e-Infrastructures for Social Simulation

Organiser

Pasqualino "Titto" Assini, Data Archive, formerly University of Essex

Date and Location

26 October 2005, Kilburn Building, University of Manchester.

Workshop Summary and Programme

Introduction to the Workshop
Titto Assini, UK Data Archive, University of Essex

Good Social Science, Bad Social Science and Social Simulation: Implications for an eInfrastructure
Prof. Scott Moss, Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University

Case Study: Human Rights Impact Assessment
Greg Walton, Independent Consultant to Rights Democracy, Montreal, Canada

Sharing Knowledge Session: Introductory Presentation (2633kb)
Pete Edwards and Edoardo Pignotti, University of Aberdeen

Modelling Session: Introductory Presentation (35kb)
Gary Polhill, The Macaulay Institute

MAS-SOC: A Social Simulation Platform Based on Agent-Oriented Programming (45kb)
Fabio Okuyama, Instituto de Informatica, Porto Alegre, Brazil

A Social Simulation Tool for Personality (872kb)
Dr. Antonio R Diaz and Manuel Castagnon-Puga, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico

Computing Session: Introductory Presentation (205kb)
Terry Hewitt, Manchester Computing

New Ties Approach to Distributed Simulations
Prof. Ben Paechter and Dr Bart Craenen, Napier University, Edinburgh

Verifying and Validating Session: Introductory Presentation (37kb)
Dr. Bruce Edmonds, Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University