BEHAVE is proud to announce that the 2020 Social Simulation Conference will take place at the University of Milan on 14-18 September 2020. Supported by BEHAVE and hosted by the Department of Social and Political Sciences, SSC is the main annual event of ESSA-The European Social Simulation Association, the largest association connecting all scholars interested [...]
Joshua M. Epstein (New York University) will give the inaugural lecture of the BEHAVE Summer School on ABM on Sept 2, 9AM 2019. He will talk on "The philosophy and applications of agent-based computational modelling". The talk will be recorded and published on the BEHAVE website after the school. Stay tuned! One of the pioneers [...]
Flaminio Squazzoni (Behave head) will give a seminar on peer review at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (Linköpings University, Sweden) on 28 November 2019. In the seminar, he will discuss the pros and cons of open peer review and transparency in periods of academic hypercompetition. The full programme of the IAS seminars is available here.
Dr. Simone Gabbriellini (GECS-University of Brescia & Data Scientist and CEO @ Manent.AI will talk on "Network effects on tax compliance: An agent-based model" at a SPS-BEHAVE workshop on 20 May 2019 at 12.30, Seminar Room, Department of Social and Political Science, University of Milan, Via Conservatorio 7. The paper is co-authored with Flaminio Squazzoni [...]
Andreas Flache, member of the advisory board of BEHAVE, one of the most influential quantitative sociologists working on computational and experimenatal models of social behaviour in Europe, will talk on computational research on segregation and polarisation in a NASP International Seminar on 22 March 2019 at the University of Milan. The title of the seminar [...]
Flaminio Squazzoni (the Behave head) will give an invited talk at a Symposium on "Agent-Based Modelling for Theory Building in the Social Sciences, at the INAS 2019 Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 31 May-2 June 2019. The symposium is part of the 12th edition of the "International Network of Analytical Sociology" conference and aims [...]
Are big data challenging the way social research is performed? On 12 March at 6.30PM at Collegio Lucchini in Brescia, Flaminio Squazzoni (Behave Lead, University of Milan) will talk about challenges and prospects of big data for social research to a group of Master and PhD students. The talk is part of [...]
Matthew Salganik (Princeton University) and Andreas Flache (University of Groningen) at the Behave Opening Workshop on 21 March 2019 Behavioural sociology requires integration of advanced computational and experimental methods The Behave Opening Worshop includes two guest lectures by Matthew Salganik (Princeton University) and Andreas Flache (University of Groningen). Salganik will present [...]
