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Program
2020 Workshop Agenda
Thursday, January 23 — Introduction to the Problems and Survey of Existing Work
Morning – 10:30 AM – Noon
10:30 Welcome
10:45 Keynote – Joshua Epstein – Inverse Generative Social Science – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/iGSSKeynote.pptx – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=2&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&t=0s&v=CTiswvl4N-Y
Working Lunch – Noon – 1:30 PM – MITRE Presentation
Afternoon – 1:30 PM – 5 PM
1:30 Rob Axtell – Inherent subjectivity in evaluating the quality of models when performance measures are high-dimensional – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/Axtell-Inverse-Subjective.pdf
2:00 Stephen Eubank – It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the past – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/IGSS-Eubank.pptx
2:30 Break
3:00 Una-May O’Reilly – Coevolving Cyber Adversaries – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/OREILLY-IGSS-2020-4up.pdf
3:30 Paul K. Davis and Angela O’Mahony – Inverse Modeling in Deterrence Theory – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/InverseGenerativeMeeting-davis.pdf
4:00 Andres Abeliuk – Algorithmic policy-making and the role of agent-based models – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/igss_workshop-abeliuk.pdf
4:30 Wrap-up
Dinner On Your Own
Friday, January 24 — Define the Space and Plot a Course
Morning – 9:00 AM – Noon
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Sander van der Hoog – Surrogate Modelling, Calibration and Empirical Validation of large-scale ABMs – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/Slides-Sander-van-der-Hoog-Empirical-Estimation-2020-MITRE.pdf – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=13&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&t=0s&v=P4YbbrNYoxM
10:00 Madhav Marathe – Abductive reasoning to develop models of networked social systems – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/Marathe-IGSS-Meeting-Jan2020-final.pdf
10:30 Ivan Garibay – From Deep Agents to Inverse Generative Social Sciences: On ways to leverage artificial intelligence and vast computational power to reformulate modeling of social phenomena – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/0Garibay-IGSS-WS-Jan2020v30.pdf
11:00 Bernardo Alves Furtado – Machine Learning simulates Agent-Based Modeling – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/iGSS___ML_simulates_PolicySpace3.pdf – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=3&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&t=0s&v=XgRDUWPTNKw
11:30 Rob Axtell – Special problems of parameter estimation and rule inference when ABMs have emergent properties – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/Axtell-Emergence.pdf – manuscript: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/Properties-of-aggregate-dynamical-systems.pdf – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=11&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&t=0s&v=QAgltj5jIJY
Working Lunch – Noon – 1:30 PM
Afternoon – 1:30 PM – 5 PM
1:30 Robin Purhouse and Joshua Epstein – Inverse Generative Modeling of Alcohol Behavior – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/20200124-iGSS-workshop-Purshouse-Epstein.pdf – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=12&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&t=0s&v=im1Coat1aT0
2:00 Chris Georges – Market Stability with Machine Learning Agents – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/Machine-Learning-Agents-Presentation-IGSS-Mitre-Jan-2020.pdf – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=8&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&t=0s&v=kwWV_rroWSs
2:30 Blake LeBaron – Learning gradients for testing and validating agent-based models – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/LeBaronInvGenDC2020.pdf – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=5&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&t=0s&v=2kh_3JiWE0w
3:00 Break
3:30 Georgiy Bobashev – Agent-based models as community AI system – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=8&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&v=21mjNFJ09nY
4:00 Jim Blythe – Data-driven agent behaviors and systematic search of behaviors in DASH – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/Blythe.pdf – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=9&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&v=lCHOsqVfvPs
Workshop Dinner
Saturday, January 25 — Looking Forward and Planning the Trip
Morning – 9:00 AM – Noon
9:00 Coffee
9:30 Chathika Gunaratne – Evolutionary Model Discovery: explainable artificial intelligence for the agent-based modeling and inference of mechanisms generating complex social behavior – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/EMD-Explainable-Artificial-Intelligence-for-the-Agent-Based-Modeling-and-Inference-of-Mechanisms-Gen-htbd.pdf – dissertation: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/EvolutionaryModelDiscoveryAutomatingCausalInferenceforGenerativeModelsofHumanSocialBehavior.pdf – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=6&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&v=hX83rWSEFtQ
10:30 Bill Rand – Theory-Interpretable Modeling – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/timmit.pdf – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=3&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&v=HkyNqIBtUPo
12:00 Bryan Head – How to Model Agents Reasoning About Agents – slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/IGSS-2020.pdf – paper: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/180710847.pdf – model: https://github.com/qiemem/Wolf-Sheep-Predation-Micro-Sims – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=5&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&v=i8fKQkytWa4
12:30 Matt Koehler and David Slater – TBD – video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=14&list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz&t=0s&v=CIIdUUzRLoM
Working Lunch – Noon – 1:30 PM
Afternoon – 1:30 PM – 5 PM
Discussion of Future Goals: Funding Plans; Continuation of Workshop; Potential Book; Data Challenge
Wrap-Up
Full 2020 talks and presentation video playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRHKfKiggBs71IgBNh1HXO9PjxdsFzCKz