Conference Agenda

(Updated June 6th)
THURSDAY, June 7 Preconference Tutorial Tracks at Goizueta Business School (GBS)
8.00am Shuttle from Emory Conference Center (ECC and Emory Inn) to GBS
8.30 - 11.30am NetLogo (Bill Rand, Northwestern) GBS 201
AutoMap (Jana Diesner, CMU) GBS 231
12.00pm Shuttle from GBS to ECC
12.00 - 3.00pm Repast (Eric Tatara, Argonne) GBS 201
ORA/DyNet (Terrill Frantz, CMU) GBS 231
3.00pm Shuttle from GBS to ECC
7.00pm - 9.00pm Welcome Reception at Emory Conference Center (ECC) Great Hearth Room
(Finger Food, Cash Bar)
[University Inn pickup at 7pm; Return at 9pm]

FRIDAY, June 8 All sessions at Goizueta Business School
[Onsite registration in GBS 207, 9am - 12pm]
7.00 - 9.00am Shuttle to GBS <-> ECC (Loops every 20-30 minutes)
7.30 - 9.30am Continental Breakfast GBS 207
8.45 - 9.00am Opening Remarks GBS 208
9.00 - 9.45 Keynote: David Krackhardt (CMU)
Network Theory and Computational Modeling: An Empirical Example
GBS 208
9.45 - 10.00 (buffer)

Morning Paper Sessions (Friday June 8)
10.00 - 11.00 Paper Session Track 1-A
GBS 208
Slot 1
Robert Reynolds The Cultural Algorithms Simulation Toolkit: An Approach for Solving Optimization Problems
Slot 2
Eric Tatara Building Models in Repast Simphony: A Predator-Prey Example
Slot 3
Nicholson Collier Test-Driven Simulation Development Using Repast Simphony

10.00 - 11.00 Paper Session Track 1-B
   
GBS 201
Slot 1
Douglas A. Samuelson Agent-Based Simulations of Mass Egress: Stadium and Subway
Slot 2
Maksim Tsvetovat Towards a Dynamic Network Model of Geo-strategic Processes Integrating Neo-Imperialism
Slot 3
Jana Diesner Conditional Random Fields for Entity Extraction and Ontological Text Coding

11.00 - 11.15 (buffer)


11.15 - 12.35 Paper Session Track 2-A
     
GBS 208
Slot 1
Ilya M. Fishman The Virtual Design Team and Checkitt™: Comparison of Project Organization Models
Slot 2
Arianna Dal Forno Performance in Supervised Teams with Bounded Rationality Agents
Slot 3
S. Thomas Puruckerr Environmental consequences of land use change: accounting for complexity with agent-based models
Slot 4
W. F. Lawless Constructing metrics for an organization of agents: A quantum approach

11.15 - 12.35 Paper Session Track 2-B
 
GBS 201    
Slot 1
Yingjie Zhou Strategies for Cleaning Organizational Emails with an Application to Enron Email Dataset
Slot 2
J. Andrei Villarroel Managing Competing Communities of Practice: The Impact of Open Source and Knowledge-Bridging on Systems-Level Learning
Slot 3
Robin Cooper Who Wins in a Dynamic World: Theory of Constraints vs. Activity-Based Costing
Slot 4
Kwang Deok Kim Modeling Political Contribution Behavior through Social Networks

12.35 - 1.45 Lunch and Keynote: Ali S. Khan (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
Developing Socialtechnical Systems for BioWarriors

Box lunches (including vegetarian) will be provided. Please take a break and have a lunch.
The keynote will begin at 1.15pm. You may bring your lunch into GBS 208 if you wish.
GBS 208

Afternoon Paper Sessions (Friday June 8)
1.45 - 3.05 Paper Session Track 3-A
     
GBS 208
Slot 1
Douglas R. Oxley The Impact of Institutional Structures on the Evolution of Cooperation
Slot 2
Gregory Todd Jones A NetLogo Model for the Study of the Evolution of Cooperation in Social Networks
Slot 3
Corinne Coen Competition and Cooperation in the Multiple-Team Social Dilemma
Slot 4
David A. Bray Social Networks, Exploration, and Exploitation in Multi-Tier Hierarchical Organizations Experiencing Environmental Turbulence

1.45 - 3.05 Paper Session Track 3-B
     
GBS 201
Slot 1
William Rand Full Spectrum Modeling: From Simplicity to Elaboration and Realism in Urban Pattern Formation
Slot 2
Maciej Latek Computational Empires - Hierarchies, Power and Warfare in Ancient Inner Asia
Slot 3
Sang-Joon Kim The Resuscitation of Stigma on Internet: Formalizing Cognitive Institutionalization through the Master Kim case in Korea
Slot 4
Terrill Frantz The Impact of Knowledge Misrepresentation on Organization Performance Dynamics

3.05 - 3.30 (buffer)


3.30 - 4.50 Paper Session Track 4-A
     
GBS 208
Slot 1
David L. Sallach Orientation Fields and the Emergence of Collective Coherence
Slot 2
Matthew Francisco Growing the Demic Structure of Science: A Prototype Generative Case Study Strategy
Slot 3
Samer Balbaky Modeling Vehicle Choice Behavior Using Agent-Based Approach
Slot 4
Navid Ghaffarzadegan A Simulation Approach to Redundancy Solution (Problem) in Security

3.30 - 4.50 Paper Session Track 4-B
     
GBS 201
Slot 1
Katya Drozdova Subversive Networks Then and Now: Comparing Terrorist and Espionage Operations toward Threat Prevention
Slot 2
Kyle A. Joyce An Agent-based Model of War Expansion
Slot 3
Xiaochui Cui Modeling the Collective Strategic Searching of Artificial Insurgent Groups: A Particle Swarm Approach
Slot 4
Susan M. Mniszewski Pandemic Simulation of Antivirals + School Closures: Buying Time Until Strain-Specific Vaccine is Available

5.00 - 5.45 (est) Executive Meeting (location to be announced)
5.00 - 7.00 Shuttle to GBS <-> ECC (Loops every 20-30 minutes)
Evening Session (Friday June 8)
6.00 - 7.00pm Reception at Emory Conference Center (ECC)
Mountain Laurel Room
7.00 - 9.00pm
Dinner at Emory Conference Center (ECC) Mountain Laurel Room
  Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Bradshaw (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition)
         We Regulate to Coordinate: Toward a Theory of Joint Activity in Human-Machine
         Collaboration


SATURDAY, June 9 All sessions at Goizueta Business School
7.00 - 9.00am Shuttle to GBS <-> ECC (Loops every 20-30 minutes)
7.30 - 9.30am Continental Breakfast GBS 207
8.45 - 9.00am Opening Remarks GBS 208
9.00 - 9.45 Keynote: John Sterman (MIT)
All Models are Wrong: Agents, Loops and Turtles in Modeling Complex Dynamics
GBS 208
9.45 - 10.00 (buffer)

10.00 - 11.20 Paper Session Track 5-A   GBS 208
Slot 1
Russ Marion Multi-Agent Based Modeling of Complexity Leadership
Slot 2
Ugo Merlone A Computational Model of the Emergence of Effective Leaders
Slot 3
Joycelyn Ward Streator Digital Disparity and the Dissemination of Culture
Slot 4
Sascha Vitzthum Dissemination of Culture in a Networked World: The Influence of Network Structure on the Axelrod Cultural Model

10.00 - 11.20 Paper Session Track 5-B   GBS 201
Slot 1
Roopa Raman Preferential Attachment and Organization Science
Slot 2
William A. Griffin Modeling Time, Space, and Behavior:  Combining ABM & GIS to Create Typologies of Playgroup Dynamics in Preschool Children
Slot 3
Shana K. Schmidt The Signals of Play: An ABM of Affective Signatures in Children's Playgroups
Slot 4
John Yen A Survey of Trust Models in Agent Applications

11.20 - 11.40 (buffer)
11.40 - 12.30 (est.) Panel: Computational Social Science in University Education and Research GBS 208
12.30 Closing. (Box Lunch Provided)