GSD workshop: Agent-based Modelling for Sustainable Development

Date: April 2-4 2009
Venue: Venice, Italy
Organisers: Kristian Lindgren, Carlo Jaeger, Claes Andersson and Aida Abdulah

A joint GSD and ECF workshop.

 A review of the Venice workshop

Read Yulia Timoshkina’s thoughts on the workshop on the GSD blog

Input material from the workshop participants:

• Nicola Botta, Antoine Mandel, Cezar Ionescu and Carlo Jaeger:
  “Computational patterns in exchange economy models”
• Rumen Gechev:
  “Practical Relevance of Price vs. Non-Price Policies for Sustainability”
• Klaus Hasselmann:
  “What to do? Does science have a role?”
• Jennifer F. Helgeson:
  “A Case for Green Buildings – How can we employ Principal Agent Modeling”
• John Finnigan:
  ‘The Science of Complex Systems’
• Julian Hunt, Steven Bishop and Yulia Timoshkina:
  “A Systems Approach for Critical Decisions”
• Carlo Jaeger:
  “Mathematics and the Social Sciences: The Challenge Ahead”
• Wiebke Lass:
  “Report – Towards the next generation of climate policy models”
• Dr Pascal Perez:
  “Multi-Agent Based Simulation”
• Carlo Savoretti:
  “Summary of a research project on Computational Economics and artificial markets for greenhouse gases emission rights”