Conference Proceedings

Papers

  1. “The Open Community Data Exchange: Advancing Data Sharing and Discovery in Open Online Community Science”, Sean Goggins, Jeff Helmsley, Bill Rand, Megan Squire, Matt Germonprez, Georg J. P. Link, OpenSym 2016, Berlin, Germany, August 15-17.
  2. “Forecasting High Tide: Predicting Times of Elevated Activity in Online Social Media”, Jimpei Harada, David Darmon, Michelle Girvan, and William Rand, Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2015, August 25-28, 2015, Paris, France, pp. 504-507.
  3. “Switching Behavior in Online Auctions: Empirical Observations and Predictive Implications” Wei Guo, William Rand and Wolfgang Jank. Winter Simulation Conference. December, 2013, Washington, DC, pp. 1395-1406.
  4. “Predictability of User Behavior in Social Media: Bottom-Up v. Top-Down Modeling” David Darmon, Jared Sylvester, Michelle Girvan and William Rand. 2013 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. Washington, DC, pp. 102-107.
  5. “Does Love Change on Twitter? The Dynamics of Topical Conversations in Microblogging.” Victoria Lai and William Rand. 2013 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. Washington, DC, pp. 81-86.
  6. “An Agent-Based Model of Urgent Diffusion in a Crisis” Jeffrey Herrmann, William Rand, Brandon Schein and Neza Vodopivec, Computational Social Science Society of Americas Annual Meeting, August 22nd-25th, 2013, Santa Fe, NM.
  7. “When Does Simulated Data Match Real Data? Comparing Model Calibration Functions using Genetic Algorithms” Forrest Stonedahl and William Rand, World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS), September 4-7, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan, published in Advances in Computational Social Science, ed. Shu-Heng Chen, Takao Terano, Ryuichi Yamamoto, and Chung-Ching Tai, Springer, pp. 297-313.
  8. “Making Recommendations in a Microblog to Improve the Impact of a Focal User. “ Shanchan Wu, Leanna Gong, William Rand, Louiqa Raschid. 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), 2012, pp. 265-268.
  9. “Comparing Social Tags to Microblogs.” Victoria Lai, Christopher Rajashekar and William Rand. 2nd International Modeling Social Media Workshop 2011, part of IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2011, pp. 1380-1383.
  10. “Recommendations in Social Media for Brand Monitoring.” Shanchan Wu, William Rand and Louiqa Raschid. ACM Recommender Systems 2011, pp. 345-348.
  11. “Predicting author blog channels with high value future posts for monitoring.“ Shanchan Wu, Tamer Elsayed, William Rand and Louiqa Raschid. Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2011, pp. 1261-1266.
  12. “Differential Adaptive Diffusion: Understanding Diversity and Learning whom to Trust in Viral Marketing”, Hossam Sharara, William Rand and Lise Getoor, International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), July 17-21, 2011, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 345-352.
  13. “Estimating Functional Agent-Based Models: An Application to Bid Shaving in Online Markets”, Wei Guo, Wolfgang Jank and William Rand, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 12-16, 2011, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 559-566.
  14. “Evolving Viral Marketing Strategies” Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand and Uri Wilensky, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 7-11, 2010, Portland, OR, USA. Pp. 1195-1202.
  15. “Participatory Simulation as a Tool for Agent-Based Simulation” Matthew Berland and William Rand, International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), January 19-21, 2009, Porto, Portugal.
  16. "CrossNet: A Framework for Crossover with Network-based Chromosomal Representations" Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand, and Uri Wilensky Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 12-16, 2008, Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. 1057-1064.
  17. “Multi-Agent Learning with a Distributed Genetic Algorithm” Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand and Uri Wilensky Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems (AAMAS) ALAMAS+ALAg Workshop, May 12-16, 2008, Estoril, Portugal.
  18. “The El Farol Bar Problem and Computational Effort: Why People Fail to Use Bars Efficiently”, William Rand and Forrest Sondahl, Agent 2007, November 15-17, 2007, Evanston, IL, USA.
  19. “Examining Group Behavior and Collaboration using ABM and Robots”, Paulo Blikstein, William Rand, and Uri Wilensky, Agent 2007, November 15-17, 2007, Evanston, IL, USA.
  20. “Visualization Tools for Agent-Based Modeling in NetLogo”, Daniel Kornhauser, William Rand, and Uri Wilensky, Agent 2007, November 15-17, 2007, Evanston, IL, USA.
  21. "The Defined Cliffs Variant in Dynamic Environments: A Case Study Using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions" Abir Alharbi, William Rand, and Rick Riolo, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 7-11, 2007, London, UK, pp. 1158-1164.
  22. “Full Spectrum Modeling: From Simplicity to Elaboration and Realism in Urban Pattern Formation” William Rand and Uri Wilensky, North American Association of Computational Social and Organization Sciences (NAACSOS), June 6-9, 2007, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
  23. "Understanding the Semantics of the Genetic Algorithm in Dynamic Environments: A Case Study Using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions", Abir Alharbi, William Rand, and Rick Riolo Evolution in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoStoc), 2007, Valencia, Spain. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: EvoWorkshops 2007. v4448, p657-667.
  24. "Machine Learning Meets Agent-Based Modeling: When Not to Go to a Bar", William Rand, Agent 2006, September 21-23, 2006, Chicago, IL, USA.
  25. “Verification and Validation through Replication: A Case Study Using Axelrod and Hammond's Ethnocentrism Model" William Rand and Uri Wilensky, North American Association Computational Social and Organization Sciences (NAACSOS), June 21-23, 2006, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, USA.
  26. "The Effect of Crossover on the Behavior of the GA in Dynamic Environments: A Case Study using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions" William Rand, Rick Riolo, and John Holland, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Seattle, WA, USA. Proceedings of GECCO 2006: 1289-1296.
  27. "The Effect of Building Block Construction on the Behavior of the GA in Dynamic Environments: A Case Study Using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions" William Rand and Rick Riolo, Evolution in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoStoc), Budapest, Hungary. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: EvoWorkshops 2006. v3907, p776-87.
  28. “Toward a Graphical ABM Toolkit with GIS Integration”, William Rand, Daniel G. Brown, Rick Riolo and Derek Robinson, Agent 2005, October 13-15, 2005, Chicago, IL, USA.
  29. “The Problem with a Self-Adaptive Mutation Rate in Some Environments: A Case Study using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions”, William Rand and Rick Riolo, Proceedings of GECCO 2005, pp. 1493-1500.
  30. “Measurements for Understanding the Behavior of the Genetic Algorithm in Dynamic Environments: A Case Study using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions”, William Rand and Rick Riolo, Published in Workshop Proceedings of GECCO 2005, pp. 32-38.
  31. "Can Statistical Methods on Land-Use Change Patterns Calibrate Agent-Based Models?" Li An, Daniel G. Brown, William Rand, and Scott E. Page, Geocomputation, August 1-3, 2005, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  32. “Shaky Ladders, Hyperplane-Defined Functions and Genetic Algorithms: Systematic Controlled Observation in Dynamic Environments”, William Rand and Rick Riolo, Proceedings of EvoStoc 2005, pp. 600-609.
  33. “The Interaction between Zoning Regulations and Residential Preferences as a Driver of Urban Form”, M. L. Zellner, W. Rand, R. Riolo, S. E. Page, D. G. Brown, and L. E. Fernandez, Proceedings of 2003 UTEP Symposium (University of Michigan Taubman College).
  34. “Statistical Validation of Spatial Patterns in Agent-Based Models”, William Rand, Daniel G. Brown, Scott E. Page, Rick Riolo, Luis E. Fernandez, and Moira Zellner, 2003, Proceedings of Agent-Based Simulation (ABS) (SCS European Publishing House).
  35. “The Complex Interaction of Agents and Environments: An Example In Urban Sprawl”, William Rand, Moira Zellner, Scott E. Page, Rick Riolo, Daniel G. Brown, Luis Fernandez, Agent 2002, Chicago, IL, USA. \
  36. “Modeling the Effects of Greenbelts at the Urban-Rural Fringe”, Daniel G. Brown, Scott E. Page, Rick Riolo, William Rand, Proceedings of International Environmental Modelling and Software Society 2002 (iEMSs), pp. 190-195.
  37. “MusArt: Music Retrieval via Aural Queries”, William P. Birmingham, Roger B. Dannenberg, Gregory H. Wakefield, Mark Bartsch, David Bykowski, Dominic Mazzoni, Colin Meek, Maureen Mellody, William Rand, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2001, pp. 73-81.
  38. “GP+Echo+Subsumption=Improved Problem Solving”, W.F. Punch and W.M. Rand, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) (Morgan Kaufmann), July 2000, pp. 411-418.

Posters

  1. “Space, Time, and Hurricanes: Investigating the Spatiotemporal Relationship Among Social Media Use, Donations, and Disasters”, Jared Sylvester, John Healey, Chen Wang and William Rand, 2014, ASE SocialCom International Conference on Social Computing, Stanford, CA, pp.1-6.
  2. “Automatic Crowdsourcing-Based Classification of Marketing Messaging on Twitter.” Radu Machedon, William Rand and Yogesh Joshi 2013 ASE/IEEE SocialCom International Conference on Social Computing. Washington, DC, pp. 975-978.
  3. “When Does Simulated Data Match Real Data?: An Exploration of Calibration Functions for an Agent-Based Model using Evolutionary Computation”, Forrest Stonedahl, David Anderson and William Rand ,Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 12-16, 2011, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 231-232.
  4. “Future Link Prediction in the Blogosphere for Recommendation”, Shanchan Wu, William Rand and Louiqa Raschid, International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), July 17-21, 2011, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 642-645.
  5. "A spatial model of the red queen effect" Jules Ottino-Loffler, William Rand, and Uri Wilensky (2007) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 7-11, London, UK, pp. 490-491.
  6. "Evolution of Rules for Non-Uniform Cellular Automata using a Simple Genetic Algorithm: An Investigation into Diversity and Computation", Forrest Sondahl and William Rand (2007) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 7-11, London, UK, pp. 1531-1532.
  7. “Statistical Analysis for Music Information Retrieval”, William Rand and William Birmingham, Published in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2001, pp. 25-26.

Demos

  1. “GoGoBot: Group Collaboration, Multi-Agent Modeling, and Robots”, William Rand, Paulo Blikstein, and Uri Wilensky (2008) Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Estoril, Portugal. Proceedings of AAMAS 2008, pp. 1715-1716.
  2. "Just a Cog in the Machine: Participatory Robotics as a Powerful Tool for Understanding Collaborative Learning", Paulo Blikstein, William Rand, and Uri Wilensky (2007) Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ, USA, pp. 84-86.
  3. "Participatory, Embodied, Multi-Agent Simulation", Paulo Blikstein, Bill Rand and Uri Wilensky (2006) Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. Proceedings of AAMAS 2006: 1457-1458.