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Short Bio

Studies in Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Cachan), aggregation of Mathematics, PhD in Cognitive Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris).

Mail: david<dot>chavalarias <at> polytechnique<dot>edu

Research Interests

Web mining and Quantitative Epistemology : scientometrics, information visualization, automatic mapping of electronic corpus, semantics, co-authorship, classification.

Cognitive economics and modelling of cultural dynamics : game theory, cultural evolution, social networks as complex systems, cognitive economics, endogenous preferences, mimetic dynamics,

Collective discovery and scientific discovery: Popper's epistemology, social games, exploration/exploitation trade-off

CV in French - PDF

See also : bibliography on CiteULike and My profile on Academia.edu

Position

CNRS Researcher at the Complex Systems Institute Paris Ile-de-France and Center For Research in Applied Epistemology (CREA, Ecole Polytechnique), Team Complex Systems, Adaptive Rationality and Social Cognition
Co-director of the Complex Systems Institute of Paris IdF.
Vice-President of the Complex Systems Society

Recent Works

Chavalarias D., Ioannidis P.A. J. (fortcoming) Science mapping analysis characterizes 235 biases in biomedical research, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
Chavalarias D. & Cointet J-P. The Reconstruction of SCience Phylogeny, Arxiv (april 2009)
Chavalarias, D. (2009) Désir mimétique et imitation rationnelle. Vers un individualisme méthodologique complexe, In Jean-Pierre Dupuy Dans l'Oeil du Cyclone, Marc Anspach Ed., Editions Carnets Nord
Cointet J-P., Chavalarias D. (2008) Multi-level Science mapping with asymmetric co-occurrence analysis: Methodology and case study, Networks and Heterogeneous Media, Vol 3 Number 2, june 2008, p267-276
Chavalarias D. (2008) L'articulation individu/collectif dans les sciences des systèmes complexes : quels apports pour la sociologie ?, Sociétés, éditions De Boeck Université, January 2008.
Chavalarias D. & Cointet J-P. (2008) Bottom-up scientific field detection for dynamical and hierarchical science mapping - methodology and case study Scientometrics Vol. 75 No. 1 , (DOI): 10.1007/s11192-007-1825-6. e-print
Bourgine P., Chavalarias D. and Cohen-Boulakia C. (Eds.) (2008) Déterminismes et Complexités : Du Physique à l'Ethique - autour d'Henri Atlan, Ed. La Découverte.
Chavalarias D. (2007) La part mimétique des dynamiques de cognition sociale : clé pour penser l’auto-transformation du social Nouvelles Perspectives en Sciences Sociales, Volume 2, numéro 2 Version Pre-print.
Chavalarias, D., Cooperation as an outcome of a social differentiation process in a metamimetic game (2007) In : Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries, Bruce Edmonds, Cesáreo Hernández Iglesias, et Klaus G. Troitzsch (ed), p26-42.