From Many-Particle Physics to Multi-Agent Systems

Workshop II: Multi-Agent Systems - Swarms, Ecology, and Society
(August 30 - September 03, 2004)

Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS), Dresden, Germany

Participants are expected to arrive SUNDAY, August 29th, during the day

REGISTRATION: At the MPIPKS, Sunday 29th, between 18:00 and 20:00.

Snacks and drinks will be served following the REGISTRATION.

Please click on the names in the table or on the talk titles to see the abstract!


 MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
08:45 - 09:00Opening    
09:00 - 09:45RubensteinDeneubourgBonabeauSaamSan Miguel
09:45 - 10:30NagelSimpsonHelbingAhrweilerBrückner
10:30 - 11:00CoffeeCoffeeCoffeeCoffeeCoffee
11:00 - 11:30CarvalhoKrauseBattistonEbelingHarder
11:30 - 12:00ShnerbChatéHahnLorenzHassas
12:00 - 12:30SzaboHemelrijkRichiardiNamatame 
12:30 - 14:30LunchLunchLunchLunchLunch
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30
Sumpter
Tutorial: Brückner
"Implementing Swarming in Real-World Applications"
 
Coffee
Posters
Working Groups
"MAS and collective motion"
(lead by Couzin & Sumpter)
"MAS in the social sciences"
(lead by Ahrweiler & Hemelrijk)
Coffee
Working group reports and plenary discussion
Excursion
Fent
Platkowski
Bradley
Coffee
Tutorial: Grimm
"Agent-based Models in Ecology and Natural Resource Management"
Departure


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Monday


(08:45 - 09:00) Opening by Frank Schweitzer/Jan-Michael Rost
(09:00-09:45) Dan Rubenstein, The dynamics of multi-agent systems in space and time: comparing idealized with real animals
(09:45-10:30) Kai Nagel, Large scale multi-agent traffic simulations
(10:30-11:00) Coffee Break
(11:00-11:30) Rui Carvalho, Agent-based modelling of urban change: from regional to small scale events
(11:30-12:00) Nadav Shnerb, Threshold, noise and adaptation in multi agent reactive systems
(12:00-12:30) Gyorgy Szabo, Competing associations in spatial predator-prey models
(12:30-14:30) Lunch
(14:30-15:00) David Sumpter, Multi-agent decision making: lessons from the ants
(15:00-16:00) TUTORIAL: Sven Brückner, Implementing Swarming in Real-World Applications
(16:00-16:30) Coffee Break
(16:30-17:30) POSTER SESSION (useful information)
 
  • Hoi-Yeung Chan
    Dynamical transitions in agent-based models of competing population
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  • Niloy Ganguly
    A biology-inspired multi-agent system for efficient search of unstructured networks
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  • Petr Hedbavny
    A viable pension reform: The importance of mechanisms which promote listening to each other
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  • Fernando Peruani
    Mimicking swarming of Myxobacteria: collective behavior of active Brownian particles with rod-shape
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  • Diemo Urbig
    Opinion Dynamics and Innovation Diffusion
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  • Harold de Vladar
    Tumor growth velocities inferred from survival analysis: Linking microscopic tumor dynamics to cancer prognosis
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  • Jürgen Vollmer
    Vortex formation in Daphnia swarms
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  • Jamie Wood
    One-dimensional flocks revisited: results from the O'Loan and Evans model
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    Tuesday


    (09:00-09:45) Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Communal decision-making and patterns of aggregation
    (09:45-10:30) Steve Simpson, Swarming in locusts: from neurones to populations
    (10:30-11:00) Coffee Break
    (11:00-11:30) Jens Krause, Social networks in group-living animals
    (11:30-12:00) Hugues Chaté, Moving and staying together without a leader: Minimal ingredients for collective and cohesive motion
    (12:00-12:30) Charlotte Hemelrijk, Despotism, Boldness and Female Dominance: a Model
    (12:30-14:30) Lunch
    (14:30-16:00) WORKING GROUPS
    Multi-agent systems and collective motion
    (lead by Iain Couzin & David Sumpter)
    Multi-agent systems and the social sciences
    (lead by Petra Ahrweiler & Charlotte Hemelrijk)
    (16:00-16:30) Coffee Break
    (16:30-17:30) Working Group reports and plenary discussion

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    Wednesday

    (09:00-09:45) Eric Bonabeau, Real-world applications of multi-agent simulations
    (09:45-10:30) Dirk Helbing, Interactive decision dynamics: Theories and experiments
    (10:30-11:00) Coffee Break
    (11:00-11:30) Stefano Battiston, Networks of social agents and decision making dynamics in organizations
    (11:30-12:00) Christian Hahn, Improving Theory: Building Robust Organizational Forms for Holonic Multiagent Systems
    (12:00-12:30) Matteo Richiardi, Generalizing Gibrat
    Reasonable stochastic multiplicative models of firm dynamics with entry and exit
    (12:30-14:30) Lunch
    (15:00-...) Guided City Tour and Dinner at Restaurant Waldschlösschen

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    Thursday

    (09:00-09:45) Nicole Saam, Simulating Intergovernmental Negotiations with MAS
    (09:45-10:30) Petra Ahrweiler, Simulating knowledge dynamics in innovation networks using MAS
    (10:30-11:00) Coffee Break
    (11:00-11:30) Werner Ebeling, Stochastic Models of Socio-economic Processes: Innovations and Transitions to New Technologies
    (11:30-12:00) Jan Lorenz, Continuous Opinion Dynamics formulated in Matrix Language and its Relation to Swarms
    (12:00-12:30) Akira Namatame, Evolutionary design of desired collective behavior
    (12:30-14:30) Lunch
    (14:30-15:00) Thomas Fent, Social influence on marriage: an agent based model
    (15:00-15:30) Tadeusz Platkowski, Some experimental and numerical results on Minority Game
    (15:30-16:00) Jeremy Bradley, Internet Worm Attacks and Stochastic Agent Models
    (16:00-16:30) Coffee Break
    (16:30-17:30) TUTORIAL: Volker Grimm, Agent-based Models in Ecology and Natural Resource Management

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    Friday

    (09:00-09:45) Maxi San Miguel, Neighborhood models of minority opinion spreading
    (09:45-10:30) Sven Brückner, The Swarm in the Box - Systematic Simulations for the Evaluation of Engineered Swarming Systems
    (10:30-11:00) Coffee Break
    (11:00-11:30) Uli Harder, An agent-based model for price dynamics in a GRID market
    (11:30-12:00) Salima Hassas, Managing dynamic flows in production chains through self-organization
    (12:30-14:30) Lunch

    last updated: August 31, 2004