Conference on Economic Simulation

[Benedikt Stefansson]

I thought that some readers of the Swarm list might be interested in
knowing that the UCLA Center for Computable Economics in cooperation
with the Bionomics Institute will hold a Second Annual Conference on
Economic Simulation, February 7-8, 1997. 

A large share of the scheduled papers are based on some form of Agent
Based Models and simulations.

The conference will feature 12 speakers, a detailed schedule follows in
this message. All sessions will be held at the Anderson Graduate School
of Management on the UCLA campus.

If you know someone who might be interested in attending, please feel
free to distribute this announcement widely.

There is no fee to attend the conference, but we urge participants to
register in advance.

More information and material can be found at:
         http://cce.sscnet.ucla.edu/conference


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The UCLA Center for Computable Economics 
and The Bionomics Institute
Second Annual Conference, February 7-8, 1997

Friday, February 7.

Session 1: 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Jasmina Arifovic (Univ. of British Columbia), 
"Evolution of Sunspot Processes"

John Duffy (Pittsburgh) and Shu-heng Chen (Taiwan): 
"Equilibrium Selection via Adaptation: Using Genetic Programming to
Model Learning in a Coordination Game"

Break

Session 2: 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m..

Stephen Durlauf (Univ. of Wisconsin and Santa Fe Institute), 
"Statistical Mechanics Approaches to Socioeconomic Behavior."

George Evans (Univ. of Oregon) and Garey Ramey (Univ. of Califorinia,
San Diego) "Calculation, Adaptation and Rational Expectations"

Break

Session 3: 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Robert Axtell (Brookings), Josh Epstein (Brookings) and Peyton Young
(Johns Hopkins),
"The Formation of Classes in an Agent-based Model of Bargaining"

Bernardo Huberman (Xerox PARC): 
"Social Dynamics and Latencies in the World Wide Web"

Break

Session 4: 3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Luigi Marengo (Univ. of Trento): 
"Modelling Organizational Adaptation"

Bjorn Lomborg (Univ. of Aalborg): 
"Adaptive Parties in a Multipart, Multidimensional System with Imperfect
Information

Saturday, Feb. 8

Session 5: 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. 

Scott Page (California Institute of Technology): 
"Modelling Heterogenous Problem Solvers"

Joseph Harrington, (Johns Hopkins): 
"Social Learning and Rigid Behavior"

Break

Session 6: 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
 
Leigh Tesfatsion (Iowa State): 
"A C++ Platform for the Evoluation of Trade Networks" 

Michael Cohen (Univ. of Michigan): 
"Robustness, Replication and Other Methodological Issues"


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Benedikt Stefansson                 address@hidden
Center for Computable Economics     Tel. (310) 825-1777
Department of Economics, UCLA       Fax. (310) 825-9528
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477          http://cce.sscnet.ucla.edu