Dear All,
As demographers are much concerned about families, we think it could
be
useful to remind that my colleague Alexia Prskawetz and I are
organising
a workshop on agent-based computational demography. This has already
been announced in SIMSOC and the deadline for submissions is over,
but I though (given the interest raised by Edmund message) it could
be useful to point you to that workshop, where some family themes
will
be dealt with.
The call for papers was available at:
http://www.demogr.mpg.de/Events/workshops/workshop_2001_agentbased.htm
On the website of our institute the final program will be posted.
Hopefully, in the future, demographers and family sociologists (in
addition
to anthropologist) will get much more interest in social simulation
and
agent-based modelling.
Best,
Francesco
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Dr. Francesco C. Billari
Head, Independent Research Group on the Demography of Early Adulthood
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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D-18057 Rostock (Germany)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edmund Chattoe" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 1:47 PM
> Subject: Simulating Families?
>
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am looking for simulations which could be said (even loosely) to
> capture
> > family behaviour. At present, the obvious areas are microsimulation and
> the
> > sort of anthropological simulations of family practice exemplified by
> the
> > work of Cathy Small, Dwight Read and others.
> >
> > My two questions are:
> >
> > 1) Have I missed other areas where I ought to look? Is there any CA
> > modelling which attempts differentiated social structure? Multi-Agent
> > models? (Would one say that EOS dealt with families or just
> > undifferentiated "groups"?)
> >
> > 2) Could people direct me towards any microsimulations that more
> > specifically deal with family distribution or other "family relevant"
> > issues? My naive take is that while microsimulation deals with families
> as
> > units of analysis, such models delving into family structure are in
> short
> > supply. (Probably because microsimulation typically avoids behavioural
> > assumptions.)
> >
> > I will summarise findings back to the list.
> >
> > ATB,
> >
> > Edmund
> >
> >
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> > Edmund Chattoe: Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, 3
> George
> > Street Mews, Oxford, Oxon, OX1 2AA, tel: 01865-278833, fax:
> 01865-278831,
> > http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk, Review Editor, J. Artificial Societies
> and
> > Social Simulation (JASSS) http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/, "So act
> as
> > to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in another, always as
> an
> > end, and never as only a means." (Immanuel Kant, Fundamental
> Principles)
> >
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