2009 NAACSOS Annual Conference
Hosted by the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
October 23-24, 2009
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Program
| Friday, October 23 | |||||
| 7:30 AM | Sign-in & Late Registration--Hallway in front of MU 228: Cochise | ||||
| 8:30 AM | Plenary Session: Doug White "Complex Networks and Dynamics: Communicability and Cycle Centrality" MU 228: Cochise | ||||
| 9:15 AM | Break | ||||
| 9:30 – 12:00 | Session 1 | ||||
| MU 228: Cochise: Session #1 | MU 242: La Paz: Session #2 | MU 246: Coconino: Session #3 | |||
| Topic: Organization and Networks 1 | Topic: Theory and Models 1 | Topic: Policy and Markets 1 | |||
| Moderator: Doug Samuelson | Moderator: Miles Parker | Moderator: TBA | |||
| 9:30 AM | Network Analysis
of Organizational Planning and Decision Processes: A study of
Doctrinal Army Brigade Staff Functions
Robert Behrman and Kathleen Carley |
Effects
of Ambiguity in New Product Development
J. Richard Harrison, Eric Brun and Alf Steinar Sćtre |
Validating
Models for Exploration and Action, a Tension between Discovery and Construction
Raymond Buettner, Richard Burton and Carl Jones | ||
| 10:00 AM | Conservation
of Information: Reverse engineering a (dark) social system
William Lawless |
The
Acore Meta-Model: A common representational formalism for agent based
modeling
Miles Parker |
Analyzing
Dynamics with a Trans-Temporal Network Representation
Aaron Bramson | ||
| 10:30 AM | Competition Among
Firms with Differentiated Products,
Heterogeneous Consumers and Antitrust Authorities: An Agent-based Simulation
Platform
Ugo Merlone and Ferenc Szidarovszky |
Conditions
necessary for the emergence of social order in a complex environment
Liying Yan and James Wilson |
Leveraging
Multiple Platforms to Enhance Policy-making using Simulation Evidence
Wei Zhong and Yushim Kim | ||
| 11:00 AM | Using ORA to Measure
the Impact of Nursing Unit Communication Patterns On Patient Outcomes
Judith Effken, Raysenia James, Ya-Chuan Hsu, Jeff Reminga, Kathleen Carley, and Joyce Verran |
On
the Weak Ties Hypothesis in the Diffusion of Warnings
Cindy Hui, Mark Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail and William A. Wallace |
A model
on public health policy and tuberculosis epidemics
Alhaji Cherif, Magdalena A. Hurtado, Marcel Hurtado, Marco A. Janssen and Nathan Rollins | ||
| 11:30 AM | Minimal Group Phenomena
in Harvesting Games
Matteo Morini, Ugo Merlone and Pietro Terna |
The
Dynamics of Geo-Cultural Processes: Toward an Integral Model
David L. Sallach |
An
Agent-Based Model for the Long-Run Global Petroleum Market
Charles Macal | ||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch on your own | ||||
| Session 2 | |||||
| MU 228: Cochise | MU 242: La Paz | MU 246: Coconino | |||
| Topic: Organization and Networks 2 | Topic: Theory and Models 2 | Topic: Population Movement 1 | |||
| Moderator: TBA | Moderator: David Sallach | Moderator: Greg Madey | |||
| 1:00 PM | The
Expanded Harem Game: Value of Information in Competitive Decision-Making
Doug Samuelson |
Tax
Compliance as an Evolutionary Coordination Game: An Agent-Based Approach
Kim Bloomquist |
Modeling Urban
Crowds
Paul Torrens |
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| 1:30 PM | Agent-based
Simulation for the Evolutionary Social Sciences
C. Athena Aktipis |
Modeling
and Simulating Violent Group Activity from Multimedia Content
William Campbell, Joel Acevedo-Aviles, Brian Delaney, and Clifford Weinstein |
Design and Implementation
of A GIS-Based Simulation for Emergency Response and Crisis Management
Zhi Zhai, Tim Schoenharl,Francis Chen, and Greg Madey |
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| 2:00 PM | Pattern
Analysis in Social Networks with Dynamic Connections
Yu Wu and Yu Zhang |
Virtual
Automotive Marketplace Model (VAMMP): A Case for the Plug In Hybrid
Electric Vehicle
John Sullivan, Irv Salmeen, and Carl Simon |
Visualization in
Agent-Based Modeling
Paul Torrens, Michael Batty, Andrew Crooks and Andrew Hudson-Smith |
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| 2:30 PM | A Spatialized
Prisoner’s Dilemma Game by Image Scoring:
How Local Clustering and Global Learning Matter
Jae-Woo Kim |
An
Agent Based Model of the Housing Market: HousingMarketRev8.3. Anamaria Berea, Hoda Gamal, and Matt McMahon |
Assessing Resilience
for Park Management in an Agent-based, Predator-Prey Model on a Networked
Landscape
Jacopo Baggio, Michael Schoon, Kehinde Salau and Marco Janssen |
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| 3:00 PM | Evolution
of Cooperation in Asymmetric Irrigation Games
Marco Janssen and Nathan Rollins |
An
Introduction to Netlogo PlayMate Model
Xun Li, William Griffin, Paul Torrens, Casey Sechler, Jillian Smith, Haojie Zhu and Scott Brown |
A System Dynamics
Model of Counterinsurgency in Southern Afghanistan
Laura Stroh, Dustin Burke, Yu Tao Zhao and Alper Caglayan |
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| 3:30 PM | Break | ||||
| 3:45 PM | Panel
Discussion: The Future of Computational Social Science |
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| 4:30 PM | Break | ||||
| 4:45 PM | Poster Session and Reception at CSDC | ||||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner
at Engrained |
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| Saturday, October 24 | ||
| 7:30 AM | Executive Committee Breakfast Meeting at CSDC | |
| 8:30 AM | Plenary Session: Ed MacKerrow “Advancing Computational Social Science for Real-World GlobalSecurity Applications: What can be done?” MU 230: Pima Auditorium | |
| 9:15 AM | Break | |
| Session 3 | ||
| 9:30 – 11:30 AM | MU 202: Alumni Lounge | MU 230: Pima Auditorium |
| Topic: Policy and Markets 2 | Topic: Validity and Models | |
| Moderator: Marco Janssen | Moderator: Charles Macal | |
| 9:30 AM | Development and
Validation of an Agent-Based Model of Sexual Decision-Making in the
Context of Incarceration
Andrea Knittel |
Validate but Verify:
Testing Agent Based Models in Practice
Miles Parker |
| 10:00 AM | Dynamic Adjustment
of Aspiration Levels in Agricultural Systems of the Argentine Pampas
Guillermo Podesta, Federico Bert, Santiago Rovere, Angel Menendez, Carlos Laciana, Fernando Ruiz Toranzo, Marcelo Torrent, Michael North, Charles Macal, Pamela Sydelko, Elke Weber |
Repast Simphony ReLogo
Jonathan Ozik, Carl Burke, Michael North |
| 10:30 AM | Agent-Based Simulation
of Recent Changes in Agricultural Systems of the Argentine Pampas
Federico Bert, Guillermo Podesta, Santiago Rovere, Carlos Laciana, Angel Menendez, Fernando Ruiz Toranzo, Marcelo Torrent, Michael North, Charles Macal, Pamela Sydelko, Elke Weber |
Issues in Validating
Agent-Based Models Using Extant Data
Daniel Klapper, Robert Marks and David Midgley |
| 11:00 AM | Cultural Geography
Model Use in Support of Human in the Loop Experimentation
Jonathan Alt and Leroy Jackson |
Verification and
Validation of a Nursing Opinion Leader Model Using Agent-based Modeling
Christine Anderson |
| 11:30 AM | Lunch
on Your Own | |
| 12:30 PM | Business
Meeting: MU 230: Pima Auditorium 12:40-1:15
Michael Barton: CoMSES Network (12:30-12:40) | |
| 1:15 PM | Break | |
| 1:30 - 3:30 PM | Session 4 | |
| MU 202: Alumni Lounge | MU 230: Pima Auditorium | |
| Topic: Games and Decision-Making | Topic: Population Movement 2 | |
| Moderator: Erik Johnston | Moderator: Paul Torrens | |
| 1:30 PM | The Evolution of
Rules in Shedding-Type Of Card Games
Marco Janssen |
A Machine Learning
Based Computational Modeling Framework of Human Movement Behavior
Xun Li, Paul M. Torrens, William Griffin, Casey Sechler, Haojie Zhu, Scott Brown and Jillian Smith |
| 2:00 PM | From Data to Action:
Evaluating Simulation Data in Agent-based Models
Yushim Kim and Yongwan Chun |
Simulation and
Analysis of Pathogen Transmission in an Agent- and GIS-based Model
Ryan C. Kennedy, Kelly E. Lane, S. M. Niaz Arifin, Hope Hollocher, Agustín Fuentes, and Gregory R. Madey |
| 2:30 PM | Modeling and analysis
of ethno-religious conflict as repeated games in graphs
Lingzhi Luo, Nilanjan Chakraborty and Katia Sycara |
Agent-Based Space-Time
Modeling of Environmental Effects of Walking in an Urban Area
Yong Yang and Ana Diez-Roux |
| 3:00 PM | Modeling the Free/Libre
Open Source Software (FLOSS) Development Process and Validating with
Public Data
Nicholas Radtke, Marco Janssen and James Collofello |
The NY Model -
An Interpretation of the Schelling Model for Ethnic Preferences and
Socio-Economic Mobility
Hoda Osman and Snigdha Dewal, |
| 3:30 PM | Close of Conference | |
Poster Session and Reception:
Friday, October 23, 2009 (4:45 – 6:15 pm)
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
ISTB-1, Room 401
Effects of Mass Media action on the Axelrod Model with Social Influence
Arezky Hernandez-Rodriguez
and Yamir Moreno
The Foundress’ Dilemma: an Agent-Based model of Colony-Founding Strategy in Ants
Zachary Shaffer,Stephen Pratt, Takao Sasaki, Jennifer Fewell, Marty Anderies, and Marco Janssen
Hohokam Archaeology, Microeconomics, and Agent Based Modeling
Joshua Watts
Modeling Kinship Structures in Pakistan's Rural North-West Frontier Province
Maksim Tsvetovat, Armando Geller, Claudio
Cioffi-Revilla, Joseph F. Harrison, Anamaria Berea and Osman Hoda
Spatial Distributions of Students in College Classrooms
Mark Moritz and Eric Soma
Innovation in Software Development as an Evolutionary Process: Comparison Between Software Engineers and Genetic Programming Agents
Randy Casstevens
Coupled ABM-GIS model of small-scale farming
Sean Bergin, Isaac Ullah and Gary Mayer
The Effect of Economic Behavior in Social Dynamics Agent-based Models: A case study of rural migration in Southern Mexico
Omar Guerrero
An Exploratory Model of Pedestrian Group Wayfinding Behavior
Scott B. Brown, Paul M. Torrens, Haojie
Zhu and Xun Li
Cognitive Agents for Ethical Problem Solving
Russell Robbins, Lin Gao and William
Wallace
Using Extant Data to Build Realistic Agent Behaviors in Preschool Children's Play Groups
Amanda Gwilliam, Casey Sechler, Jillian Smith and William Griffin