William Rand

According to our database, William Rand authored at least 64 papers between 2004 and 2024.

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2024

Comparing Social Media Communities using Functional Data Analysis.

Xiaoxia Champon, Chathura Jayalath, William Rand, Jasser Jasser, Ivan Garibay

Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2024

2023

Two decades of agent-based modeling in marketing: a bibliometric analysis.

Elena Romero, Manuel Chica, Sergio Damas, William Rand

Prog. Artif. Intell., September, 2023

A Generalization of Threshold-based and Probability-based Models of Information diffusion.

Chathura Jayalath, Chathika Gunaratne, William Rand, Chathurani Seneviratne, Ivan Garibay

Adv. Complex Syst., March, 2023

Special Section on "Inverse Generative Social Science": Guest Editors' Statement.

Joshua M. Epstein, Ivan Garibay, Erez Hatna, Matthew Koehler, William Rand

J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul., 2023

Classification of social media users with generalized functional data analysis.

Anthony Weishampel, Ana-Maria Staicu, William Rand

Comput. Stat. Data Anal., 2023

2022

Evolution of Intent and Social Influence Networks and Their Significance in Detecting COVID-19 Disinformation Actors on Social Media.

Chathika Gunaratne, Debraj De, Gautam S. Thakur, Chathurani Senevirathna, William Rand, Martin Smyth, Monica Lipscomb

Proceedings of the Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, 2022

Text vs. Image: An application of unsupervised multi-modal machine learning to online reviews.

Rohan Mestri, Pragna Bollam, Gijs Overgoor, William Rand

Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2022

Entropy-Based Characterization of Influence Pathways in Traditional and Social Media.

Özlem Özmen Garibay, Niloofar Yousefi, Kevin Aslett, Jacopo A. Baggio, Erik Hemberg, Chathura Jayalath, Alexander V. Mantzaris, Bruce Miller, Una-May O'Reilly, William Rand, Chathurani Senevirathna, Ivan Garibay

Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, 2022

2021

Influence Cascades: Entropy-Based Characterization of Behavioral Influence Patterns in Social Media.

Chathurani Senevirathna, Chathika Gunaratne, William Rand, Chathura Jayalath, Ivan Garibay

Entropy, 2021

Agent-based modeling of new product market diffusion: an overview of strengths and criticisms.

William Rand, Christian Stummer

Ann. Oper. Res., 2021

In the Eye of the Reviewer: An Application of Unsupervised Clustering to User Generated Imagery in Online Reviews.

Gijs Overgoor, Rohan Mestri, William Rand

Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2021

Use of clustering for consideration set modeling in recommender systems.

Emil Mirzayev, Zakaria Babutsitdze, William Rand, Thierry Delahaye

Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2021

2020

Is the Grass Greener? On the Strategic Implications of Moving Along the Value Chain for IT Service Providers.

Anandasivam Gopal, Sabari Rajan Karmegam, Balaji R. Koka, William Rand

Inf. Syst. Res., 2020

Deep Agent: Studying the Dynamics of Information Spread and Evolution in Social Networks.

Ivan Garibay, Toktam A. Oghaz, Niloofar Yousefi, Ece C. Mutlu, Madeline Schiappa, Steven R. Scheinert, Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos, Christina Bouwens, Stephen M. Fiore, Alexander V. Mantzaris, John T. Murphy, William Rand, Anastasia Salter, Mel Stanfill, Gita Sukthankar, Nisha Baral, Gabriel Fair, Chathika Gunaratne, Neda Hajiakhoond Bidoki, Jasser Jasser, Chathura Jayalath, Olivia B. Newton, Samaneh Saadat, Chathurani Senevirathna, Rachel Winter, Xi Zhang

CoRR, 2020

The effects of information overload on online conversation dynamics.

Chathika Gunaratne, Nisha Baral, William Rand, Ivan Garibay, Chathura Jayalath, Chathurani Senevirathna

Comput. Math. Organ. Theory, 2020

A Taxonomy of User Actions on Social Networking Sites.

Rachel Winter, Steven R. Scheinert, Mel Stanfill, Anastasia Salter, Olivia B. Newton, Jihye Song, Stephen M. Fiore, William Rand, Ivan Garibay

Proceedings of the HT '20: 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 2020

The Champion of Images: Understanding the role of images in the decision-making process of online hotel bookings.

Gijs Overgoor, William Rand, Willemijn van Dolen

Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2020

2019

A Theory of Extended Working Memory and its Role in Online Conversation Dynamics.

Chathika Gunaratne, Nisha Baral, William Rand, Ivan Garibay, Chathura Jayalath, Chathurani Senevirathna

CoRR, 2019

Computational landscape of user behavior on social media.

David Darmon, William Rand, Michelle Girvan

CoRR, 2019

2018

Simulating Macro-Level Effects from Micro-Level Observations.

Edward Bishop Smith, William Rand

Manag. Sci., 2018

2016

The Myopia of Crowds: A Study of Collective Evaluation on Stack Exchange.

Keith Burghardt, Emanuel F. Alsina, Michelle Girvan, William Rand, Kristina Lerman

CoRR, 2016

The Open Community Data Exchange: Advancing Data Sharing and Discovery in Open Online Community Science.

Georg J. P. Link, Matt Germonprez, Sean P. Goggins, Jeff Hemsley, Bill Rand, Megan Squire

Proceedings of the Companion to the Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, 2016

Don't Do It Right, Do It Fast? Speed and Quality of Innovation as an Emergent Process.

Ming-Hui Huang, William Rand, Roland T. Rust

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, 2016

Breaking into new Data-Spaces: Infrastructure for Open Community Science.

Aaron Halfaker, Jonathan T. Morgan, Yuvaraj Pandian, Elizabeth Thiry, William Rand, Kristen Schuster, Anthony J. Million, Sean P. Goggins, David Laniado

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2016

2015

An Agent-Based Model of Urgent Diffusion in Social Media.

William Rand, Jeffrey Herrmann, Brandon Schein, Neza Vodopivec

J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul., 2015

Forecasting High Tide: Predicting Times of Elevated Activity in Online Social Media.

Jimpei Harada, David Darmon, Michelle Girvan, William Rand

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2015

2014

Competing Opinions and Stubborness: Connecting Models to Data.

Keith Burghardt, William Rand, Michelle Girvan

CoRR, 2014

2013

Media, Aggregators, and the Link Economy: Strategic Hyperlink Formation in Content Networks.

Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Zsolt Katona, William Rand

Manag. Sci., 2013

Switching behavior in online auctions: Empirical observations and predictive implications.

Wei Guo, William Rand, Wolfgang Jank

Proceedings of the Winter Simulations Conference: Simulation Making Decisions in a Complex World, 2013

Automatic Crowdsourcing-Based Classification of Marketing Messaging on Twitter.

Radu Machedon, William Rand, Yogesh V. Joshi

Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2013, 2013

Does Love Change on Twitter? The Dynamics of Topical Conversations in Microblogging.

Victoria Lai, William Rand

Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2013, 2013

Predictability of User Behavior in Social Media: Bottom-Up v. Top-Down Modeling.

David Darmon, Jared Sylvester, Michelle Girvan, William Rand

Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2013, 2013

2012

When Does Simulated Data Match Real Data?

Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand

Proceedings of the Advances in Computational Social Science, 2012

Making recommendations in a microblog to improve the impact of a focal user.

Shanchan Wu, Leanna Gong, William Rand, Louiqa Raschid

Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2012

2011

Comparing Social Tags to Microblogs.

Victoria Lai, Christopher Rajashekar, William Rand

Proceedings of the PASSAT/SocialCom 2011, Privacy, 2011

Recommendations in social media for brand monitoring.

Shanchan Wu, William Rand, Louiqa Raschid

Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2011

Future Link Prediction in the Blogosphere for Recommendation.

Shanchan Wu, Louiqa Raschid, William Rand

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2011

Differential Adaptive Diffusion: Understanding Diversity and Learning whom to Trust in Viral Marketing.

Hossam Sharara, William Rand, Lise Getoor

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2011

When does simulated data match real data?

Forrest Stonedahl, David Anderson, William Rand

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2011

Estimating functional agent-based models: an application to bid shading in online markets format.

Wei Guo, Wolfgang Jank, William Rand

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2011

Predicting Author Blog Channels with High Value Future Posts for Monitoring.

Shanchan Wu, Tamer Elsayed, William Rand, Louiqa Raschid

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011

2010

The shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions and Classic Dynamic Problems.

Abir Alharbi, William Rand

Int. J. Comput. Intell. Appl., 2010

Evolving viral marketing strategies.

Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand, Uri Wilensky

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2010

2009

Design Guidelines for Agent Based Model Visualization.

Daniel Kornhauser, Uri Wilensky, William Rand

J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul., 2009

Participatory Simulation as a Tool for Agent-based Simulation.

Matthew Berland, William Rand

Proceedings of the ICAART 2009 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Porto, Portugal, January 19, 2009

2008

Reciprocity between the cerebellum and the cerebral cortex: Nonlinear dynamics in microscopic modules for generating voluntary motor commands.

Jun Wang, Gregory L. Dam, Sule Yildirim, William Rand, Uri Wilensky, James C. Houk

Complex., 2008

CrossNet: a framework for crossover with network-based chromosomal representations.

Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand, Uri Wilensky

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2008

GoGoBot: group collaboration, multi-agent modeling, and robots.

William Rand, Paulo Blikstein, Uri Wilensky

Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), 2008

2007

Making Models Match: Replicating an Agent-Based Model.

Uri Wilensky, William Rand

J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul., 2007

Evolution of non-uniform cellular automata using a genetic algorithm: diversity and computation.

Forrest Sondahl, William Rand

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

A spatial model of the red queen effect.

Jules Ottino-Loffler, William Rand, Uri Wilensky

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

The defined cliffs variant in dynamic environments: a case study using the shaky ladder hyperplane-defined functions.

Abir Alharbi, William Rand, Rick L. Riolo

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

Understanding the Semantics of the Genetic Algorithm in Dynamic Environments.

Abir Alharbi, William Rand, Rick L. Riolo

Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutinary Computing, 2007

Just a cog in the machine: participatory robotics as a tool for understanding collaborative learning and decision-making.

Paulo Blikstein, William Rand, Uri Wilensky

Proceedings of the 7th Iternational Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2007

2006

The effect of crossover on the behavior of the GA in dynamic environments: a case study using the shaky ladder hyperplane-defined functions.

William Rand, Rick L. Riolo, John H. Holland

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2006

The Effect of Building Block Construction on the Behavior of the GA in Dynamic Environments: A Case Study Using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions.

William Rand, Rick L. Riolo

Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computing, 2006

Participatory, embodied, multi-agent simulation.

Paulo Blikstein, William Rand, Uri Wilensky

Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006), 2006

2005

Controlled observations of the genetic algorithm in a changing environment: Case studies using the shaky ladder hyperplane -defined functions.

William Rand

PhD thesis, 2005

Spatial process and data models: Toward integration of agent-based models and GIS.

Daniel G. Brown, Rick L. Riolo, Derek T. Robinson, Michael J. North, William Rand

J. Geogr. Syst., 2005

Path dependence and the validation of agent-based spatial models of land use.

Daniel G. Brown, Scott E. Page, Rick L. Riolo, Moira L. Zellner, William Rand

Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci., 2005

Measurements for understanding the behavior of the genetic algorithm in dynamic environments: a case study using the Shaky Ladder Hyperplane-Defined Functions.

William Rand, Rick L. Riolo

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2005

The problem with a self-adaptative mutation rate in some environments: a case study using the shaky ladder hyperplane-defined functions.

William Rand, Rick L. Riolo

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2005

Shaky Ladders, Hyperplane-Defined Functions and Genetic Algorithms: Systematic Controlled Observation in Dynamic Environments.

William Rand, Rick L. Riolo

Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computing, 2005

2004

Agent-based and analytical modeling to evaluate the effectiveness of greenbelts.

Daniel G. Brown, Scott E. Page, Rick L. Riolo, William Rand

Environ. Model. Softw., 2004