2008-7-08

Location: Prairie Moon Restaurant (1502 Sherman Ave., Evanston http://www.prairiemoonrestaurant.com/ )
Topic: Complex System's Approach to Economics (Summer Project)
Reading: "Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics", by Eric D. Beinhocker. http://books.google.com/books?id=eUoolrxSFy0C

2008- 4 -3

Topic: Agent-Based Modeling and Equation-Based Modeling.
Location: Chambers Hall, lower level
Reading 1: Parunak, H. V. D., R. Savit, and R. L. Riolo, "Agent-Based Modeling vs. Equation-Based Modeling: A Case Study and Users' Guide", Proceedings of Workshop on Multi-agent systems and Agent-based Simulation (MABS'98), Springer (1998), http://alife.tuke.sk/~zvirinsk/AIS/mabs98.pdf

Reading 2: Reading Leslie Henrickson and Bill McKelvey, "Foundations of ?new? social science: Institutional legitimacy from philosophy, complexity science, postmodernism, and agent-based modeling" Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 14; 99(Suppl 3): 7288?7295. doi: 10.1073/pnas.092079799. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/suppl_3/7288

Topic: Voter Models
Location: Chambers Hall, lower level
Reading 1: Political Parties and Electoral Landscapes," Ken Kollman, John H. Miller and Scott E. Page, British Journal of Political Science (1998) 28:139-58. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1315

Reading 2: Elections, Information Aggregation, and Strategic Voting," Timothy Feddersen and Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 96, pp. 10572-10574, September 1999 http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/96/19/10572.pdf

Topic: Networks, Language and Innovation
Location: Chambers Hall, lower level
First Reading: Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves. 2005. "The self-organization of speech sounds." Journal of theoretical biology 233, 435-449. URL: http://www.csl.sony.fr/~py/oudeyerJTB05.pdf
Second Reading: Watts, PJ, PS Dodds. 2007. "Influentials, Networks, and Public Opinion

*Topic: Social Networks and language change

Location: Chambers Hall, lower level
First Reading: Daniel Nettle, "Using Social Impact Theory to simulate language change", Lingua, v108n2-3, p95-117 http://ccl.northwestern.edu/~wrand/nrg/nettle1999.pdf

Second Reading: Daland, Robert, Andrea D. Sims and Janet Pierrehumbert. 2007. "Much ado about nothing: A social network model of Russian paradigmatic gaps." Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Prague, Czech Republic, June 24th-29th, 2007. Annie Zaenen and Antal van den Bosch, eds. Prague: Association for Computational Linguistics, 936-943. http://www.ling.northwestern.edu/~ads778/pdfs/daland_etal_acl07.pdf