Introduction to modeling and visualization. How models can be used to examine complex urban problems. Ethical issues in the application of computational models. Basic model building without data.
Identifying data sources for model building and testing. Developing and using a model to understand a complex urban problem. Ethical issues in computational models, including data collection and data use.
Use and critique of large-scale computational models for urban planning and decision-making. Information synthesis, agent-based simulation, and simulation analytics techniques for analysis of urban and regional systems. Value-sensitive design and use of computational models.
Generating Synthetic Populations for Social Modeling 2.0 (pdf)
Samarth Swarup and Madhav V. Marathe
Tutorial at the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), São Paulo, Brazil, May 2017.
Generating Synthetic Populations for Social Modeling (pdf)
Samarth Swarup and Madhav V. Marathe,
Tutorial at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). New York City, July 10, 2016.
Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia, Technical Report NDSSL-TR-2016-044.
Generating Synthetic Populations for Social Modeling
Samarth Swarup and Madhav V. Marathe,
Tutorial at the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Singapore, May 2016.