7 April 2011

Post date: Apr 7, 2011 4:35:41 PM

Connor McCabe presented his work on using agent-based models in the web science domain. The discussion focused on ways of modelling social trust in a model of internet communities, and the wider issue of how to convince web scientists, who have a great deal of cheaply available data, that they should be interested in social simulation techniques rather than more traditional data-driven approaches.