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Agent-based Models

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioA Complex Systems Approach to Understanding and Combating the Obesity Epidemic

Ross A. Hammond, June 17, 2008, The Brookings Institution

In his latest working paper, CSED Fellow Ross A. Hammond says that obesity is a substantial and growing public health crisis worldwide. Many of its features—breadth of scale, diversity in actors, and multiplicity of mechanisms—are hallmarks of a complex adaptive system. Thus, according to Hammond, the lessons and tools of complexity science can help us better understand and combat the obesity epidemic. Read More

Health Care, Agent-based Models

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioAgent-Based Modeling: New Methods in Estimating Impact

Shubha Chakravarty, April 15, 2008, Gates Foundation Grand Challenge 9 Meeting

On April 15, 2008 CSED affilate Shubha Chakravarty presented a talk on agent-based modeling at the Gates Foundation Grand Challenge 9 Meeting in Kampala, Uganda. The meeting focused on new progress in developing bio-fortified staple crop species, yielding discussion of using agent-based modeling to study crop diseases and genetic drift of new plant varieties.

 

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Agent-based Models

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioArtificial Society: Getting Clues on How a Pandemic Might Happen by Creating a Huge Model of the United States

Joshua M. Epstein, April 02, 2008, Federal News Radio AM 1050

With the possibility of a national or international emergency, people need to know how to best be prepared. Joshua M. Epstein discusses how agent-based computational modeling has the ability to create artificial societies to model human behavior in an emergency situation. Read More

Health Care, Homeland Security, Agent-based Models, Public Health, Global Health

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioQ&A With Joshua Epstein on Computational Modeling

Joshua M. Epstein, March 19, 2008, Brookings Institution

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioA Flexible, Large-Scale, Distributed Agent Based Epidemic Model

Jon Parker, December 2007, CSED Working Paper No. 52

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioAgent-Based Modeling and Spatial Population Dynamics Workshop

Friday, December 07, 2007
12:00 PM to 05:00 PM
Washington, DC

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioFinding Optimal Agent-Based Models

Ben Klemens, September 2007, CSED Working Paper No. 49

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioExploring Price-Independent Mechanisms in the Obesity Epidemic

Ross A. Hammond and Joshua M. Epstein, August 2007, CSED Working Paper No. 48

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioAgent Based Modeling: Population Health from the Bottom Up

Joshua M. Epstein, July 13, 2007, National Institutes of Health

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioComplex Systems Approaches to Population Health

Joshua M. Epstein, May 30, 2007, National Institutes of Health

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Possible and the Impossible in Multi-Agent Learning

H. Peyton Young, April 2007, CSED Working Paper # 47

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioAre We Born Prejudiced?

Ross A. Hammond, March 13, 2007, New Scientist

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioPandemic Influenza and the Value of International Travel Restrictions

Georgiy V. Bobashev, Diane K. Wagener, Joshua M. Epstein, Feng Yu, D. Michael Goedecke and Robert J. Morris, December 2006, CSED Working Paper # 46

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioInnovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations

H. Peyton Young, December 2006, CSED Working Paper #45

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Joshua M. Epstein

Joshua M. Epstein

Director, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics

A pioneer in agent-based computational modeling, Josh Epstein has recently done groundbreaking work on epidemics and bioterrorism. He has used computational modeling to study civil violence and smoking behavior.  


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H. Peyton Young

H. Peyton Young

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

Peyton Young is an expert on social norms and how they affect the design of policy. He has also written extensively on political representation, voting, and distributive justice. He is the James Meade Professor of Economics at Oxford University.
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Ross A. Hammond

Ross A. Hammond

Fellow, Economic Studies

Ross Hammond’s expertise is in modeling complex dynamics of social, economic, and political systems using mathematical and agent-based computational methods. His current research topics include corruption, ethnocentrism, trust, behavioral epidemiology, and obesity.
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Q&A with Josh Epstein

Computational Modeling

"A high school math teacher in Omaha, Nebraska should be interested in the work at the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics because it makes the study of social dynamics fascinating ... And it’ll make kids thrilled with questions like, how do epidemics spread, how do fads start and stop, what are the spatial dynamics of disease, of violence, of all sorts of things .. "

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ExpertSuzanne Maloney

Suzanne Maloney studies Iran, the political economy of the Persian Gulf and Middle East energy policy. A former U.S. State Department policy advisor, she has also counseled private companies on Middle East issues.

Policy CenterEngelberg Center for Health Care Reform

The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable health care with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state and local levels.

ExpertMartin Neil Baily

Martin Baily, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, focuses on issues of globalization, productivity and competitiveness, Social Security reform and U.S. economic policy.

ExpertRebecca Blank

Rebecca Blank is an expert on the interaction between the macroeconomy, government anti-poverty programs, and the behavior and well being of low-income families. She has just been named the Robert V. Kerr senior fellow at Brookings.

Policy CenterWolfensohn Center for Development

The Wolfensohn Center seeks effective solutions to key development challenges in order to create a more prosperous and stable world with a focus on aid effectiveness, early childhood development and Middle East youth.

ExpertDavid B. Sandalow

A former assistant secretary of state and White House staffer, Sandalow is author of "Freedom from Oil" and an expert on energy policy and global warming.

ExpertWilliam Galston

Bill Galston, the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies, is an expert on domestic policy, political campaigns and elections. His research focuses on designing a new social contract and the implications of political polarization.

ExpertWarwick J. McKibbin

An international economics expert based in Australia, Warwick McKibbin focuses his research on global climate change; the emergence of China and India into the world economy; and global economic modeling.

Research ProjectManaging Global Insecurity

MGI provides recommendations to the next U.S. president, the UN and key international partners to launch a strategic effort to build global partnerships and international institutions to meet twenty-first century trans-border challenges.

ExpertHugh B. Price

Former president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, Hugh Price is an expert on education, civil rights, equal opportunity and criminal justice. His 40-year career spans journalism, philanthropy, the law, and social advocacy.

ExpertSarah A. Binder

Sarah Binder is an expert on Congress and legislative politics.  Her current projects focus on the politics of federal judicial selection and the consequences of partisan polarization.

ExpertBenjamin Wittes

Benjamin Wittes, a New Republic online columnist, focuses on the Supreme Court; judicial nominations and confirmations; and legal issues surrounding the war on terrorism.

ExpertBruce Katz

Bruce Katz, vice president and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, regularly advises national, state, regional and municipal leaders on policy reforms that advance the competitiveness of metropolitan areas.

ProgramGovernance Studies

Governance Studies explores political institutions of the United States and other democracies to assess how they govern, how their practices compare and how citizens and public servants can advance sound governance.

ExpertAlice M. Rivlin

Alice Rivlin, the first director of the Congressional Budget Office, is an expert on urban issues as well as fiscal, monetary and social policy. She directs the Greater Washington Research project. 

Research ProjectLatin America Initiative

The Latin America Initiative provides high-quality, in-depth, and independent research across a range of economic and political issues, and offers policy recommendations aimed at U.S. and Latin American policymakers. Read More