More details – Nanda Wijermans

Scientific activities

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Journal papers:

Wijermans, N., Scholz, G., Chappin, É., Heppenstall, A., Filatova, T., Polhill, J. G., Semeniuk, C. & Stöppler, F. (2023). Agent decision-making: The Elephant in the Room-Enabling the justification of decision model fit in social-ecological models. Environmental Modelling & Software, 105850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105850

Antosz, P., Birks, D., Edmonds, B., Heppenstall, A., Meyer, R., Polhill, J. G., O’Sullivan, D & Wijermans, N. (2023). What do you want theory for?-A pragmatic analysis of the roles of “theory” in agent-based modelling. Environmental Modelling & Software, 168, 105802.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105802

Wijermans, N, Scholz, G, Neumann, M, Paolillo, R, & Templeton, A (2023) ‘Editorial: Social Identity Modelling’ Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 26 (3) 15 <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/26/3/15.html>. doi: 10.18564/jasss.5188

Scholz, G, Wijermans, N, Paolillo, R, Neumann, M, Masson, T, Chappin, É, Templeton, A and Kocheril, G (2023) ‘Social Agents? A Systematic Review of Social Identity Formalizations’ Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 26 (2) 6

<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/26/2/6.html>. doi: 10.18564/jasss.5066

Fischer, H., Wijermans, N. & Schlüter, M. (2023). Testing the Social Function of Metacognition for Common-Pool Resource Use. Cognitive Science, 47(3).https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13212

Wijermans, N., Schill, C., Lindahl, T., & Schlüter, M. (2022). Combining approaches: Looking behind the scenes of integrating multiple types of evidence from controlled behavioural experiments through agent-based modelling. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2022.2050120.

Wijermans, N., Scholz, G., Paolillo, R., Schröder, T., Chappin, E., Craig, T., & Templeton, A. (2022). Models in social psychology and agent-based social simulation – an interdisciplinary conversation on similarities and differences. Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. https://rofasss.org/2022/10/04/models-in-spabss

Constantino, S. M., Schlüter, M., Weber, E. U., & Wijermans, N. (2021). Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems. Sustainability Science, 16(5), 1651–1671. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-00989-w

Schwarz, N., Dressler, G., Frank, K., Jager, W., Janssen, M. A., Müller, B., Schlüter, M., Wijermans, N., & Groeneveld J. (2020). Formalising theories of human decision-making for agent-based modelling of social-ecological systems: practical lessons learned and ways forward. Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, 2, 16340–25. http://doi.org/10.18174/sesmo.2020a16340

Wijermans, N., Boonstra, W. J., Orach, K., Hentati-Sundberg, J., & Schlüter, M. (2020). Behavioural diversity in fishing—Towards a next generation of fishery models. Fish and Fisheries, 274(2), 30–19. http://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12466

Lindkvist, E., Wijermans, N., Daw, T.M., Gonzalez-Mon, B., Giron-Nava, A., Johnson, A.F., van Putten, I., Basurto, X. and Schlüter, M. (2019). Navigating Complexities: Agent-Based Modeling to Support Research, Governance and Management in Small-Scale Fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science 6:733. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00733

Schlüter, M., Orach, K., Lindkvist, E., Martin, R., Wijermans, N., Bodin, Ö., & Boonstra, W. J. (2019). Toward a methodology for explaining and theorizing about social-ecological phenomena. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 39, 44–53. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.06.011

Adrian, J., Bode, N., Amos, M., Baratchi, M., Beermann, M., Boltes, M., et al. (2019). A Glossary for Research on Human Crowd Dynamics. Collective Dynamics, 4, A19–13. http://doi.org/10.17815/CD.2019.19

Schlüter, M., Haider, L.J., Lade, S. J., Lindkvist, E., Martin, R., Orach, K., Wijermans, N. and Folke, C. (2019). Capturing emergent phenomena in social-ecological systems: an analytical framework. Ecology and Society, 24 (3):11. [www]

Bercht, A. L., & Wijermans, N. (2019). Mind the mind: How to effectively communicate about cognition in social–ecological systems research. Ambio, 48(6), 590–604. http://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1099-7

Schlüter, M., Baeza, A., Dreßler, G., Frank, K., Groeneveld, J., Jager, W., Janssen, M.A., McAllister R. R. J., Müller B., Orach, K., Schwarz, N, and Wijermans, N. (2017). A framework for mapping and comparing behavioural theories in models of social-ecological systems. Ecological Economics, 131, 21–35. [www]

Schill, C., Wijermans, N., Schlüter, M., & Lindahl, T. (2016). Cooperation Is Not Enough—Exploring Social-Ecological Micro-Foundations for Sustainable Common-Pool Resource Use. PLoS ONE, 11(8), e0157796–24. [www]

Wijermans, N., Conrado, C., van Steen, M., Martella, C., & Li, J. (2016). A landscape of crowd-management support: An integrative approach. Safety Science, 86(C), 142–164. [www]

Andringa, T. C., van den Bosch, K. A., & Wijermans, N. (2015). Cognition from life: the two modes of cognition that underlie moral behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. [www]

Wijermans, N., Jorna, R., Jager, W., van Vliet, T. & Adang, O. (2013). CROSS: Modelling Crowd Behaviour with Social-Cognitive Agents. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. [www]

Waldherr, A. & Wijermans, N. (2013). Communicating Social Simulation Models to Sceptical Minds. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. [www]

Offermans, A., Valkering, P., Vreugdenhil, H., Wijermans, N., & Haasnoot, M. (2013). The Dutch dominant perspective on water; risks and opportunities involved. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A: Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering. [www]

Vreugdenhil, H. & Wijermans, N. (2013). De beleidsarena van het Deltaprogramma. Water Governance [www]

Amblard, F., Geller, A., Neumann, M., Srbljinovic, A., & Wijermans, N. (2010). Analyzing Social Conflict via Computational Social Simulation: A Review of Approaches. In M. K, M. D, & S. A (Eds.), (pp. 126–141). Complex Societal Dynamics – Security Challenges and Opportunities.

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Conference contributions:

Wijermans, N., Verhagen, H. (2023). Formalising Agent Reasoning—The Paso Doble of Data and Theory. In: Squazzoni, F. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. ESSA 2022. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34920-1_42

Kammler, C., Dignum, F., Wijermans, N. (2023). Utilizing the Full Potential of Norms for the Agent’s Decision Process. In: Squazzoni, F. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. ESSA 2022. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34920-1_16

Wijermans N., Verhagen H. (2022) Fishing Together?. In: Van Dam K.H., Verstaevel N. (eds) Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XXII. MABS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13128. Springer, Cham. https://doi-org.ezp.sub.su.se/10.1007/978-3-030-94548-0_14

Kammler, C., Dignum, F., Wijermans, N., & Lindgren, H. (2022). Changing perspectives: adaptable interpretations of norms for agents. Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XXII, 22nd International Workshop, MABS 2021, Virtual Event, May 3-7, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, 139–152. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94548-0_11

Wijermans, N., & Templeton, A. (2022). Towards More Realism in Pedestrian Behaviour Models: First Steps and Considerations in Formalising Social Identity. In Czupryna, M.& Kaminski, B. Advances in Social Simulation (pp. 53-64). Springer, Cham.

Wijermans, N., Verhagen, H. & Lytter, A. (2021). An online implementation of a virtual agent-based experiment tool – an exploration. In: Ahrweiler, P. & Neumann, M. (Eds) Advances in Social Simulation. ESSA 2019. Springer Proceedings in Complex. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61503-1_29

Scholz, G., Eberhard, T., Ostrowski, R. & Wijermans, N. (2021). Social Identity in Agent-based Models – Exploring the State of the Art. In: Ahrweiler, P. & Neumann, M. (Eds) Advances in Social Simulation. ESSA 2019. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61503-1_6

Heidari, S., Wijermans, N., & Dignum, F. (2020). Agents with Dynamic Social Norms (pp. 1–13). Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60843-9_9

Wijermans, N. & Verhagen, H. (2020) Forgotten AI? Advancing agent reasoning in models. Presented at the 32nd Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society annual workshop (16-17 June). [pdf]

Verhagen, H., Borit, M., Bravo, G., & Wijermans, N. (Eds.). (2020). Advances in Social Simulation. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. (pp. 1–520). Cham: Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5

Wijermans N., O’Neill E.D. (2020) Towards Modelling Interventions in Small-Scale Fisheries. In: Verhagen H., Borit M., Bravo G., Wijermans N. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_48 [ www ]

Waldherr, A. & Wijermans, N. (2015): Modelling the role of social media at street protests. Presented at the Social Simulation Conference 2015 of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), 14-18 September, Groningen, Netherlands.

Wijermans, N., & Schlüter, M. (2014). Modelling cooperation in Bali irrigation. In: Proceedings of the Social Simulation Conference 2014 of the 10^th conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Barcelona.

Wijermans, N., & Schlüter, M. (2014). Agent-Based Case Studies for Understanding of Social-Ecological Systems: Cooperation on Irrigation in Bali. In B. Kamiński & G. Koloch (Eds.), Advances in Social Simulation Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (Vol. 229, pp. 295–305). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39829-2_26

Wijermans, N., & Haasnoot, M. (2012). Including policy dynamics to explore water policy pathways. In A. Koch (Ed.), (pp. 175–178). The 8th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association. Salzburg, Austria.

Wijermans, N. & Vreugdenhil, H. (2012). Social Uncertainties in Social-Ecological Systems: Policy dynamics in the Dutch Delta Programme. In Seppelt, R., Voinov, A. A., Lange, S. & Bankamp, D. (Eds.) International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software Managing Resources of a Limited Planet, Sixth Biennial Meeting. Leipzig, Germany. [www]

Haasnoot, M., van Deursen, W.P.A., Middelkoop, H., van Beek, E., & Wijermans, N. (2012). An Integrated Assessment Metamodel for Developing Adaptation Pathways for Sustainable Water Management in the Lower Rhine Delta. In Seppelt, R., Voinov, A. A., Lange, S. & Bankamp, D. (Eds.) International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software Managing Resources of a Limited Planet, Sixth Biennial Meeting. Leipzig, Germany. [www]

Wijermans, N. (2011). Exploring the CROSS model: The role of density in crowds. The 7th European Social Simulation Association Conference. Montpellier, France.

Wijermans, N., Vreugdenhil, H., Haasnoot, M., & Middelkoop, H. (2011). Introducing social modelling in the water world. In The 7th European Social Simulation Association Conference. Montpellier, France.

Wijermans, N., Haasnoot, M., & Middelkoop, H. (2011). Dynamic modelling: social and physical interactions to explore future water management. In NCR days 2011: Controlling Dutch Rivers (pp. 58–59). Delft, The Netherlands. [www]

Offermans, A., Vreugdenhil H., Wijermans N., & Haasnoot M. (2011). The Dutch dominant perspective on water; Risks and opportunities involved. Sixth Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems. Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Wijermans, N., Jorna, R. J. J. M., Jager, W., & van Vliet, T. (2008). Modelling the dynamics of motivational and situated behaviour. In Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Social Simulation. Washington, USA.

Geller, A., & Wijermans, N. (2008). “Death to …!‘: On opinion dynamics in conflict-torn Afghanistan’. In The Fifth Conference of the European Social Simulation Association. Brescia, Italy.

Wijermans, N., Jorna, R. J. J. M., Jager, W., & van Vliet, T. (2007). Modelling crowd dynamics. Influence factors related to the probability of a riot. In F. Amblard (Ed.), Proceedings of ESSA’07 the 4th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association. IRIT Editions.

Wijermans, N., Jorna, R. J. J. M., Jager, W., & van Vliet, T. (2006). Cognitive Social Agents, a Simulation in the field of Crowd Behaviour. In, Beyond the Brain: Embodied, Situated and Distributed Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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Stöppler, F. & Wijermans, N. (2021, January 11). “SimPioN – Simulating Path dependence in inter-organisational Networks” (Version 1.0.0). CoMSES Computational Model Library. [ www ]

Wijermans, Nanda, Schlüter, Maja, Orach, Kirill, Boonstra, Wijnand, Hentati-Sundberg, Jonas (2020, April 20). “FIBE” (Version 1.0.0). CoMSES Computational Model Library. [ www ]

Wijermans, Nanda, Schill, Caroline, Lindahl, Therese, Schlüter, Maja (2016, November 13). “AgentEx” (Version 1.0.0). CoMSES Computational Model Library. https://doi.org/10.25937/js95-6d78 [ www ]

Wijermans, Nanda (2013, April 27). “CROSS – crowd behaviour modelling: a festival crowd model” (Version 1.1.0). CoMSES Computational Model Library. [ www]

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Books/Chapters:

Schlüter, M., Lindkvist, E., Wijermans, N. Polhill, G. (2021) Agent-based modelling. In Biggs, R., de Vos, A., Preiser, R., Clements, H., Maciejewski, K. & Schlüter, M. (Eds). The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems (First edition, pp). Routledge.

Grant:

Future research leader grant financed by FORMAS (The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning): Climate change – from the small-scale fisher’s point of view. Identifying critical multi-level processes for sustainable small-scale fisheries.
Team: Nanda Wijermans (PI), Caroline Schill, Therese Lindahl and Maja Schlüter

Committee/Board activities:

Member of the CoMSES board – elected member [ 2021-2023 ]
Management committee member of ESSA (The European Social Simulation Association). [2012-2016, 2020-2022].
Member of the External advisory board – EU Horizon 2020 project SAF21 (Social science aspects of fisheries). [2016-2018].

Conference organisation committees:

2024

SocSimFest [2024] : organiser of the online conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA)
ANNSIM 2024: review committee for the track Humans, Societies, and Artificial Agents (HSAA)

2023

SocSimFest [2023] : organiser of the online conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA)
Social Simulation Conference [2023] Glasgow: review committee for the conference.

PhD & Master thesis:

Wijermans, N. (2011). Understanding crowd behaviour: Simulating situated individuals. PhD thesis. [www]

Wijermans, N. (2005). Crowd modeling and control in a Robocup Rescue Domain. University of Groningen. Master thesis. [www]

Fun & science:

Model calendar 2015 [ www ]

Workshops:

6-8 October 2021 (Participant): From cases to general principles – theory development through agent-based modelling. Host: Volkswagen Foundation (Hannover, Germany).
13-16 September 2021: Social identity in agent-based models: SIAM workshop-IV. Host: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (Online & face2face).
8 March 2021 (Organiser): Social identity in agent-based models: SIAM workshop-III. Host: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (Online).
16-18 Nov 2020: Modelling Social Complexity in Argumentation. Host: Lorentz Center (Online)
27-28 October 2020 (Organiser): Social identity in agent-based models: SIAM workshop-II. Host: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (Online).
4-5 June 2020 (Organiser): Social identity in agent-based models: SIAM workshop-I. Host: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (Online).
21-22 Nov 2019: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence using social simulation. Host: Center for Policy modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
10-12 July 2019 (Participant): From cases to general principles – theory development through agent-based modelling. Host: Volkswagen Foundation (Hannover, Germany).
16-17 May 2019 (Organiser): Workshop -situated decision making in small-scale fisheries. Host: Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm, Sweden).
8-12 Apr 2019 (Organiser): Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence Using Social Simulation. Host: Lorentz Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands).
18-19 Sep 2019 (Participant) The Transformative Imagination. Host: Environmental Humanities Lab at KTH, Moderna Museet, LUCSUS at Lund University (Saltsjöbaden, Sweden).
27-28 May 2019 (Participant): Imaginaries and the Biosphere at the Beijer Institute of Ecological economics (Stockholm, Sweden).
5-9 Nov 2018 (Participant): Physics and Psychology of Human Crowd Dynamics at the Lorentz Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands).
4-6 July 2018 (Participant): From cases to general principles – theory development through agent-based modelling. Host: Volkswagen Foundation (Hannover, Germany).
13 March 2018 (Organisor): Workshop interventions in small-scale fisheries. Host: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden).
7-12 April 2013: Resilience Alliance meeting, (Drakensberg,South Africa)

Visits & invited talks:

19 Nov 2021: Invited talk ‘Enabling social realism in Agent-based models – Formalising the social identity approach’ at the #frAIday talk series on Artificial Intelligence by Umeå University researchers (Online).
29 Sep 2021: In Common podcast “Negotiating interdisciplinary environments” with Nanda Wijermans
6 Oct 2020: Panellist global Early Career Network Meeting for the International Association of the Study of the Commons (IASC).
14 Sept 2020: ESSA@work expert & invited talk ‘History of ESSA@work’ at the Social Simulation Week 2020.
14 Oct 2019: Invited to the Team in the Stockholm Explorative Talks. (Stockholm, Sweden)
10 Oct 2019: Invited lecture on the Tragedy of the commons within course on ‘The Global Economy – Environment, Development and Globalisation’ at The Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) (Uppsala, Sweden)
1 – 5 Feb 2016: Visit & colloquium lecture at the Institute of Environmental Systems Research (Osnabrück, Germany)
26 Jan- 20 Feb 2015: Research visit at the Centre for Research Social Simulation (Guildford, UK)
25-27 Mar 2015: Research visit at the Centre for policy modelling (Manchester, UK)
2014 – 2015: 5 research visits of a week over a 2 years period to work in an interdisciplinary team on a ‘Human Decisions & Ecosystem services’ at the Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Feb & Oct 2014 and Dec 2015 (Annapolis, US) and the German Institute for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDIV) in May 2014 and Jul 2015 (Leipzig, DE)
14 Mar 2014: Invited talk on ‘AI and the future’ for the lustrum celebration of the AI department, University of Groningen (Groningen, NL)
18 Oct 2013: Invited seminar talk on social mechanisms. Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm, Sweden)
12 Nov 2012: Lecture on social simulation and agent-based modelling at the institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, (Berlin, Germany)
22 Feb 2011: SIKS PhD modelling course – Crowd modelling (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

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