Graduate Workshop in Complexity and Computational Modeling
Homework Problem (2018)
Past homework problems: Standing ovation (1995-97),
Is that seat taken? (1998),
You ought to be in pictures (1999),
Cocktail party (2000),
Deja vu (2001),
Network news (2002),
Fire (2003),
Go Lance (2004),
Your turn (2005),
Now boarding (2006),
My space (2007),
Up and down (2008),
Weekend at Bernie's (2009),
Why won't cannibals eat clowns (2010),
Field of dreams (2011),
Spring is in the air (2012),
Ask your doctor (2013),
Spin doctors (2014),
Organizing solutions (2015),
New McDonald (2016), and
Trust me (2017).
It's in the ether
Consider the following situation:
Agents, connected to one another via a network, want to exchange information.
Each agent has a choice of whether to send high or low quality information, and it takes
some time to verify the quality. Model how information and trust flows on the network
(with and without the possibility of collusion).
Model, using whatever techniques you wish, the above scenario.
- Explicitly state your model and key assumptions.
- Summarize key results.
- Suggest some potentially interesting future directions and
questions for the model.
Suggest some standard social science scenarios that could be
usefully modeled using such a process.
Potential Solutions (to submit your solution, email them to
miller@santafe.edu---please
note that students
at the Graduate Workshop were given a very limited time
to complete their homework):
John H. Miller ,
miller@santafe.edu.