Publications

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

Of the many crowd behavior models, very few have been used in assisting crowd management practice. This lack of usage is partly due to crowd management involving a diversity of situations that require competencies in observing, sense-making, anticipating and acting. Crowd research is similarly scattered across disciplines and needs integration to advance the field towards supporting practice. To address these needs, we present...

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, e0157796. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157796

Cooperation amongst resource users holds the key to overcoming the social dilemma that characterizes community-based common-pool resource management. But is cooperation alone enough to achieve sustainable resource use? The short answer is no. Developing management strategies in a complex social-ecological environment also requires ecological knowledge and approaches to deal with perceived environmental uncertainty. Recent beha...

Andringa, T.C., K.A.-M. Van Den Bosch, N. Wijermans. 2015. Cognition from life: The two modes of cognition that underlie moral behavior. Frontiers in Psychology 6: 362.

We argue that the capacity to live life to the benefit of self and others originates in the defining properties of life. These lead to two modes of cognition; the coping mode that is preoccupied with the satisfaction of pressing needs and the co-creation mode that aims at the realization of a world where pressing needs occur less frequently. We have used the Rule of Conservative Changes – stating that new functions can only sc...

Wijermans, N., M. Schlueter. 2014. Agent-based case studies for understanding of social-ecological systems: Cooperation on irrigation in Bali. In Kaminski, B., G. Koloch, eds. Advances In Social Simulation: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association. Springer. pp. 295-305.

This paper describes the design phase of an ABM case study of Bali irrigation. The aim of the model is to explain the differences in the ability of rice paddy farmers to collectively adapt through cooperation. The model should allow exploring factors affecting self organisation within and between rice paddy farmer communities. The exercise of the ABM case study aims to move abstract models (theory) closer to real world pheno...

Wijermans, N., R. Jorna, W. Jager, T. van Vliet, O. Adang. 2013. CROSS: Modelling Crowd Behaviour with Social-Cognitive Agents. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 16

The use of computer simulations in crowd research is a powerful tool to describe and analyse complex social systems. This paper presents CROSS, a generic framework to model crowd simulations as a social scientific tool for understanding crowd behaviour. In CROSS, individuals are represented by social-cognitive agents that are affected by their social and physical surroundings and produce cognition-based behaviour and behavio...

Waldherr, A., Wijermans, N. 2013. 'Communicating Social Simulation Models to Sceptical Minds' Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 16 (4) 13

When talking to fellow modellers about the feedback we get on our simulation models the conversation quickly shifts to anecdotes of rejective scepticism. Many of us experience that they get only few remarks, and especially only little helpful constructive feedback on their simulation models. In this forum paper, we give an overview and reflections on the most common criticisms experienced by ABM modellers. Our goal is to start...