Personale Docente
Dott. Flaminio Squazzoni
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Tesi assegnabili
squazzon@eco.unibs.it
Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, Via San Faustino 74/B, 25122 Brescia, Italy
Phone Number: +39030298892 - Fax Number: +390302988893
Flaminio Squazzoni is Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at University of Brescia, where he teaches "Sociology of Organisations". He is review editor of JASSS-The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation and Head of GECS-Research Group on Experimental and Computational Sociology (Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia). His main research interest is social simulation.
Education
<First-Class Honours Degree in History (University of Milan, Italy), with a dissertation on "Fernand Braudel: History at the Edge of Complexity Sciences and Heterodox Economics", 1998>
<Ph.D in Economic Sociology (Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, Italy), with a dissertation on "Simulation of an Industrial District Prototype. An Agent-Based Computational Model", 1999-2002>
Present Positions
<Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, Italy>
<Review Editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation >
<Head of GECS (Experimental and Computational Sociology) Research Group, Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia>
<Board Member of the Ph.D. Programme in Economic Sociology, University of Brescia, Italy>
<Assistant Director of Lucchini Foundation, Brescia, Italy (September 2007-)>
Current Teaching
<"Sociology of Organisations", Faculty of Economics, University of Brescia, Italy, 2003-2009>
<"ICTs and New Forms of Organisations", Faculty of Economics, University of Brescia, Italy, 2003-2009>
<"Social Simulation", PhD Programme in Economic Sociology, University of Brescia, December 2008>
<"Comparative Analysis of Economic and Social Institutions", Faculty of Economics, University of Brescia, Italy, 2009-2010>
Past Positions
<Research Fellow in the research project on "Organisational Design, Management Styles and Performance of Firms", granted by MURST, Department "Hyman P. Minsky" of Economics, University of Bergamo, Italy 2002-2003>
<Post-Doc Fellow in Economic Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, Italy, 2003-2005>
<Visitor at Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA, 2/2003>
<Research Fellow in "Marte-Models of Learning, Human Resources and Technology", Department of Business Organisation, University of Brescia, Italy, 2005-2006>
Past Teaching
< Economic Sociology, University of Bergamo, Italy, 2001-2003>
<Sociology of Economic and Labour Processes, University of Bergamo, Italy, 2001-2003>
<Economic Sociology of Profit and Nonprofit, Master in International Studies in Philanthropy, University of Bologna, Italy, 2002-2007>
<"Complex Social Systems in Socio-Economics, Central European University Summer University, Budapest, July 2008>
<"Network Organizations: Theories and Models", Faculty of Economics, University of Brescia, Italy, 2007-2009>
Training and Consulting
<On-Site Consultancy on the Application of a Self-Evaluation Model of Organisational Competences for Innovation to a Group of Small-Medium Sized Manufacturing Firms of the Brescia Province, MARTE Project, Italy, 2004-2005 >
<"A Self-Evaluation Model of Organisational Competences for Innovation", MARTE Project, Training Course for Business Managers and Entrepreneurs, Brescia, Italy, November 2005 >
<Self-Entrepreneurship: Organizational and Entrepreneurial Frameworks", Brescia Province Administrative District (Customer), Training Course for Job Centers Managers, Brescia, Italy, May 2007>
<Training on "Organizational Problem Setting and Solving" to a group of UNICOOP Staff Deparment Managers, Nomesis Rezzato (Customer), Scandicci, Firenze, Italy, May-July 2007 >
<Training on "Entrepreneurship, Establishment of News Businesses and Academic Spinoffs" (co-teacher prof. Giancarlo Provasi) Ingenio Project, Lumbardy Region, University of Brescia, July 2007>
Memberships and Committees
<Elected Member of Management Committee of ESSA (European Social Simulation Association) (2008-2010)>
<Elected Member of the Board of University of Brescia (2006-)>
<Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation >
<Member of the Editorial Board of the Sociologica-Italian Journal of Sociology Online>
<Member of the Editorial Board of GIVING: Thematic Issues in Philanthropy and Social Innovation>
<Member of Scientific Board of MISP (Master in International Studies in Philanthropy, University of Bologna)>
<Member of the Scientific Committee of III ESSA Conference (Koblenz 2005), WSYS First International Workshop on Systems and Complexity (Helsinki 2006), WCSS06 First World Congress of Social Simulation (Kyoto 2006), II EPOS "Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation " Workshop (Brescia 2006), IV ESSA Conference (Toulouse 2007), V ESSA Conference (Brescia 2008), II World Congress of Social Simulation (Washington 2008), First ICORE- International Conference on Reputation: Theory and Technology (Gargonza, 2009), AAMAS 2009, the Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Budapest 2009), IJCAI Workshop on Social Simulation (Pasadena 2009), "First International Workshop Agent-Based Social Simulation and Autonomic Systems (Limassol, Cyprus 2009)", AAMAS 2010, the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (Toronto 2010), EPOS 2010- Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation Workshop (Hamburg, 2010), MAPS2 Conference-Teaching of/with Agent-Based Models in the Social Sciences (Paris, 2010)>
<Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of "Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing for Economics and Management", J.-P. Rennard (Ed), II Volumes, IDEA Group Reference, 2006>
<Member of the International Advisory Group of the MEL-C- Modelling The Early Life Course Project (2008-2010), COMPASS - Centre of Methods and Policy Application in the Social Sciences, The University of Auckland, New Zealand>
>Member of the Faculty of Central European University Summer University, Course on "Complex Systems and Social Simulations", Budapest, 7-18 July 2008>
Scientific Chair and Host of Scientific Events
<Host of the Working Group on "Regional Innovation Systems and Complexity", EXYSTENCE Thematic Institute for Complexity and Innovation, Vienna, September 2004>
<Scientific Chair of the International Workshop EPOS Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation, II Edition, Brescia, October 2006>
<(co-chairs Nigel Gilbert and Klaus Troitzsch) Chair of the Regular Session on "Agent-Based Social Simulation" to the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Central European University, Budapest, June 26-30, 2008>
<(co-chair Giangiacomo Bravo) Chair of the Regular Session on "Computational and Experimental Approaches to Cooperation in Human Societies" to the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Central European University, Budapest, June 26-30, 2008>
<Scientific Chair of the Fifth Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Brescia, September 2008>
<Director of the First ESSA Summer School in Social Simulation, Brescia, September 2010>
Journal Refereeing
<Journal of Mathematical Sociology,Journal of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Advances in Complex Systems, Minerva, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Geographical Analysis, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Sistemi Intelligenti>
Granted Research Projects
<"The Engineer as an Actor of Social Change", granted by CNR (coordinator Giuliana Gemelli, University of Bologna, Italy), 2001-2002>
<"Organisational Design, Management Styles and Performance of Firms", granted by MIUR Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (coordinator Riccardo Leoni, Department "Hyman P. Minsky" of Economics, University of Bergamo, Italy) 2002-2003>
<"Non-profit Organisations, Social Capital and Economic Development", granted by CARIPLO Foundation, Milan (coordinator Giancarlo Provasi, Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, Italy) 2003 >
<"SOCRATE- Artificial Societies for Competition and Cooperation: Knowledge Networks, Organisational Reputation and SMEs Clusters. The Creation of a User-Enabling Simulator”, granted by MIUR Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (coordinator Rosaria Conte, CNR Rome), Member of the Research Unit of the Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia (coordinator Giancarlo Provasi), 2005-2008>
<"Academic Entrepreneurship: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis”, granted by MIUR Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (coordinator Luigi Orsenigo, University of Brescia), Member of the Research Unit of the Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia (coordinator Giancarlo Provasi), 2007-2009>
<"Discrimination Norms Enforced and Disrupted by Social Networks: A Research Program Using Simulation and Experiments”, host of the IEF Fellowship granted by the European Commission to Karoly Tackas (Corvinus University of Budapest), Grant Agreement Number 236953, 2010-2011>
Main Research Interests
Social Simulation
Agent-Based Computational Models of Social and Economic Phenomena
Social Norms
Manufacturing Firms, Innovation and Local Economic Systems
Publications
Paper published in: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Sociological Research Online, Journal of Socio-Economics, Mind & Society, Community Development Journal, Sociologica, E-JEMED-Electronic Journal of Evolutionary Modelling and Economic Dynamics, History of Economic Ideas, Stato e Mercato, Sistemi Intelligenti, L'Industria-Rivista di politica industriale, Intersezioni
Workshops, Conferences and Lectures
E-mail Address: squazzon@eco.unibs.it