Preliminary Program - Monday May 19th 2025
Please note - Workshop presenters can plug-in their laptops to the projector in the conference rooms OR they can bring a USB and transfer their files to the computer in the room (and this would be a good back up plan also). If you would like to send your presentation ahead of time, please email it to mabs2025workshop@gmail.com
Morning Session
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM | Arrival and Registration |
| 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM | General Introduction by Samarth Swarup, Research Associate Professor, Biocomplexity Institute of University of Virginia |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Keynote Speech by Nirav Ajmeri - ‘Social Simulations for Prosocial Multiagent Interactions’ |
Nirav Ajmeri is a Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bristol’s School of Computer Science. He is the Deputy Director of the UKRI AI for Collective Intelligence Hub and the Responsible AI Co-Lead for the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Practice-Oriented AI. Nirav’s research interests are in intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, with an emphasis on ethics and fairness in socio-technical systems involving humans, organisations, and computational agents. His research seeks to design ethical socio-technical systems and develop socially intelligent computational agents that support their users in satisfactory decision-making, which involves navigating societal norms and accounting for diverse human value preferences.
Coffee Break
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
First Presentation Block
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Jeremy Cofield, Umer Siddique, Yongcan Cao - “MODIFLY: A Scalable End-to-end Multi-Agent Simulation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” |
| 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM | Elisa Cueille, Benoit Gaudou, Nicolas Verstaevel, Manon Prédhumeau - “Assessing the impact of crisis cell decisions during flash flood” |
| 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM | Alicia Vidler, Toby Walsh - “Shifting Power: Leveraging LLMs to Simulate Human Aversion in ABMs of Bilateral Financial Exchanges, A bond market study” |
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Kazi Ashik Islam, S. S. Ravi, Henning Mortveit, Samarth Swarup - “Adjustable Attribute Matching in Digital Similars of Populations” |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | William Pittenger, Ethan Beaird, Sandip Sen - “Use of Tags and Group Selection to Engender Cooperation in player Snowdrift Game” |
| 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM | Bertold B. Kovács, Neil Yorke-Smith - “An Agent-Based Model of Administrative Corruption in Hierarchical Organisations” |
Lunch
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Networking and Lunch |
2nd Presentation Block
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM | Janik Muires, Lennard Sund, Tobias Ramm, Wolfgang Ketter - “Balancing Shared Mobility Fleet Sizes: A Simulation-Driven Evolutionary Approach” |
| 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM | Petra Ahrweiler, Nigel Gilbert, Martha Bicket, Albert Sabater Coll, Elisabeth Spaeth, Hassan Bashiri, Ebin Deni Raj, Blanca Luque Capellas - “Agent-Based Modelling for Public Social Service Distribution” |
| 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM | Bertilla Fabris, Jason Tucker, Fabian Lorig - “Using Agent-Based Social Simulations to Inform Organ Donation Policymaking: Adopting the Spanish Approach in Sweden” |
| 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM | H. Van Dyke Parunak - “Insects and Agents: Extending the Metaphor” |
| 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM | Zenith Arnejo, Benoit Gaudou, Mehdi Saqalli, Nathaniel Bantayan - “Automatic generation of ABM Narratives using Simulation Traces and LLM” |
Coffee Break
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM | Coffee Break |
3rd Presentation Block
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM | Vince Trencsenyi, Agnieszka Mensfelt, Kostas Stathis - “Approximating Human Strategic Reasoning with LLM-Enhanced Recursive Reasoners Leveraging Multi-agent Hypergames” |
| 4:50 PM - 5:10 PM | Keng-Lien Lin, Parinaz Naghizadeh - “MultiRepast4py: A Framework for Agent-Based Simulations on Multilayer Networks” |
| 5:10 PM - 5:30 PM | Closing Remarks / Open Discussion |