CSSS 2007 Santa Fe-Projects & Working Groups

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Project Ideas Culled from Responses to Dan's Questions

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Discuss

• Agent-based modeling (programming environments)
• Representing_People (discuss model representations of social systems)
• Communicating complexity (discuss the role the tools of complexity might/should play in communicating nonlinearity)
• The Effects of Network Structure and Dynamics in Complex Systems
  • Applied complexity (discuss the application of chaos/complex systems theory to organizations)
  • Emergent Behavior in Socio-Techno networks – in Depth and for Real
• How (not) to model social processes: Thick and thin models in the social sciences
• Technological diffusion as a social contagion problem
• Healing/Repair/Resilience in Networks (Biological networks to Computer networks, Network Models)
• Modelling of dynamics/Eco modelling/Population dynamics using coupled differential equations
• Path Dependence and the Problem of Counterfactuals in Social Systems
• Geopolitics
• Complexity for the General Public
• A mechanism model for biodiversity distribution pattern
• Boundary Conditions and Dynamics of Collective Intelligence
• Finance and Economics
• Evolution from Proto-Life to Metabolic Networks
• Evolution and Carrying Capacity in Markets and Social Systems - some further discussion of ideas presented by Doug Erwin
• Quantifying Risk in Complex/Adaptive/Non-Stationary and Otherwise Screwed Up Systems

Project Groups

Suggestion (simon): how about authors placing these under sub-headings to make organisation of groups easier? Say.. (apologies for making a wrong-binning.. feel free to change!)

General Complexity Theory

• The Many Roots of Complexity Science
• A General Theory of Optimization, anyone?

Socio-Techno Networks

• The Effects of Network Structure and Dynamics in Complex Systems

Socio-Economic Systems

• The evolution of social cohesion
• Healthcare interest group
• Genotype or phenotype? Getting beyond strategy modelling in the social sciences
• Cell phones in emerging economies: what's the economic impact?
• Globalization, Strategy, and Path Dependence
• Measuring diversity of expressed thought in the blogosphere
• Who wants to play my game ?
• Poverty traps and income inequality
• Finance and Economics
• Power Laws and the Growth of Religious Sects
• Diversity and Disparity in Ideas
• Project Collaborations
• Insurance Companies as Investment Vehicles
• A More Textured Look at the Terrorism Data
• The Emergence of Social Complexity
• The effects of social ties on voting: the Eurovision as an (entertaining) test case

Physical

• How efficient we can be?
• Healing strategies for networks
• Spectral analysis of timeseries data

Stochastic searches

• Nightmares in the soccer field – where are Josh's keys??
• Evolving efficient Stochastic Searches

Biological (human)

• Learning & the aging brain
• Cardiac arrhythmias in ion channel dysregulation
• Modeling atherosclerotic plaque formation and rupture in coronary artery disease using ABM
• A dynamic network model of Cancer growth and development

Biological (non-human)

• Evolution from Proto-Life to Metabolic Networks. Moved to discussions!
• Cellular Slime Mold Simulation - From single cells to crawling slugs
• Biological charge transfer within a magnetic field: can it become chaotic?
• Modelling ecosystems: differential equations vs. ABM
• Animal Movement and Leadership
• Computational Mechanics in Food Webs

Education

• Complexity for the General Public

Language

• Lexical networks

Information Theory

• Measuring Information Transfer

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Toys for file sharing and collaboration

• http://www.box.net

This website provides 2GB of free file storage. You can create public URLs for files you have posted there, and email the links to your working groups. In this way, you can share documents with your team and still avoid linking your files to a public web page. You can share links to either individual files, or to folders containing files you wish to share. I hope this is a useful service for your team members. I hold no stock in box.net or its parent companies.

Benmazzotta 00:27, 8 June 2007 (MDT)