Joshua M. Epstein

Josh Epstein was a Brookings senior fellow from 1987 to 2010, and served as the director of the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics. He left Brookings for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

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2010

Empirical Performance of a Decentralized Civil Violence ModelJune 25, 2010

2009

The Costs of Containing H1N1October 05, 2009

H1N1 Containment: Economic Cost and Workforce Effects of School ClosuresSeptember 30, 2009

How Computer Modeling Can Stem the Spread of InfluenzaAugust 18, 2009

Modelling to Contain PandemicsAugust 06, 2009

2008

Coupled Contagion Dynamics of Fear and Disease: Mathematical and Computational Explorations December 15, 2008

How Computer Modeling Can Avert Pandemic OutbreaksDecember 02, 2008

Modeling Social Behavior November 26, 2008

Why Model? October 31, 2008

Artificial Society: Getting Clues on How a Pandemic Might Happen by Creating a Huge Model of the United StatesApril 02, 2008

Q&A With Joshua Epstein on Computational ModelingMarch 19, 2008

2007

A Hybrid Epidemic Model: Combining the Advantages of Agent-based and Equation-based ApproachesDecember 27, 2007

Agent Based Modeling: Population Health from the Bottom UpJuly 13, 2007

Complex Systems Approaches to Population HealthMay 30, 2007

Can We Model The Real WorldMay 12, 2007

2006

Pandemic Influenza and the Value of International Travel RestrictionsDecember 01, 2006

2005

Remarks on the Foundations of Agent-Based Generative Social ScienceJuly 01, 2005

2004

Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror: An Individual-Based Computational ApproachJune 01, 2004

2002

Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror: An Individual-Based Computational ApproachDecember 01, 2002

2001

Modeling Civil Violence: An Agent-Based Computational ApproachJanuary 01, 2001

2000

The Emergence of Classes in a Multi-Agent Bargaining ModelFebruary 01, 2000

1999

Coordination in Transient Social Networks: An Agent-Based Computational Model on the Timing of RetirementMay 01, 1999

1996

Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom UpOctober 22, 1996

1990

Controlling the Greenhouse Effect: Five Global Regimes ComparedOctober 19, 1990

Conventional Force Reductions: A Dynamic AssessmentApril 24, 1990

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