CS382:Unit-compsoc

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

• Computational Sociology (wikipedia)
• brian castellani sociology and complexity web
• Center for Models of Life - CMOL: Models / Interactive Java Applets
  • A model of information and dominance
  • Modeling self organization of communication and topology in social networks

Pros:

• 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

Cons:

• Less numerically-based
• We need to be careful about not stepping on social science's toes

Comments:

• 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