and complexity web]
+** [http://www.personal.kent.edu/%7emdball/Summit-Sim.htm Modeling social mobility. Paper, too]
 * [http://www.cmol.nbi.dk/javaapp.php Center for Models of Life - CMOL: Models / Interactive Java Applets]
 ** [http://www.cmol.nbi.dk/models/ibattle/ibattle.html A model of information and dominance], [http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0368 Related paper]
 ** [http://www.cmol.nbi.dk/models/inforew/inforew.html Modeling self organization of communication and topology in social networks]
+** [http://www.cmol.nbi.dk/models/infoflow/infoflow.html Self-Assembling of Information in Networks]
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