Our first meeting of the semester is set for February 5, 2010, 2pm, in 575 TNRB.

The purpose of this informal interdisciplinary group is to bring together scholars and students across disciplinary lines to discuss and interact on the broad topic of "agents, social interaction and emergence."

Agent-based modeling and related approaches have fruitfully been used in computer science, economics, psychology, organization theory, information systems, political science, sociology etc to understand various emergent phenomena.  For example, the method has been successfully used to understand decision-making, organizational adaptation/evolution, learning, coordination, cooperation, governance, strategy, social choice, etc.  With this informal discussion group we hope to bring together scholars engaged with these methods and phenomena to discuss their research, to explore emerging areas of interest, and to seek potential opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.  

If you have questions, please contact Teppo Felin for further information at first.lastname [at]gmail.com