Category Archives: Computation

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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VirtualLabs in Evolutionary Game Theory

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Gregory Todd Jones

Check out Christoph Hauert’s VirtualLabs in Evolutionary Game Theory. You’ll find applets for experimentation, tutorials along with research papers associated with each of the models, and some excellent introductory material.

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The Emergence of Costly Punishment

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Gregory Todd Jones

Christoph Hauert, at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard (update: now at British Columbia), and colleagues have a recent paper which addresses the “second order social dilemma” that arises from cooperators who may free-ride by failing to engage in … Continue reading →

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Computational Models of Life

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Gregory Todd Jones

Check out the Center for Models of Life (C-MOL), a center under the Danish National Research Foundation, located at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. Researchers at the Center use methods from physics to develop models dealing … Continue reading →

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