Edmund Chattoe-Brown, PhD, lecturer, University of Leicester, discusses a case study of residential mobility to illustrate agent-based modelling in mixed methods, including challenges with mixed methods research, the Schelling model, where to begin, practical strategies for, and the applicability of agent-based modelling.

https://methods.sagepub.com/video/agent-based-modelling-as-a-case-study-of-residential-mobility

31.10.2022 Geertje Bekebrede and Igor Nikolic, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, “Power of games: the case of Infrarium an experimental game environment”

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Upcoming seminar (last one on 2022) (PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME FROM THE REGULAR HOUR OF THIS SEMINAR SERIES):

December: on Tuesday the 6^th of December, 15:00 CET – César García Díaz, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia – title TBA

04.10.2022 Christopher Frantz and Saba Siddiki– “Institutional Grammar 2.0. Revisiting the institutional grammar to facilitate rigorous institutional analysis”

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Upcoming seminars (2022) (PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGES IN DATE OR TIME):

November: on MONDAY 31^st of October, 13:00 CET – Geertje Bekebrede and Igor Nikolic, Delft University of Technology – title TBA

December: on Tuesday the 6^th of December, 15:00 CET – César García Díaz, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia – title TBA

06.09.2022 Jakub Bijak, Souhila Belabbas, Martin Hinsch, Ariana Modirrousta-Galian, and Oliver Reinhardt – “Capturing the complexity of human migration: Towards an interdisciplinary model-building process”

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07.06.2022 Igor Nikolic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands “ From collective mind maps to agent based models: pros and cons, do’s and dont’s ”.

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If you missed the validation “smalltalk” session @ Social Simulation Festival 2022, here are the slides of Edmund Chattoe-Brown, University of Leicester, UK, Juliette Rouchier, Dauphine University, Paris, and Frank Dignum, Umeå University, Sweden.

05.04.2022 Amineh Ghorbani, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands “Capturing Social Reality Codification of Qualitative Evidence into Computer Models”

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Upcoming online seminars on using qualitative evidence for agent based modelling (all at 1 PM CET):

• April 5th – Amineh Ghorbani, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, “Modelling institutions to add social backbone to artificial societies”
• May 3rd – session in SocSimFesT2022 – Social Simulation Festival 2022
• June 7th – Igor Nikolic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, title to be announced
• July & August – no seminar because of holiday time
• September 6th – Jakub Bijak et al, University of Southampton, UK, “Capturing the complexity of human migration: Towards an interdisciplinary model-building process” (rescheduled from February).

If you want to attend this seminar series, sent an email to Melania Borit.

Past seminars:

2022

• March 1st – Martin Neumann, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, “Growing artificial cultures”

2021

• December 7th – Sara Mehryar, London School of Economics, UK, “Making Use of Mental models to Capture Human Adaptation Behavior”
• November 2nd  – Patrycja Antosz, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Norway, “Mechanism of structural shirking”
• October 5th – LeRon Shults, Agder University, Norway, “Qual2Rule: Qualitative methods and data in social simulation”

Our SIG is happy to announce the Qual2Rule Seminars – A Series of Seminars on Experiences of Using Qualitative Data and Methods in Social Simulation! The seminars will take place the first Tuesday of every month, from 13:00 CET. Each session will be divided in three parts. In the first part, the invited speakers will talk about their research in general. In a second part, they will go into the methodological details of using qualitative data and methods in their modelling practices. The third part will focus on stories related to the modelling process; this would be more about the personal experiences of modeling, challenges when interacting with colleagues, managing the participation of informants, publishing the research etc. 

This is the schedule for 2021:

• October 5th @13.00 via Zoom – LeRon Shults, Agder University, Norway

• November 2nd @ 13.00 via Zoom – Patrycja Antosz, NORCE, Norway

• December 7th @ 13.00 via Zoom – Sara Mehryar, London School of Economics, UK

If you want to join any of these seminars, please fill in this registration form:

https://forms.gle/cUmAwNiAGM8GZcrF8.

The following papers are accepted for presentation during the Social Simulation Conference 2021, Cracow (in the order they will be presented on Thursday 23.09, 09:00-11:00 CEST):

• Patrycja Antosz, Justin Lane, Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, Roger Normann and Leron Shults – “Documenting Data Use in a Model of Pandemic “Emotional Contagion” Using the Rigour and Transparency Reporting Standard (RAT-RS)” (full paper)
• Emilie Lindkvist, Tim Daw, Elizabeth Drury O’Neill, Rosemarie Mwaipopo, Andrew Wamukota and Maja Schlüter – “Understanding complexities in small-scale fisheries: Combining stories and simulations” (extended abstract)
• Vittorio Vittorio Nespeca, Tina Comes and Frances Brazier – “A methodology to develop agent-based models for policy design in socio-technical systems based on qualitative inquiry“ (full paper)
• Henri Kauhanen – “Momentum selection, distance decay and the fate of linguistic innovations” (full paper) – not presented

Other events at SSC2021 organised by the Qual2Rule SIG:

• Roundtable “Integrating Evidence Using Agent-Based Modelling”, Tuesday 21.09, 17:30-19:00 CEST
• Roundtable “Increasing Rigour of ABM”, Thursday 23.09, 19:15-21:15 CEST

If you want to join any of these events, please register for the SSC2021 here.