Combating Dark-side of Computing - Exploring Perceptions of AI-augmented Mis/disinformation among Higher Education Students - Florence Martin; Jennifer DeLarm; Min Zhuang; Yang Cheng; William Rand; Jaekuk Lee (Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research V.2, ICER 2025, CharlottesvilleVAUSA, August 3-6, 2025, 2025)

Comparing Social Media Communities using Functional Data Analysis - Xiaoxia Champon; Chathura Jayalath; William Rand; Jasser Jasser; Ivan Garibay (57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2024, Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, Hawaii, USA, January 3-6, 2024, 2024)

A Generalization of Threshold-based and Probability-based Models of Information diffusion - Chathura Jayalath; Chathika Gunaratna; William Rand; Chathurani Senevirathna; Ivan Garibay (Adv. Complex Syst., 2023)

Classification of social media users with generalized functional data analysis - Anthony Weishampel; Ana-Maria Staicu; William Rand (Comput. Stat. Data Anal., 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)

Two decades of agent-based modeling in marketing: a bibliometric analysis - Elena Romero; Manuel Chica; Sergio Damas; William Rand (Prog. Artif. Intell., 2023)

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 (8th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, CIC 2022, Atlanta, GA, USA, December 14-16, 2022, 2022)

Text vs. Image: An application of unsupervised multi-modal machine learning to online reviews - Rohan Mestri; Pragna Bollam; Gijs Overgoor; William Rand (55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2022, Virtual Event / Maui, Hawaii, USA, January 4-7, 2022, 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 (Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling - 15th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 20-23, 2022, Proceedings, 2022)

Agent-based modeling of new product market diffusion: an overview of strengths and criticisms - William Rand; Christian Stummer (Ann. Oper. Res., 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)

Use of clustering for consideration set modeling in recommender systems - Emil Mirzayev; Zakaria Babutsitdze; William Rand; Thierry Delahaye (54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2021, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, January 5, 2021, 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 (54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2021, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, January 5, 2021, 2021)

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)

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)

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 (53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020, Maui, Hawaii, USA, January 7-10, 2020, 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 (HT '20: 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Virtual Event, USA, July 13-15, 2020, 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; et al. (CoRR, 2020)

Computational landscape of user behavior on social media - David Darmon; William Rand; Michelle Girvan (CoRR, 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)

Simulating Macro-Level Effects from Micro-Level Observations - Edward Bishop Smith; William Rand (Manag. Sci., 2018)

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, CSCW 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA, February 27 - March 2, 2016, Companion Volume, 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 - Digital Innovation at the Crossroads, ICIS 2016, Dublin, Ireland, December 11-14, 2016, 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 (Companion to the Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, OpenSym 2016, Berlin, Germany, August 17-19, 2016, 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)

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, ASONAM 2015, Paris, France, August 25 - 28, 2015, 2015)

Competing Opinions and Stubborness: Connecting Models to Data - Keith Burghardt; William Rand; Michelle Girvan (CoRR, 2014)

Media, Aggregators, and the Link Economy: Strategic Hyperlink Formation in Content Networks - Chrysanthos Dellarocas; Zsolt Katona; William Rand (Manag. Sci., 2013)

Does Love Change on Twitter? The Dynamics of Topical Conversations in Microblogging - Victoria Lai; William Rand (International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2013, SocialCom/PASSAT/BigData/EconCom/BioMedCom 2013, Washington, DC, USA, 8-14 September, 2013, 2013)

Predictability of User Behavior in Social Media: Bottom-Up v. Top-Down Modeling - David Darmon; Jared Sylvester; Michelle Girvan; William Rand (International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2013, SocialCom/PASSAT/BigData/EconCom/BioMedCom 2013, Washington, DC, USA, 8-14 September, 2013, 2013)

Automatic Crowdsourcing-Based Classification of Marketing Messaging on Twitter - Radu Machedon; William Rand; Yogesh V. Joshi (International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2013, SocialCom/PASSAT/BigData/EconCom/BioMedCom 2013, Washington, DC, USA, 8-14 September, 2013, 2013)

Switching behavior in online auctions: Empirical observations and predictive implications - Wei Guo; William Rand; Wolfgang Jank (Winter Simulations Conference: Simulation Making Decisions in a Complex World, WSC 2013, Washington, DC, USA, December 8-11, 2013, 2013)

Predictability of User Behavior in Social Media: Bottom-Up v. Top-Down Modeling - David Darmon; Jared Sylvester; Michelle Girvan; William Rand (CoRR, 2013)

Making recommendations in a microblog to improve the impact of a focal user - Shanchan Wu; Leanna Gong; William Rand; Louiqa Raschid (Sixth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys '12, Dublin, Ireland, September 9-13, 2012, 2012)

When Does Simulated Data Match Real Data? - Forrest Stonedahl; William Rand (Advances in Computational Social Science, The Fourth World Congress [Post-Conference Proceedings of the World Congress on Social Simulation, WCSS 2012, Taipei, Taiwan, Sepemtember 4-7, 2012], 2012)

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, AAAI 2011, San Francisco, California, USA, August 7-11, 2011, 2011)

When does simulated data match real data? - Forrest Stonedahl; David Anderson; William Rand (13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2011, Companion Material Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16, 2011, 2011)

Estimating functional agent-based models: an application to bid shading in online markets format - Wei Guo; Wolfgang Jank; William Rand (13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2011, Companion Material Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16, 2011, 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, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, July 17-21, 2011, 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, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, July 17-21, 2011, 2011)

Recommendations in social media for brand monitoring - Shanchan Wu; William Rand; Louiqa Raschid (Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2011, Chicago, IL, USA, October 23-27, 2011, 2011)

Comparing Social Tags to Microblogs - Victoria Lai; Christopher Rajashekar; William Rand (PASSAT/SocialCom 2011, Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT), 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on and 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Boston, MA, USA, 9-11 Oct., 2011, 2011)

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 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2010, Proceedings, Portland, Oregon, USA, July 7-11, 2010, 2010)

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 (ICAART 2009 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Porto, Portugal, January 19 - 21, 2009, 2009)

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)

GoGoBot: group collaboration, multi-agent modeling, and robots - William Rand; Paulo Blikstein; Uri Wilensky (7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008, Demo Proceedings, 2008)

CrossNet: a framework for crossover with network-based chromosomal representations - Forrest Stonedahl; William Rand; Uri Wilensky (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2008, Proceedings, Atlanta, GA, USA, July 12-16, 2008, 2008)

Making Models Match: Replicating an Agent-Based Model - Uri Wilensky; William Rand (J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul., 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, CSCL'07, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, July 16-21, 2007, 2007)

Understanding the Semantics of the Genetic Algorithm in Dynamic Environments - Abir Alharbi; William Rand; Rick L. Riolo (Applications of Evolutinary Computing, EvoWorkshops 2007: EvoCoMnet, EvoFIN, EvoIASP,EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoSTOC and EvoTransLog, Valencia, Spain, April11-13, 2007, Proceedings, 2007)

A spatial model of the red queen effect - Jules Ottino-Loffler; William Rand; Uri Wilensky (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2007, Proceedings, London, England, UK, July 7-11, 2007, 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 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2007, Proceedings, London, England, UK, July 7-11, 2007, 2007)

Evolution of non-uniform cellular automata using a genetic algorithm: diversity and computation - Forrest Sondahl; William Rand (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2007, Proceedings, London, England, UK, July 7-11, 2007, 2007)

Participatory, embodied, multi-agent simulation - Paulo Blikstein; William Rand; Uri Wilensky (5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006), Hakodate, Japan, May 8-12, 2006, 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 (Applications of Evolutionary Computing, EvoWorkshops 2006: EvoBIO, EvoCOMNET, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, and EvoSTOC, Budapest, Hungary, April 10-12, 2006, Proceedings, 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 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2006, Proceedings, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 8-12, 2006, 2006)

Controlled observations of the genetic algorithm in a changing environment: Case studies using the shaky ladder hyperplane -defined functions - William Rand (University of Michigan, USA, 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)

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)

Shaky Ladders, Hyperplane-Defined Functions and Genetic Algorithms: Systematic Controlled Observation in Dynamic Environments - William Rand; Rick L. Riolo (Applications of Evolutionary Computing, EvoWorkshops 2005: EvoBIO, EvoCOMNET, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, and EvoSTOC, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 30 - April 1, 2005, Proceedings, 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 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2005, Workshop Proceedings, Washington DC, USA, June 25-26, 2005, 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 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2005, Proceedings, Washington DC, USA, June 25-29, 2005, 2005)

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)