Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study: Recent submissions

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Essays on the Drivers of Political and Ideological Extremism

Alizadeh, Meysam (2016)

The problem of interest in this dissertation is the phenomenon of drifting toward opinion extremes. The process is called Radicalization and has received a great deal of attention in social psychology and sociology from ...
A General Social Agent-Based Model of Opinion Dynamics with Applications to STEM Education and Radicalization

Harrison, Joseph Francis (2016)

Many aspects of our society are affected by how opinions change and ideology spreads (e.g., interest in STEM and political radicalization), but the underlying processes are not well understood. Previous attempts at modeling ...
Agents in Conflict: Comparative Agent-Based Modeling of International Crises and Conflicts

Masad, David P.

Inter-state conflicts are a key area of study in international relations, and have been approached with a variety of techniques, from case studies of individual conflicts, to formal analysis of abstract models and statistical ...
An Essay on Micro Heterogeneity and the Evolution of Inequality

Shin, Hyungsik

The level of inequality has increased over the past several decades and reached at the historically high level in many developed countries. Yet, the traditional theory of supply and demand in labor has failed to elucidate ...
A Computational Social Science Approach to the Social Determinants of Cancer

Metgher, Cristina (2016)

Cancer is a complex system of systems - in which heterogeneous actors interact dynamically with each other and with the environment across time. It is the second leading cause of death in the U. S. after cardiovascular ...
Explaining Box Office Performance from the Bottom Up: Data, Theories and Models

Russo, Holly Ann (2016)

Every week, there are more than 50 movies playing in theaters from which movie-goers can choose. Analyses of the relative box office success of these films shows that it is Pareto-distributed, with roughly 20% of them ...
Social Preferences, Learning, and the Dynamics of Cooperation in Networked Societies: A Dialogue Between Experimental and Computational Approaches

Cotla, Chenna Reddy (2016)

In this dissertation, I empirically investigate cooperative behavior in networks using the framework of network public goods games. To do so, I use a dialogue between behavioral experiments and agent-based models. I design ...
Implementing a Complex Social Simulation of the Violent Offending Process: The Promise of a Synthetic Offender

Dover, Thomas J. (2016)

There are limitations to traditional methods of capturing the dynamics of violent interactions. These limitations are due to outcome driven approaches, data sampling issues, and inadequate means to capture, express, and ...
An Agent Based Model of Community Authority Structure Resilience

Mcfarlane, Hugh James (2016)

This dissertation presents a theoretical model based on social exchange theory that explains the resilience and adaptation of authority structures in urban communities. Communities where non-state actors undermine or replace ...
Towards Emergent Social Complexity

Rouly, Ovi Chris (2015)

Complexity science often uses generative models to study and explain the emergent behavior of humans, human culture, and human patterns of social organization. In spite of this, little is known about how the lowest levels ...
Delay and traffic rate estimation in network tomography

Etemadi Rad, Neshat (2015)

Network tomography deals with estimation of computer network features from measurements on links or terminal nodes. The area was pioneered with the work of Vanderbei and Iannonou in 1994 and Vardi in 1996. Of particular ...
Individual and Social Learning: An Implementation of Bounded Rationality from First Principles

Palmer, Nathan Michael (2015)

This dissertation expands upon a growing economic literature that uses tools from reinforcement learning and approximate dynamic programming to impose bounded rationality in intertemporal choice problems. My dissertation ...
Climate Change and the Potential for Conflict and Extreme Migration in the Andes: A Computational Approach for Interdisciplinary Modeling and Anticipatory Policy-Making

Magallanes, Jose Manuel (2015)

I present an agent-based model to support the thesis that extreme migration and social conflict can emerge by simply extending the current social and natural conditions, and by replicating simple mechanisms at the individual ...
Modeling Adaptive Economic Agents With PID Controllers

Carrella, Ernesto (2015)

I provide here a counterpoint to the rational agents that dominate economics: rather than adding rigidities and information limits on an otherwise classical feed-forward agent, I build a new feed-back agent that achieves ...
When People Rebel: A Computational Approach to Violent Collective Action

Pires, Bianica (2014-08)

Why an individual rebels, why an individual joins collective action, and how that manifests to violence are not new questions, but are questions that continue to pose a significant scientific challenge. It is the role of ...
Using Social Media Content to Inform Agent-based Models for Humanitarian Crisis Response

Wise, Sarah (2014-05)

Crisis response is a time-sensitive problem with multiple concurrent and interacting subprocesses, applied around the world in a wide range of contexts and with access to varying levels of resources. The movement of ...
Computational Modeling of Climate Change, Large-Scale Land Acquisition, and Household Dynamics in Southern Ethiopia

Hailegiorgis, Atesmachew Bizuwerk (2013-08)

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF CLIMATE CHANGE, LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITION, AND HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS IN SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA
The Blind Lawmaker

Koehler, Matthew (2013-08)

Many have written about how the Common Law should evolve. The few attempts to demonstrate this empirically, however, have not found evidence that this evolution takes place. This study uses a representation of the Article ...
Coupled Dynamics of Labor and Firms through Complex Networks

Guerrero, Omar A. (2013-08-20)

This dissertation bridges the gap between labor and firm dynamics through the study of complex networks in labor markets. With extensive use of large-scale employer-employee matched micro-data and agent-based modeling, we ...
Innovation from a Computational Social Science Perspective: Analyses and Models

Casstevens, Randy M. (2013)

Innovation processes are critical for preserving and improving our standard of living. While innovation has been studied by many disciplines, the focus has been on qualitative measures that are specific to a single ...

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