MEFOR – FORMAL METHODS FOR RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

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Description and objectives
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The Section intends to promote the development and application of the most innovative methodologies currently available for research and experimentation in the field of social and environmental sciences.

The MEFOR section provides support to other sections or independently participates in external projects, applying and developing the following methodologies:

• network analysis;
• NK type simulation models;
• agent simulation models.
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Areas of interest

• Social networks
• Business networks
• International trade
• Development cooperation
• Group dynamics
• Organization and business management
• Analysis of the territories
• Industrial policy
• Technology transfer
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Composition of the Section
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Coordinator:

Components:
to be established
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International scientific collaborations:
to be established
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Activities
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For the methodologies listed above, the MEFORM section can also provide the following activities:

• design of theoretical and empirical research, with the detection of data suitable to be analyzed with the methodologies mentioned above, design of questionnaires, databases, etc;
• training of experts in this field, through specialized courses at various levels of study.
• Seminars and workshop:
  • “Gli effetti non intenzionali della bassa tolleranza sociale e i vantaggi della cooperazione nei modelli di simulazione“,  26 September 2018
  • “I modelli ad agente per l’analisi integrata dei sistemi sociali, economici e naturali sostenibili“, 10 October 2018
• Publications:
  • “La banalità della segregazione“, Lucio Biggiero, 1 August 2018.
  • “Providing sound theoretical roots to sustainability science: systems science and (second-order) cybernetics”, Lucio Biggiero, Univaq, 2017
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