R: Volume on economic simulations in Swarm

[Domenico Parisi]

Hi Tim:

I am organizing with Luca Cavalli-Sforza an international workshop on
"Modelling and simulating cultural transmission and change". This will take
place in Siena (Italy) September 3-4. I would very much like to have you in
the program committee. I enclose the call for papers. Let me know.

Best, Domenico
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Call for Papers
Internation Workshop

MODELLING AND SIMULATING CULTURAL TRANSMISSION AND CHANGE
The role of agent-based models

Certosa di Pontignano, Siena (Italy)
September 3-4, 2000

Organizing Institutions

Institute of Psychology, National Research Council
Department of Communication Sciences, University of Siena

Phenomena of cultural transmission and change are of crucial importance for
our understanding of human behavior and human societies. However, these
phenomena have rarely been studied using explicit, formal, and quantitative
models. Recently, the origin, transmission, and evolution of culture,
traditionally an object of study for anthropologists, have been tackled by
students in other disciplines (biologists, ecologists, archeologists,
psychologists), sometimes using quantitative models (Cavalli-Sforza and
Feldmann, Boyd and Richerson), and they have been studied using innovative
methodologies (computer simulation) and theoretical concepts inspired by
biological transmission and change (memetics).

The workshop has the purpose of assessing these new directions of research
in
modelling and simulating cultural transmission and change.

Among the problems that will be addressed during the workshop are:

- What are the advantages and limitations of computer simulations in the
study of cultural transmission and change

- What are the relationships between biological and cultural evolution

- What are the relationships between the study of cultural transmission and
change and cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and artificial life

- What is the role of agent-based models

- How is an "agent" to be modeled and what is the role of cognitive
processes in cultural transmission and innovation

- What is the role of external artifacts and of distributed cognition

- What is the contribution of the new approach called "memetics"

- What changes in the relationships among the different disciplines
interested in cultural transmission and change should we expect from these
new theoretical and methodological approaches

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Co-chairs

Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Domenico Parisi

Program Committee

Robert Aunger, *Sebastiano Bagnara, Susan Blakemore, Robert Boyd, *Cristiano
Castelfranchi, *Rosaria Conte, *Jim Doran, *Massimo Egidi, *Nigel Gilbert,
*Vittorio Girotto, *David Hales, Tim Kohler, *Robert Reynolds, *Antonio
Rizzo, *Pietro Terna, *Elisabetta Visalberghi

(*confirmed)

Timetable

May 1: submission of extended abstracts (4 pages) (electronic submission
only (rtf.....) to "address@hidden")

June 15: notification of acceptance

July 1: early registration (inclusive of accomodation and meals) L. 350,000
(euro 180)

July 31: late registration L. 420,000 (euro 217)

On site registration L. 500.000 (euro 258)

Organizing Committee

Sergio Benvenuto
Roberto Pedone
Francesco Ianneo



----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Kohler <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: Volume on economic simulations in Swarm


> Hi everyone. Along the same lines,  I was told today by Oxford University
> Press that my edited volume with George Gumerman entitled Dynamics in
Human
> and Primate Societies is now available. It is a joint publication by SFI
and
> OUP in SFI's Studies in the Sciences of Complexity series. Ordering
> information is at
> http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/Bookinforev/kohnew.html. Only two
> chapters in the volume use Swarm, but all engage agent-based modeling in
some
> way. Contents:
>
>
>                          Putting Social Sciences Together Again: An
> Introduction to the Volume
>                          Timothy A. Kohler
>
>                          Nonlinear and Synthetic Models for Primate
Societies
>                          Irenaeus J. A. te Boekhorst and Charlotte K.
> Hemelrijk
>
>                         The Evolution of Cooperation in an Ecological
Context:
> An Agent-Based
>                         Model
>                         John W. Pepper and Barbara B. Smuts
>
>                         Evolution of Inference
>                         Brian Skyrms
>
>                         Trajectories to Complexity in Artificial
Societies:
> Rationality, Belief, and Emotions
>                         Jim E. Doran
>
>                         MAGICAL Computer Simulation of Mesolithic Foraging
>                         Mark Winter Lake
>
>                         Be There Then: A Modeling Approach to Settlement
> Determinants and Spatial Efficiency Among Late
>                         Ancestral Pueblo Populations of the Mesa Verde
Region,
> US Southwest
>                         Timothy A. Kohler, James Kresl, Carla Van West,
Eric
> Carr, and Richard H. Wilshusen
>
>                         Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through
> Agent-Based Modeling
>                         Jeffrey S. Dean, George J. Gumerman, Joshua M.
> Epstein, Robert Axtell, Alan C. Swedlund, Miles T.
>                         Parker, and Steven McCarroll
>
>                         Anti-Chaos, Common Property, and the Emergence of
> Cooperation
>                         J. Stephen Lansing
>
>                         The Political Impact of Marriage in a Virtual
> Polynesian Society
>                         Cathy A. Small
>
>                         The Impact of Raiding on Settlement Patterns in
the
> Northern Valley of Oaxaca: An Approach Using
>                         Decision Trees
>                         Robert G. Reynolds
>
>                         The Fractal House of Pharaoh: Ancient Egypt as a
> Complex Adaptive System
>                         Mark Lehner
>
>                         Modeling Sociality: The View from Europe
>                         Nigel Gilbert
>
>                         Concluding Statement
>                         Henry Wright
>
>                         Index
>
> I hope this community finds these materials useful.
>
> Best wishes, TK
>
>
> Benedikt Stefansson wrote:
>
> > The code for all the models published in this volume should
> > be available at the SDG website (http://www.swarm.org) in a
> > few weeks.
> >
> > Please feel free to distribute this announcement to
> > interested parties.
> >
> > =====
> >
> > We are pleased to announce that Kluwer Academic Publisher
> > has published the first book on modeling with the Swarm tool
> > kit titled:
> >
> > Economic Simulations in Swarm: Agent Based Modelling and
> > Object Oriented Programming
> >
> > edited by
> > Francesco Luna
> > Università di Venezia Ca'Foscari, Italy, and Oberlin
> > College, OH, USA
> >
> > Benedikt Stefansson
> > University of California, Los Angeles and CASA Inc, NM USA
> >
> > With contributions by A. Perrone, P. Terna, C. Bruun, L.
> > Mittone, P. Patelli, M.D. Sapienza, T.E. Jares, M. Corazza,
> > F. Lin, C. Schlueter-Langdon, the editors and others.
> >
> > The book contains 10 models developed using the Swarm APIs,
> > in addition to a 50 pp tutorial for beginners in
> > Object-Oriented Simulation and Swarm.
> >
> > Please refer to http://www.wkap.nl/bookcc.htm/0-7923-8665-5
> > for a short index.
> >
> > ========
> >                   ==================================
>
> --
> Professor & Chair, Department of Anthropology, WSU, Pullman, WA
> 99164-4910 USA   Office (509) 335-2698    fax (509) 335-3999
> External Faculty Member, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM
>
>
>
>
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