We are a highly interdisciplinary research group working at the intersection among cognitive, social and computational sciences. LABSS is based at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and aims to foster an explorative approach to Agent Based Modeling and Simulation.
When cooperating, human groups can poise near a critical point – similarly to highly organized biological systems, like those of bees or ants – where recent work suggests living systems respond to changing external conditions in an efficient and coordinated manner.
A new statistical physics model demonstrates the crucial role that social norms play in promoting cooperation and its stability. The study has been published in Physical Review E. and appears also as a CNR press release.
We’re glad to have been included in the list of laboratories hosting junior researchers organized by the European Social Simulation Association.
The purpose of the Open Labs initiative is to “facilitate young researchers to undertake short visits to research groups doing social simulation in Europe.”
Marco Marini & Fabio Paglieri presenting "Decoy effects in intertemporal and probabilistic choices: three experimental studies." at the LABSS Work in Progress Seminar held on May 23rd 2018.
We are seeking candidates for a one-year postdoc position (renewable up to 3 years) for agent-based modelling and simulation of social phenomena.
Aurora De Bortoli Vizioli presenting the aim of her team’s study at the LABSS Work in Progress Seminar held on March 1st 2018.
New “save the date” for the Work in Progress Seminars (WIPS) series, organized by the LABSS. On March 1st, Aurora De Bortoli Vizioli will be presenting an experimental study on the relation between body-ownership and object-ownership.
At the Laboratory of Agent-Based Social Simulation we build computer models to help shed light on the complex social world. We applied this approach to develop a simulation of the Sicilian Mafia, and studied ways to fight pizzo collection.
Want to know more? Please check out the results of the GLODERS project or contact Giulia Andrighetto
On January 18th will continue the Work in Progress Seminars (WIPS) series, organized by the LABSS. Vito Trianni will be presenting.
On December 11th Luciano Pietronero of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Physics Department, gave a talk at the ISTC-CNR about Economic Complexity.
On December 6th will continue the Work in Progress Seminars (WIPS) series, organized by the LABSS. Eugenia Polizzi di Sorrentino, ISTC-CNR associate, will present her ongoing research on the metabolic alterations on (dis)honesty.
