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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 will be made available below.
The timeline for your project work is as follows:
Download: proposal template (.docx, .doc)
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.
07 - Emergence of Norms and Culture
10 - Friendship Network Formation
17 - Self-organized Criticality
18 - Social Networks Evolution
19 - Task Allocation & Division of Labor
20 - Artificial Financial Markets
"Sponsored" Projects topics:*
26 - Sequential Investment Game
27 - Modeling (Peer) Review in Science
29 - Simulations of Networks in Science
30 - Opinion Dynamics in Science
The following data is available online; for a complete list please click here.
Bloomberg
International real-time data provider for decision makers in finance, business and government.
http://www.bloomberg.com/
Maddison Data
Historical statistics about GDP and population data.
http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/
World Bank
The World Bank Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 socio-economic indicators from World Bank data sets.
http://data.worldbank.org/
International Monetary Found
The IMF publishes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators.
http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm
Living Science
Living Science is a real time global science observatory based on publications submitted to arXiv.org. It covers real time (daily) submissions of publications in areas as diverse as Physics, Astronomy, Computer Science, Mathematics and Quantitative Biology. Currently, contents are dynamically updated each day. Living Science is a powerful analysis tool to identify the magnitude and impact of scientific work worldwide.
http://www.livingscience.ethz.ch/
CPSR of the University of Michigan
ICPSR offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. Disciplines represented include political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, terrorism, health and medical care, early education, education, racial and ethnic minorities, psychology, law, substance abuse and mental health, and more.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/
UK Data Center of the University of Essex
The UK's largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences and humanities.
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
World Value Survey
The World Value Survey provides data about values and cultural changes in societies all over the world.
http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/
CSCW Data on Armed Conflict
CSCW and Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, have collaborated in the production of a dataset of armed conflicts, both internal and external, in the period 1946 to the present. Currently, probably the most extensive dataset repository available, in particular for historic data.
http://www.prio.no/CSCW/Datasets/Armed-Conflict/
ACLED
Partially contained in the PRIO dataset, ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Events Dataset) is designed for disaggregated conflict analysis and crisis mapping. This dataset codes the location of all reported conflict events in 50 countries in the developing world. Data are currently being coded from 1997 to 2009 and the pro ject continues to backdate conflict information for African states to the year of independence.
http://www.acleddata.com/
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.
Opinion formation by "employed agents" in social networks - Author(s): S. Brugger, C. Schwirzer
Trails of Irchelpark. How students walk - Author(s): M. Buehlmann, A. Beitler
Facebook, for Fun and Profit - Author(s): S. Constantinescu, D. Tortel
Pedestrian Dynamics Airplane Evacuation Simulation - Author(s): P. Heer, L. Bühler
Evacuation Bottleneck: Simulation and analysis of an evacuation of a lecture room with MATLAB - Author(s): D. Biner, N. Brun
Simulation of Human Trail Systems in Parks - Author(s): M. Frei, A. Gaemperli
Agent-based Modeling of Language Evolution - Author(s): M. Gomez, S. Menberg
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