BEHAVE has been presented in an International Symposium on Social Simulation (ISSS 2020) organised by the Macro Agriculture Research Institute in Wuhan, China on 6 August 2020. Flaminio Squazzoni gave an keynote on the integration of behavioural experiments and agent-based modelling.
We are happy to welcome in our team Dr. Marco Cremonini, a computer scientist recently moved to the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan. Marco is interested in the study if co-evolving propagation processes in society, dynamic social networks and agent-based models.
We are happy to welcome in our team Dr. Federico Bianchi as two-year post-doc researcher from 1st July 2020. Dr. Bianchi will work in a project funded by the Minister of University and Research and entitled “One for all, all for one. Reputational mechanisms for aggression, revenge, and forgiveness in intergroup relationships (14ALL)” (PI Davide [...]
The BEHAVE Summer School on Agent-Based Modelling for Social Scientists 2020 will take place online. Registrations are open. Follow this link: http://behavelab.org/behave-summer-school/. The school includes two courses: an introduction and advanced training. Registration could be to one or both courses. The faculty includes: Federico Bianchi (GECS, University of Brescia, Italy) Ernesto Carrella (University of Oxford, [...]
A recent webinar on peer review and data sharing by Flaminio Squazzoni has been posted on YouTube. More detail here.
Our director, Flaminio Squazzoni presents a paper entitled "No evidence of any systematic bias against manuscripts by women in the peer review process of 145 scholarly journals" at the Behavioral Studies Colloquium, ETH, Zurich on 5 May 2020 (1.15PM). The presented paper can be downloaded here. Due to the current situation regarding the Corona virus [...]
Flaminio Squazzoni, BEHAVE's director, will discuss on mechanisms and explanation with Andrew Bennett (Georgetown University) and Daniel Little (University of Michigan-Deaborn) at the MeMa - Methodology Matters Seminar on 17 January 2020 at the University of Milan. Chaired by Prof. Maurizio Ferrera, the workshop will begin at 1.30PM in Room A, at the NASP Graduate [...]
Dimitry Rtischev (Gakushuin University, Tokyo and University of Trento, Italy) will talk on "Dissipation of productivity gains through socioeconomic competition: Comparing inflationary consequences of wage hikes and income grants" in an SPS-BEHAVE Seminar on 3 March 2020, 12.30-14.30 at the Seminar Room of the Deparment of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan. Discussant: Prof. [...]
Brilliant economist, entrepreneur and author, Paul Ormerod (Volterra partner and visiting professor at UCL) will give an SPS-BEHAVE seminar on "Big data, machine learning and measuring economic welfare" on 4th February 2020, 12.30-14.30 at the Seminar Room of the Deparment of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan. Paul will present a paper co-authored with [...]
Tanzhe Tang (PhD student at TU Delft, NL) will visit BEHAVE from 29 October to 13 November 2019. Tanzhe studied at King’s College London, specialising in Non-equilibrium System, and now is working on agent-based models of opinion dynamics and social network with the team of BEHAVE lead by Caspar Chorus. Tanzhe will collaborate with Flaminio [...]
