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Esther Van Asselt Member since: Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:59 AM

PhD

Shelby Manney Member since: Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:20 PM

BA - English, BS - Anthropology (Archaeoinformatics - GIS, Applied Stats, Data Mang.,CRM CERT), BFA - Music, BA - Writing & Rhetoric, MA - Technical, Professional, & Science Writing (TPSW - Cert), MS - Cultural Studies in Applied Sciences (Philosophy of Science - Archaeology/Semiotics Focus), MA - Anthropology

General Question:
Without Central Control is self organization possible?

Specific Case:

Considering the seemingly preplanned, densely aggregated communities of the prehistoric Puebloan Southwest, is it possible that without centralized authority (control), that patches of low-density communities dispersed in a bounded landscape could quickly self-organize and construct preplanned, highly organized, prehistoric villages/towns?

Anne Spaulding Member since: Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 02:34 PM

MD MPH

STDs, HIV, Hepatitis C in prison populations

Woo-Seop Yun Member since: Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 05:00 AM

Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, Ph.D Candidate in Industrial Engineering

Patrick Hiesl Member since: Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 07:19 PM

Master of Science in Forest Resources, Bachelor of Sciences in Forest Management

My research focuses on the productivity of harvesting systems in Maine. This research generally includes on the ground observation and the conducting of time and motion studies. I recently started using agent based modelling as a tool to simulate the interaction of various machines and the change in productivity based on specific input variables.

Janice Ser Huay Lee Member since: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 02:48 PM

PhD in Environmental Systems Science

Modeling land use change from smallholder agricultural intensification

Agricultural expansion in the rural tropics brings much needed economic and social development in developing countries. On the other hand, agricultural development can result in the clearing of biologically-diverse and carbon-rich forests. To achieve both development and conservation objectives, many government policies and initiatives support agricultural intensification, especially in smallholdings, as a way to increase crop production without expanding farmlands. However, little is understood regarding how different smallholders might respond to such investments for yield intensification. It is also unclear what factors might influence a smallholder’s land-use decision making process. In this proposed research, I will use a bottom-up approach to evaluate whether investments in yield intensification for smallholder farmers would really translate to sustainable land use in Indonesia. I will do so by combining socioeconomic and GIS data in an agent-based model (Land-Use Dynamic Simulator multi-agent simulation model). The outputs of my research will provide decision makers with new and contextualized information to assist them in designing agricultural policies to suit varying socioeconomic, geographic and environmental contexts.

Károly Takács Member since: Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:46 AM

PhD

My main research interests are the theoretical and experimental analysis of the dynamics of social networks, in relation to problems of cooperation and conflict.

S Johnson Member since: Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 03:43 PM

Biological Sciences, Bioengineering

ABM modelling of molecular and cellular interactions in Lymph Nodes

Noha Nagi Member since: Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 06:44 PM

Bachelor in statistics, Preparing MSC in social science computing

Cinzia Tegoni Member since: Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 04:53 PM Full Member

Water scarcity generated by climate change and mismanagement, affects individual at microlevel and the society and the system at a more general level. The research focuses on irrigation system and their robustness and adaptation capacity to uncertainty. In particular it investigates the evolution of farmers interactions and the effectiveness of policies by means of dynamic game theory and incorporate the results into an Agent Based Model to explore farmers emergent behaviors and the role of an agency in defining policies. Early knowledge of individual decision makers could help the agency to design more acceptable solutions.

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