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The locations listed below focus on human complex systems including multiagent simulation, evolutionary models, computational biology, organizational complexity, and systems science. Many of these are centers or institutes where graduate students may apply for internships away from their home institution or home department. A few such as Portland State University offer MS and PhD programs. And some are located in the United Kingdom, a major location for HCS-related studies. Please contact us to add to this list. WITHIN CALIFORNIA
Institute of Computational Biology Bioinformatics is the study of the inherent structure of biological information and biological systems. It brings together the avalanche of systematic biological data (e.g. genomes) with the analytic theory and practical tools of mathematics and computer science. Institute for Creative Technologies "The USC Institute for Creative Technologies
[ICT] will be a joint effort of the Army, the entertainment industry and
academe — an innovative team to advance dazzling new media and ultimately
benefit training and education for everyone in America." -Honorable Louis
Caldera Secretary of the Army 18 August 1999 Information Sciences Institute ISI is involved in a broad spectrum of information processing research and in the development of advanced computer and communication technologies. The Institute maintains a synergistic relationship with the School of Engineering, particularly the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. ISI benefits from interaction with the faculty of USC and other local universities, and in turn provides opportunities for research and Ph.D. thesis supervision to graduate students from these universities. Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences Over recent decades, major advances in three sets of technologies (geographic information systems, the Global Positioning System, and remote sensing) have provided dramatic new insights into patterns, processes, and changes on the Earth's surface. Although many disciplines have adopted these technologies and use them successfully for a variety of inquiries, fewer social and behavioral scientists have begun to use them on a significant scale. To accelerate the adoption and use of these technologies, a national center based at the University of California-Santa Barbara will focus on the methods, tools, techniques, software, data access, and other services needed to promote and facilitate a novel and integrating spatially enabled approach to the social and behavioral sciences. The center will build on the efforts of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, engaging in six core programs that are targeted across the full spectrum from inductive, exploratory science to theory-based, confirmatory science. National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure A profound transformation is taking place in how computational science is conducted. Dramatic advances in technology are allowing researchers to form geographically distributed teams and permitting studies of phenomena that have been considered too complex to attempt. NPACI is leading this transformation by creating a ubiquitous, continuous, and pervasive national computational infrastructure. Supercomputers with speeds of hundreds of gigaflops are increasingly common and multiple teraflops are imminent. Petaflops speed is perhaps 15 years away. Communication links have speeds on the order of hundreds of megabits per second today, and within a few years, the speeds will reach tens of gigabits per second. Along with software developments and more sophisticated networks, these advances make it possible to design and implement an extremely powerful infrastructure, or computational grid. CASSEL - California Social Science Experimental Laboratory The laboratory consists of 70 subject workstations (expandable to 120), and will be open to researchers in the social sciences, including economics, political science, sociology, anthropology and marketing. It draws from a large, diverse group of UCLA undergraduates as subjects. Because of its large size, CASSEL will address questions about learning, preferences, and the behavior of groups that cannot be examined in smaller labs. As well as an on-site laboratory, CASSEL will conduct web based experiments. CASSEL recently completed construction and is formallly. Fielding Graduate University Appropriate for students interested in management and/or human behavior. Offers masters and PhD degrees in areas of psychology and organizational development. Fielding takes a system approach to understanding people and organizations, an approach in line with principles of human complex systems. ELSEWHERE IN USA Center for the Study of Complex Systems CSCS supports weekly seminar series, research workshops, a summer program, an annual symposium on complex systems, designed for a general academic audience, and an annual adaptive systems workshop in collaboration with the Santa Fe Institute. CSCS also sponsors a series of interdisciplinary research interest groups. CSCS provides a computer lab with software for modeling and analyzing complex systems. Through the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, CSCS also offers a graduate curriculum in complex systems leading to a Graduate Certificate in Complex Systems. This is an interdisciplinary graduate program designed to familiarize students with the ideas and methods of complex systems. There also are courses of study appropriate for undergraduate students. Santa Fe Institute The Santa Fe Institute is a private, non-profit, multidisciplinary research and education center, founded in 1984. Since its founding SFI has devoted itself to creating a new kind of scientific research community, pursuing emerging science. Operating as a small, visiting institution, SFI seeks to catalyze new collaborative, multidisciplinary projects that break down the barriers between the traditional disciplines, to spread its ideas and methodologies to other individuals and encourage the practical applications of its results. Systems Science PhD program Systems Science is the study and application of general methods of problem solving and general principles governing systems of widely differing types. Systems concepts and techniques are extensively used for both applied and research purposes. In industry and government, considerable demand exists for professionals who are skilled in modern methods of decision making and systems design and who are capable of managing complex social and technical systems. In mathematics, engineering, business administration, and the natural and social sciences, systems theorists continue to make important contributions to the growth of knowledge within academic disciplines and to the application of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries. New England Complex Systems Institute NECSI was established as a joint effort of faculty of New England academic institutions for the advancement of communication and collaboration outside of institutional and departmental boundaries. NESCI is an independent educational and research institution dedicated to advancing the study of complex systems. Complex systems have multiple interacting components whose collective behavior cannot be simply inferred from the behavior of components. The recognition that understanding the parts cannot explain collective behavior has led to various new concepts and methodologies that are affecting all fields of science and engineering, and are being applied to technology, business and even social policy. Argonne National Laboratory's Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization: The Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) program is actively involved with agent-based modeling (ABM) of physical, economic and social systems. Our current efforts include work on the Spot Market Agent Research Tools (SMART) and the Flexible Agent Simulation Toolkit (FAST). Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems Computational analysis is significantly impacting the way groups, organizations, and societies are managed and organizational decisions and policies evaluated. Research in the computational organizational area is re-shaping the way we think about organizational design, learning and adaptation.Improved measures of organizational design and performance are being developed. Computational models of organizations are starting to be used as consulting tools to address, via what-if analysis, how organizational performance and effectiveness might be altered... Groups, organizations, and societies are inherently computational and computational multi-agent systems are inherently organizational. Chaos and Complexity Cornell University is pleased to announce an interdisciplinary graduate training program in nonlinear systems... The subject of nonlinear systems is wonderfully broad, with important applications in fields ranging from physics and mechanical engineering to medicine and finance. However, this breadth is rarely conveyed in a traditional Ph.D. program. A mathematics student studying dynamical systems is unlikely to cross paths with an immunologist studying AIDS, or an electrical engineer studying soliton propagation in an optical fiber - yet they are all investigating nonlinear phenomena. Systems Science PhD program Offers MS and PhD programs in Systems Science. Specializations include (i) Intelligent Systems, (ii) Manufacturing Systems, and (iii) Biosystems. Research areas include, uncertainty, fuzzy logic, optimization, and intelligent systems. Social Informatics Social Informatics (SI) refers to the body of research and study that examines social aspects of computerization -- including the roles of information technology in social and organizational change and the ways that the social organization of information technologies are influenced by social forces and social practices. SI includes studies and other analyses that are labelled as social impacts of computing, social analysis of computing, studies of computer-mediate communication (CMC), information policy, "computers and society," organizational informatics, interpretive informatics, and so on. IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Center for Research on Simulation in the Social Sciences CRESS, the Centre for Research on Simulation in the Social Sciences aims to support the use of simulation by social scientists. It draws together and promote current research on the application and benefits of simulation methods across the social sciences.
Edinburgh Social Informatics Site Social informatics is the interdisciplinary study of the design and uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that takes account of their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts. Social Informatics refers to the body of knowledge about, and the use of information technologies as influenced by institutional arrangements, social forces and organisational practices. Division of Informatics Informatics is the study of the structure, behaviour, and interactions of both natural and artificial computational systems. Informatics studies the representation, processing, and communication of information in natural and artificial systems. It has computational, cognitive and social aspects. The central notion is the transformation of information - whether by computation or communication, whether by organisms or artifacts. An Atlas of Cyberspaces This is an atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other emerging Cyberspaces. These maps of Cyberspaces - cybermaps - help us visualise and comprehend the new digital landscapes beyond our computer screen, in the wires of the global communications networks and vast online information resources. The cybermaps, like maps of the real-world, help us navigate the new information landscapes, as well being objects of aesthetic interest. They have been created by 'cyber-explorers' of many different disciplines, and from all corners of the world. Some of the maps you will see in the Atlas of Cyberspaces will appear familiar, using the cartographic conventions of real-world maps, however, many of the maps are much more abstract representations of electronic spaces, using new metrics and grids. The atlas comprises fourteen pages, covering different types of cybermaps. Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) is an initiative within University College London to develop emerging computer technologies in several disciplines which deal with geography, space, location and the built environment. The kinds of computation involved cover geographic information systems (GIS), computer-aided architectural design, spatial analysis and simulation and methodologies of planning and decision support. CASA is currently undertaking several Research projects which deal with spatial problems - these range from the linking of urban design to GIS to online multi-user environments. |