NAACSOS 2003
Conference
June 22-25, 2003
Omni William Penn, Pittsburgh, PA
This was the innaugural conference for the newly formed NAACSOS (North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science).
Purpose:
The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners
in the area of computational social and organizational science, to
present new developments and findings, demonstrate state-of-the-art
technologies, and advance the overall state of science and engineering
in this area. Of particular interest is recent work in any of the following
areas:
Computational theorizing about complex socio-cognitive-technical systems,
including organizations, markets, societies, institutions and technology
enhanced environments.
New computational or network based analysis tools for studying, reasoning
about, or providing policy guidance with respect to socio-cognitive-technological
systems, social-psychological, social, organizational, political or technological
systems.
Advances in grounding, tuning, and validating computational models in
the social and organizational sciences, including new techniques generalizable
across many models and new empirical tests of specific models.
Rationale:
Social and organizational science are being fundamentally altered by
the use of computational and mathematical modeling. These formal approaches
are increasing the rigor, testability, and predictiveness of theories,
enabling improved reasoning about complex social processes at a heretofor
unprecedented level, enabling theory testing and validation at multiple
levels and utilizing data at a larger scale, and privding managers and
policy makers with tools to support what-if reasoning about complex socio-technical
systems. The work in this area is fundamentally interdisciplinary, team
centered, multi-level and multi-scale. NAACSOS, and this conference,
provides a venue for researchers and practitioners to advance the tools,
theories, and empirical grounding in this area.
Sponsored, in part, by the National Science Foundation IGERT in CASOS