Mason-Smithsonian
Inner Asia Modeling Project

George Mason University

Center for Social Complexity and
Evolutionary Computation Laboratory
Principal Investigator: Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
Co-PI: Sean Luke
Co-PI: Dawn C. Parker
Graduate Fellow: Sarah Wise

Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History
Department of Anthropology
Co-PI: J. Daniel Rogers
Co-PI: William Honeychurch
Co-PI: William Fitzhugh
Co-PI: Bruno Frohlich

International Collaborators

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Tartaria and its neighbors

During the past 5,000 years, Inner Asia has witnessed the rise, evolution, and fall of numerous polities in interaction with natural environments and long-term change. This project is developing a comprehensive dataset of Inner Asian and neighboring polities, as well as multi-agent social simulation models of human and social dynamics applicable to this region and timespan. The computer simulation models are theoretically grounded, empirically validated, and developed in the MASON environment (Multi-Agent Simulator of Networks and Neighborhoods).

Empirical data products from this project will be made available through this site, as well as the Harvard-MIT Data Center, the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University, and other social science data depositories. This project is funded by the Human and Social Dynamics Program of the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant no. BCS-0527471.

For further information please contact: Professor Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Director, Center for Social Complexity, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, MSN 2B6, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA. E-mail: ccioffi@gmu.edu . Tel. +(703) 993-1402. URL: http://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu