A New Master's Programme in Computational Social and Political Science The call for applications for students to participate in our new Master's programme in Computational Social and Political Science is now open. The deadline for apply is on 26 August 2025. Th The Master's Degree Programme in Computational Social and Political Science (CSPS) equips students [...]
Tutorial Workshop on "‘Agentizing’ Computational Models", by Francesco Renzini & Flaminio Squazzoni, Computational Social Science Italy Conference, Department of Sociology & Social Research Socia, University of Trento, Italy, Wednesday 15 January 2025 Agent-based modelling (ABM) is a computational method for understanding how social dynamics emerge from heterogeneous agent interaction. ABM allows researchers to study otherwise [...]
Hybrid workshop on "Agent-based models of social networks", Department of Social & Political Sciences, Seminar room, Via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan, 22-23 April 2024 Organised by the Computational Models and Designs Hub, and funded by the Department of Social & Political Science of the University of Milan under the "Departments of Excellence" MIUR grant. This [...]
Online Workshop on «Social infrastructure and cognitive abilities in an ageing population» 1 June 2021 Programme 9.00 - 9.10 AM | Welcome (Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Milan, Behave Director & Marco Castellani, University of Brescia, Sociable PI) 9.10 - 9.30 AM | Social relationships and cognitive abilities in older adults. A meta-analysis (Matteo Piolatto, University [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Behave and NASP seminar with David Stark (Columbia University) on 12 April 2019 Networks can be like pipes through which information flows, they can be like prisms through which identities are refracted, but also scopes through which observation can be magnified or blurred David Stark (Columbia University) talks about "Networks as Scopes: Observational Advantage [...]
