Call for Papers to ECPR panel: The panel ‘Computational Institutional Analysis of Bureaucracy’ (Panel 6 under https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1328), hosted by Alessia Damonte and myself, within the Section on the ‘Politics of Bureaucracy’ at the 2023 ECPR General Conference in Prague focuses on the presentation of innovative
We are pleased to announce the acceptance of the panel “Leveraging computational methods to decode institutions — implementing computer science methods to study commons” at the IASC conference 2023 in Nairobi. The intention of this panel is to collate state-of-the-art approaches to institutional analysis that
Finally, our book “Institutional Grammar – Foundations and Applications for Institutional Analysis“, co-authored with Saba Siddiki, Syracuse University, and published by Palgrave Macmillan is available! (Hint for students/researchers/faculty: Please explore whether your organization has a library subscription that may make the book available to you
We have released the latest version of the Institutional Grammar (IG) 2.0 Codebook. The IG 2.0 is a revised version of the original Grammar of Institutions by Crawford and Ostrom (1995; 2005) that aims at coding so-called institutional statements (e.g., norms, rules) found in policy
We have released the latest version of the Institutional Grammar (IG) 2.0 Codebook. The IG 2.0 is a revised version of the original Grammar of Institutions by Crawford and Ostrom (1995; 2005) that aims at coding so-called institutional statements (e.g., norms, rules) found in policy
The COINE workshop at AAMAS 2020 was held in Auckland, New Zealand. The International Workshop for Coordination, Organisations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics in Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE) is an evolution of the long-standing COIN workshop series, and for the first time, considers ethics as an explicit
The 2019 edition of the Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2019) will be held in Mainz, Germany. It will include a range of special tracks centered around the theme of “Simulation for Policy”. I will be involved in chairing the Artificial Sociality Track together with Gert
We are currently looking for a PhD candidate for a 3-year or 4-year time frame. The focus of the fellowship is to explore approaches to automating policy analysis by bridging the gap between semi-formal policy specifications and agent-based models. The ideal candidate has a computational
A new version of the DBSCAN extension for the Agent-based Modelling platform NetLogo has been released. The extension can be used to cluster agents based on individual properties or by spatial proximity (e.g., to cluster agents by wealth levels, or by their location). Recent additions
We have recently published an article that contains a review of existing norm life cycle models in the context of Normative Multi-Agent Systems: C. K. Frantz and G. Pigozzi (2018): Modelling Norm Dynamics in Multi-Agent Systems, Journal of Applied Logics – IfCoLoG Journal of Logics and their