Monthly Archives: October 2011

Thinking With Your Eyes

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Gregory Todd Jones

Lothar Krempel, of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, is leading a highly multi-disciplinary effort to create a scientific method of visualization of network data. While statistical methods, like multidimensional scaling, factor analysis, and correspondence … Continue reading →

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Game Theory on Networks: An In Silico Laboratory

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Gregory Todd Jones

Dan Katz, from Michigan Political Science, the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, and Computational Legal Studies, is including a simulation platform that I wrote in NetLogo as part of the curriculum at the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political … Continue reading →

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Identity Economics

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Gregory Todd Jones

George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have a new book that proposes to add identity and norms to the economic representation of tastes.  Current economic thinking views tastes as a characteristic of the individual, but they suggest that identity derives from … Continue reading →

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Understanding Resistance to Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Gregory Todd Jones

My work with Doug Yarn on inter-group conflict, apology, and forgiveness was published in Duke’s Law and Contemporary Problems. The article, along with the other contributions to the volume as pdfs, is available here.

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Autonomous Agents for Heuristic Design

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Gregory Todd Jones

My work related to the use of autonomous agents for heuristic design was published in the new book on negotiation pedagogy edited by Chris Honeyman, James Coben & Giuseppe De Palo and available from DRI Press. This compilation resulted from … Continue reading →

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Narrative Networks, Social Identity and Complexity in Collective Action

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Gregory Todd Jones

I recently gave a NSF sponsored talk at Duke Computer Science in conjunction with the HarambeeNet SocialNets in Education Project.  I raised the question regarding the evolution of cooperative behavior beyond a certain level of social complexity and suggested that … Continue reading →

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