Modelling dynamic interactive social processes

该项目旨在通过为互动，动态的社会过程开发经验可检验的数学模型来增强我们对复杂社会系统的理解。 模型将被开发为这样的过程，如人际和组织间网络的发展，社会影响和扩散。将使用新的和严格的评价技术对它们进行评估。 研究结果将加强社会科学建模的数学基础，并将立即应用于几个不同的领域，包括：与疾病传播相关的网络结构;农村心理健康的社会流行病学;以及组织中集体结构的出现。

This project aims to enhance our understanding of complex social systems by developing empirically testable mathematical models for interactive, dynamic social processes. Models will be developed for such processes as the development of interpersonal and inter-organisational networks, and social influence and diffusion. They will be assessed using new and exacting evaluation techniques. The results will strengthen the mathematical foundation for modelling in the social sciences, and will have immediate application in several diverse domains, including: the structure of networks relevant to disease transmission; the social epidemiology of rural mental health; and the emergence of collective structures in organisations.