Make social sciences relevant

How to Make Scheduling Research Relevant

Scheduling research has been an active field for the last forty or so years. Over the decades, many techniques have been developed for application to a variety of different problems, and we have learned a lot about how to perform scheduling. There have been some large successes in the application of automated scheduling to real-world problems. However, the reality remains that most scheduling t...

in Humanities , Social Sciences , and Natural Sciences

Norms Make Preferences Social∗

We explore the idea that prosocial behavior in laboratory games is driven by social norms imported into the laboratory. Under this view, heterogeneity in behavior across subjects is driven by heterogeneity in sensitivity to social norms. We introduce an incentivized method of eliciting individual norm-sensitivity, and we show how it relates to play in public goods, trust, dictator and ultimatum...

Social Sciences and Humanities

Artificiality in Social Sciences

The “sciences of the artificial” deal with synthesized things which may imitate natural things, which have functions and goals and which are usually discussed in terms of imperatives as well as descriptives. Imitation with computer is now usually termed simulation and is used to understand the imitated system (Simon, 1996). Artificiality has invaded science over the last thirty years, and physi...