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24.08.2018 | COSS, Conferences and Workshops

Evangelos Pournaras gives a talk at GI Dagstuhl seminar on Self-Adaptive Learning

Evangelos Pournaras gives a talk at the GI Dagstuhl seminar, titled 'Self-adaptive Learning in Decentralized Combinatorial Optimization'. The talk took place at Schloss Dagstuhl, August 19 – 24, 2018.

26.04.2018 | Conferences and Workshops

Nax co-organizes a workshop held at EPFL on “Economics and Computation”

Heinrich Nax is co-organizing a workshop titled "Computation and Society". The workshop will be held at the Bernoulli Center, EPFL, on the 22nd  of May, 2018.  

05.02.2018 | Awards, COSS

Heinrich H. Nax wins a Heinz Sauermann Prize

Heinrich H. Nax was awarded a Heinz Sauermann Prize in support of his experimental research in economics by the German association for experimental economics (Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung).    

Talks

10.12.2018

Nax gives a talk on “Noise and learning: An experimental perspective” at the Learning, Games and Networks Seminar at Nuffield College, University of Oxford (UK) on 12.02.2019.

Heinrich Nax will be giving a talk on “Noise and learning: An experimental perspective” at the Learning, Games and Networks Seminar at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, on February 12, 2019.

10.12.2018

Nax gives a talk on “Dynamics in Buyer-Seller Markets: Theory and Experimental Evidence” at the Rodeo Seminar at Ca’Foscari University in Venice (IT) on 12.12.2018

Heinrich Nax will be giving a talk on “Dynamics in Buyer-Seller Markets: Theory and Experimental Evidence” at the Rodeo Seminar at Ca’Foscari University in Venice on 12.12.2018. 

08.11.2018

Nax gives a talk at the annual Rational Choice Sociology meetings on San Servolo (IT) on 13.11.2018

Heinrich Nax will be giving a talk at the annual Rational Choice Sociology meetings on the island of San Servolo, Italy. The conference takes place from the 12th to the 15th of November 2018. Nax will speak about the so-called “Dictator Games” and the various ways they are used in experimental economics.

Videos

Selected publications

Kleineberg, K. K. (2017). Metric clusters in evolutionary games on scale-free networks. Nature Communications, 8(1), 1888.

Richard P. Mann and Dirk Helbing (2017) Optimal incentives for collective intelligence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS).

Stefano Balietti, Robert L. Goldstone, and Dirk Helbing (2016). Peer review and competition in the Art Exhibition Game. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 201603723.

Dirk Helbing and Evangelos Pournaras. (2015). Build Digital Democracy. Nature 527: 33-34.

Heinrich H. Nax, Matjaž Perc, Attila Szolnoki and Dirk Helbing. (2015). Stability of cooperation under image scoring in group interactions. Scientific Reports 5: 12145.

Lucas Böttcher, Olivia Woolley-Meza, Nuno A.M. Araujo, Hans J. Herrmann and Dirk Helbing. (2015). Disease-Induced Resource Constraints Can Trigger Explosive Pandemics Scientific Reports 5: 16571

Media Responses

23.03.2018

Prof. Helbing: "Befreien wir uns endlich aus der Big Brother Welt!"

Professor Dirk Helbing wrote an essay for the German daily newspaper Die Süddeutsche Zeitung where he discusses the recent Facebook data breach and the problems that we might face in our digital society.

29.01.2018

Der Standard: airline connections and the spread of flu

An Article published by Der Standard details Dirk Helbing's research on the relationship between airline connections and the spread of the flu virus.

29.01.2018

Blick: track the spread of flu by crowdsourcng

The Swiss daily newspaper Blick discusses an ETH initiative to track the spread of flu at local level by crowdsourcing data using a dedicated website and app.

Essays

23.03.2018

Prof. Helbing: "Befreien wir uns endlich aus der Big Brother Welt!"

Professor Dirk Helbing wrote an essay for the German daily newspaper Die Süddeutsche Zeitung where he discusses the recent Facebook data breach and the problems that we might face in our digital society.

01.06.2016

Behavioural Control or Digital Democracy? - A Digital Manifesto

An english version of the Digital Manifesto: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Big Nudging, and Cybernetic Society: Is the automation of society coming? A joint appeal to secure freedom and democracy.

01.05.2016

Why we need democracy 2.0 and capitalism 2.0 to survive

Read an article published in jusletter-it.eu about opportunities stemming from growth of data-driven societies.  

Books

Books published by Prof. Dirk Helbing Amazon.com: The Automation of Society is Next: How to Survive the Digital RevolutionSpringer.com: Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market SocietySpringer.com: Social Self-OrganizationSpringer.com: Quantitative Sociodynamics