Publications

Doctoral dissertation

Head, B. (2024). Agents Modeling Agents: The Design and Analysis of Multi-Level Agents-Based Models. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Committee: Uri Wilensky (Advisor), Doug Downey, and Forrest Stonedahl.

Bachelor's thesis

Head, B. (2009). An Abstraction of Evolution Through Algebra. Reed College, Portland, OR. [link]

Publications

• Hjorth, A., Head, B., Brady, C., & Wilensky, U. (2020). LevelSpace - a NetLogo Extension for Multi-Level Agent-Based Modeling. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.

• Head, B. & Wilensky, U. (2018). Agent cognition through micro-simulations: Adaptive and tunable intelligence with NetLogo LevelSpace. In: Morales A., Gershenson C., Braha D., Minai A., Bar-Yam Y. (eds) Unifying Themes in Complex Systems IX. ICCS 2018. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. [link] [pre-print]

• Vermeer W., Head, B., Wilensky U. (2017) The effects of local network structure on disease spread in coupled networks. In: Cherifi H., Gaito S., Quattrociocchi W., Sala A. (eds) Complex Networks & Their Applications V. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2016 2016. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 693. Springer, Cham. [link] [pre-print]

• Hjorth, A., Brady, C., Head, B. & Wilensky, U. (2016). Turtles All the Way Down: Presenting LevelSpace, a NetLogo Extension for Reasoning About Complex Connectedness. Constructionism 2016, Bangkok, Thailand. [proceedings]

• Head, B., Hjorth, A., Brady, C. and Wilensky, U. (2015). Evolving agent cognition with Netlogo LevelSpace. 2015 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Huntington Beach, CA, 2015, pp. 3122-3123. [link] [pre-print]

• Hjorth, A., Brady, C., Head, B. and Wilensky, U. (2015). LevelSpaceGUI - Scaffolding Novice Modelers' Inter-Model Explorations. In proceedings for Interaction Design & Children 2015. Boston, MA. [link] [pre-print]

• Hjorth, A., Brady, C., Head, B. and Wilensky, U. (2015). Thinking Within and Between Levels: Exploring Reasoning with Multi-Level Linked Models. In T. Koschmann, P. Häkkinen, & P. Tchounikine (Eds.), "Exploring the material conditions of learning: opportunities and challenges for CSCL," the Proceedings of the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CCL) Conference Gothenburg, Sweden: ISLS. [link]

• Head, B., Liang, C., & Wilensky, U. (2014). Flying like a School of Fish: Discovering Flocking Formations in an Agent-Based Model with Analogical Reasoning. In Proceedings of the Michigan Complexity Mini-Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [link]

• Head, B., Orton, K., & Wilensky, U. (2014). An Agent-Based Approach to Modeling Membrane Formation. In Proceedings of the Michigan Complexity Mini-Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [link]

• Pepper, N. M., Francis, C., Bedau, M. A., Chalmers, D. W., & Head, B. (2008). Quantifying creative symbiosis-a lexical analysis of the evolution of technology as reflected in patent records. In ALIFE XI (p. 795). [pre-print]