When: July 8-13, 2006
Where: ISI Foundation, Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy (how to reach ISI)
Contact: Bence Toth
* Motivation
* Programme
* List of participants
This meeting is preceded by a Workshop on Experimental and Computational Finance -- July 5-7, 2006
Motivation
The reductionist dream (and its extreme form - physicalism) accompanied science from its very birth. The hope to reduce all reality to simple microscopic fundamental laws had its great moments in the physical sciences.
In the last decades, the reductionist ambitions got rekindled by a series of methodological and technological new tools. Some of the new developments highlighted the role of the Multi-Agents Complex Paradigm in describing and explaining the macroscopic complex phenomena in terms of a recurrent hierarchy of scales.
In a Multi-Agent Hierarchy, the properties at each scale level are explained in terms of the underlying finer level immediately below it.
The main operations involved are:
* the identification of the relevant objects (agents) appropriate for describing the dynamics at each scale.
* expressing iteratively the emergence of the coarser scale objects as the collective features of a finer scale.
The identification of the hierarchy of scales involves sophisticated theoretical techniques (from mathematics and physics) as well as computer simulation, visualization and interactive animation tools bordering artificial reality.
In this interactive research process, the models, analytical techniques, computer programs and visualization methods become often the very expression and communication vehicle of the scientific understanding which they helped to uncover.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together scientists from different fields working on agent-based simulations of socio-economic systems for a first comparison of diverse approaches in view of their broader integration.
List of confirmed participants
Myriam Abdelmoula
Tiziana Assenza
Jorgen Vitting Andersen
Alessandro Capellini
Simona Cavallini
Gilles Daniel
Domenico Delli Gatti
Gianluigi Ferraris
Mauro Gallegati
Zahia Guessoum
Martin Hohnisch
Marco Lamieri
Diana Mangalagiu
Giancarlo Mosetti
Scott Moss
Andrzej Nowak
Francesco Pozzi
Anronio Palestrini
Mauro Politi
Enton Resuli
Matteo Richiardi
Sorin Solomon
Pietro Terna
Bence Toth
Roger Waldeck
Gur Yaari
Yi-Cheng Zhang
