ESSA SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMME

University of Brescia, 13-17 September 2010

Sala Biblioteca, Via San Faustino, 74/B

 

 

 

Monday 13 September

 

Thursday 16 September

 

 

 

 

 

 

09.00-09.30 Registration      

09.30-10.00

Presentation of the School, by Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy)

 

09.00-12.00

Lecture 7: Probabilistic Policy – Can

Policy Makers Cope?, by Bridget Rosewell (Volterra Consulting, UK)

10.00-13.00

Lecture 1: Introduction to Social Simulation, by Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (George Mason University, USA)

 

12.00-13.00

Roundtable and general discussion about policy issues

13.00-14.30

Lunch

 

13.00-14.30

Lunch

14.30-17.30

Lecture 2: 50 Years of Social Simulation: Why We Need Agent-Based Social Simulation (and Why Other Approaches Fail), by Klaus G. Troitzsch

 (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

 

14.30-17.30

Simulation Lab Session I*, by Riccardo Boero & Giangiacomo Bravo (University of Torino, Italy) and Károly Takács (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary)

 

17.30-18.30

Welcome Drink

 

17.30-23.00

Social Event

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 14 September

 

Friday 17 September

 

 

 

 

 

 

09.00-13.00

Lecture 3: Agent-Based Modelling, by Nigel Gilbert and Edmund Chattoe-Brown (University of Leicester, UK) (University of Surrey, UK)

 

9.00-12.00

Simulation Lab Session II*, by Riccardo Boero & Giangiacomo Bravo (University of Torino, Italy) and Károly Takács (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary)

 

 

 

12.00-13.00

Roundtable and general Discussion about simulation platforms and tools

13.00-14.30

Lunch

 

13.00-14.30

Lunch

14.30-17.30

Lecture 4: An Agent-Based Model and Architecture for Simulating Norm Dynamics, by Rosaria Conte (CNR, Italy)

 

14.30-17.00

Presentation of Research Papers/Projects by Students

 

 

 

 

17.00

End of the School

Wednesday 15 September

 

 

 

 

09.00-12.00

Lecture 5: Methodological Issues on Agent-Based Models in the Social Sciences, by Juliette Rouchier (CNRS, France)

 

 

* The lab sessions will take place in the Sede Brixia of the Faculty of  Economics, Via San Faustino, 64.

12.00-13.00

Roundtable and general discussion about methodological issues

 

 

 

 

13.00-14.30

Lunch

 

 

 

14.30-17.30

Lecture 6: A Spatial Agent-Based Diffusion Model of the Online Swiss Grocery Market, by Iqbal Adjali (Unilever, UK)