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ABMs in financial markets + ML/AI
ABMs in financial markets + ML/AI
Robert Hillman recently gave a talk on Financial Market Simulations, which can be found here.This is a great overview and intro of where…
Jacqueline Kazil
Aug 20, 2018
Model Parallelization in Various Languages & Approaches to Concurrent Agent Scheduling
Model Parallelization in Various Languages & Approaches to Concurre...
Often I talk about various applications of agent-based modeling (ABM), but rarely are computational approaches discussed. At George Mason…
Jacqueline Kazil
May 24, 2016
Modeling Drone Strikes, Piracy, Social Media Networks of ISIS, and Xenophobia
Modeling Drone Strikes, Piracy, Social Media Networks of ISIS, and ...
I might be biased, but there are a lot of interesting things that are happening in George Mason’s Computational Social Science Department…
Jacqueline Kazil
May 16, 2016
The Math Behind Zombie Attacks
The Math Behind Zombie Attacks
Good news…bad news. The good news is that if there was a zombie attack, you wouldn’t have to worry about whether or not there are…
Jacqueline Kazil
May 8, 2016
Journalists holding algorithms accountable
Journalists holding algorithms accountable
Warning: This blog contains explicit language.
Jacqueline Kazil
May 2, 2016
Informal Collaboration in Financial Economics
Informal Collaboration in Financial Economics
A classic application of network analysis looks at authorship networks. Co-authorship is considered a reliable proxy of collaborations and…
Jacqueline Kazil
Apr 21, 2016
Social Change and Trendsetting: How do new movements occur?
Social Change and Trendsetting: How do new movements occur?
In recent history, the Black Lives Matter movement, Tea Party movement, and the 2016 Presidential Candidate Donald Trump campaign have…
Jacqueline Kazil
Mar 13, 2016
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Using ABMs to Model Financial Bubbles
Using ABMs to Model Financial Bubbles
Since the early 2000s, researchers have been able to successfully predict markets models using agent based modeling. One of those is…
Jacqueline Kazil
Feb 28, 2016
Network analysis of movie reference connections
Network analysis of movie reference connections
Did you ever notice that the opening scene in Raiders of the Ark is similar to the opening scene from Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo? It is the…
Jacqueline Kazil
May 13, 2015
Console Wars vs. Class Wars
Console Wars vs. Class Wars
Could an expanded middle class have helped Little Samson be more famous than a certain hedgehog?
Jacqueline Kazil
May 12, 2015
Robotic mice & the emergence of households
Robotic mice & the emergence of households
Friday Seminar Wrap up! The Ovi Chris Rouly Series
Jacqueline Kazil
May 12, 2015
Making decisions using big data
Making decisions using big data
What happens when a nuclear missile hits Washington, D.C.?
Jacqueline Kazil
May 9, 2015
Studying the Emergence of Social Norms
Studying the Emergence of Social Norms
Social norms emerge from the dynamics of individual social interactions. Peter Froncek, a Ph.D. student in Computational Social Science at…
Jacqueline Kazil
Apr 29, 2015
Modeling Incentive-Based Greening / Stormwater Management
Modeling Incentive-Based Greening / Stormwater Management
Urban stormwater management is a huge problem and a huge industry. Seth Brown built a model to investigate incentive based greening.
Jacqueline Kazil
Apr 19, 2015
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