ABOUT CASOS

The CASOS Center addresses complex real world issues through a combined social-science and computer-science approach, using advanced techniques from network science, text-mining, and agent-based modeling. Lead by Prof. Kathleen M. Carley, our center has faculty and students from multiple departments at the University and has multi-disciplinary research collaborations with Academia, Industry and Government. 

Our mission at CASOS is to foster the development of a new scientific field of computation emerging from the merger of computer science and social science. Research is conducted to: 1) develop new metrics, technologies and algorithms for analyzing human socio-cultural behavior given vast quantities of data; 2) forecast and explain changes in the socio-cultural behavior using agent-based model and network science; and 3) assess the impact of and provide support for the development of new social and organizational policies and procedures. At CASOS we aim to develop, use, and train people in the new network science and agent-based modeling tools.