THe BEHAVE Summer School on Agent-Based Modelling will take place online on 30 August-12 September 2021! It will include an introductory week, addressed to beginning of agent-based modelling, and an advanced week for participants already familiar with agent-based modelling who wish to lean how to design, run, test, calibrate and validate agent-based models! Participants could [...]
Wojtek Przepiorka (Utrecht University, Department of Sociology/ICS) presents a paper entitled "How norms emerge from conventions (and change)" at a NASP International and Interdisciplinary Seminar, on 9 April 2021, 2.30-4.30PM. The seminar will be held online on Zoom. If you are interested to join the seminar, please contact us here to have the link. Abstract. [...]
BEHAVE is involved in organising a session on "The Lab in the Model, the Model in the Lab" at the Social Simulation Fest 2021, which will take place on Tuesday 16 March 2021 at 1:30-4:45 PM (CET). Below you find the programme. For any info, including the registration (free), please visit the event website here. [...]
Flaminio Squazzoni and Federico Bianchi from BEHAVE have co-authored a study entitled "Dangerous liaisons: an online experiment on the role of scientific experts and politicians in ensuring public support for anti-COVID measures" which has been recently published in the Royal Society Open Science. The study presents an online experiment run during the first wave of [...]
We are proud to announce that the first online Spring edition of the BEHAVE School on Agent-Based Modelling will take place on 19-23 April 2021! Applications are open until 15 February 2021. Join our school and register here.
This is the inaugural PhD Lecture on "Behavioural Research in Sociology" that Flaminio Squazzoni gave to NASP-ESLS students on 24 November 2020.
This is the opening lecture given by Prof. Squazzoni at his Master class in Behavioural Sociology on 23 September 2020. It presents the course and illustrates the approach of behavioural sociology to social research. For any info, see here.
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 [...]
