Introduction
The emergence of complex aggregate behaviour from basic rules of engagement between microscopic interacting entities is a common feature of model systems studied in both physics and economics. The workshop aims at presenting an interdisciplinary overview of our understanding of the link between the microscopic interactions and the resulting global behaviour in systems of heterogeneous interacting agents, of the methods used to study it and of the consequences in different fields, in particular from the viewpoint of statistical physics, biology, engineering sciences, social sciences and economics.
We invite registrations from researchers (including Ph.D. students) working in areas broadly related to the focus of the workshop.
Topics
General
- systems of heterogeneous interacting agents
- link between microscopic behaviour and global properties
- emerging collective phenomena and self-organisation
Thematic
- models of financial markets
- novel empirical stylized facts of socio-economic systems
- optimization problems of microeconomics
- static and evolutionary game theory
- systemic fragility and risk management
- economic growth and cycles
- social dynamics, opinion formation and decision making
- supply and production networks
- eco-systems and competitive ecologies
- urban systems and traffic modeling
- peer-to-peer systems and communication networks
Methods
- exact analytical techniques
- computer simulations
- empirical methods
Keynote Speakers
- Guido Caldarelli (INFM-CNR, Roma)
- Vittorio Loreto ("La Sapienza" Univ., Roma)
- Stephan Mertens ("O. Von Guericke" Univ., Magdeburg)
Organizers
- Valentina Alfi (Centro Fermi, Roma)
- Tobias Galla (ICTP, Trieste)
- Matteo Marsili (ICTP, Trieste)
- Luciano Pietronero (ISC-CNR, Roma)