Publications

(2023). Facilitating the interoperability and reuse of extensions of fuzzy cognitive maps. Proceedings of the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM). In-cooperation with ACM/IEEE.

(2023). On the necessity of human decision-making errors to explain vaccination rates for Covid-19: An Agent-Based Modeling Study. Proceedings of the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM). In-cooperation with ACM/IEEE.

(2023). Preserving simulation insight while removing data: verification of compressed simulation traces via machine learning. Proceedings of the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM). In-cooperation with ACM/IEEE.

(2023). Identifying the building blocks of social simulation models: A qualitative analysis using open-source codes in NetLogo. Proceedings of the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM). In-cooperation with ACM/IEEE.

(2022). Automatic Generation of Individual Fuzzy Cognitive Maps from Longitudinal Data. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), 312-325.

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(2022). Towards reusable building blocks to develop COVID-19 simulation models. Proceedings of the 2022 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 569-580. IEEE/ACM.

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(2022). A new application of machine learning: detecting errors in network simulations. Proceedings of the 2022 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 653-664. IEEE/ACM.

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(2022). Automatically explaining a model: using deep neural networks to generate text from causal maps. Proceedings of the 2022 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 2629-2640. IEEE/ACM.

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(2022). Hybrid Models That Combine Machine Learning and Simulations. Computing in Science & Engineering 24 (5), 72-76.

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(2022). Identifying Informative Features to Evaluate Student Knowledge as Causal Maps. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education.

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(2022). Special Issue on ACM SIGSIM PADS’20. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) 32(2).

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(2021). Identifying Synergistic Interventions to Address COVID-19 Using a Large Scale Agent-Based Model. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), 655-662.

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(2021). How Do Teams of Novice Modelers Choose An Approach? An Iterated, Repeated Experiment In A First-Year Modeling Course. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), 661-674.

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(2021). The Necessity and Difficulty of Navigating Uncertainty to Develop an Individual-Level Computational Model. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), 407-421.

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(2021). How Modeling Methods for Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Can Benefit From Psychology Research. Proceedings of the 2021 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). IEEE/ACM.

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(2021). Design and evaluation of update schemes to optimize asynchronous Cellular Automata with random or cyclic orders. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM 25th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT).

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(2021). Why honor culture? Lessons learned from an Agent-Based simulation model. Proceedings of the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM). In-cooperation with ACM/IEEE.

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(2021). Opportunities and challenges in developing COVID-19 simulation models: lessons from six funded projects. Proceedings of the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM). In-cooperation with ACM/IEEE.

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(2021). Automatically combining conceptual models using semantic and structural information. Proceedings of the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM). In-cooperation with ACM/IEEE.

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(2021). Are we modeling the evidence or our own biases? A comparison of conceptual models created from reports. Proceedings of the Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM). In-cooperation with ACM/IEEE.

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(2021). Mapping the Complexity of Suicide by Combining Participatory Modeling and Network Science. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM international conference on advances in social networks analysis and mining, 339-342.

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(2020). Optimizing discrete simulations of the spread of HIV-1 to handle billions of cells on a workstation. Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, 67-78.

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(2020). Fuzzy cognitive maps in agent based models: a practicial implementation example. Proceedings of the 2020 Spring Simulation Conference. In-cooperation ACM/IEEE.

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(2020). Creating perceptual uncertainty in Agent-Based Models with social interactions. Proceedings of the 2020 Spring Simulation Conference. In-cooperation ACM/IEEE.

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(2020). Reducing the Gap Between the Conceptual Models of Students and Experts Using Graph-Based Adaptive Instructional Systems. HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Papers: Cognition, Learning and Games. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12425. Springer.

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(2020). Comparing How Different Inquiry-based Approaches Impact Learning Outcomes. Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 14(1).

(2019). Ideal, best, and emerging practices in creating artificial societies. Proceedings of the 2019 Spring Simulation Conference. In-cooperation ACM/IEEE.

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(2019). CoFluences: Simulating the Spread of Social Influences via a Hybrid Agent-Based/Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Architecture. Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, 71-82.

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(2019). Mechanisms for cell-to-cell and cell-free spread of HIV-1 in cellular automata models. Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, 103-114.

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(2019). From social media to expert reports: The impact of source selection on automatically validating complex conceptual models of obesity. Social Computing and Social Media. Design, Human Behavior and Analytics. HCII 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11578. Springer.

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(2019). The artificial facilitator: guiding participants in developing causal maps using voice-activated technologies. Augmented Cognition. HCII 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11580. Springer.

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(2019). Solving Challenges at the Interface of Simulation and Big Data Using Machine Learning. Proceedings of the 2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 572-583. IEEE/ACM.

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(2018). Should we simulate mental models to assess whether they agree?. Proceedings of the 2018 Spring Simulation Conference. In-cooperation ACM/IEEE.

(2018). An online environment to compare students’ and expert solutions to ill-structured problems. Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Learning and Teaching. LCT 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10925. Springer.

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(2018). Advanced Data Analytics in Health. Springer series on ‘Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies’, volume 93, 216 pages.

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(2017). Analyzing and simplifying model uncertainty in fuzzy cognitive maps. Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 1868-1879. IEEE/ACM.

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(2016). Feasibility and framing of interventions based on public support: leveraging text analytics for policymakers. Social Computing and Social Media. SCSM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9742. Springer.

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(2016). A novel visualization environment to support modelers in analyzing data generated by cellular automata. Digital Human Modeling: Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. DHM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9745. Springer.

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(2016). Teaching Computational Modeling in the Data Science Era. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), Procedia Computer Science 80, 1968-1977.

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(2016). Special Issue on Intelligent Healthcare Systems. Journal of Intelligent Systems 25(1):1–2.

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(2015). An algebraic approach to combining classifiers. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), Procedia Computer Science 51, 1545-1554.

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(2015). Using visual analytics to support the integration of expert knowledge in the design of medical models and simulations. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), Procedia Computer Science 51, 755-764.

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(2013). A novel framework for complex networks and chronic diseases. Complex Networks. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 424. Springer.

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(2013). Supporting a participant-centric management of obesity via a self-improving health game. Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics, and Risk Management. Healthcare and Safety of the Environment and Transport. DHM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8025. Springer.

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(2013). Detecting unfolding crises with visual analytics and conceptual maps: emerging phenomena and big data. Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 200-205.

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(2013). An agent-based social network model of binge drinking among Dutch adults. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations 16(2):10.

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(2012). Interdisciplinary teaching and learning in computing science: three years of experience in the MoCSSy program. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education, 47-51.

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(2012). Ingredients for student-centered learning in undergraduate computing science courses. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education, 7-11.

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(2012). Rebel with many causes: a computational model of insurgency. Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 90-95.

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(2011). The small-world property in networks growing by active edges. Advances in Complex Systems 14(6):853–869.

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(2011). Complex networks and epidemics. Technique et Science Informatiques 30:181–212.

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(2010). Impact of complex network properties on routing in backbone networks. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops, 389-393.

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(2010). Computing the average path length and a label-based routing in a small-world graph. 12èmes Rencontres Francophones sur les Aspects Algorithmiques de Télécommunications (AlgoTel).

(2010). Average path length of deterministic and stochastic recursive networks. Complex Networks. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 116. Springer.

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(2009). Why having in-person lectures when e-learning and podcasts are available?. Proceedings of the 14th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education, 42-44.

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