WORKSHOP ON MODELLING SCIENCE – UNDERSTANDING, FORECASTING, AND COMMUNICATING THE SCIENCE SYSTEM
October 6-9, 2009, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
http://www.rathenau.nl/showpage.asp?steID=1&item=3844

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Het Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JV Amsterdam

During the last forty years, a variety of explanatory, exploratory, and metaphorical models of the science system have been used in a number of different fields. As a consequence, this topic appears at very different conferences on agent-based modelling, social simulations, network models or cybernetics. At this workshop we aim to bring together different approaches of modelling and visualizing the science system (including the social sciences and humanities).
The workshop aims to act as catalytic event and to initiate a new mode of systematic study of “models of science” by bringing together a “critical mass” of experts from different fields. The workshop will build on the rich scholarly landscape in the Netherlands of studying science and scholarly activities. By bringing together the experts on modelling, measuring, visualizing, and analyzing scholarly activities, we aim to gain new insights into basic mechanisms of scholarly activities and to explore the limits and possibilities of modelling for explanation and forecasting.
This workshop also functions as a starting point for the further development of computational practices in science studies. The workshop will be the platform for the launch of a novel interdisciplinary discourse on modelling science and contribute to e-research efforts at the boundaries between natural, computer and information sciences and social sciences and humanities.
Deadlines
Submission of an abstract (max. 500 words) for presentation or poster by July 15, 2009.
Notification of acceptance by August 31, 2009.
Please register before September 15, 2009.
Programme committee
Peter van den Besselaar, Edwin Horlings (SSA), Andrea Scharnhorst, Paul Wouters (VKS), Katy Börner (Indiana), Loet Leydesdorff (UvA), Wolfgang Glänzel (Leuven), Renaud Lambiotte (London)
If you have questions, please contact:
Edwin Horlings
Science System Assessment Department, Rathenau Instituut
+31-70-3421542
e.horlings[at]rathenau.nl