diana

Personal

Full Name

Diana Mangalagiu

Homepage

http://isiosf.isi.it/~diana

Position

Professor of Management and Organization Science

Affiliation

Reims Management School

Research topic

Organization and Socio-Economic Dynamics

Research interests

My research aims at identifying and analyzing the connections between the microscopic “fundamental” level of the individual agent and collective global phenomena. My work is both theoretical and empirical, applying models from natural science to socio-economic systems, in a way that can be understood, accepted and adopted by the targeted subjects. Specifically, I am interested in the co-evolution of formal and informal networks in organizations, contagion of innovation and normative phenomena such as corporate social responsibility, the contagion of Western standards to developing countries such as the diffusion of higher education systems.

Short CV

My background is a mix of “hard” and “soft” disciplines: computer science and artificial intelligence (PhD), sociology (MSc) and organization science (MSc). From 2001 to 2003, I spent two years traveling around the world. Returning to Europe, I specialized in the study and the modeling of social and economic systems dynamics, using an interdisciplinary approach combining organization sciences, anthropology, economics, physics and computer science.

Supervised graduate students

Samir Hamichi Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) Foundation Turin, Italy Ph.D. in Computer Science - Pierre & Marie Curie University
Ph.D. thesis: Multi-agent systems applied to organisations , (expected)

General description

"My Ph.D. project research in the field of organization theory and economics. The aim is the better understanding of organization dynamics and self-organizing phenomena using Multi-agent systems and Artificial intelligence technics. My main interest is studying and modeling dynamical and complex systems."

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, Artificial Intelligence (1999)
M.Sc., University of Sorbonne, Paris, Management Science (2000), Sociology (2001)
M.Sc., University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, Microelectronics and Instrumentation (1994)Engineer, Polytechnic University, Iasi, Romania, Electrical Sciences (1992)

Employment and work experience

2006-present Multiple periods, Los Alamos National Laboratory , New Mexico, USA, Visiting scientist
2005-present Institute for Scientific Interchange, Multi-Agent Systems Division, Turin, Italy, Associate Researcher
2003-present Reims Management School, France, Professor, Organization Dynamics and Strategy
2003-present University of Lille, France, Complexity, Strategic Interactions and Cooperation Group, Associate Researcher
2005-present Chairperson, Evaluation and Assessment Committee, General Integration of the Applications of Complexity in Science Coordination Action, New and Emerging Sciences and Technologies
2003 University Turquato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Visiting Professor
1999-2001 HEC School of Management, Paris, Reader and Manager, Center for Central and Eastern Europe Studies
1995-2001 Expert, World Bank and European Commission. Specific experience in emerging countries: higher education reform, executive education development, design and implementation of business schools, curricula design; fund rising and grants scheme implementation, entrepreneurship capabilities development scheme, business incubator development, collaborative learning and distributed experimentation, (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia)
1998-2000 Consultant for various European and American high-tech companies: artificial intelligence; IT; assessment of Product Data Management and Enterprise Resource Planning system’s impact on firm’s knowledge and innovation capabilities

Professional membership

2006-present Scientific Committee, French Sociology Association, Sociology and Complex Systems Group
2004-present Member, European Group for Organization Sciences
2000-present European Union, New and Emerging Sciences and Technologies, Expert and Evaluator
1999-2005 Association for Computer Machinery’s Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence, Member

Scientific events organization

2007, First European PhD Complexity School: Agent-Based Studies of Social, Economic and Industrial Systems, at the Institute for Scientific Interchange, Turin, Italy
2006, Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling of Socio-Economic Systems, at the Institute for Scientific Interchange, Turin, Italy
2005, Thematical Workshop of the Complexity Institute of Paris, Networks in social sciences and humanities: Empirical studies and modelling

Other

Selected publications:
- Interactions between formal and informal organizational networks, formation of routines and performance in hierarchical structures: an agent-based approach. To apear in Multi-Agent Systems: Dynamics of Organizational Models, 2008 (with M. Lamieri).
- Corporate Social Responsibility: A Catalyst for Progressive Change in the U.S. Energy Sector? Business and Society, ISBN 0976326434, 2007 (with H. Ziock and S. Rasmussen).
- Collective Intelligence for Decision Support in Very Large Stakeholder Networks: The future US energy systems, in press IEEE Machine Intelligence 2007 (with S. Rasmussen, H. Ziock, J. Bollen, and G. Keating);
- How the non-conformism becomes norm: the case of the Corporate Social Responsibility, submitted to Journal of International Business Studies, July 2006 (with V. Paone);
- Two tree-formation methods and fast pattern search using nearest neighbor and nearest-centroid matching, Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, L. Schomaker and L. Vuurpijl (Eds.), Amsterdam, 261-270, 2000 (with L. Schomaker, M. Weinfeld and L. Vuurpijl);
- Tree Search Technique for the Optimization of the k Nearest Neighbor Algorithm in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 34, Eds. Seong-Whan Lee, World Scientific, pp. 469-478, New York, 1999 (with M. Weinfeld);

Selected communications:
- Organizational and socio-economic dynamics: From stockholders to stakeholders in the energy sector, EES-6, Los Alamos National Laboratory, October 2006.
- Modeling voluntary norm contagion: an Agent-based Model Applicable to Corporate Social Responsibility", Conference "Complex behavior in economics: modeling, computing and mastering complexity 2006", May 17-21, 2006, Aix en Provence (with M. Lamieri and V. Paone);
- Emergence of Hierarchies as Governance Structures: A Contract Theory Perspective, AKSOE, 2006 (with R. Ben-Av);
- An Economy of Improvisation Rooted in the Innovation Process: The Case of the Evolution of the Pharmaceutics Industry, EGOS (European Group for Organization Studies) Conference, Berlin, June 2005 (with X. Deroy);
- Can science and literature ever meet or should they?, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, November 2002.