Wednesday morning was the main reason I was here - the symposium on "Agent-Based Modelling of Land-use Effects", organised by Gary Polhill.

The second day at US-IALE was mostly taken up with the Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) discussion.

This week I'm attending the US-IALE conference in Snowbird, Utah, with the tagline "Coupling Humans and Complex Ecological Landscapes".

Started off in the Social Networks and Multi-Agent Systems room again, a talk by Davide Donetto, about "The emergence of shared social representations in complex networks". He talked about the difference between "reified" roles, which are selected by rules according to competences, and "consensual" roles, which are freely chosen by the agents. His model involved a social network of agents, constructed with a small world distribution, so that when a new node is added, the probability of it linking to an existing node is proportional to the share of the links that node has:

I'm attending AISB09 in Edinburgh, talking about "Adaptive and Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems"

I started in the Social Networks and Multi Agent Systems symposium, with "Leon van der Torre and Serena Villata. Four Ways to Change Coalitions: Agents, Dependencies, Norms and Internal Dynamics". They're looking at the way coalitions change, in groups of agents represented using dependence networks.