Research

The Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, focuses on social systems from the point of view of complexity science, especially issues of emergence, self-organization, and network-related dynamics.
Further focus areas are human interaction and coordination in space and time, quantitative sociodynamics, behavior of crowds and masses, pedestrian dynamics and panic, multi-agent simulation, self-organization and collective intelligence in complex systems, artificial societies, game theory, behavioral and decision models, robust organizations and disaster response management. In addition, problems of information flows, of time scales, and timing for functional and organizational issues are tackled with theoretical and experimental methods.