I present an agent-based model to support the thesis that extreme migration and social conflict can emerge by simply extending the current social and natural conditions, and by replicating simple mechanisms at the individual ...

The current study presents the NormSim Agent-Based Model in MASON. NormSim conducts a computational analysis of the International Relations theory of constructivism. NormSim explores the metastable dynamics of norms ...

Network tomography deals with estimation of computer network features from measurements on links or terminal nodes. The area was pioneered with the work of Vanderbei and Iannonou in 1994 and Vardi in 1996. Of particular ...

Evidence shows that only a small number of entrepreneurial endeavors - high-impact companies - create most of the new employment in the US. This research is looking for the causes of emergence and uses computational ...

Every week, there are more than 50 movies playing in theaters from which movie-goers can choose. Analyses of the relative box office success of these films shows that it is Pareto-distributed, with roughly 20% of them ...

This dissertation expands upon a growing economic literature that uses tools from reinforcement learning and approximate dynamic programming to impose bounded rationality in intertemporal choice problems. My dissertation ...

I provide here a counterpoint to the rational agents that dominate economics: rather than adding rigidities and information limits on an otherwise classical feed-forward agent, I build a new feed-back agent that achieves ...

Complexity science often uses generative models to study and explain the emergent behavior of humans, human culture, and human patterns of social organization. In spite of this, little is known about how the lowest levels ...

Why an individual rebels, why an individual joins collective action, and how that manifests to violence are not new questions, but are questions that continue to pose a significant scientific challenge. It is the role of ...