The 4th UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems was held from Wednesday April 25, 2007 through Sunday April 29, 2007.

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 47 presenters from numerous disciplines presented along with two symposia and a panel discussion. Please find below the conference program and a selection of papers.

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Notes from the National Science Foundation complex systems initiative:
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Presenter: Brian Tivnan
Title: Phase Change Behavior
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Title: Docking Models in Organizational Science
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Presenter: Bridget Rosewell
Title: Urban Growth: Emergent Stylized Facts from Zero Cognition Agent Models
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Presenter: Carl Tolander
Title: A Garden of Models
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Presenter: Dario Nardi
Title: Social Neuroscience: Lessons from Exploring Agents' Minds
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Presenter: Eugenio Dante Suarez
Title: Shared Terminology in Social Science Fields Using Multi-agent Simulations
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Presenter: Ioannis Katerelos
Title: Seeking Equilibrium leads to Chaos: Multiple Equilibria Regulation Model
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Title: Is Prediction Possible? Chaotic Behavior of Multiple Equilibria Regulation Model in Cellular Automata Topology
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Presenter: James Girard
Title: High Fidelity Crowd Simulations Using COTS Tools
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Title: Toward Verified Agents Using Sequential Analysis
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Presenter: Jennifer Watkins
Title: Prediction Markets as an Aggregation Mechanism for Collective Intelligence
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Presenter: Jessica Turnley
Title: An Approach to Validation of Computational Models of Social Phenomena
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Presenter: Jonathan Ozik and David Sallach
Title: Interpretive Heatbugs: Aggressive Acts and Voluntary Contributions
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Presenter: Klaus Jaffe
Title: The simulation model Sociodynamica illustrates business like features emerging from interactions between altruistic compassion, egoistic cooperation, punishment and shame
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Presenter: Lawrance Kuznar
Title: Predicting Risky Behavior in Tribal Societies: Validating Decision Paradigms and Exploring Models
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Presenter: Laura McNamara
Title: Verification and Validation as Applied Epistemology
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Presenter: Michael Fischer
Title: Agent Hyperadaptation: Culture, Technology and Tools
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Presenter: Nick Malleson
Title: An Agent-based Model of Burglary in Leeds
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Presenter: Rich Colbaugh and Kristin Glass
Title: Predictability and Prediction of Social Processes with Low Cognition Agents
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Presenter: Robert Marks
Title: Minimalism & Model-building: An Assured Model of the Exchanges between Consumers, Retailers & Manufacturers
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Presenter: Stephen Guerin et. al.
Title: Crowd Dynamics: Agent-Based Modeling of Stadium Evacuation - Technical discussion
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Title: Playing in the Sandbox: particatory agent-based modeling with tangible interfaces
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Presenter: William Penuel, Lia Dibello, Margaret Riel, Nora Sabelli
Title: Analyzing School as Complex Systems: Institutional and Organizational Perspectives on Educational Change
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Presenter: W.F. Lawless
Title: Organizational Metrics with the Quantum Approach: Constructing an Organization of Quantum Agents
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Presenter: William Rouse
Title: Complex Systems: Phenomena, Characteristics & Research Questions
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General Questions:
For questions, corrections, comments and such for this and other UCLA Lake Arrowhead Human Complex Systems conferences, please contact...

Dario Nardi
Conference Coordinator
darionardi@msn.com