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

• Representing_People (discuss model representations of social systems)
• Communicating complexity (discuss the role the tools of complexity might/should play in communicating nonlinearity)
• 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

Project Groups

• 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?
• Learning & the aging brain
• Cardiac arrhythmias in ion channel dysregulation
• Globalization, Strategy, and Path Dependence
• Modeling atherosclerotic plaque formation and rupture in coronary artery disease using ABM
• Complexity for the General Public
• Evolution from Proto-Life to Metabolic Networks
• Cellular Slime Mold Simulation - From single cells to crawling slugs

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