CSSS 2009 Santa Fe-Readings

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Preface

The Complex Systems Summer School co-directors have recommended the following speech by President Barack Obama as a preface to your time at the program.

President Obama's speech to the National Academy of Sciences, 4 April, 2009.

Video

Tom Carter

Here is a link to a page with various background readings -- I'll be talking about some of this material, watch the wiki for days/times

• Summer School readings.

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Adaptive Modeling in Social Science (Nathan Collins)

Reinforcement learning and related approaches:

Colin Camerer and Teck Ho, Experience-weighted attraction (EWA) learning in normal-form games," Econometrica, 67, July 1999, 827-874.

Camerer, Ho, and Chong, Function EWA: A one-parameter model of learning in games.

Nathan Collins, Risk Learning.

Sutton and Barto, Reinforcement Learning. An extensive introduction to reinforcement learning methods. I will cover an infinitesimal portion of this material.

Aspiration-based models:

Jonathan Bendor, Daniel Diermeier, and Michael Ting, A Behavioral Model of Turnout. (This is an older, working-paper version. The published version is available at jstor.org.)

Nathan Collins, Sunil Kumar, and Jonathan Bendor, The Adaptive Dynamics of Turnout, Journal of Politics 71(2), April 2009, 457-472.

Categorization-based models (which we may or may not get to):

Love, Medin, and Gureckis, SUSTAIN: a network model of category learning.

Collins, A Unified Model of Spatial Voting.