We extend congratulations to Jose Manuel Magallanes, Professor of Political Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima, and former Research Associate at the Center for Social Complexity, who successfully defended his Computational Social Science Ph.D. dissertation on climate change in the Andes, glacial thawing, and human security. Dr. Magallanes is now a Senior Data Science Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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The recent Computational Social Science Society of America conference in Santa Fe attracted participants and audiences from around the world. Among the presenters were Jeff Bassett, member of the Mason-Smithsonian Joint Project on Climate Change and Society, who presented the paper “Evolutionary Computation Applied to Agent-Based Simulation Modeling of Climate and Social Dynamics,” co-authored by Bassett and Dr. Claudio Cioffi, director of the Center for Social Complexity. Also presenting at the conference was Dr. J. Daniel Rogers of the Smithsonian Institution and a member of the Mason-Smithsonian Joint Project. At this same conference, Dr. Robert Axtell, CSS faculty, was the keynote speaker, asking the question: “What Methodology Would Social Scientists Adopt if We Could Start Over?”
Posted 11/17/15
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Claudio Cioffi, Joey Harrison, and Meysam Alizadeh, members of the CSC component of the Minerva Project on Radicalization, along with the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, and the University of Warsaw, presented their work at the 2015 Minerva Meeting and Program in September. At the meeting sponsored by ONR, MASON models drew attention and praise for being at the cutting edge of agent-based simulation research.
Posted 11/12/15
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Andrew Crooks was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Computational Social Science and Claudio Cioffi was promoted to the special rank of University Professor by action of the Board of Visitors of George Mason University.
Posted 10/28/15
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from National Cheng-chi Univerisity (NCCU) in Taipei, Taiwan, and editor of several noted academic journals, visited the Center for Social Complexity recently to discuss the future of collaboration between our respective groups. Possible topics include agent-based and complexity modeling on domains such as computational historical dynamics, disaster modeling and risk analysis, and applications in economics and finance. Dr. Cioffi will visit Dr. Cheng at the new NCCU institute for computational social science in 2016.
Posted 10/26/15
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the Global Humanitarian Technology Conference in Seattle October 8-11. This is one of several meetings leading up to his participation in global humanitarian science and technology forums to disseminate the new agent-based model NorthLands of the Mason-Smithsonian Joint Project.
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Dr. Claudio Cioffi announced the new MASON NorthLands, an agent-based model of climate change and emergent societal impacts, at the annual conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), in Groningen, Netherlands, September 14-18. This is the main “federated” model of the Mason=Smithsonian Joint Project on Climate and Society, funded by the Cyber-enabled Discoveries and Innovation (CDI) Program of the the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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the joint team on the NorthLands model, will present his research on cultural evolution, building on R. Reynolds’s work with cultural algorithms, at the upcoming workshop on Computational Social Science in Cologne, Germany, this month. Peter also passed his qualifying doctoral exams with flying colors and is now preparing his doctoral dissertation proposal leading to candidacy.
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version of MASON (Multi-Agent Simulator of Networks and Neighborhoods), available from the MASON website.
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for serving as Acting Director of CSC while Claudio Cioffi served in the Provost’s office as Interim Vice President for Research and Economic Development. Andrew “kept the fires burning” — a big Thank-You to Andrew from all CSC members!
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