David Chavalarias
Abstract
Metareflexive Mimetism: The prisoner free of the dilemma

David is a PhD student at the Center for Research in Applied Epistemology (CREA - Ecole Polytechnique, Paris). After studies in mathematics and computer sciences at the Ecole Normale Superieure, he started some researches in social cognition and evolution of social systems.

Financed by the French National Center for the Scientific Research (CNRS), his topics of interest are: processes of collective discovery, emergence of cooperation, cultural evolution, mimetic dynamics and theoretical approaches of the problem of endogenous preferences and social network formation.

In particular, he is now developing a framework based on complex systems, cognitive science, game theory and multi-agents modelling, which aim is to endogenize rules for imitation in formal model. He recently got the "2003 Best Student Paper Award" of the European Social Simulation Association Conference for his article "Human's Meta-cognitive Capacities and Endogenization of Mimetic Rules in Multi-Agents Models".