- Simulations of social practices, institutions, and concrete social systems and phenomena
- Clarification of the notions of intention, joint intention, joint attitude and related notions by means of computer models and simulation
- Conceptual and philosophical work related to these issues.
The group cooperates with the group "THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL ACTION", see URL. It recently got a little parallel computer PowerXplorer (Parsytec) on which parallel versions of various sequential programs will be implemented and run.
Each active member has her/his own partition, to which you may click.
Present participants:
Click: Prof.Dr. Wolfgang Balzer
Click: MA Karl Brendel
Click: MA Solveig Hofmann
Click: Dr.Thomas Pitz
Click: Dr. Dieter Will
Click: List of References
Summary of ongoing activities:
a) Sequential Programs:
- A distributed program repeating the formation of solidarity based
on a sequential program by Hegselmann (Brendel)
- A program for the simulation of a particular social practise (Hofmann)
- A program for the simulation of exchange based on action types and genetic algorithms (Pitz)
- A program for the simulation of Crises based on action types (Will)
- An economic 3P simulation program (production, predation, protection) (Balzer in cooperation with Alain Albert, University of Hull, Canada)
Main contact: Wolfgang Balzer balzer@lrz.uni-muenchen.de