The server was apparently compromised and has been shut down whilst it is checked and cleaned. This will also affect the sites http://bruce.edmonds.name and http://davidhales.com
We are installing a new server from scratch and hope it will be up and running soon.
21 January, 2010
07 December, 2009
VISIONEER - Envisioning a Socio Economic Knowledge Collider
A 7th Framework EU Project on Future Directions for Social Simulation
State of the art
More and more often social systems feature crises leading to unstable and dangerous situations that are characterized by abrupt and large-scale changes. Such disruptions are very hard to predict with any precision and even harder to control. The reasons behind the recent failures must be pursued in the intrinsic inadequacy of the currently established theories in social sciences and moreover in the inefficacy of both the tools and the mechanisms for shaping new underlying assumptions capable to push forward a more rapid and more effective innovation process.
The Vision
Visioneer is a European project aiming to reach a better, quantitative understanding of complex socio-economic systems. The final purpose is developing the concept of a Social Knowledge Collider, thereby creating optimal conditions to unleash the potential of real multi-disciplinary projects involving social scientist, economists, computer scientists, physicists, biologists, system scientists, and engineers whose complementary special knowledge would collide and create new kinds of concepts, as particle supercolliders create new kinds of particles.
Contribute Now at: http://www.visioneer.ethz.ch/
State of the art
More and more often social systems feature crises leading to unstable and dangerous situations that are characterized by abrupt and large-scale changes. Such disruptions are very hard to predict with any precision and even harder to control. The reasons behind the recent failures must be pursued in the intrinsic inadequacy of the currently established theories in social sciences and moreover in the inefficacy of both the tools and the mechanisms for shaping new underlying assumptions capable to push forward a more rapid and more effective innovation process.
The Vision
Visioneer is a European project aiming to reach a better, quantitative understanding of complex socio-economic systems. The final purpose is developing the concept of a Social Knowledge Collider, thereby creating optimal conditions to unleash the potential of real multi-disciplinary projects involving social scientist, economists, computer scientists, physicists, biologists, system scientists, and engineers whose complementary special knowledge would collide and create new kinds of concepts, as particle supercolliders create new kinds of particles.
Contribute Now at: http://www.visioneer.ethz.ch/
20 November, 2009
New Project: SCID - the Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity
We have just heard that the CPM has got a significant grant from the EPSRC, under its "Complexity in the Real World" funding initiative. This is a 5 year project with the Department of Theoretical Physics and the Institute for Social Change, both at the University of Manchester, down the road.
The likely start date is 1st September 2010.
The likely start date is 1st September 2010.
11 September, 2009
Visions of the Future of Social Simulation
We are nearing the end of the writing and editing of the handbook on "Simulating Social Complexity" which is to be published in the new year. See http://cfpm.org/ssc-handbk.html for details.
In the epilogue we would like to look forward a bit to guesses about the future trends, issues and techniques in social simulation. Thus we are asking for contributions consisting of people's opinions on this.
If you are interested, please send a 1 page statement of an area or two that you think will become increasingly important within the next 10 years. There should be already a few indications of the trend or issue you describe, but it should not be already much researched. We will edit these all into the final epilogue to the handbook.
All contributions will be acknowledged, but contributors will not get a whole free copy of the handbook -- sorry!
Please send in word or RTF format to cpm@mmu.ac.uk by October 2nd 2009.
In the epilogue we would like to look forward a bit to guesses about the future trends, issues and techniques in social simulation. Thus we are asking for contributions consisting of people's opinions on this.
If you are interested, please send a 1 page statement of an area or two that you think will become increasingly important within the next 10 years. There should be already a few indications of the trend or issue you describe, but it should not be already much researched. We will edit these all into the final epilogue to the handbook.
All contributions will be acknowledged, but contributors will not get a whole free copy of the handbook -- sorry!
Please send in word or RTF format to cpm@mmu.ac.uk by October 2nd 2009.
30 July, 2009
Talks Online from Introductory Lectures on Aspects of Complexity
That happened University of Manchester, 6th – 8th July 2009.
Go to: http://www.theory.physics.manchester.ac.uk/complexitymeeting/
Click on >> Registration >> Overview >> Paper
Then on each talk.
(Sorry no easier way)
Bruce
Go to: http://www.theory.physics.manchester.ac.uk/complexitymeeting/
Click on >> Registration >> Overview >> Paper
Then on each talk.
(Sorry no easier way)
Bruce
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