A developing document of resources (data, tools) for simulating the social processes of science

Please add any computational tools, or sources of data useful for this topic:
    https://hackpad.com/SSPoS-resource-list-CUcVelM17bP

Nicolas Payette on "Agent-Based Models of Science: A Glimpse of the Past and Tools for the Future"

The introductory talk at the LC workshop. 

His slides are: http://cfpm.org/spos/lcw/sspos-nicolaspayette-expanded.pdf

Links for the Two papers mentioned by Kay Borner in her talk

The Simultaneous Evolution of Author and Paper Networks

Katy Börner, Jeegar T. Maru, Robert L. Goldstone

 

Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311459

Collective allocation of science funding: from funding agencies to scientific agency

Johan Bollen, David Crandall, Damion Junk, Ying Ding, Katy Boerner

 

Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1067

Most recent timetable for the Lorentz Workshop

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Theme	Context, Positions and Approaches	Models and Underpinnings	Models and Applications	Applications, Open Questions, Directions  and Issues	What next?
9:00	Registration and Coffee	Mario Paolucci and Francisco Grimaldo: developing simulation models of peer review Elena Mas Tur: Diffusion of scientific knowledge: a percolation model	Ingo Scholtes: lessons from open source and citations Alexander Petersen: Quantifying the role of teamwork and reputation	Diego Garlaschelli: long-term cultural diversity and short-term collective behaviour Janusz Holyst: Information slows down hierarchy growth	Breakout groups: further initiatives and funding opportunities
10.00	Introduction to the Lorentz Centre
	Nicolas Payette: a survey of previous models
10.30		Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
11.00	Invited Speaker: Katy Börner	Free discussion period around simulations	Free discussion period around simulations	Short presentations on arising issues from the discussions so far	Invited Speaker: Paul Thagard
12.30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Farewell Lunch
14.00	Brief Introduction to the workshop by organisers	Andre Martins: Theory Acceptance Bruce Edmonds:  incorporating cognitive dissonance with social influence	Free discussion period or relaxation	Parallel group discussions on a selection of these issues	Possible extended discussions
	Poster Presentations of all participants
15.30	Coffee break	Coffee break		Coffee break
16.00 – 17.00	Frank Schweitzer: Beyond simulating science Loet Leydesdorff: The exchanges of expectations in scholarly discourse	Free discussion period around simulations		Plenary Reports from Groups and Open Discussion
17.00 – 17.30		Plenary reports of discussions / developments
Evening	Welcome drinks		Social dinner

Submit papers on simulating social processes of scienct to "Social Simulation 2014" in Barcelona, early September

Please consider submitting papers relevant to the simulation of the social processes of science (broadly concieved) to Social Simulation 2014.  This conference is in beautiful Barcelona, September 1-5th.  If we get enough papers on the topic we will run a special track/session on this.

• Their Website is: http://www.essa2014.eu
• Details about submission are at: http://www.essa2014.eu/callforpapers.html

See you there!

Re-Post: Here's why the scientific publishing system can never be "fixed"

A Post on the "Simply Statistics" Blog, at:

http://simplystatistics.org/2014/02/21/heres-why-the-scientific-publishing-system-can-never-be-fixed/

Discussing what it thinks would and would not work to improve the long-term veracity of published scientific results.

"ROC" curves for science

ROC curves plot true positive rates (TPR) versus false positive rates (FPR) for a given classifying procedure.  This post discuses these curves as they might apply to different scientific disciplines.

It suggests that such curves are a more sophisticated way of judging the trade-offs inherent in science, and briefly discusses ways to improve ("lower") these curves, including awareness of "researcher degrees of freedom".