Projects

Projects - FS 2011

The research project is the core part of this course. Students are required to implement an established mathematical model from the (sociological or related) literature in MATLAB. The final grade in the course is based on a 15 min. oral presentation and a written 30-40 pages report (including source code) detailing the project.

The project work may be completed in groups of one to three people - we recommend to work at least in pairs such that the work load for each student is not too large. Project topic suggestions with literature reference will be made available below. There will be enough time to select a project among the suggested topics or a topic of a student's choice that is in accordance with the framework of the course. Students are then asked to submit a short proposal detailing their intended research project; a template for the project proposal and an example proposal will be made available below.

Download: proposal template (.docx, .doc)

Project Suggestions - FS 2011

Please find below the alphabetical list of projects topics we suggest this term. Each zip-archive contains one or several papers on the respective topic.

If you have an interesting project idea not listed below that you would like to realize, please approach us with a short but conclusive description of your project idea and provide us with the paper(s) you would like to base the project on.

01 - Artificial Financial Markets

02 - Civil Violence

03 - Collective Behavior

04 - Disaster Spreading

05 - Emergence of Conventions

06 - Emergence of Cooperation

07 - Emergence of Norms and Culture

08 - Emergence of Values

09 - Evacuation Bottleneck

10 - Friendship Network Formation

11 - Innovation Diffusion

12 - Interstate Conflict

13 - Language Formation

14 - Learning

15 - Opinion Formation

16 - Pedestrian Dynamics

17 - Self-organized Criticality

18 - Social Networks Evolution

19 - Specialization/ Division of Labor

20 - Traffic Dynamics

21 - Trail Formation

22 - Wikipedia

"Sponsored" Projects proposals:

23 - Modeling (Peer) Review in Science

24 - Sequential Investment Game

* sponsored means that these topics are active research at SOMS or DBGT (Decision and Behavioral Game Theory) chairs and projects in these areas are highly welcome. Students who decide to engage in these topics can receive special support throughout the course, but are at the same time expected to be highly motivated and to produce better quality results (given the extra support). It is an exceptional opportunity to match a didactic and research experience.

Project Reports - HS 2010

The files below contain an assortment of project reports from the previous semester. Please look through some of the reports to get an idea for the kind of work we are expecting from you. Note that we are very aware of the projects that have been previously completed in the course and we want to remind you that copying of previously submitted work will result in automatic failure of the course.

Agent Based Financial Markets Model - Author(s): F. Müller-Reiter, M. Wyss

Modeling Civil Violence_- Author(s): A. Grimm, M. Koller, Z. Solèr

Train Boarding Platform Simulation_- Author(s): D. Graf, M. Krebs

Modeling the 2010 Love Parade Evacuation - Author(s): C. Fougner, J. Guthrie

Innovation Diffusion - Author(s): F. Oberholzer, J. Süess

Language Formation - Author(s): A. Apostolou, D. Bolis

Opinion Formation in a Continuous Network-based Model - Author(s): J. Hildebrand, J. Bär, R. Fuchs

Performance of strong and weak link networks in opinion formations - Author(s): M. Vetter, P. Sornette, J. B. Heimsoeth

Division of Labour in Insect Societies - Author(s): A. Stamp, K. Wang

Fuel Consumption on a single lane highway under variable traffic densities - Author(s): P. Benedek, T. Meier

Traffic Dynamics, Comparison of single-lane and two-lane roundabouts - Author(s): D. Eugster, R. Fuchs

Formation of Human Trail Systems - Author(s): J. Pfefferle, N. Pleschko

Modeling Knowledge Sharing - Author(s): E. Aksüyek, H. Garriga

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