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(Accepted, Under Review) Hoffer LD, Bobashev G., Morris R.J. Researching a Local Heroin Market as a Complex Adaptive System

American Journal of Community Psychology, in press, 2009

 

 

Presentations:

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Using Agent-Based Modeling to Better Understand Heroin Dealing & Illegal Drug Markets

Agent 2005, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago, Chicago, Il, October, 2005

 

Transforming a Heroin Market: A Microcosm of the War on Drugs

Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. March, 2006

 

The Illicit Drug Market Simulation Project: Combining Ethnography & Agent-based Modeling

Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM. April, 2006  

The Illicit Drug Market Simulation Project: Ethnography & Agent-based Modeling

National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. May, 2006

 

The Illicit Drug Market Simulation Project: Making sense of a Local Heroin Market

STEP: Science and Technology Expert Partnership, The MITRE Corporation, Director of National Intelligence, McLean, VA. May, 2006

 

Simulating the Operation of a Local Heroin Market: New uses for Ethnographic Research

College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Scottsdale, AZ. June, 2006

 

Junkie Business: Applying Complexity Theory to Understand the Public Health Significance of Heroin Dealing & illicit Drug Markets

Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. January, 2007

 
Combining Ethnography and Complexity Theory to Understand the Dynamics of Illicit Drug Markets Research Triangle International, Durham, NC. May, 2007  
Illicit drug markets as complex adaptive systems: Results from the Illicit Drug Market Simulation Project (Workshop) Mathematical Modeling in Biological & Epidemiological Studies of Addiction, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Quebec City, Quebec. June, 2007  
Computational Ethnography: Applying Complexity Theory to Enrich Ethnography 106th meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November, 2007  
Illicit Drug Markets and Complex Adaptive Systems Computational Modeling and Systems Biology of Drug Abuse, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. January, 2008  
Complexity Theory, Medical Anthropology, and the Operation of a Heroin Market Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. February, 2008  
Applied experimental ethnography: Using computational simulation to evaluate explanatory models of social process 68th annual meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology, Memphis, TN. March, 2008 Video available to view
An agent-based model of a heroin market: Evaluating the dynamics of social interaction World Health Interest Group (WHIG), Center for Global Health and Disease, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. March 6, 2009  
Agent Based Models in Anthropology (with Michael Agar) (Workshop) the Society of Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM. March 20, 2009