Location:

I.S.I. Foundation

Dates:

April 10-14, 2007

Organizers:

Diana Mangalagiu and Sorin Solomon

Description:

The school will expose the students to data, computational techniques and theoretical concepts in complexity. The application fields will range from social studies (e.g. migration within the enlarged EC), to economic growth processes (e.g. East European transition), and the dynamics of organizations (emergence of hierarchical / (information) supply chains/networks within and between enterprises).

The emphasis will be on exposing in detail specific applications where the integration between the theoretical, computational and empirical studies has already been achieved or at least has began.

New directions of research for young PhD students under common collaborative supervision by interdisciplinary groups will be offered by the teachers and developed in special sessions.

The hope is to end-up with specific directions for PhD proposals and other interdisciplinary projects where the students will constitute the converging point of the various disciplines.

Lecturers:

• Ricardo Boero, University of Torino, Italy, Economics
• David Bree, University of Manchester, UK, Artificial Intelligence
• Damien Challet, Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Turin, Italy, Physics
• Guszti Eiben, University of Amsterdam, Holand, Computer Science
• Mauro Gallegati, University of Ancona, Italy, Economics
• Zahia Guessoum, University of Paris 6, France, Computer Science
• Marco Lamieri, University of Torino, Italy, Economics
• Diana Mangalagiu, Reims Management School, France, Organization Sciences
• Andrzej Nowak, University of Warsaw, Poland, Psychology and Economics
• Matteo Richiardi, Centre for Employment Studies, Turin, Italy, Economics
• Enrico Scalas, Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy, Physics
• Sorin Solomon, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Physics
• Paolo Sospiro, University of Ancona, Italy, Development Economics
• Stefan Stanciugelu, SNSPA Bucharest, Romania, Political Sciences
• Andrei Taranu, SNSPA Bucharest, Romania, Political Sciences
• Pietro Terna, University of Torino, Italy, Economics
• Ted Theodosopoulos, IKOS Research, Brighton, UK, Decision Sciences
• Jorgen Vitting-Andersen, University of Nice, France, Physics
• Gerard Weisbuch, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, Physics

Program:

April school program

NEW! Presentations:

• Bence Toth, Janos Kertesz - The Epps effects a short overview
• Damien Challet - Minority Games: where to find them and how to solve them
• Enrico Scalas - Equilibrium in simple exchange games
• Gerard Weisbuch - Heterogeneity and Increasing Returns Drive Socio-economic Transitions
• Ted Theodosopoulos - ELEMENTS OF A THEORY FOR IMBALANCE DYNAMICS
• Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone - The emergence of effective leaders. An experimental and computational approach.
• Zahia Guessoum - Self Self-Adaptive Multi Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems Agent Systems
• Alessandro N. Cappellini - A Regulatory Model in a Simulated Stock Market
• Andrei Taranu - The Rise of Neo Populism in Europe
• Diana Mangalagiu - Corporate Social Responsibility: A Catalyst for Change in the Energy Sector
• Marco Lamieri - Agent Based Models for Economics
• Domenico Delli Gatti, Mauro Gallegati, Bruce Greenwald, Alberto Russo, Joseph Stiglitz - Credit Network, Heterogeneous Interacting Agents and Economic Fluctuations
• Paolo Sospiro - Migrations remittances - Development Nexus: The case of Tunisian workers in Ancona (Italy)
• Pietro Terna - Agent-based modelling - methodological issues
• Stefan Stanciugelu - EU versus Russia: Old Techniques of Manipulation in the Cold War on Energy
• Wenjian Yu - Introduction to the Simulation of Pedestrian Flows
• Giancarlo Mosetti - Ecological AB models
• Riccardo Boero - An Agent-based Input Output Model: Methodological Key Issues and Main Outcomes of Its Application to the Economy of Piedmont.
• Volker Nannen - Policy Evaluation in Evolutionary Agent Based Economics
• Yoshihiro Nakajima - Artificial Financial Market â€oU-Martâ€?
• Gur Yaari - Microscopic Study of (Economic) Growth.