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  • An Agent-Based Model of Climate Change and Conflict among Pastoralists in East Africa 
    Hailegiorgis, A.B.; Kennedy, W.G.; Balan, G.C.; Bassett, J.K.; Gulden, T. (International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), 2010)
    Presented is an agent-based model of human-environment interaction and conflict in East Africa using the MASON agent-based simulation environment. The model focuses on the complex interaction of pastoral groups with their ...
  • An Agent-Based Model of Conflict in East Africa and the Effect of Watering Holes 
    Kennedy, W.G.; Hailegiorgis, A.B.; Rouleau, M.; Bassett, J.K.; Coletti, M.; Balan, G.C.; Gulden, T. (Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, 2010-03)
    An agent-based model conflict between herdsmen in east Africa using the MASON agent-based simulation environment is presented. Herders struggle to keep their herds fed and watered in a GIS-based, spatially diverse environment ...
  • Comparing Agent-Based Computational Simulation Models in Cross-Cultural Research 
    Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio (SAGE, 2011-05)
    Mel Ember was co-Principal Investigator in the Mason-HRAF Joint Project on Eastern Africa, a multiyear project aimed at developing and analyzing advanced computational agent-based models of human societies across 10 countries ...
  • Complex Polities in the Age of Modern States 
    Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio (International Studies Association, 2011-03-16)
    Complex polities are political systems composed of both official "vertical" state institutions as well as one or more alternative set of "horizontal" institutions, such as religious, economic, paramilitary, or even criminal ...
  • Conflict in Complex Socio-Natural Systems: Using Agent-Based Modeling to Understand the Behavioral Roots of Social Unrest within the Mandera Triangle 
    Rouleau, Mark; Coletti, Mark; Bassett, Jeffrey K.; Hailegiorgis, Atesmachew B.; Gulden, Tim; Kennedy, William G. (Human Behavior-Computational Modeling and Interoperability Conference, 2009-06)
    Conflict resolution research relies upon a deep understanding of human behavior within highly complex socionatural systems. Scholars must isolate the source of conflict among individuals reacting to the feedback of changing ...
  • Evolutionary Computation and Agent-based Modeling: Biologically-inspired Approaches for Understanding Complex Social Systems 
    Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio; De Jong, Kenneth; Bassett, Jeffrey (Kluwer, 2012-06-18)
    Computational social science in general, and social agent-based modeling (ABM) simulation in particular, are challenged by modeling and analyzing complex adaptive social systems with emergent properties that are hard to ...
  • The "Fast and Frugal" Cognitive Architecture for Computational Social Simulations 
    Kennedy, William G.; Bassett, Jeffrey K. (Behavior Representation in Modeling & Simulation (BRIMS) Conference 2011, 2011-03)
    Computational social simulations involving humans require models of human behavior but their behavior can be represented and modeled in many ways. The two dimensions of this challenge we are interested in are the degree ...
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Agent-Based Model (ABM) Simulations for Sustainable Development 
    Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio; Roger, J. Daniel; Hailegiorgis, Atesmachew (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2011-10)
    In recent years the interdisciplinary field of Computational Social Science has developed theory and methodologies for building spatial Agent-Based Social Simulation (ABSS) models of human societies that are situated in ...
  • GeoMason: Geospatial Support for MASON 
    Sullivan, Keith; Coletti, Mark; Luke, Sean (Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, 2010)
    MASON is a free, open-source Java-based discrete event multi-agent simulation toolkit that has been used to model network intrusions, unmanned aerial vehicles, nomadic migrations, and farmer/herder conflicts, among others. ...
  • Integrating Fast and Slow Cognitive Processes 
    Kennedy, William, G.; Bugjska, Magdalena (International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 2010-08)
    Human reactions appear to be controlled by two separate types of mental processes: one fast, automatic, and unconscious and the other slow, deliberate, and conscious. With the attention in the literature focused on the ...
  • MASON AfriLand: A Regional Multi-Country Agent-Based Model with Cultural and Environmental Dynamics 
    Cioffi-Revilla, C.; Rouleau, M. (2009-06)
    Agent-based models of regions of the international system composed of several countries are few and not as advanced as other classes of spatial computational models on a comparable scale. Most relevant extant models are ...
  • MASON HerderLand: Origins of Conflict in East Africa 
    Kennedy, W.G.; Hailegiorgis, A.B.; Rouleau, M.; Bassett, J.K.; Coletti, M.; Balan, G.C.; Gulden, T.; Cioffi-Revilla, C. (2010-11)
    HerderLand is an agent-based model of the people and environment in the Mandera Triangle area of Eastern Africa developed to address the causes of conflict in the area. With it we have conducted three sets of experiments ...
  • MASON RebeLand: An Agent-Based Model of Politics, Environment, and Insurgency 
    Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio; Rouleau, Mark (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010-03)
    Social simulation models from computational social science are beginning to provide significant advances in terms of implementing more complex social, human, and natural dynamics that are characteristic of how countries ...
  • MASON RebeLand: An Agent-Based Model of Politics, Environment, and Insurgency 
    Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio; Rouleau, Mark (2010-02)
    Problem overview: explore the complex relationship between Society, Government, and Issues, using an explicit polity (political system) model; understand the feedback amongst Citizen Satisfaction, Issue Management, and ...
  • Mason-Yale Joint Project on Computational Modeling of Complex Crises in Africa Bibliography 
    Unknown author (2015-03-27)
    Bibliography of published and presented resources from the Mason-Yale Joint Project on Computational Modeling of Complex Crises in Africa. The bibliography identifies materials produced as a result of this research project. ...
  • Pandemonium in Silico: Individual Radicalization for Agent-Based Modeling 
    Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio; Harrison, Joseph F. (International Studies Association, 2011-03)
    How do individuals become radicalized, turning into terrorists, insurgents, violent actors.Computational agent-based models of irregular warfare, internal war, domestic political violence, and related conflicts require ...

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