The PhD program in computational social science at George Mason, for a student to begin studies in fall 2008.
-Network structures in International Relations - network-based
imperialism, structural properties of international agreements and alliances, economic interdependence networks, agent-based models of evolving relations;
- Evolution of social networks - dynamic network models, cascades and avalanche processes in networks;
More information about the program and center is available at:
http://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu/
For specific questions related to the graduate program, contact Dawn Parker, acting director for the CSS PhD program, at cssgrad@gmu.edu.
Full application instructions are available at:
http://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu/phd.php
Multi-Agent Simulation Suite (MASS), the agent-based modeling toolset developed at AITIA International.
MASS contains a dedicated programming language for agent-based simulations (FABLES), which is compiled to RePast 3.1. (So, you can continue editing it and add advanced features, or you can directly develop your model in Repast and use the other components of MASS). FABLES has an integrated development environment (called FABLES IME) built on top of the Eclipse
platform. The MASS suite contains further modules as well, like a
graphing/visualization package with wizards, a tool for running and processing batch experiments (the Model Exploration Module or MEME), and a web interface to web-enable your simulation (also useful for doing lab experiments with human subjects -- ie. mixing them with your artificial agents). Unfortunately, this last module (the Participatory Extension or PET) is not yet available in the public release.
The public release of MASS is free, but not open source. It does not contain all the latest features, but we believe it is generally usable.
The suite is available at
http://www.aitia.ai/services_and_products/simulation_systems
To make the biblio work, you need a bibliography style file (a file
with a name like apsa2.bst). You need to copy the bst file you want
into your LaTeX installation. The bst file can
be copied under your system's bibtex configuration, which in my system
is
/usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/natbib
The shortcoming with that is that you might lose your customizations if
you upgrade your TeX installation. To prevent that, I maintain a
parallel customized directory here:
/usr/local/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/natbib
Assuming that your TeTeX is configured in the normal way, when you run
the command
> texhash
the system will scan all of the configuration files and it will notice
you have added a bst file.