CSSS 2009 Santa Fe-Project Presentations

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The Impact of Gender Imbalance on Marriage Markets

The basic concept is to try to model the effects of "marriage markets" with more men in them than women or vice-versa. Examples of social groups which experience a gender imbalances in marriage markets include: most religious groups, college campuses, some large cities (such as New York and Washington, DC), the African-American community, and some nations (notably China). Brian Hollar

• Gender Imbalance Power Point
• NetLogo Model (Coming soon)

Agent-based modeling of fluidic self-assembly

I am building a home-made agent-based physical simulator of fluidic self-assembly for micro/nanoelectronical devices. Both 2D and 3D settings are presented. The proposed framework may constitute the first step in the introduction of this new approach to this emerging and challenging electronic manufacturing technique. - Massimo Mastrangeli

• Presentation
• NetLogo Code for 2D and 3D environment

The roundtable: segregation in conversation dynamics

The goal of this project is to build a simple (but not too simple) model of realistic social conversation dynamics. Abstracting from semantics and contents, our baseline model includes balance of protagonism vs. aggregation for each fellow, individuality, connection topology and memory effects. Ultimately we would model the dynamics of cocktail party conversations. - Massimo Mastrangeli, Martin Schmidt, Lucas Lacasa

• Presentation
• NetLogo code

A matching model of problems and solutions

We are building a NetLogo model to represent the mechanisms in which problems and solutions search for and find each other. David Brooks, Wendy Ham, Nathan Hodas, Brian Hollar, and Liliana Salvador

• Presentation
• NetLogo code