Invited talk at MABS, London, May 2023. Slides at: https://cfpm.org/slides/BE-MABS-2023.pdf
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Invited talk at MABS, London, May 2023. Slides at: https://cfpm.org/slides/BE-MABS-2023.pdf
Article and Launch of ToBeFair.org educational site to build good ABM practices. Article is at https://rofasss.org/2023/05/11/fair/
3 day workshop at the “Constructor University” (formerlyh Jackob’s Uni.) on all aspects of social influence modelling. Reasonably cheap (but in my experience good) student style accommodation available. Funded by the DFG. Details at http://odcd2023.janlo.de/
We are trying to find a community of simulation modellers who are interested in developing simulation models that exhibit alternative processes that leads to inequality (of whatever kind). To be follow by a longer-term community, grant applications and workshops.
Part of a forthcoming special issue on “Simulation and Dissimulation”. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103121
A review by Bruce Edmonds of “Escape from Model Land by Erica Thompson”. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation Jan 2022. https://www.jasss.org/26/1/reviews/1.html
Edmonds, B. (2022) The practice and rhetoric of prediction – the case in agent-based modelling, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2022.2137921
The slides and paper from the talk at Social Simulation 2022 in Milan (#ssc2022). Along with links to other papers on rigour. http://cfpm.org/rigour
Monday 12th September 16.00-17.15 CEST. (Room 13
Social Simulation Conference, Milan + online)
This workshop addressed the use of agent-based models to articulate utopias in a formal, reproducible and transparent way in any area and at any level of abstraction, including, for instance, post-capitalist economies, post-nation state worlds, algorithmic money and post-money societies and any new utopias never previously presented. Critical discussion and opinion pieces are welcome. It follows a previous workshop entitled “Envisioning Post-Capitalist Societies via Simulation – Critique, Utopias and Agent Based Modelling”.
Special issue of “Social Research Methodology” on “***Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence***” is now out. See http://cfpm.org/qual2rule/si-ijsrm-abm-intqq/ for details.
New paper with our Ruth Meyer See https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645579.2022.2050119
See the full Call for papers. For details about the conference see https://ssc2022.behavelab.org/
Slides from our 2021 American Political Science Association presentation, work by Stephanie Dornschneider and Bruce Edmonds, based on the model at http://cfpm.org/modelz/237.
EU conference on modelling for policy support next week – free streams available. Including our paper on the need for systematic model comparison in the session on “Ensuring Model Quality” Mon, 11-12.45
You are invited to attend this conference, which includes an online session on simulating politics. There is a face-face set of roundtables on the 15th Nov, but you can also attend these online. For details see https://pace-conference.b2match.io/
Tuesday 21-09-2021 17:30 CEST, Integrating Evidence Using Agent-Based Modelling. Thursday 23-09-2021
19:15 CEST, Increasing Rigour of ABM. Registration is free but necessary to attend. https://ssc2021.uek.krakow.pl/
Video recordings from this webinar, organised by the UK Government’s Digital Catapult are now available. Some interesting discussion about the potential for ABM to inform policy, as well as some questions and discussion on some of the difficulties.
Foundational work by Claire Little, D. McLean, K. Crockett and B. Edmonds as part of the EU’s H2020 programme to help automatically identify populist tweets ( as part of the PaCE project )
This is full of interesting online workshops and talks! For details see http://ssc2020.behavelab.org/programme
There will be an online workshop (3-6pm CET on 9,10 &11 June, registration necessary but free) and other events and channels for discussion on this topic. See the announcement on the O&P website for details.
In Ecological Complexity, December 2019. Edited by George van Voorn, Gert Jan Hofstede, Bruce Edmonds and Gary Polhill
Following lively discussion at Social Simulation 2019, Gary Polhill, David Hales and I are issuing a challenge to those who think there are such examples to send us the documentation about these predictions.
Center for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
November 21st and 22nd 2019
Edmonds, B., Le Page, C., Bithell, M., Chattoe-Brown, E., Grimm, V., Meyer, R., Montañola-Sales, C., Ormerod, P., Root, H. and Squazzoni, F. (2019) Different Modelling Purposes. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 22(3):6 <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/22/3/6.html. DOI: 10.18564/jasss.3993
By two CfPM students: Shaheen and Lia.
Syed, S., ní Aodha, L., Scougal, C. & Spruit, M. (online first,. 2019) Mapping the global network of fisheries science collaboration. Fish & Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12379
All the papers in this special issue are now available in the August 2020 issue of Social Science Computer Review. The whole issue can be found at https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ssce/38/4
A Lorentz workshop, 8th-12th April 2019, Leiden, NL.
Co-organised by :
“Towards realistic computational models of social influence dynamics” (ToRealSim) is a four-country (DE, NL, FR, UK) joint project under the Open Research Area initiative. We lead the UK part of this and will work with the University of Leicester, starting April 2019 for 3 years.
The Social Simulation Conference 2019 will take place from 23 – 27 September 2019 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
8 Apr 2019 through 12 Apr 2019, Lorentz Centre, Leiden, NL. For more about this see http://cfpm.org/qual2rule/eoi-lorentz-workshop/ and http://lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2019/1116/info.php3?wsid=1116&venue=Snellius
Paul Ormerod will talk at the MMU Business School @1pm on Thurs 8th November 2018, room BS 3.21. All welcome.
Paul Ormerod is a dissident economist, most famous for his first book “The Death of Economics” which critiqued the discipline in 1994. Apart from his many academic papers, he was one of the founders of the Henley Centre for Forecasting, and author of three more books: “Butterfly Economics”, “Why most things fail” and “-Positive Linking: How Networks and Incentives Can Revolutionise the World_”.
More about his activities can be found at http://paulormerod.com or the consultancy he co-founded with others: Volterra Partners which do a lot of work for the government and business sectors.
In Ecological Complexity (online first). This is an overview of the need for simulating Socio-Ecological systems in a truly integrated manner and discusses some of the methodological issues that arise from doing so. Includes discussion on the necessity of multiple models at times and the possible role of ontologies in helping to deal with model complexity. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2018.07.007
A #cfpm_org paper that goes in a ‘perpendicular’ direction to that of (Axelrod & Hammond 2006). By David Hales and Bruce Edmonds . This open access publication is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022002718780481
#cfpm_org #bruceedmonds A paper has just been published in the Royal Society’s journal: Open Science, called Computational modelling for decision-making: where, why, what, who and how (Open Access). It is a summary of the UK Government Blackett report on Computational Modelling: Technological Futures.
A new journal that looks at simulations and systems that integrate social and cognitive aspects into a single framework. We (Frank Dignum and I) hope to focus and stimulate research which does not just look at one side (cognitive or social) with only a nod to the other. Much of human cognition is fundamentally social and makes no sense away from its social context. Much social phenomena can only occur (and thus be understood) when there is sufficient cognitive hooks (e.g. context-sensitivity or face recognition). Thus we hope to focus and stimulate research which does not just look at one side (cognitive or social) with only a nod to the other, but integrates the two aspects and understands them together.
Springer Home page is at: https://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/42419 #cfpm_org #scs #bruceedmonds
Call for papers for a workshop on “Socio-Cognitive Systems: Computational and Formal models”, to be held as part of FAIM2018 (Federated AI Meeting which includes AAMAS, ICML, ICCBR and SoCS). To happen at Stockholmsmässan, Stockholm July 9-19. 2018.
Details at: http://cfpm.org/scs18/
The biggest and best conference on social simulation in the world, this year in Stockholm. Early Bird Registration: before 1st August. For more details see: http://ssc2018.dsv.su.se
Monday the 25th of September 2017. Duration: 90 minutes, @ Social Simulation Conference 2017, Dublin, Ireland. ESSA SIG Using qualitative data to inform behavioural rules.
The special issue edited by Katy Börner, Bruce Edmonds, Staša Milojević & Andrea Scharnhorst of Scientometrics on “Simulating the processes of science, technology, and innovation” is now out. It is in Volume 110, Issue 1, January 2017 at: http://link.springer.com/journal/11192/110/1?wt_mc=
Three papers that summarise the approach developed in the SCID project: staged abstraction from complex descriptive simulation (with relevance) to simpler models (with rigour).
This workshop happened on the 6/7th June 2016, Manchester Metropolitan University. The slides from most of the talks are now available.
A 2-day workshop on Social simulation of fisheries and coastal management held in Manchester, 6/7 June 2016.
PEERE Meeting on “Taking stock of peer review” & 2nd Workshop on Simulating the Social Processes of Science (SSPOS II), 8th – 11th March 2016, Valencia, Spain.
2 PhD Scholarships available now on Integrating Data Mining and Agent-based simulation and Modelling the Dynamics of Town Centre Change. Deadline 9am (GMT) on the 21 March 2016.
A handbook on Simulating Social Complexity
edited by Bruce Edmonds and Ruth Meyer
in memory of Herbert Simon
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