CNRS permanent researcher, Center of Research in Applied Epistemology
Ecole Polytechnique, Paris

Co-director of the Complex Systems Institute of Paris Ile-de-France

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

Research Interests

Web mining and Quali-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

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

Position

CNRS Researcher at the 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

Selected work

Chavalarias D., Cointet J-P., Cornilleau L., Duong T-K, Mogoutov A., Villard L., Roth C., Savy T. , Streams of Media Issues - Monitoring World Food Security, Présented at the United Nations, October 8 2011.
Chavalarias D., Ioannidis P.A. J. (2010) Science mapping analysis characterizes 235 biases in biomedical research, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Volume 63, Issue 11, November 2010, Pages 1205-1215
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.