Lectures
Each lecturer will give a series of four lectures lasting
90 minutes each.
Four lectures will be given during the 6 days of the school.
Opinion dynamics (Sznajd, Krause-Hegselmann)
Formation of hierarchies (Bonabeau model)
Who pays for my retirement (sociobioeconophysics)
(Social) percolation.
1. The complexity of exchange processes, markets
and related economic mechanisms
2. The firm as a complex adaptive system
3. Applications in geography, sociology, and politics
4. Applications to anthropology and archaeology
Lectures on Scale-free networks
We introduce the basics for the graph theory and the theory of
scale-invariant
phenomena in order to approach the study of scale-free networks.
1 Urban growth, trajectories, inflexions and inversions.
Explanatory
theories and interactions with city size
2 Simulation of urban spatial and economic development by
differential
equation models (Wilson, Allen)
3 A multi-agent simulation model for the multisecular evolution of urban
systems in three different parts of the world: SIMPOP2
4 A multi-agent simulation model for the prediction of future urban
development in Europe: EUROSIM
Gerard Weisbuch
" If people tend to become more
alike in their beliefs,
attitudes and behavior when they interact,
why do not all differences eventually disappear?"
Axelrod (1997)
Models of social opinion dynamics:
- Binary models (choosing binary options)
- Continuous opinion models (How much does this worth, road to
extremism)
- Cultural dynamics (Axelrod question)
- Coupling choice dynamics with control (the seller and/or agency
perspective)
Andrzej Nowak
1. Dynamical social psychology
2. Dynamics of social impact
3. Conflict as a self-organizing system
4. Dynamical minimalism - the methodology of complex system approach