3rd Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems
conference recap

The 3rd UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems was held from Wednesday May 18, 2005 through Sunday May 22, 2005.

This conference, which is held every two years, is a cross-disciplinary gathering of social scientists who employ agent modeling and related computational ideas and methods in their research and teaching. This year, more than 34 presenters from numerous disciplines presented along with panel discussions. Please find below the conference program and a selection of papers.

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Presenter: Russ Abbott
Title: Challenges for Biologically Inspired Computing
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Presenter: Britt Cartrite
Title: Modeling Succession Crises in Authoritarian Regimes: Beyond 'Slime Mold' Complexity
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Presenter: Rich Colbaugh, Kristin Glass, Paul Ormerod and Bridget Rosewell
Title: Knowledge and Cognition in the Social Sciences: Modeling with Low Cognition Agents
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Presenter: Owen Densmore and Stephen Guerin
Title: Man on Fire: Crowd Dynamics at Zozobra, Santa Fe’s Burning Man
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Presenter: Jason Finley
Title: Desirable Difficulties: Learning, Teaching, & Collaboratively Bridging
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Presenter: Cheng-shan Frank Liu
Title: Opinion Leaders and the Flows of Citizens’ Political Preferences: An Assessment with Agent-based Models
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Presenter: Dario Nardi
Title: Modeling Agent Personality, Metabolism and Environment without Boundaries, Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
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Presenter: Jessica Turnley
Title: Validation Issues in Computational Social Simulation
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Presenter: Marco Villani
Title: Iscom Innovation Model
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Dario Nardi
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