Agents – the ‘atomic unit’ of social systems? @AAG 2017
By defining a social system as a collection of agents, individuals and their behaviors/decisions become the driving force of these systems. Complex global phenomena such as collective behaviors, extensive spatial patterns, and hierarchies are manifested through agent interaction in such a way that the actions of the parts do not simply sum to the activity of the whole. This allows unique perspectives into the inner workings of social systems, making agent-based modelling (ABM) a powerful and appealing tool for understanding the drivers of these systems and how they may change in the future.
Organizers:
- Andrew Crooks, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University.
- Alison Heppenstall, School of Geography, University of Leeds.
- Nick Malleson, School of Geography, University of Leeds
- Paul Torrens, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University.
- Sarah Wise, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London.
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Regis, Marriott, Third Floor
Chair: Nick Malleson
Presentations:
- *Kurtis James Garbutt, Taku Fujiyama: and Claire Ellul
- Title: Agentising Vulnerability: Modelling the impact of NGO Response on Vulnerability during Flood events.
- *Zhu Jin and Sara Metcalf:
- *Frank Dignum and Virginia Dignum:
- *Marcus Saraiva:
- Koen Haziel Van Dam:
- Discussant: Visualizing Spatial Outputs from Agent-based Models
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Regis, Marriott, Third Floor
Chair:Alison Heppenstall
Presentations:
- *Koen Haziel Van Dam and Chris M. Mazur:
- *Dawn C. Parker, Xiongbing Jin, Babin Robert, Xinyue Pi, Yu Huang, Pedram Fard and Jeff Casello:
- *Stephen Law and Yao Shen:
- *Andrew Crooks, William G Kennedy, Annetta Burger, Talha Oz and Alison Heppenstall:
- *Alison Heppenstall, Andrew Crooks and Nick Malleson:
We hope you will stay around and attend these sessions. See you in Boston.