Fabian Held
PhD candidate
Primary supervisor: Prof. Ian Wilkinson
Co supervisor:
Secondary supervisor: Prof. Elizabeth Cowley
Thesis topic
Developing Agent-Based Models of Business Relations and Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems
Description of research
The thesis strives to better understand business relations and networks. The thesis' focus is to provide new insights on the interplay between structure and development of networks and economic performance. Using computer models experiments and analyses can be conducted that would not be possible in the real world.
Academic qualifications
M.Sc. in Statistics, University of Munich (Germany)
B.A. in Philosophy & Economics, University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Scholarships
Scholarship provided through Australian Research Council grant DP0881799
University of Sydney PRSS for the attendance of the Santa Fe Institute 17th Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity
Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (ANZMAC) Travel Award
European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) Travel & Accommodation Scholarship
University of New South Wales PRSS for the attendance of the 26th IMP conference, Budapest
Bio
Early on in his professional development Fabian discovered his affection for academic work and he devoted much effort to the development of a solid and broad basis for research in the social sciences.
Being trained as a statistician with a strong affection for the vizualisation and communication of insights from data, he worked in a marketing and communications agency in Munich and for the Australian School of Business at UNSW, Sydney.
Fabian came to Australia in 2009 to provide technical expertise, curiosity and hard work and effort to ARC Discovery Project 0881799 led by Prof Ian Wilkinson (USyd), Prof Robert Marks (UMelb), Prof Louise Young (UWS).
Publications
Conference papers:
Wilkinson I, Young L, Marks R, Bossomaier T and Held F 2011 Toward a Business Network Agent-Based Modeling System, Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems 2011, Boston, United States, 1st July 2011
Held F, Marks R, Wilkinson I and Young L 2010 'Modelling the Dynamics Relations and Networks in B2B Market, Australia & New Zealand Marketing Academy ANZMAC Conference, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1st December 2010
Wilkinson I, Held F, Marks R and Young L 2010 'Exploring the Dynamics of Economic Networks: First Steps of a Research Project, 3rd World Congress on Social Simulation - "Scientific Advances in Understanding Societal Processes and Dynamics", University of Kassel, Germany, 9th September 2010
Wilkinson I, Held F, Marks R and Young L 2010 'Towards Simulation Models of the Dynamics of Business Relations and Networks, 26th Industrial Marketing and Purchasing IMP Annual Conference - "Business Networks - Globality, Regionality, Locality", Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, 4th September 2010
Book chapters:
Wilkinson I, Held F, Marks RE and Young L 2011 Forthcoming 'Developing Agent-Based Models of Business Relations and Networks' in Networks in Society: Links and Language, Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore
Research interests
- Dynamics of business relationships and networks
- Feedbacks between individual decision making and its social context
- Computational Social Science
- Complexity Theory and Complex Adaptive Systems
- Agent-based modelling and simulation
Teaching experience
- Social Choice Theory (Tutor)
Contact details
Expected submission date Mar 2012