Some Past Term Projects  - CSCS 530
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- political science, economics,  &etc
  - organizational learning models
  - models of advertisers and consumers
  - voter and political party dynamics
  - city location model
  - trade and market models of various kinds
  - opinion dynamics models
  - information flow and use
  - matching models, e.g. jobs/workers
  - game theory -- many variants

- anthropology:
  - effects of various rules on tribe survival
  - emergence of states
  - emergence of pigdin languages

- cognitive psychology &etc
  - small group interactions (social/cognitive psych)
  - learning, self-rating, and accomplishment in small groups
  - learning by imitation 
  - models of neural learning rules

- biology &etc
  - ecological models with and without space (plants; frogs)
  - epidemiological of various kinds (smallpox, TB, flu, ...)  
       compare network/topologies effects
       compare Equation-based to Agent-Based model
  - immunological model (HIV in lymph nodes)
  - model of aging
  - model of seratonin uptake in brain cells
  - model of fish schools (predators,food influences)

- chemical reaction: 
  - receptor/enzyme activation
  - cell surface receptors and function
  - nano-tech models, eg. self-assembly
 
- models of text database and of users queries
- model of the spread of intelligence in the galaxy (!)
- evolution of cooperation in various contexts
- auto traffic, effects of road rage
  adaptive, distributed cellular phone routing
- river network formation
- models of "the wave" in stadia
- NBA (basketball) teams: player interaction effects