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SUMMARY:Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Federico Bianchi & Francesco Ren
 zini (University of Milan) - Agent-Based Modelling for Social Network Re
 search: Two Examples
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DESCRIPTION:The seminar will be centred on Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) as
  a strategy for modelling social networks while avoiding some of the pit
 falls of standard statistical models. Because of its high flexibility\, 
 ABM allows researchers to model the formation of social ties and the inf
 luence that ties exert on individual attributes as the outcome of networ
 k nodes undertaking a variety of possible decision-making processes. In 
 this way\, models can be developed that do not rely on unrealistic assum
 ptions about specific social contexts (e.g.\, complete information about
  the global degree distribution\, nodes’ limited memory of past interact
 ions\, sequentiality of tie changes) and can account for threshold-based
  decision-making processes. This point will be made using two examples. 
 The first one will show how within-individual\, dynamic\, and context-de
 pendent preferences and memory of past interactions could help disentang
 le different motives underlying reciprocation of advice networks in an o
 rganization. The second one will show how the low adoption rate of a cri
 tical health preventive measure can be explained by the interplay of pos
 itive influence ('complex contagion’) and negative influence in a malari
 a epicentre.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G30\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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