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Presentations
2021 Presentations
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8 June
10:00 | Welcome — Bill Rand, North Carolina State University, USA
10:15 | Goals of iGSS | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my5RXuZxroA | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/epstein-slides.pdf — Joshua M. Epstein, New York University, USA
11:00 | [Keynote 1] Beyond Allocation: How ABMs Can Transform The Study and Design of Institutional Ensembles | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbahEg-uTB8 | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/keynote1-page-slides.pdf | Paper: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/keynote1-bednar-page-manuscript.pdf — Scott Page, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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12:30 | Creating ABMs from Extant Mathematical Models: An Inverse Perspective | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLR1QMcAiew | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/axtell-slides.pdf — Robert Axtell, George Mason University, USA
13:00 | Machine Learning Stimulates Agent-Based Model Towards Policy-Making | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdQJKD020BI | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/furtado-slides.pdf — Bernardo Alves Furtado, IPEA, Brazil
13:30 | An ABM generating realistic epidemic dynamics and a genetic algorithm to implement vaccinations minimizing the number of symptomatic people | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7DLFvOhqVo | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/terna-slides.pdf — Pietro Terna et al., University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy
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14:30 | Inverse generated identity from interactions in self-organizing groups | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uT17BXFCVA | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/salamanca-delgado-slides.pdf — Juan Salamanca & Daniela Delgado, University of Illinois, USA
15:00 | Meta-brain Models: Biologically complex agent-based models | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLWrTjj5bnw | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/alicea-slides.pdf — Bradly Alicea & Jesse Parent, Orthogonal Research and Education Lab, USA
15:30 | Creating ABMs from big and small data | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpKwZLQbPIk | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/rand-slides.pdf — Bill Rand, North Carolina State University, USA
9 June
09:30 | [Welcome] iGSS: Challenges, Opportunities, and a First Approximation | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tse1z-GdpaE | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/welcome-garibay-slides.pdf — Ivan Garibay, University of Central Florida, USA
10:00 | Evolving the Optimal Transmission Network | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZCfrMsAwYA — Aaron Bramson, RIKEN, Japan; Patrick Grim, Stony Brook University, USA
10:30 | Evolving Networks Created by Preferential Attachment and Decay | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqgFUWC0xu4 | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/downes-slides.pdf | Paper: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/downes-manuscript.pdf — Justin Downes, George Mason University, USA
11:00 | DeepABM: Scalable and Efficient Agent-based Simulations via Graph Convolutional Frameworks | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKGdSzuKK-E | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/chopra-subramanian-slides.pdf — Ayush Chopra et al., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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12:00 | Does the Representation of Managerial Search Behavior in Agent-based Models of Organizations Matter: Satisficing vs. Hill-Climbing? | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqpGp8F0aCg | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/wall-slides.pdf — Friederike Wall, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
12:30 | Challenges of three-objective bi-level model discovery: Application to alcohol use in New York State, 1985-2015 | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG3B2XbUQ2s | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/vu-slides.pdf — Tuong Manh Vu et al., University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
13:00 | Framing discussion — Matthew Koehler, The MITRE Corporation, USA
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13:45 | [Keynote 2] Models of Social Learning and Forces for Non-Consensus | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtxlqOhIHvE — Matthew Jackson, Stanford University, USA
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15:00 | Evolutionary Model Discovery on a Theoretical Model of Ideological Polarization in Social Networks | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFIuoj0IUDA | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/gunaratne-slides.pdf — Chathika Gunaratne, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
15:30 | Adapting an existing NetLogo radar model for Evolutionary Model Discovery compatibility | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFF3z5PlPME | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/yelenick-slides-n9t3.pdf — Mariah Yelenick et al., The MITRE Corporation, USA
10 June
09:30 | Welcome — Matthew Koehler, The MITRE Corporation, USA
10:00 | Taking agent-based model robustness seriously: Some ways forward | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo6hv11Ayws | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/istrate-slides.pdf — Gabriel Istrate, West University of Timisoara, Romania
10:30 | Testing hypotheses in Agent-based models | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF1jl4AZKKE — Hang Xiong, Huazhong Agricultural University, China; Georgiy Bobashev, RTI International, USA
11:00 | Generating Agent Based Models From Scratch With Genetic Programming | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKpZdJ3PftI | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/greig-arranz-slides.pdf — Rory Greig & Jordi Arranz, Improbable, United Kingdom
11:30 | Evolutionary model discovery of behavioral factors driving decision-making in an irrigation experiment | Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7zmaHVSHdc | Slides: https://igssworkshop.wordpress.com/s/miranda-slides.pdf — Lux Miranda et al., University of Central Florida, USA
12:00 | Concluding discussion — Bill Rand, North Carolina State University