About my work

From August 1997 to August 2000 I worked at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg in the department of Technology Assessment. I was involved in the DFG funded project on Social Metaphors in Distributed Artificial Intelligence. Within the field of sociology of science I was mainly interested in computer simulation in the social sciences, like Limits to Growth (Meadows et al. 1972) or the Garbage Can Model (Cohen et al. 1972). But also more recent efforts to promote social simulation - like Socionics -, predominantly based on technologies from modern Artificial Intelligence.

Some Publications

Achterkamp, Marjolein / Peter Imhof (1999): The Importance of being Systematically Surprisable: Comparative Social Simulation as Experimental Technique, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, v. 23, n. 4, 327-347

Imhof, Peter (2000a): Tools for Thinking, book review of Models as Mediators, edited by Morgan / Morrison, Science, v. 287, n. 5460, 17.3.2000, 1935-1936

Imhof, Peter (2000b): Computer Simulation in the Controversy over Limits to Growth, Research Report 4, Arbeitsbereich Technikbewertung und Technikgestaltung, TU Hamburg-Harburg