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Vince Darley

Despite the fact this web-site is based in the USA, I'm actually English, and currently working as a scientist/manager in London for Eurobios. We are involved in complex systems research, consulting and product development. Lots of exciting work in optimization, supply chain, routing, markets, etc. In 1999 I graduated with the first PhD in Complex Systems from Harvard University, jointly under the division of engineering and applied sciences and the economics department. My dissertation was entitled "Toward a theory of autonomous, optimising agents" (read pdf,ps), supervised by Eric Maskin and Stuart Kauffman. Click here for a citation. It was also strongly influenced by the time I spent visiting the Santa Fe Institute, a wonderful interdisciplinary research center in Santa Fe. I'm interested in complex systems, self-organisation, and the study of the global dynamics of locally interacting economic, ecological and computational systems. Particular foci are boundedly rational economic models and phase transitions in problem difficulty in real world problems.

Papers and contact information

You can mail me at vince @ santafe.edu, vince.darley @ eurobios.com, or at Eurobios, 26 Farringdon Street, London, EC4A 4AB. If you're interested in what I'm working on now, here are some of those from recent years (the links are mostly to .pdf versions):

Draft of "An Ant-Bidding Algorithm for Generalized Flow Shop Scheduling Problem: Optimization and Phase Transitions" (in progress).
"Application of the Eurobios Agent-Based Modelling Framework": Joint Simulation of Production and Logistics to Support Plant Selection for a Multi-Site Corrugated Box Company.
"An Agent-Based Model of a Corrugated Box Factory": the tradeoff between finished-goods stock and on-time-in-full delivery.
Early draft of "Nasdaq book", (comments appreciated!)
"Sixteenths or pennies" --- (Note that some effort was recently (early 2004) put into getting the software behind these results up and running again, and also possibly in sharing it with others. You can read more here)
"Evolution in the Nasdaq Stockmarket".
"Modeling Annuity Policyholder Behaviour using behavioral economics and complexity science"
"The Future of Trading: Biology-Based market modeling at Nasdaq".
My dissertation, "Towards a theory of autonomous, optimising agents", or ps. Both are between 2 and 3 megs in size.
"Natural Rationality ", published in "The Economy as a Complex Adaptive System II" --- also ps.
"Emergent Phenomena and Complexity" (from Alife IV), or read it now or ps.

Press:

"So you have an ERP System" agent based modelling for ERPs in "Manufacturing and Logistics IT" (May 2005).
"Super Models to the Rescue" agent based modelling article in "Strategy + Business" (April 2005).
"Postal SnailMail 2.0" postal optimization article in "MIT Technology Review" (April 2005).
"Article" from local Danish Newspaper describing Eurobios optimization system (Dec 2004, Danish language, English machine translation).
"Agents of creation" article in the Economist (Oct 2003).
"Organisational lesson from the ant colony" article in the FT by Tom Lloyd (Apr 2002).
"Thinking outside the box..." article from SCAInside magazine.
"Better Networks: Look to Nature" article in the NYT by Katie Hafner (Sep 2001).
"When Swarm Intelligence beats Brainpower" article in the Daily Telegraph by Tom Lloyd (June 2001).
"Swarm Smarts" article in Scientific American (March 2000).

Have a look around:

Complex Systems --- I'm interested in the study of the accumulation of interactions between millions of locally acting autonomous agents.
Research --- Some research links
Thesis --- Stuff from my thesis.
Tcl/Tk --- The open-source scripting, glueing, graphical toolkit and rapid prototyping language.
Of local interest --- Things in the Boston area
Alphatk --- A powerful programmer's editor which runs under Tcl/Tk on Unix, Windows and MacOS X.
Mac stuff --- All about the Apple's Macintosh
Databases and search engines --- Want to get somewhere else?
Bibliographies on Complex Systems and Self-Organisation --- Some useful information
Downloads --- Download code and software I've written.
EvoX and CppTcl --- Connect C++ code to the Tcl language, and perform discrete-event simulations using the EvoX system
Mac BibTeX --- My port of BibTeX to the MacOS
Itcl --- The object-oriented extension to Tcl
Pltk --- A graph-drawing widget for Tk, which works cross-platform.
Downloads --- Some random pieces of software I've made available.
Books --- Some interesting books, mostly on polar exploration and mountaineering.

Here's a nice photo, from a few years ago now, but it seemed a good one to try and scan (click on it for a bigger version).

If you're interested in juggling, have a look through the Juggling Information Service - lots of great video clips, advice, help information...

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