Drs. Elenna Rose Dugundji

University of Amsterdam

Elenna Dugundji received her B.Sc. in Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. She expects to complete a Ph.D. dissertation under the supervision of Frank le Clercq and Loek Kapoen, Department of Geography & Planning, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam in 2005.

Her research on social influence in transportation mode choice is part of a four university cooperative project coordinated by Harry Timmermans and Theo Arentze, Technical University of Eindhoven, “AMADEUS: Assessing the impact of Multi-modal transportation on Activity and Destination choices in Urban Systems,” sponsored by the NWO.

In the spring 2004, Elenna has been awarded a stipend by the SURF foundation in the Netherlands to promote special use of ICT techniques in the social sciences. Her research in advanced econometric estimation is indebted to training and advice by Moshe Ben-Akiva, MIT and Joan Walker, Boston University. All runs were carried out at the Department of Geography & Planning of the UvA and at the SARA, using the Biogeme Optimization Toolbox developed by Michel Bierlaire, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland (http://roso.epfl.ch/biogeme).

Her work on multi-agent simulation is in collaboration with Laszlo Gulyas, Computer and Automation Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.

Trial runs were tested at the NIIF Supercomputing Center, Hungary on their SUN E10K, E15K systems before batch runs were started at the SARA. All runs were carried out with the RePast Multi-Agent Simulation Toolkit developed at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA (http://repast.sourceforge.net).

Drs. Elenna Dugundji (University of Amsterdam)