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