Post date: Oct 2, 2014 9:26:05 AM
This was an initial kickoff meeting for the new academic year, with lots of new members (thanks for the interest; it's really encouraging how cross-disciplinary it is!) We did introductions to ourselves and our interests, and then discussed the kinds of topics we'd like to see (as well as dipping into some questions related to ABM platforms, agency and agent architectures, and others).
From my hastily scrawled notes, the following research interests were represented:
There were people from ECS (AIC, ICSS and WAIS), biology, mgmt science, social sciences and archaeology. (We've had attendees previously from geography and economics as well.)
The rough consensus was that many people needed an 'orientation to the social systems research landscape', so we will try to do that next week (probably using Brian Castellani's map of complexity and Gilbert & Troitzsch's textbook—in terms of techniques—to anchor discussion). We outlined some useful textbooks, and pointed to the discussion last year on 'inspiring/base' literature.
[The map is also on the Wikipedia complexity science page, and linked from Brian's site.]