Computational Social Science Program at George Mason University, Agent-based Modeling, Social Networks, Complexity, Understanding & solving real world problems
📢 Call for Papers! 📢 The 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Conference is accepting submissions! Share your cutting-edge research at the intersection of computation & social science. It will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nov 6 – 9, 2025.
computationalsocialscience.o…
Today's #StaffShoutout goes to Sam Stone, academic programs manager in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS), for earning the Dean’s Student Service Award. 🌟
Learn more about Stone and all our Dean's Award winners: science.gmu.edu/celebrationo…
You won't want to miss the Hayden Center's upcoming event! Join us for an open forum as expert panelists discuss national security challenges in 2025.
Your questions will drive the discussion!
Wed Feb 12. 7 pm ET. In-person or livestream.
Register: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20085…
An incredible opportunity for the right person:
The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels
For me, this has been the best possible job ever.
More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/resid…
📣📣CDS Colloquium/Friday Seminar📣📣
General growth models applied to companies
Speaker: Chris Kempes, Santa Fe Institute
Date: Friday, Dec 5, 2024 @ 3:00 PM (ET)
Location: Center for Social Complexity @GMU_COS (and Zoom)
📣Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning With Mesa 3.0
Speakers: Dr. Tom Pike and Harsh Mahesheka
Date: Friday, Nov 15, 2024 @ 11:00 AM (ET)
Location: Center for Social Complexity @GMU_COS (and Zoom)
Join our seminar at GMU today 3:00 - 4:30 PM EDT.
An Overview of Explainable and Interpretable AI by William (Billy) Lamberti, PhD.
Location: Center for Social Complexity. Research Hall, Third Floor, GMU Fairfax Campus.
Contact us to receive the zoom link for online access
Behave Summer School on ABM and ABM intro course: This is to inform you about two important summer schools on ABM in Europe this summer in which our team in Milan is involved:
The Behave Summer School on Agent-Based Modelling, our usual hybrid… dlvr.it/T6SdKZ
Leveraging newspapers to understand urban issues: A longitudinal analysis of urban shrinkage in Detroit
Na Jiang, Andrew T Crooks, Hamdi Kavak, and Wenjing Wang
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
doi.org/10.1177/239980832312…@JJiangna@AndyCrooks@hmdkvk
🔖New paper: we (@AndyCrooks@hmdkvk
and Wenjing Wang) utilize an advanced topic modeling technique (i.e., BERTopic) on a large number of newspaper articles from 1975 to 2021 to explore urban shrinkage in Detroit. More details: doi.org/10.1177/239980832312…