Research
Publications and papers
2024
García-Díaz C. (2024). Resilience as anticipation in organizational systems: An agent-based computational approach (under review).
García-Díaz C. (2024). The influence of cognitive diversity on networked search and coordination. SN Computer Science (accepted).
García-Díaz C. (2024). Sustainability management and social responsibility. In Wall F., S. Leitner, and S-H. Chen (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Agent-based Computational Management Science (forthcoming).
2023
Anzola D. and C. García-Díaz (2023). What kind of prediction? Evaluating different facets of prediction in agent-based social simulation. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 26(2): 171-191.
2022
Garcia-Diaz C., M. Ramos-Mejia, S. Duenas-Ocampo, and I.G. de la Vega (2022). Challenging the establishment: A computational grounded theory of the emergence of sustainable food companies in Colombia. 66th Annual Proceedings of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.
Prieto-Sandoval V., L.E. Torres-Guevara and C. García-Diaz (2022). Green marketing innovation: opportunities from an environmental education analysis in young consumers. Journal of Cleaner Production, 383, 132509.
2021
Carpentras D., E. Chattoe-Brown, B. Edmonds and C. García-Diaz, C. Kammler, A. Pagani and N. Wijermans (2021). Where now for experiments in agent-based modelling? Report of a round table as part of SSC2021. Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2nd November 2021.
García-Díaz C. (2021). Design, systems approaches and the engineering-economics nexus. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics 48: 601-607.
Estévez-Mujica C.P. and C. García-Díaz (2021). Computational modeling approaches to organizational change, Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences 25(4): 467-505.
García-Díaz C. (2021). Agent-based organizational ecologies: A generative approach to market evolution. In T. Rudas and G. Péli (Eds.), Pathways Between Social Science and Computational Social Science - Theories, Methods, and Interpretations, pp. 179-196. Springer: Cham.
2020
Córdoba C. and C. García-Díaz (2020). Reflexivity in a diffusion of innovations model. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 23 (3) 9.
García-Díaz C., G. Péli and A. van Witteloostuijn (2020). The coevolution of the firm and the product attribute space. PLoS ONE 15(6): e0234007.
García-Díaz C. (2020). Modelling Transitions: Virtues, Vices, Visions of the Future. Review article. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 23(2).
2019
Córdoba, C. and C. García-Díaz (2019). Reflexivity as a change in cultural mental models. In Barile, S., R. Espejo, I. Perko, and M. Saviano (Eds.), Cybernetics and Systems: Social and Business Decisions, pp. 546-549. Routledge: Oxfordshire and New York.
2018
Jafari Songhori, M. and C. García-Díaz (2018). Collective problem-solving in evolving networks: an agent-based model. Proceedings of the 2018 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 965-976.
Torres F. and C. García-Díaz (2018). Evolutionary dynamics of two-actor VMI-driven supply chains. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 24 (3): 351–377.
Mejía G. and C. García-Díaz (2018). Market-level effects of firm-level adaptation and intermediation in networked markets of fresh foods: a case study in Colombia. Agricultural Systems 160: 132-142.
Estévez-Mujica C.P, A. Acero, W. Jiménez-Leal and C. García-Díaz (2018). The influence of homophilous interactions on diversity effects in group problem solving. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences 22(1): 77-102.
García-Díaz C. and C. Olaya (Eds.) (2018). Social Systems Engineering: The Design of Complexity, Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science. Chichester: John Wiley.
García-Díaz C. and C. Olaya (2018). The why, what and how of social systems engineering. In García-Díaz C. and C. Olaya (Eds.) Social Systems Engineering: The Design of Complexity, Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science, pp. 1-10. Chichester: John Wiley.
2017
Nino-Pena, J. H., C. Garcia-Diaz and G. J. Hernandez (2017). A complex network approach to identify potential financial scandals: the Colombian market case, Polibits 56: 39-44.
2015
García-Díaz C., A. van Witteloostuijn and G. Péli (2015). Micro-level adaptation, macro-level selection, and the dynamics of market partitioning. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0144574.
Rosales-Carreón J. and C. García-Díaz (2015). Exploring transitions towards sustainable construction: The case of near-zero energy buildings in the Netherlands. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 18 (1) 10.
García-Díaz, C. and G. Mejía (2015). Market-level effects of firm-level adaptation, intermediation and cost heterogeneity in networked markets of fresh foods: a case study in Colombia. Meeting Urban Food Needs (MUFN) project – FAO (United Nations), Rome, Italy.
Mejía, G., C. Mejía, V. Rangel, C. García-Díaz, C. Montoya and I. Agudelo (2015). Food donation: An initiative to mitigate hunger in the world. Meeting Urban Food Needs (MUFN) project – FAO (United Nations), Rome, Italy.
2014
Torres F, C. García-Díaz and N. Rakoto-Ravalontsalama (2014). An evolutionary game theory approach to modeling VMI Policies. Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC 2014), pp. 10737-10742.
Garcıa-Dıaz, C., & G. Mejıa. Market-level effects of firm-level adaptation, intermediation and cost heterogeneity. In: MacKerrow E, Terano T, Squazzoni F and Sichman JS. (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on Social Simulation, pp. 246-257.
2013
García-Díaz C., G. Zambrana-Cruz and A. van Witteloostuijn (2013). Political spaces, dimensionality decline and party competition. Advances in Complex Systems 16 (6): 1350019.
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219525913500197(Freely available with kind permission of World Scientific. Copyright (2013), World Scientific)Torres F, C. García-Díaz and N. Rakoto (2013). Evolutionary stability of a manufacturer-buyer VMI conduced supply chain. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Production and Operations Management Conference, POMS 2013, Denver, Colorado.
García-Díaz C. (2013). Sociophysics: A Physicist’s Modeling of Psycho- political Phenomena. Review article. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 16(2).
2012
García-Díaz C., G. Zambrana and A. van Witteloostuijn (2012). Changing dimensionality in the political issue space: Effects on political party competition. In Troitzsch K. G., Möhring M. and Lotzmann U. (Eds.) Proceedings of the European Conference on Modeling and Simulation ECMS 2012, pp. 690-696.
García-Díaz C. and A.I. Moreno-Monroy (2012). Social influence, agent heterogeneity and the emergence of the urban informal sector. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391(4): 1563-1574.
2011
García-Díaz C. and A. van Witteloostuijn (2011). Firm entry diversity, resource space heterogeneity and market structure. In Osinga S., Hofstede G. J., Verwaart T. (Eds.). Emergent Results of Artificial Economics - Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 652: 153-164. Berlin: Springer.
García-Díaz C. (2011). Diversity and complexity. Review article. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 14(2).
2010
García-Díaz C. and D. Urbig (2010). Knowledge diffusion and innovation: modelling complex entrepreneurial behaviours. Review article. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 13(4).
2008
García-Díaz C., A. van Witteloostuijn and G. Péli (2008). Market dimensionality and the proliferation of small-scale firms. Advances in Complex Systems 11(2): 231-247.
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219525908001593 (Freely available with kind permission of World Scientific. Copyright (2008), World Scientific)García-Díaz C. (2008). Changing Market Structures under Changing Resource Spaces: An Agent-based Computational Approach. SOM Theses in Economics and Business. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Enschede: PPI Publishers. xiv + 183 pp. [PDF]
2007
García-Díaz C., A. van Witteloostuijn and G. Péli (2007). Market dimensionality and the proliferation of small-scale firms. In Amblard F. (Ed.) Proceedings of the fourth European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) Conference, pp. 83-111.
García-Díaz C. and F. Beltrán (2007). Cost-based congestion pricing in network priority models using axiomatic cost allocation methods. In Gutiérrez, J. (Ed.). Business Data Communications and Networking: A Research Perspective, pp: 104-126. Hershey PA: Idea Group Publishing.
2006
van der Mandele, H.C. and C. García-Díaz (2006). A model of control dynamics. In van der Mandele, H.C. (2006), Economic apoptosis and uncontrollability: a first enquiry into the concepts and their relevance for the market-government debate, pp. 193-202. Harlingen: De Uilen.
.García-Díaz C. and A. van Witteloostuijn (2006). Co-evolutionary market dynamics in a peaked resource space. In Bruun C. (Ed.) Advances in Artificial Economics: The Economy as a Complex Dynamic System - Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 584: 93-104. Berlin: Springer.
2005
Beltrán F. and C. García-Díaz (2005). The use of efficient cost allocation mechanisms for congestion pricing in data networks with priority service models. International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking 1(1):33-49.
2004
García-Díaz C. (2004). Market partitioning under varying resource landscapes (Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Complex Systems, ICCS 2004). InterJournal of Complex Systems, Article 905, 20 pp., New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA.
Technical reports / professional publications
Beltrán F. and C. García-Díaz (2003). “Efectos de la Agregación de Productos en Mercados Electrónicos Sobre Internet”. Technical report / Documento CEDE 2003-30, Universidad de Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. 24 p.
Beltrán F. and C. García-Díaz (2000). “Arreglos de Interconexión entre Proveedores de Servicios sobre Internet”. Revista Colombiana de Telecomunicaciones 7(23): 18-22.
García-Díaz C. (2000). "Mecanismos de Precios para la Regulación de la Congestión en Redes de Datos”. Unpublished MSc thesis, Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes.
García-Díaz C. (1999). "Mecanismos de Precios para la Regulación de la Congestión en Internet”. Revista Colombiana de Telecomunicaciones 6(20): 14-19.
Conference and Seminar Presentations
"Power, Decision-making mechanisms and Organizational Resilience", submitted to EURO 2024, June 30–July 3, 2024.
"Cognitive Diversity and Networked Search", Workshop on Engineering Applications 2023 (virtual), October 31–November 2, 2023.
"The Impact of Cognitive Diversity on Networked Search and Coordination", Mathematics Colloquium, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, October 5, 2023.
"The Impact of Cognitive Diversity on Networked Search and Coordination", Social Simulation Conference, Glasgow, UK, September 4–8, 2023.
"Patterns of Change in Intra- and Inter-organizational Dynamics". Inspirational speech at the Social Simulation Fest (virtual). March 15–16, 2023.
"Challenging the Establishment: a Computational Grounded Theory of the Emergence of Sustainable Food Companies in Colombia". Qual2Rule virtual seminar, SIG group of the European Social Simulation Association. December 6, 2022.
"Challenging the Establishment: a Computational Grounded Theory of the Emergence of Sustainable Food Companies in Colombia". Social Simulation Conference (SSC2022), Milan, Italy, September 12–16, 2022.
"Challenging the Establishment: a Computational Grounded Theory of the Emergence of Sustainable Food Companies in Colombia". 66th meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (virtual), July 7–11, 2022.
"Design, Systems Approaches and the Engineering-economics Nexus", Systems Science graduate program seminar, Portland State University (virtual), November 19, 2021.
"Exploration and Exploitation in Dynamic Knowledge Transfer Networks", 2021 Virtual Meeting of the Theoretical Organizational Models Society (TOM), June 29–July, 1, 2021.
"Agent Reflexivity in Computational Models: the Case of Diffusion of Innovations", Iberoamerican Network of Computational Sociology, El Colegio de San Luis, Mexico (virtual), February 26, 2021.
"Agent Reflexivity in Computational Models: the Case of Diffusion of Innovations", Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (virtual), February 12, 2021.
"Reflexivity in a Diffusion of Innovations Model", Grupo de Investigación en Dinámica Económica (GIDE) , Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay (virtual), October 29, 2020.
"Exploration and Exploitation in Dynamic Knowledge Transfer Networks", Sunbelt virtual conference on Social Networks, July 13–17, 2020.
"Determinants of Cooperation among Colombian Farmers: An Agent-Based Approach", XV Congreso La Investigación, Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, September 10–13, 2019.
"Determinants of Cooperation among Colombian Farmers: An Agent-Based Approach", IISE Annual Conference & Expo, Orlando, FL, USA, May 18–21, 2019.
"Exploration and Exploitation in Dynamic Knowledge Transfer Networks: An Agent-based Computational Approach", IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2018, Orlando, FL, USA, May 19–22, 2018.
"Intra- and Inter-firm Interactions in Agricultural Markets: A Conceptual Framework and Application to Colombia", Sociology Colloquium, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, May 4, 2018.
"Intra- and Inter-firm Interactions in Agricultural Markets: A Conceptual Framework and Application to Colombia", CRESS seminar, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, July 25, 2017 .
"The Coevolution of the Firm and the Product Space". VIII Encuentro Interuniversitario sobre Complejidad: Complejidad y Auto-Organización. Un homenaje a Alan Turing. May 8–12, 2017. Bogotá, Colombia.
"The Coevolution of the Firm and the Product Space", Social Simulation Conference (SSC) 2016, Rome, Italy, September 19–23, 2016.
"Bringing Individual-level Behavior and Social Structure into Industrial Ecology: A Generative Approach", International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) Americas 2016. Bogotá, Colombia, May 25–27, 2016.
"Networked Firm Competition in Evolving Product Attribute Spaces", 27th Annual EAEPE Conference (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy), Genoa, Italy, September 17-19, 2015.
"Market-level Effects of Firm-level Adaptation, Intermediation and Cost Heterogeneity in Networked Markets", World Congress on Social Simulation, WCSS 2014. Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 4-7, 2014.
"Coping with Social Systems: Agent Reflexivity in Computational Models", Brazilian Workshop on Social Simulation, BWSS 2014 Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 4, 2014.
"Coping with Social Systems: Agent Reflexivity in Computational Models", International Congress on Systems and Cybernetics, WOSC 2014. Ibagué (Colombia), October 15–17, 2014.
"Using Qualitative Data To Explore Knowledge Transfer Scenarios In Agent-Based Models: The Case Of Zero-Energy Buildings". 9th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association. Warsaw, September 16–20, 2013.
"Social Systems Engineering: Challenges and Perspectives" (invited talk). VI International Symposium on Industrial Engineering - Latin America. Bogotá, July 24–26, 2013.
"Changing Dimensionality in the Political Issue Space: Effects on Political Party Competition". Poster presentation at the Opening Seminar of the Groningen Center for Social Complexity Studies (GCSCS), University of Groningen. June 15, 2012.
"Changing Dimensionality in the Political Issue Space: Effects on Political Party Competition". European Conference on Modeling and Simulation ECMS 2012, May 29–June 1, Koblenz, Germany.
"Firm Entry Diversity, Resource Space Heterogeneity and Market Structure". Artificial Economics 2011 (The Hague, the Netherlands), September 1–2, 2011.
"Fraction Dimension in Product Attribute Spaces". Organizational Ecology Conference 2010, Helsinki (Finland). June 26–29, 2010.
"The Dynamics of Rural-to-urban Migration in an Evolutionary Model". Centrum voor Migratie en Interculturele Studies, University of Antwerp. May 6, 2010.
"The Dynamics of Rural-to-urban Migration in an Evolutionary Model". Modeling Spaces - Modifying Societies Conference. Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany), October 7–9, 2009.
“Market Dimensionality and the Proliferation of Small-scale Firms”. International Economics and Business Seminar Series. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. January 31, 2008.
“Market Dimensionality and the Proliferation of Small-scale Firms”. Fourth Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA). Toulouse (France), September 10–14, 2007.
“Market Dimensionality and the Proliferation of Small-scale Firms”. Workshop on Agent-based Models of Market Dynamics and Consumer Behavior. Groningen (the Netherlands). August 22, 2007.
“Co-evolutionary Market Dynamics in a Peaked Resource Space”. Artificial Economics 2006. Aalborg University, Aalborg (Denmark). Sept. 15–16, 2006.
“Simulated Market Partitioning and Varying degrees of Resource Space Heterogeneity”. EGOS 21st Colloquium, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). June 30–July 2, 2005.
“Market Partitioning Under Varying Resource Landscapes”. Fifth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2004). May 16–21, 2004, Boston, MA, USA.
“Market Partitioning Under Varying Resource Landscapes”. Industrial Engineering Seminar Series. Universidad de los Andes. April 2004.
“Exploring the Role of Network Analysis in Organizational Ecology”. II French-Dutch Seminar on Social Networks, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. May 7–9, 2003.
“Precios por Congestión en Redes de Datos con Prioridades Basados en los Precios Aumann-Shapley y el Valor Shapley”. XV National and VI Andean Congress of Telecommunications. October 25–27, 2000. Cartagena, Colombia.
“Precios por Congestión en Redes de Datos con Prioridades Basados en los Precios Aumann-Shapley y el Valor Shapley”. Department of Mathematics Seminar Series. Universidad de los Andes. September 2000.