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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 22: Focus Session: Computational Social Science

SOE 22.1: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 15. März 2018, 16:15–16:30, MA 001

Understanding Social Organizations: From Sociophysics to Computational Social Science — •Ingo Scholtes — Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

The convergence of social and technical systems provides us with a wealth of data on the structure and dynamics of social organizations. It is tempting to utilize these data to better understand how social organizations evolve, how its structure is related to the "success" or "failure" of an organization, and how the position of individuals in the evolving social fabric affects performance, motivation, and productivity.

Taking a complex systems perspective, in this talk I will give an overview of recent results from the data-driven modelling of social organizations. A particular focus of this talk is on actionable and quantitative insights for project management, which have been obtained by studying large volumes of publicly available data on Open Source software development teams.

The results of these analyses confirm that computational methods from the study of complex systems and complex networks can help us to test long-standing theories from social psychology and organizational theory. At the same time I will discuss fallacies that arise when trying to explain complex phenomena in real-world social systems by means of overly simple, physics-inspired models.