Matthias Meyer

Matthias Meyer is professor of management control and accounting and head of the Institute of Management Control and Accounting at the Hamburg University of Technology. He has habilitation degree from WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and received 2003 his PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich/Germany for a dissertation on Principal Agent Theory and Methodology. He studied business administration, economics, philosophy and philosophy of science. His research interests include computer simulation, management control and accounting, institutional economics and methodology.

Institute of Management Control and Accounting
Hamburg University of Technology
Management Control and Accounting
Schwarzenbergstr. 95
21703 Hamburg
Germany

Email: Matthias.Meyer@whu.edu
Web: http://www.cur.tu-harburg.de

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Iris Lorscheid

Iris Lorscheid is doctoral student at the Center of Advanced Studies of the Kuehne School of Logistics and Management and research associate at the Institute of Management Control and Accounting at the Hamburg University of Technology. She graduated in 2006 in computer science from the University of Koblenz-Landau and worked from 2008 to 2009 as research associate for the research group of Modeling and Simulation at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Institute of Information Systems Research. Her research interests are sociological and economic simulation models, in particular machine learning concepts for social simulation.

Institute for Management Control and Accounting
Hamburg University of Technology
Schwarzenbergstr. 95
21073 Hamburg
Germany

Email: iris.lorscheid@tu-harburg.de
Web: http://www.cur.tu-harburg.de

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Klaus G. Troitzsch

Klaus G. Troitzsch is professor of computer applications in the social sciences and currently head of the Institute of Information Systems Research at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Koblenz-Landau. He graduated from the University of Hamburg in 1972 and took his PhD as a political scientist also from the University of Hamburg in 1979 and has worked on mathematical and computer models of social processes and simulation tools since 1985. Among his publications is "Simulation for the Social Scientist" which he co-authored with Nigel Gilbert.

Institut fr Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungsinformatik
Universitt Koblenz-Landau
Universittsstrasse 1
Koblenz
D-56070
Germany

Email: kgt@uni-koblenz.de
Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~kgt