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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">If you are working with
<b>qualitative data and social simulation</b>, please consider submitting your research (poster, extended abstract, full paper) to the special track “Using qualitative data to inform behavioural rules in social simulation”, which is described below the signature
and is to be organized during the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://ssc2021.uek.krakow.pl/">Social Simulation Conference 2021</a>,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">20-24.09, Cracow, Poland (or online, if necessary).
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<i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Important dates</span></i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://ssc2021.uek.krakow.pl/call-for-submissions/"><span lang="EN-GB">https://ssc2021.uek.krakow.pl/call-for-submissions/</span></a>.
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Registration</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">:</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">
<a href="https://ssc2021.uek.krakow.pl/registration/">https://ssc2021.uek.krakow.pl/registration/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Melania and Bruce.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Melania Borit, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Associate professor,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Leader Research Group
</span></i><a href="https://uit.no/research/craft"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0563C1">CRAFT</span></i></a><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D"> – Knowledge Integration and Blue Futures<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Norwegian College of Fishery Science,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">UiT The Arctic University of Norway (University of Tromsø),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Tromsø, Norway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:melania.borit@uit.no"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0563C1">melania.borit@uit.no</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">Web: </span><a href="http://uit.no/ansatte/organisasjon/ansatte/person?p_document_id=139029&p_dimension_id=88166"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0563C1">uit.no/melania.borit</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Title of the special track:</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> Using qualitative data to inform behavioral rules
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</span><a href="http://www.essa.eu.org/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0070C0">ESSA</span></a><span style="color:black">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Special Interest Group </span><a href="http://cfpm.org/qual2rule/essa-sig/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0070C0">Qual2Rule</span></a><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Session chairs:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Melania Borit, CRAFT Research Lab, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Bruce Edmonds, Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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</span></b><span style="color:black">Many academics consider qualitative evidence (e.g. texts gained from transcribing oral data or observations of people) and quantitative evidence to be incommensurable. However, agent-based simulations are a possible vehicle
for bridging this gap. Narrative textual evidence often gives clues as to the in-context behavior of individuals and is thus a natural source for behaviors to inform the specification of corresponding agent behavior within simulations. The texts will not give
a complete picture, but will provide some of “menu” of behaviors people use. During this session we hope to further the understanding of how to improve this.
<b>We are particularly interested in accounts of the procedures or structures people used to bridge between qualitative and formal realms based in reported modelling experiences<u>. Thus, those interested to present their work in this session have to make sure
that their submission explicitly addresses the use of qualitative data in their modelling endeavour.</u>
</b>The session is open to all approaches (full papers or extended abstracts; see details
</span><a href="https://ssc2021.uek.krakow.pl/call-for-submissions/">here</a><span style="color:black">) that seek to move from qualitative evidence towards a simulation in a systematic way. These include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">* Approaches based in Grounded Theory.<br>
* Tools for facilitating such a process.<br>
* Participatory processes that result in a simulation.<br>
* Frameworks for aiding the analysis of text into rules.<br>
* Elicitation techniques that would aid the capture of information in an appropriate structure.<br>
* Models and ideas from psychology to aid in the above process.<br>
* Insights and tools from Natural Language Processing that may help this process.<br>
* Agent architectures that will facilitate the programming of agents from such analyses.<br>
* Philosophical or Sociological critiques, pointing out assumptions and dangers.<br>
* Examples of where this approach has been tried.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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