CSSSA - December Webinar

Dear CSSSA community,

Join us for our December webinar with Dr. Marco Janssen, Arizona State University for A Discussion on Agent-Based Modeling in Sustainability.

🗓️ Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
🕚 Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Time
💻 Location: Zoom (link provided upon registration)

Abstract: Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) has been applied far and wide to better understand our world. Each new application domain brings with it the existing cultures of the domain’s experts, including expectations and requirements. As such, it is foolhardy to expect agent-based modeling to be standardized across all domains. As practitioners, there is a desire to understand how these domain cultures differ, how they use agent-based modeling, and what the future of agent-based modeling is within those domains. To start to grapple with these grand questions, for the ABMS community, we are proposing to run a series of interviews with experts from different domains to try to map the world of agent-based modeling.

Bio: Dr. Marco Janssen is a Professor in the School of Sustainability, and Director of the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, both at Arizona State University. His formal training is in Operations Research and Applied Mathematics. Janssen’s research covers human-environmental interactions at different scales and time periods. He is primarily focused on the conditions of self-governance of shared resources, using behavioral experiments, agent-based models, and case study comparisons. Recent application areas focus on water governance and renewable energy. For more info, visit marcojanssen.info

We look forward to seeing you there,

The CSSSA Webinar Organizing Team