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Conference Agenda

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Daily Overview

Session

Social simulation as a method and methodology (using)

Time:

Thursday, 27/Aug/2026:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Session Chair: Jason Thompson

Location: Calman CLC202

Rosemary Cramp lecture theatre, second floor (260)

Presentations

11:30am - 11:50am

Designed for impact: A descriptive study of experiences in policy modeling using social simulation methods

Branislava Godic, Rajith Vidanaraachchi, Jason Thompson

University of Melbourne, Australia

11:50am - 12:05pm

The SURIMI Model GUI

Patrycja Antosz¹, Timo Szczepanska¹, Aristea Zafeiropoulou², Ana Rodriguez³

1: Norce Research AS, Norway; 2: Konnecta Systems, Greece; 3: European Marine Board, Belgium

12:05pm - 12:25pm

Why Modelling For? Opening the Black Box of Agent-Based Models for Cumulative Social Simulation

Bart de Bruin¹, Anna Melnyk²

1: TU Eindhoven, Netherlands, The; 2: TU Delft, Netherlands, The

12:25pm - 12:45pm

The Individual-Level Data Was Already There: Prosopography on Agent-Based Simulation Output

D. Cale Reeves

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

12:45pm - 1:05pm

Communicating Confidence in Agent-Based Models

Gary Polhill¹, Matt Hare¹, Nick Roxburgh¹, Doug Salt¹, Marie Castellazzi¹, Becky Smith²

1: The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom; 2: The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom