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Social Simulation Conference 2018 in Stockholm (20th August – 24th August)

Our unit will be present in considerable numbers at the upcoming Social Simulation Conference, the annual conference of ESSA. Together with Bruce Edmonds, Nigel Gilbert and Ruth Meyer, Petra Ahrweiler organized two sessions on the issue of “Social Simulation in the Policy World”. Furthermore, she will announce next year´s SSC, which will take place at the University of Mainz. Martin Neumann will give a speech entitled “Exploring the horizon of a cultural space”, which will be a part of the session “Using qualitative data to inform behavioral rules in agent-based models”. Our student assistants Marc Möller-Boldt and Dario Brockschmidt will visit the conference as members of the 2019 organization team and will take a look behind the scenes of this year´s organization.

New Project Funded

Following a successful bidding by Nigel Gilbert, Alex Penn and Petra Ahrweiler, the ESRC has granted funding for a new, CECAN-related research project entitled 'New approaches to Participatory Steering and Evaluation of Complex Adaptive Systems'. The upcoming funding will serve the development of an international network. The main activity will be to organize a highly interactive workshop for international participants that will take place nearby the University of Surrey in February 2019.

International Open Innovation conference in Naples on the 27th of June 2018

Michel Schilperoord will present at the International Open Innovation conference (www.openinnovationtmc.org/) in Naples on the 27th of June 2018. He will provide input on development of a second pilot study for simulating and learning about the emergence of start-ups. In the first pilot study, set in the context of Irish High-Potential Start-ups Programme and published in 2016, a suite of simulation experiments was developed for testing predictors and policy with respect to high-potential start-ups. The outcomes of these experiments not only provided proof of concept for the predictors, but also confirmed the rationale for the HPSU Programme. The second pilot study will re-examine the outcomes of these experiments in the context of China’s move to mass entrepreneurship, with focus on the evolution of Shanghai’s start-up ecosystem.

Seminar for JGU students in summer semester 2019 (March 2018)

Fellows of the „Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes“ (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) at St. John’s College of University of Cambridge, UK are invited to join the course „Policy Modelling Using Agent-Based Simulation“ led by Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler and fellow sociologist Prof. Dr. Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK) in late Summer 2018 at the Studienstiftungs-Akademie „Zukunft. Future“ in Cambridge, UK.

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).

» European Social Simulation Association (ESSA)