NSF Award Abstract - #9820872| NSF Award Abstract - #9820872 |
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| NSF Org | IIS |
| Latest Amendment Date | March 6, 2001 |
| Award Number | 9820872 |
| Award Instrument | Continuing grant |
| Program Manager |
C. Suzanne Iacono IIS DIV OF INFORMATION & INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CSE DIRECT FOR COMPUTER & INFO SCIE & ENGINR |
| Start Date | June 1, 1999 |
| Expires | June 30, 2002 (Estimated) |
| Expected Total Amount | $289875 (Estimated) |
| Investigator |
Joshua M. Epstein jepstein@brook.edu (Principal Investigator current) Robert L. Axtell (Co-Principal Investigator current) |
| Sponsor |
Brookings Institution 1775 Mass Ave NW Washington, DC 200362188 202/797-6000 |
| NSF Program | 6850 Digital Society&Technologies; |
| Field Application | |
| Program Reference Code | 9216,HPCC, |
This award supports the use of agent-based models to study the emergence of multi-agent institutions in society and to test these models against data. The computational approach taken here departs from perfectly rational models in favor of boundedly rational models and non-equilibrium dynamics. The models are inherently concerned with social interactions and the ways in which institutions (and social norms and conformity effects) emerge out of those interactions. Five models will be developed including: the Long House Valley Anasazi from 800 AD to their disappearance in 1300 AD; crime rates; retirement decision-making; the distribution of firm sizes; and institutions of governance. These models will advance scientific knowledge about multi-agent systems, simulation and anthropology as well as contribute to policy-making about criminal, retirement and organizational behaviors.
