CSSSA2016 Conference Schedule
6:00 – 9:00 PM, Opening Reception
8:30 – 8:45 Tim Gulden: President, CSSSA
8:45 – 10:15 Session 1
In the short-run we are all dead: Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in a Computational General Equilibrium model
Davoud Taghawi-Nejad
The Human Group Optimization (HGO) algorithm: Exploiting the collective intelligence of human groups as an optimization tool for complex landscapes
Ilario De Vincenzo, Ilaria Giannoccaro and Giuseppe Carbone
Rethinking sentiment analysis and "master narratives": an alternative unsupervised text analytics approach using "information space differences"
Peter Chew and Jessica Turnley
–-15 minute break--
10:30 – 12:00 Session 2
Planning of Bus Transportation by Using Traffic Simulation
Hiroyasu Matsushima, Hideki Fujii, Tomohisa Yamashita and Itsuki Noda
A Recipe for Social Change: Indirect Minority Influence and Cognitive Rebalancing
Jiin Jung and Aaron Bramson
Towards Decision Making Systems from Data Ethnography
Ray Parra, Manuel Castañón-Puga, Carelia Gaxiola and Dante Suarez
12:00 – 1:45 Lunch on your own in Santa Fe
1:45 – 3:15 Session 3
Sheep, contrarians and saboteurs: disruptors in friendship games
David Dixon
The Surprising Effect of Implementation Choices on the Rate of Convergence of Opinion Dynamics Models
Stephen Davies and Hannah Zontine
The Importance of Product Space Complexity in Agent-Based Computational Economics
Ivan Garibay, Chathika Gunaratne, Mustafa Akbas and Ozlem Ozmen
--15 minute break--
3:30 – 5:00 Session 4
Measuring Behavioral Health Stigma as a Complex Adaptive System
Farah Tokmic, Mirsad Hadžikadić, James Cook and Oleg Tcheremissine
Understanding Health Disparities in an Influenza Epidemic
Lijing Wang, Jiangzhuo Chen and Achla Marathe
Comparing Social Capital and Spatial Use Patterns in Three Hamilton Census Tracts
Milton Friesen
6:00 – 9:00 Conference banquet
8:30 – 10:00 Session 5
MASON NorthLands: A Geospatial Agent-Based Model of Coupled Human-Artificial-Natural Systems in Boreal and Arctic Regions
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, J. Daniel Rogers, Paul S. Schopf, Sean Luke, Jeffrey Bassett, Atesmachew Hailegiorgis, William G. Kennedy, Peter Revay, Meghan Mulkerin, Madeline Shaffer and Ermo Wei
An Agent-Based Simulation of Stock Market to Analyze the Influence of Trader Characteristics on Financial Market Phenomena
Yasaman Kamyab Hessary and Mirsad Hadžikadić
Social Spatial Heterogeneity and System Entrainment in Modeling Human and Nature Dynamics
Zining Yang, Mark Abdollahian and Patrick Neal
--15 minute break--
10:15 – 11:45 Session 6
Modeling Genocide at the System and Agent Levels
Elizabeth von Briesen, N. Gizem Bacaksizlar and Mirsad Hadžikadić
Towards an ABM for civil revolution: Modeling Emergence of Protesters, Military Decisions, and Resulting State of the Institution
Salwa Ismail
Inferring Social Network Structure from Incident Size Distribution in Iraq
Tim Gulden
12:00 – 3:00 Catered Lunch with Joshua Epstein followed by free time
3:00 – 5:00 Session 7
A Dual-Inheritance Model of Cultural Evolution with Agents
Davoud Taghawi-Nejad
The Origin of Agriculture in the Peiligang Culture: An Agent-based Modeling Approach
Yang Zhou
Metabolic basis of complex adaptive systems
Vince Kane
Close, But Not Close Enough: A Spatial Agent-Based Model of Manager-Subordinate Proximity
Thomas Briggs and Andrew Crooks
5:00 – 6:30 Reception with refreshments
9:00 – 11:00. All CSSSA members are urged to attend
11:00 – 12:00
12:00 Adjourn