Centre for Policy Modelling News

...on the grounds that the Linux OS it is operating on is out of date. :-/

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2024/02/sorry-mmu-admin-has-blcked-our-servier.html

...our university turned off the power last weekend, and we have not yet managed to get back to the office to turn it on again :-/ "Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible!"

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2023/07/sorry-our-server-is-down.html

..."normal service will be resumed as soon as possible". :-)

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2022/06/sorry-our-main-server-is-down.html

See https://www.southampton.ac.uk/business-school/news/events/2020/05/28-29-iqqe-workshop.page for details.

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2020/02/3rd-workshop-integrating-qualitative.html

The deadline for (free) registration for the SECOND WORKSHOP ON INTEGRATING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE EVIDENCE USING SOCIAL SIMULATION, 21&22 NOVEMBER, IN MANCHESTER is the 24th October....

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2019/10/registration-deadline-24th-oct-for.html

Both are dynamic - you can interact with them. Click on the pictures to try them. The first #visualization shows the fish trade in US dollars between 2004 and 2015. The second is a map th...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2018/07/two-visualisations-by-luz-molina.html

... for the moment we will redirect http://cfpm.org to here.  "Normal service will resumed as soon as possible". Meanwhile here is a picture of Ruth showing what she thinks of the situation. �...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2018/07/sorry-our-main-website-is-down.html

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING FOR DECISION-MAKING: WHERE, WHY, WHAT, WHO AND HOW by Muffy Calder, Claire Craig, Dave Culley, Richard de Cani, Christl A. Donnelly, Rowan Douglas, Bruce Edmonds, Jonat...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2018/06/new-paper-in-rs-open-science.html

Frank Dignum and I have started this new journal, which we will edit. The reason for this is that we feel that the cognitive and the social need to be studied together. That is both cognitive pro...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2018/06/new-journal-socio-cognitive-systems.html

The second edition of the handbook SIMULATING SOCIAL COMPLEXITY , edited by Bruce Edmonds and Ruth Meyer, has now been published by Springer and is available as a hardcover or eBook (on Springer ...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2018/04/2nd-edition-of-simulating-social.html

******************************************************************************CALL  CALL FOR PAPERS SOCIO-COGNITIVE SYSTEMS: COMPUTATIONAL AND FORMAL MODELS A Workshop @ FAIM2018 (F...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2018/03/cfp-workshop-on-socio-cognitive-systems.html

Workshop: Beyond Schelling and Axelrod: Computational Models of Ethnocentrism and Diversity. June 6-7th, Manchester. FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Presentations + Panels + discussion. Come an...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2017/05/computational-models-of-ethnocentrism.html

#cfpm_org Any work with simulation models that touch on these issues, critiques of existing models or relevant empirical work welcome. Just email them to dave@davidehales.com but end 7TH APRIL. ...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2017/03/last-call-for-abstracts-arp-7-beyond.html

The special issue edited by Katy Börner, Bruce Edmonds, Staša Milojević & Andrea Scharnhorst of Scientometrics on "Simulating the processes of science, technology, and innovation" is now ...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2017/01/special-issue-of-scientometrics-on.html

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS WORKSHOP: BEYOND SCHELLING AND AXELROD - COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF ETHNOCENTRISM AND DIVERSITY Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. June 7th – 8th, 2017. http://davidha...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2017/01/call-for-abstracts-for-workshop-on.html

Stefano Picascia had his viva today and passed with only some "minor typographical corrections" to do.  His thesis was on "AGENT-BASED MODELLING OF URBAN ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS UNDER THE...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2017/01/congratulations-to-dr-stefano-picascia.html

We are proposing a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) on the topic "Beyond Schelling and Axelrod – The State of the Art of Simulation Models of Ethnocentrism an...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2016/10/call-for-intentions-to-submit-on-beyond.html

One of the key ideas behind the "SCID PROJECT" http://cfpm.org/scid (Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity) is that of starting with a simulation that reflects the evidence and what...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2016/10/some-results-of-scid-project-staging.html

...see: http://cfpm.org/discussionpapers/163/magnus-award-winning-thesis-social-foundations-of-sense-making

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2016/07/magnus-award-winning-thesis-social.html

I have just heard that Rosaria Conte passed away last night after a long fight with cancer. Rosaria was one of the founders of the field of social simulation, arguing for the importance of repres...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2016/07/sad-to-announce-death-of-rosaria-conte.html

In JASSS at http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/19/3/reviews/7.html This reviews the useful work done by government modellers in developing standards for policy analysis, and well as discusses it wi...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2016/07/review-of-aqua-book-guidance-on.html

...who is a new Marie-Curie Early Stage Researcher, as part of the SAF21 ITN project . SHAHEEN SYED THESIS: Text Analytics for the 21st Century Fisheries Since the 90s, it has been well-kno...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2016/06/welcome-to-shaheen-syed.html

This workshop happened on the 6/7th June 2016, Manchester Metropolitan University.  The presentations were: ANTHONY CHARLES (Saint Mary’s, Canada) “Fisheries as Systems” (slides ) FRANCOI...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2016/06/slides-from-workshop-on-simulation-of.html

This is a model of individuals constructing, taking apart, using tools, buying and selling objects – a model of making itself. The world of objects is an artificial world of 1D strings, but whe...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2016/02/new-model-model-of-making.html

There are the following opportunities for phd Scholarships at the CPM in Manchester on the following topics: > INTEGRATING DATA MINING AND AGENT-BASED SIMULATION – APPLIED TO > MANCH...

http://cfpm-news.blogspot.com/2016/02/2-abm-phd-scholarships-available.html