Current Projects

Experiment Paradigms and Interdisciplinary Projects / Labs

Chun-Liang Chan, http://babel.ling.northwestern.edu/~clc500

Communities of Creation

Brian Uzzi⁽¹⁾, Luis Amaral ⁽²⁾
(1) Management and Organizations, Kellogg
(2) Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick

Dynamics of Governance

Daniel Diermeier⁽¹⁾, Brian Uzzi⁽²⁾, Luis Amaral ⁽³⁾
(1) Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg
(2) Management and Organizations, Kellogg
(3) Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick

Stress as route to deal with the complexity of Alzheimer's disease

R. Morimoto⁽¹⁾ and V. Hatzimanikatis⁽²⁾
(1) Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology
(2) Chemical and Biological Engineering

Principles of White Collar Work Force Management

Wally Hopp⁽¹⁾, Seyed Iravani⁽¹⁾, Brian Uzzi⁽²⁾, Bill Jordan⁽³⁾, and Susan Owen⁽³⁾
(1) Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick
(2) Management and Organizations, Kellogg
(3) GM Research Labs

Group Decision-Making in Online Environments

Daniel Diermeier⁽¹⁾, Timothy J. Feddersen⁽¹⁾, Victoria H. Medvec⁽²⁾
(1) Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg
(2) Management and Organizations, Kellogg

Supply-Chains, Critical Infrastructure, and Political Risks

Daniel Diermeier⁽¹⁾, Sunil Chopra⁽¹⁾, Luis Amaral⁽²⁾
(1) Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg
(2) Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick

Coordination, Social Learning and Ecological Rationality

Daniel Diermeier⁽¹⁾, Sunil Chopra⁽¹⁾, Luis Amaral⁽²⁾
(1) Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg
(2) Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick

Heterogeneous Swarms: Improving on Nature

Kevin Lynch⁽¹⁾, Luis Amaral⁽²⁾, Uri Wilensky^(3,4), Julio M. Ottino^(2,1), Vassily Hatzimanikatis⁽¹⁾, Ian Horswill⁽³⁾
(1) Mechanical Engineering, McCormick
(2) Chemical and Biological Engineering
(3) McCormick, Computer Science
(4) Education and Social Policy

Learning-Centered Design Methodology: Meeting the Nation's Need for Computational Tools for K-12 Science Education

Daniel Edelson⁽¹⁾, Uri Wilensky^{(2, 1)}, and others
(1) Education and Social Policy
(2) McCormick, Computer Science

Integrated Simulation and Modeling: Using Participatory Simulations to Investigate the Complementarity of agent-based and Aggregate Reasoning for Making Sense of Complexity

Uri Wilensky^(1,2) and others
(1) Education and Social Policy
(2) McCormick, Computer Science

Mapping the Political Blogosphere: An Analysis of Large-Scale Online Political Discussions

Eszter Hargittai, Communication Studies
(with Jason Gallo and Sean Zehnder, grad students in Comm Studies)

Procedural Modeling of Urban Activity and Form

Ben Watson & Uri Wilensky

Understanding School Choice Using Agent-based Simulation Techniques

Louis Gomez & Uri Wilensky

Modeling Across the Curriculum

Wilensky et al (from other universities)

Facilitating the Understanding of Complex Adaptive Systems Through Computer Simulations

Wilensky et al (from other universities)