MarioPaolucci's Blog

you! check out these papers!

Network Studies of Social Influence by MARSDEN and FRIEDKIN Sociological Methods Research.1993; 22 127-151

A Structural Theory of Social Influence by Noah E. Friedkin

Social influence and opinions by NE Friedkin, EC Johnsen - Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1990


Kollock, P. The production of trust in online markets. In Advances in Group Processes, vol. 16, E. Lawler, M. Macy, S. Thyne, and H. Walker, Eds. JAI Press, Greenwich, CT, 1999; see also www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/f aculty/kollock/papers/online_trust.htm.

The Limits of Trust in Economic Transactions-Investigations of Perfect Reputation Systems by GE BOLTON, A OCKENFELS

Posted on 2008-11-26 17:15:06, 0 comments. Read this article.
A clash of names

This was funny - searching for information on the PERPLEXUS project I found two paper with exactly the same name but different authors; the second one came very near to referencing the first (references other papers by the same authors) but clearly missed them. Google for "Conformist Transmission and the Evolution of Cooperation".

Anyway as for today it's impossible to download any significant perplexus paper.. this leave me, ah, hum. I'll spare you the pun.

Posted on 2008-10-23 14:09:10, 0 comments. Read this article.
PhD comics

A nice discovery. This one could be the epitaph for my "secret" reading club: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=963

Posted on 2008-10-14 16:37:25, 0 comments. Read this article.
How to write a scientific paper.

In Italy we completely lack this kind of writing education. And some students need it. So, this paper on how to write http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/ug/research/paper.html will be the object of the next reading club meeting.

Posted on 2008-08-29 14:00:25, 0 comments. Read this article.
What it means to be human

To get rid of one parasite we apparently stopped building a specific molecule, but we keep eating that in meat.

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080702/full/454021a.html

Posted on 2008-07-03 08:58:01, 0 comments. Read this article.
Sokal affair

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

"The Sokal affair (also Sokal's hoax) was a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal perpetrated on the editorial staff and readership of the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text "

we should do the same for EC project..

Posted on 2008-07-01 08:14:41, 0 comments. Read this article.
SIMSOC: how intelligent are our agents?
Posted on 2008-07-01 07:40:56, 0 comments. Read this article.
Simulation and Statistics

How to analyze simulation results? The techniques currently in use are quite naive (checking JASSS would show). Textbooks have no statistics section. I'd like to collect papers about this issue - starting with

http://www.citeulike.org/user/MarioPaolucci/article/2836950

Posted on 2008-05-27 10:36:42, 0 comments. Read this article.
About models and mechanisms

This (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/reviews/manzo.html) interesting review of a book from Nigel (check the last paragraph) made me look into this paper from Bunge: http://www.citeulike.org/user/MarioPaolucci/article/2772384. This wil be the object of a next reading club meeting.

Posted on 2008-05-08 16:33:01, 0 comments. Read this article.
A Blog on Reputation

Come dicevo... bisogna pubblicizzare la conferenza anche qui

http://mobblog.cs.ucl.ac.uk/

Posted on 2008-05-08 16:15:43, 0 comments. Read this article.
SIMSOC: Simulation, DES vs. ABS models
Posted on 2008-04-17 14:58:34, 0 comments. Read this article.
Chapter on Reputation and Web 2.0

I propose to collect the biblio here. The trick is that we will use a unique tag: MurugesanWeb2.0Chapter.

We can destroy the tag after the chapter is done.

Posted on 2008-04-12 11:59:36, 0 comments. Read this article.
the beginning!

I'm starting this blog to discuss papers, mainly in the context of the eRep project - but this seems also a good place to start some other work.

Posted on 2008-04-12 11:52:52, 0 comments. Read this article.