CSS 2021 Schedule

ALL TIMES SHOWN HERE ARE IN MOUNTAIN STANDARD (SANTA FE, NM)

Link to import schedule in Google Calendar (times are likely to be Eastern, but should correspond to the correct time in Mountain Standard.)

Thursday, November 04

10:30 am – 12:00 noon – Special Interest Group (Mesa, a Python-based agent-based modeling Framework)

The Mesa SIG will provide an introduction to Mesa, a Python agent-based modeling library. In the first half, participants will be introduced to Mesa’s modeling components, analytic tools, and visualization front-end, and build a simple demo model. The second half will include a discussion of future capabilities and priorities, and how participants can get involved in Mesa’s development and community.

Organizers: Tom Pike, David Masad, and Jacqueline Kazil

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Welcome Reception – Feel free to join (virtually, of course) and reconnect.

Friday, November 05

Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:00 am – 8:30 am      Matt Koehler: President, CSSSA, opening remarks

8:30 am – 10:00 am Session 1 – Chair: Andy Collins

Peter Chew;    Quantifying Polish Anti-Semitism in Twitter: A Robust Unsupervised Approach with Signal Processing

Robin Clark and Steven Kimbrough; On Modeling Evolution in Continuous Spaces

Leo Niehorster-Cook; The Spreading-Activation Framework Does Not Explain the Effects of Degree and Clustering on Spoken Word Recognition

10:30 am – 12:00 noon Session 2 – Chair: Caroline Krejci

Ece Mutlu and Ozlem Ozmen Garibay; Effects of Assortativity on Consensus Formation with Heterogeneous Agents

Justin Mittereder, Robert Carroll, Brandon Frulla and Stephen Davies; Exploring the Impact of Social Network Density and Agent Openness on Societal Polarization

Michael Norman, Paul Silvey, Matthew Koehler and Kirbi Joe; Engineering Decentralized Enterprises: Emergent Mission Accomplishment without Centralized Command and Control

Lunch Break

12:00 noon – 1:00 pm 

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Session 3 – Chair: Zining Yang  

Srikanth Mudigonda, Santiago Nunez-Corrales, Rajesh Venkatachalapathy and Jeffrey Graham; Scheduler dependencies in Agent-Based Models: A case-study using a contagion model

Asal Pilehvari, Jason Ton, Mukundan Ram Mohan, Achla Marathe and Anil Vullikanti; Drivers and Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Virginia

Richard Sear, Rhys Leahy, Nicholas Johnson Restrepo, Yonatan Lupu and Neil Johnson; Machine Learning Reveals Adaptive COVID-19 Narratives in Online Anti-Vaccination Network

Special Session: iGSS

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Special Session: iGSS – Hosted by Joshua Epstein 

Saturday, November 06

8:30 am – 10:30 am Session 4 – Chair: Tim Gulden

Rena Sung and Jonghyuk Park; Economic Sanctions and Consumer Behavior in Target States: An Agent-Based Model of Boycott Movements

H Van Dyke Parunak; Learning Actor Preferences by Evolution

Yao Robert Djogbenou, Vissého Adjiwanou and Solène Lardoux; Using computational text analysis for identifying topics in the literatures about integration of immigrants from 1964 to 2019

Valentin Vergara Hidd, Mario Villagran and Julio Labraña; Experimenting with higher education policies: Results from a simulation

Special Session: Status and Future of ABM

11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Chair: Matt Koehler

Lunch Break

12:00 noon – 1:00 pm 

Poster Session 

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Chair: Elizabeth von Briesen

Aj Alvero, Leslie Luqueño and Anthony Antonio; Computational Social Science for Research on Intersectionality: Affordances and Considerations in the Context of College Admissions

Jacob Kelter, William Conboy, Joseph Potvin and Uri Wilensky; A Macroeconomic Agent-based Modeling Framework with Arbitrary Supply Network Complexity

Yao Robert Djogbenou, Vissého Adjiwanou and Solène Lardoux; Framing immigration and integration of immigrants: A computational text analysis of Canadian newspapers and sources of bias, 1977–2020

Kevin Xiong and Bill Kennedy;  Modeling Exposures from a “Dirty Bomb”

D. Cale Reeves, Ariane Beck, Juliana Felkner and Zoltan Nagy; Who Makes It in the Long Run: Estimating Equity Impacts in Policy and Land Development Scenario Projections

Leo Niehorster-Cook; Epidemiological Dynamics with Adaptive Behavior – Global and Local Information

Sam Rohrer, David Slater, Matthew Koehler, and Sanith Wijesinghe; Generic Market Simulator NetLogo Extension

Keynote Address 

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm – Sensemaking at Scale, Robert Axtell, Professor of Computational Social Science, George Mason University
Introduction by Matt Koehler 

Sunday, November 07

Panel: Agentization

9:00 am – 11:00 am – Chair: Robert Axtell

CSSSA Society Meeting

11:15 am – 12:00 noon – Society updates and Panel Discussion

12:00 noon – Closing remarks and adjournment: Matt Koehler

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – CAPS Special Interest Group 

Organizer: D. Cale Reeves