SPECIAL CONFERENCE THEMES:
SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Socio-economic systems topics of interest:

There have been increasing interdisciplinary efforts to model and understand fundamental aspects of complex social and economic systems using tools from a variety of disciplines, including physics, computer science and network theory. Examples of topics pertinent to this section are

• Traffic (automotive, pedestrian, information)
• Stock and commodity markets
• Economic development and macroeconomics
• Urban planning
• Models of epidemics
• Counter-terrorism and security
• Voting and opinion dynamics
• Memetics
• Negotiation and coordination

We also welcome the presentation of new methods and tools applicable to these problems, including

• Agent-based models
• Cellular automata
• AI approaches
• Game theory
• Network analysis (see also the networks page)
• Time-series analysis and prediction
• Analytic methods