Newly funded: Research project SiSH (Simulating Shanghai Innovation Policy) receives grant from Landesstipendienprogramm!
We welcome Feiran Chen and Yufei Zhang as new Research Fellows from 1.4.2018.
Newly funded: Research project SiSH (March 2018)
Social Simulation Conference 2019
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Social Simulation Conference 2019,
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz,
23.-27. September 2019
The European Social Simulation Conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for social scientists, theorists, applied researchers and simulation modelers to cooperate and exchange ideas concerning state of the art in methods and applications of computational social sciences (last year in Dublin/Ireland; this year in Stockholm/Sweden; next year in Mainz/Germany; ca. 150 regular participants).
New scientific staff member in CECAN (March 2018)
On 1st March 2018, Dr. Martin Neumann will join our CECAN team.
New research project with extra funding in PEERE! (March 2018)
We welcome Associate Professor Dr. Alesia Zuccala as Research Fellow for a STSM funded by PEERE; we will collaboratively work on the joint research project called „Joining Hermeneutics and Simulation for Investigating Peer Review“.
New Publication of the Unit (in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation)
New paper of the unit published by the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: Gilbert, N., Ahrweiler, P., Barbrook-Johnson, P., Narasimhan, K. und Wilkinson, H. (2018): Computational Modelling of Public Policy: Reflections on Practice, in: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation JASSS 21 (1), 14.
Map of international Complexity Sciences 2018
US scientist Brian Castellani from Kent State University publishes a map of international Complexity Sciences 2018: !
NESTA-Feature
UK agency NESTA features Petra Ahrweiler’s Irish IPSE programme (Innovation Policy Simulation for the Smart Economy) as one of eight international Best Practice examples for using simulation to advise innovation policy!