Daily Archives: February 9, 2012

Research Plan The overarching goal is to explore the dynamics of a hypothetical decentralized decision-making process through the lens of agent-based modeling. By the end of the semester I would like to have a model which includes a spontaneously-generating social … Continue reading →

            The literature is older than I imagined. The first agent-based examination of a social phenomenon, Thomas Schelling’s “Models of Segregation,” was published in 1969. Though the limitations of computing power in that era inhibited … Continue reading →