Academics
Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas
Non-stipendiary Research Fellow
Senior Research Fellow in Complex Systems, Saïd Business School
Welcome
Welcome to my Keble web page.
I am a Senior Research Fellow in Complex Systems at the Saïd Business School, a University Fellow of the James Martin Institute, as well as a Research Fellow at Keble.
Feel free to contact me if you are interested in research on agent-based models and complex systems. I hope that this web page will be more complete within a couple of months.
Research Interests
My research interests are closely connected with the activities of the CABDyN Research Cluster, which was established with seed funding from the EPSRC in 2003. CABDyN has received additional funding from the Oxford University Research Development Fund, and the European Commission under Framework 6.
CABDyN is a major interdisciplinary initiative which brings together a significant number of researchers within Oxford who share an interest in understanding how complex networks function, and how they can respond to a changing environmental context. Examples of such networks can be found in radically different domains, and include biological networks, social and socio-economic networks, transport networks, and computer and communication networks. In order to make progress in understanding how the complex networks encountered in different disciplines may share common features (and how not), we need to embark on two distinct but related programmes of research. First, the empirical characterisation of complex networks encoutered in the real world, especially if these networks evolve dynamically, requires that we develop new statistical measures and metrics. Second, in developing a theory of complex and dynamic network systems, intentionally simple agent-based models can play a key role. In particular, agent-based models of complex networks allow us to investigate how the combination of agents with heterogeneous characteristics, and a complex network structure linking individual agents, jointly produce certain types of functional behaviour. The ultimate outcome of this research will be an improved understanding as to what makes networks robust, persistent, flexible, and efficient.
My particular research interests in the context of this larger project are related to organisational theory and strategy, the use of agent-based models in the social sciences, and how network structures influence organisational decision-making. I am especially interested in the flow of knowledge, capital, and people in the networks that underpin high-tech clusters such as Silicon Valley in sectors such as biotechnology. I am also interested in how models of robust information flows within an organisation can furnish a new approach to theories of the firm.
College Contact Details
Keble College
Oxford
OX1 3PG
UK
Telephone: 01865 288502
Fax: 01865 288805
Email: felix.reed-tsochas@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Faculty/Dept. Information
Saïd Business School
Park End Street
Oxford
OX1 1HP
Website:
http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/faculty/Reed-Tsochas+Felix/Reed-Tsochas+Felix.htm
