| If you are working with qualitative data and agent-based modelling, please consider submitting your research (poster, extended abstract, short paper, long paper) to the special track “Using qualitative data to inform behavioural rules in agent-based models”, which is described below the signature and is to be organized during the Social Simulation Conference 2023, 4-8 September, Glasgow, UK. Important dates: * Submission Deadline: * Notification of Acceptance: 16 June 2023 * Final Version Submission: 09 July 2023 * Conference: 4-8th September 2023, Glasgow Description: Many academics consider qualitative evidence (e.g. texts gained from transcribing oral data or observations of people) and quantitative evidence to be incommensurable. However, agent-based simulations are a possible vehicle for bridging this gap. Narrative textual evidence often gives clues as to the in-context behavior of individuals and is thus a natural source for behaviors to inform the specification of corresponding agent behavior within simulations. The texts will not give a complete picture, but will provide some of “menu” of behaviors people use. During this session we hope to further the understanding of how to improve this. We are particularly interested in accounts of the procedures or structures people used to bridge between qualitative and formal realms based in reported modelling experiences. Thus, those interested to present their work in this session have to make sure that their submission explicitly addresses the use of qualitative data in their modelling endeavour. The session is open to all approaches that seek to move from qualitative evidence towards a simulation in a systematic way. These include, but are not limited to: * Approaches based in Grounded Theory. * Tools for facilitating such a process. * Participatory processes that result in a simulation. * Frameworks for aiding the analysis of text into rules. * Elicitation techniques that would aid the capture of information in an appropriate structure. * Models and ideas from psychology to aid in the above process. * Insights and tools from Natural Language Processing that may help this process. * Agent architectures that will facilitate the programming of agents from such analyses. * Philosophical or Sociological critiques, pointing out assumptions and dangers. * Examples of where this approach has been tried. |
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The Challenge of Validation by Martin Neumann
Talking about different paradigms and qualitative validation of social simulation models. At https://rofasss.org/2023/04/18/the-challenge-of-validation/
Sage Research Methods: Agent-Based Modelling as a Different “Lens” on Mixed Methods: A Case Study of Residential Mobility
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
Geertje Bekebrede and Igor Nikolic presentation at the Qual2Rule Seminar Series
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 6th of December, 15:00 CET – César García Díaz, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia – title TBA
Christopher Frantz and Saba Siddiki presentation at the Qual2Rule Seminar Series
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 31st of October, 13:00 CET – Geertje Bekebrede and Igor Nikolic, Delft University of Technology – title TBA
December: on Tuesday the 6th of December, 15:00 CET – César García Díaz, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia – title TBA
Jakub Bijak et al. presentation at the Qual2Rule Seminar Series
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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Qual2Rule Paper published in journal: “Government and Opposition”
Work by Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink and Bruce Edmonds originating from the Lorentz workshop on Integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence using Social Simulation.
Dornschneider-Elkink, S., & Edmonds, B. (2022). Does Non-violent Repression Have Stronger Dampening Effects than State Violence? Insight from an Emotion-Based Model of Non-violent Dissent. Government and Opposition, 1-23. doi:http://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2022.37
See http://cfpm.org/discussionpapers/286 for more details
Participants and papers at the Qual2Rule session @ SSC2022 in Milan
Papers presented at the Qual2Rule session organised during the Social Simulation Conference 2022:
Trustworthiness of simulation: A qualitative account
Martin Neumann (JGU Mainz, Germany)
The innovation network in the Rhenish Lignite area – A participatory ABM approach to partner selection and knowledge diffusion
Christian Stehr & Miriam Athmer (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
Integrating agent-based modelling and behavioural data analytics: A case study of cli- mate change farmers’ perception in Italy
Sandra Ricart, Paolo Gazzotti, Claudio Gandolfi & Andrea Castelletti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Challenging the establishment: A computational grounded theory of the emergence of sustainable food companies in Colombia
Cesar Garcia-Diaz, Mónica Ramos-Mejía, Sebastian Duenas-Ocampo & Isabella Gomati de la Vega (Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
Special issue of “Social Research Methodology” on “Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence” is now officially out
Edited by Patrycja Antosz, Sukaina Bharwani, Melania Borit & Bruce Edmonds
At https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tsrm20/25/4
The papers in the special issue are:
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’ by Patrycja Antosz, Sukaina Bharwani, Melania Borit & Bruce Edmonds
RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling by Sebastian Achter, Melania Borit, Edmund Chattoe-Brown & Peer-Olaf Siebers
GAM on! Six ways to explore social complexity by combining games and agent-based models by Timo Szczepanska, Patrycja Antosz, Jan Ole Berndt, Melania Borit, Edmund Chattoe-Brown, Sara Mehryar, Ruth Meyer, Stephan Onggo & Harko Verhagen
Sensemaking of causality in agent-based models by Patrycja Antosz, Timo Szczepanska, Loes Bouman, J. Gareth Polhill & Wander Jager
Combining approaches: Looking behind the scenes of integrating multiple types of evidence from controlled behavioural experiments through agent-based modelling by Nanda Wijermans, Caroline Schill, Therese Lindahl & Maja Schlüter