2008-12-16, 5-7 PM

• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall (NICO)
• Topic: Endogenous and Exogenous effects in the dynamics of social systems
• Readings:
  • 1. Riley Crane and Didier Sornet, "Robust dynamic classes revealed by measuring the response function of a social system, PNAS 105, 15649-15653 (2008) http://www.pnas.org/content/105/41/15649.short?rss=1
  • 2. Juan Carlos González-Avella, Mario G. Cosenza, Konstantin Klemm, Víctor M. Eguíluz and Maxi San Miguel (2007) Information Feedback and Mass Media Effects in Cultural Dynamics Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 10, no. 3 9. http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/9.html

 

 

2008-12-2, 5-7 PM

• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall (NICO)
• Topic: Weak ties and the spreading of information and innovation
• Readings:
  • 1. "Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks", J.-P. Onnela, et al., PNAS 104, 7332–7336 (2007). http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/18/7332
  • 2. "Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties", Damon Centola and Michael Macy, American Journal of Sociology, Volume 113 Number 3 (November 2007): 702–34. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/521848

 

2008-11-11, 5-7 PM

• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall (NICO)
• Topic: Consumer and technological change
• Reading:
  • 1. A New Product Growth for Model Consumer Durables, Frank M. Bass (1960). http://dyn.phys.northwestern.edu/~edugalt/nrg/Bass.pdf
  • 2. Self-organized evolution in a socioeconomic environment, A. Arenas, A. Dıaz-Guilera, C. J. Perez, and F. Vega-Redondo, Phys. Rev. E 61, 3466 (2000). http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v61/i4/p3466_1

 

 

2008-10-28

• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall (NICO)
• Topic: Language Choice and Use
• Reading: "Words of the World" by Abram de Swaan (2001),
  • Google Books: http://books.google.com.br/books?id=YV4jIQAACAAJ
  • Chapter 2: The political economy of language constellations.
  • Chapter 8: The European Union: the more languages, the more English (case study)
  • PDF of the two chapters http://dyn.phys.northwestern.edu/~edugalt/nrg/

 

2008-10-14, 5-7 PM

• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall (NICO)
• Topic: Language Evolution
• Readings
  • Martin A. Nowak, Natalia L. Komarova, and Partha Niyogi, "Evolution of Universal Grammar", Science 291 no. 5501 pp. 114. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/291/5501/114
  • L. Nakhleh, D. Ringe, and T. Warnow, "Perfect Phylogenetic Networks: A New Methodology for Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Natural Languages." Language (Journal of the Linguistic Society of America), 81(2):382-420, 2005. http://www.cs.rice.edu/~nakhleh/Papers/81.2nakhleh.pdf

 

2008-9-30, 5-7 PM

• Location: Prairie Moon Restaurant (1502 Sherman Ave., Evanston http://www.prairiemoonrestaurant.com/ )
• Topic: Complex System's Approach to Economics (Summer Project)
• Reading: "Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics", by Eric D. Beinhocker. http://books.google.com/books?id=eUoolrxSFy0C
  • Chapter Seventeen: Finance: Ecosystems of Expectations
  • Chapter Eighteen: Politics and Policy: the End of Left versus Right
  • Epilogue
• Discussion: Topics for future meetings

 

2008-9-16, 5-7 PM

• Location: Prairie Moon Restaurant (1502 Sherman Ave., Evanston http://www.prairiemoonrestaurant.com/ )
• Topic: Complex System's Approach to Economics (Summer Project)
• Reading: "Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics", by Eric D. Beinhocker. http://books.google.com/books?id=eUoolrxSFy0C
  • Chapter Fourteen: A new definition of Wealth -- Fit order
  • Chapter Fifteen: Strategy -- Racing the red queen
  • Chapter Sixteen: Organization -- A society of minds

 

 

2008-9-2

• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall (NICO)
• Topic: Complex System's Approach to Economics (Summer Project)
• Playing the "beer game" using NetLogo http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
• Reading: "Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics", by Eric D. Beinhocker. http://books.google.com/books?id=eUoolrxSFy0C
  • Chapter Eleven: Physical Technology: From Stone Tools to Spacecraft
  • Chapter Twelve: Social Technology: From Hunter-Gatherers to Multinationals
  • Chapter Thirteen: Economic Evolution: From Big Men to Markets

 

 

2008-8-19

• Location: Prairie Moon Restaurant (1502 Sherman Ave., Evanston http://www.prairiemoonrestaurant.com/ )
• Topic: Complex System's Approach to Economics (Summer Project)
• Reading: "Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics", by Eric D. Beinhocker. http://books.google.com/books?id=eUoolrxSFy0C
  • Chapter Eight: Emergence: The Puzzle of Patterns
  • Chapter Nine: Evolution: It's a Jungle Out There

 

 

2008-8-05

• Location: Prairie Moon Restaurant (1502 Sherman Ave., Evanston http://www.prairiemoonrestaurant.com/ )
• Topic: Complex System's Approach to Economics (Summer Project)
• Reading: "Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics", by Eric D. Beinhocker. http://books.google.com/books?id=eUoolrxSFy0C
  • Chapter Five: Dynamics -- The Delights of Disequilibrium
  • Chapter Six: Agents -- Mind Games
  • Chapter Seven: Networks -- Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave

 

 

 

 

 

2008-7-22

• Location: Prairie Moon Restaurant (1502 Sherman Ave., Evanston http://www.prairiemoonrestaurant.com/ )
• Topic: Complex System's Approach to Economics (Summer Project)
• Reading: "Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics", by Eric D. Beinhocker. http://books.google.com/books?id=eUoolrxSFy0C
  • Chapter Three: A Critique -- Chaos and Cuban Cars
  • Chapter Four: The Big Picture -- Sugar and Spice

 

 

2008-7-08

• Location: Prairie Moon Restaurant (1502 Sherman Ave., Evanston http://www.prairiemoonrestaurant.com/ )
• Topic: Complex System's Approach to Economics (Summer Project)
• Reading: "Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics", by Eric D. Beinhocker. http://books.google.com/books?id=eUoolrxSFy0C
  • Chapter One: The Question -- How Is Wealth Created?
  • Chapter Two: Traditional Economics -- A world in Equilibrium

 

2008-06-24

• Topic: Discussion of the summer activities / Bill Rand's farewell meeting
• Location: Prairie Moon Restaurant (1502 Sherman Ave., Evanston http://www.prairiemoonrestaurant.com/ )

 

2008-06-10

• Topic: rationality in economical agents
• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall
• Readings:
  • 1) W. Brian Arthur, "Inductive Reasoning and Bounded Rationality", Published in American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 84,406-411, 1994. http://www.santafe.edu/~wbarthur/Papers/El_Farol.html
  • 2)Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, Richard McElreath, "In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies", The American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 2 (May, 2001), pp. 73-78 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2677736

 

2008-5-27

• Topic: Pedestrian Modelling
• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall
  • 1) Helbing, D., Buzna, L., Johansson, A., and Werner, T. 2005. Self-Organized Pedestrian Crowd Dynamics: Experiments, Simulations, and Design Solutions. Transportation Science 39, 1 (Feb. 2005), 1-24. http://transci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/39/1/1
  • 2) Batty, Michael, Desyllas, Jake, Duxbury, Elspeth Safety in Numbers? Modelling Crowds and Designing Control for the Notting Hill Carnival Urban Stud 2003 40: 1573-1590

http://usj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/8/1573

 

2008-5-13

• Topic: Social network formation
• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall
  • Reading 1: A. Mayer, S. L. Puller. "The old boy (and girl) network: Social network formation on university campuses", Journal of Public Economics, 92, 329-347 (2008) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.09.001
  • Reading 2: D. J. Watts, P. S. Dodds, M. E. J. Newman."Identity and Search in Social Networks", Science 17, Vol. 296,1302 - 1305 (2002) http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/296/5571/1302

 

2008-4-29

• Topic: Measuring the quality of scientific papers and journals
• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall
  • Reading 1: Sune Lehmann, Andrew D. Jackson & Benny E. Lautrup, "Measures for measures", Nature 444, 1003-1004 (21 December 2006). http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7122/full/4441003a.html
  • Reading 2: M. Stringer, M. Sales-Pardo, and L.A.N. Amaral, "Effectiveness of journal ranking schemes as a tool for locating information", PLoS One 3(2), e1683 (2008). http://amaral.northwestern.edu/Publications/Papers/Stringer-2008-PLoS-One-3-1683.pdf

 

2008-4-15

• Topic: Group formation and mutual cooperation between humans
• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall
  • Reading 1: R. Guimera, B. Uzzi, J. Spiro, J, & LAN Amaral, "Team assembly mechanisms determine collaboration network structure and team performance", Science 308, 697-702 (2005). http://amaral.northwestern.edu/Publications/Papers/Guimera-2005-Science-308-697.pdf
  • Reading 2: Reidar Hagtvedt & Gregory Todd Jones, "Show Me Your Friends and I'll Tell You Who You Are: A Computational Model of Reputation by Association in Non-iterated Social Dilemmas", North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science, Notre Dame, IN (2006). http://law.gsu.edu/gjones/pdfs/NAACSOS%20Reputation%20Association.pdf

 

2008-1-4

 

• Topic: Flocks in computer graphics and marching locusts
• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall
  • Reading 1: Reynolds, C. W. (1987) "Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model", in Computer Graphics, 21(4) (SIGGRAPH '87 Conference Proceedings) pages 25-34. http://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/1987/boids.html
  • Reading 2: Buhl, J., Sumpter, D.J., Couzin, I.D., Hale, J., Despland, E, Miller, E & Simpson, S.J. (2006) "From disorder to order in marching locusts", Science 312, 1402-1406. http://www.princeton.edu/~icouzin/Buhl%20et%20al%20Science.pdf

 

2008- 18-3

• Topic: Interactions underlying flocks and swarms
• Location: Basement of Chambers Hall
  • Reading 1: Tamás Vicsek, et al. "Novel Type of Phase Transition in a System of Self-Driven Particles", Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1226 - 1229 (1995) http://prola.aps.org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/abstract/PRL/v75/i6/p1226_1
  • Reading 2: M. Ballerini, et al. "Interaction Ruling Animal Collective Behaviour Depends on Topological rather than Metric Distance: Evidence from a Field Study", PNAS, 105, 1232-1237 (2008) http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/105/4/1232 (or pre-print at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1916)

Video: "Ants Have Algorithms: A Talk with Iain Couzin" http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge240.html

 

2008- 4 -3

• Topic: Agent-Based Modeling and Equation-Based Modeling.
• Location: Chambers Hall, lower level
• Reading 1: Parunak, H. V. D., R. Savit, and R. L. Riolo, "Agent-Based Modeling vs. Equation-Based Modeling: A Case Study and Users' Guide", Proceedings of Workshop on Multi-agent systems and Agent-based Simulation (MABS'98), Springer (1998), http://alife.tuke.sk/~zvirinsk/AIS/mabs98.pdf

 

• Reading 2: Reading Leslie Henrickson and Bill McKelvey, "Foundations of ?new? social science: Institutional legitimacy from philosophy, complexity science, postmodernism, and agent-based modeling" Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 14; 99(Suppl 3): 7288?7295. doi: 10.1073/pnas.092079799. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/suppl_3/7288

 

2008-19-2

• Topic: Voter Models
• Location: Chambers Hall, lower level
• Reading 1: Political Parties and Electoral Landscapes," Ken Kollman, John H. Miller and Scott E. Page, British Journal of Political Science (1998) 28:139-58. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1315

 

• Reading 2: Elections, Information Aggregation, and Strategic Voting," Timothy Feddersen and Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 96, pp. 10572-10574, September 1999 http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/96/19/10572.pdf

 

 

2008-29-1

• Topic: Networks, Language and Innovation
• Location: Chambers Hall, lower level
• First Reading: Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves. 2005. "The self-organization of speech sounds." Journal of theoretical biology 233, 435-449. URL: http://www.csl.sony.fr/~py/oudeyerJTB05.pdf
• Second Reading: Watts, PJ, PS Dodds. 2007. "Influentials, Networks, and Public Opinion

FOrmation." Journal of Consumer Research. URL: http://cdg.columbia.edu/uploads/papers/watts2007_influentials.pdf

 

 

2008-15-1

 

• Topic: Social Networks and language change
• Location: Chambers Hall, lower level
• First Reading: Daniel Nettle, "Using Social Impact Theory to simulate language change", Lingua, v108n2-3, p95-117 http://ccl.northwestern.edu/~wrand/nrg/nettle1999.pdf

 

• Second Reading: Daland, Robert, Andrea D. Sims and Janet Pierrehumbert. 2007. "Much ado about nothing: A social network model of Russian paradigmatic gaps." Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Prague, Czech Republic, June 24th-29th, 2007. Annie Zaenen and Antal van den Bosch, eds. Prague: Association for Computational Linguistics, 936-943. http://www.ling.northwestern.edu/~ads778/pdfs/daland_etal_acl07.pdf