Welcome to Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS)!

Addressing complex real world issues through a combined social-science & computer-science approach, using advanced techniques from network science, text-mining, and agent-based modeling.

• Leader in network science, network analysis and network visualization.
• Leader in network dynamics and linking social networks to other data - geo-spatial, knowledge, tasks etc.
• Leading analytic tools for network analysis - ORA-LITE, AutoMap, Construct
• University wide center with faculty and students in multiple departments
• Multi-disciplinary research - working with Academia, Industry, Government
• Applications related to Law Enforcement, Counter-terrorism, Health, Nuclear Deterrence, Cyber-Security, Social Change, Organizational Design, Insider Threat, Population Dynamics, Social Media.

Recent News

• CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed for the Quanta Magazine article "Chatbots Don't Know What Stuff Isn't". Read the full article here.
• CASOS Graduate student Charity Jacobs was selected for the prestigious General Omar N. Bradley Research Fellowship in Mathematics for FY 2022.
• CASOS Alumni Jeremy Straugher has been selected for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. Congratulations to Jeremy!
• CASOS graduate student Catherine King has a new publication out in Social Network Analysis Mining, "Gender dynamics on Twitter during the 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential primary". Read the publication here.
• CASOS director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed for the Rolling Stone article "Twitter Bots Are Promising Cheap Guns to Anyone Using the N-Word". Read the full article here.
• CASOS graduate student Danielle Bellutta has a new publication out in the Journal of Big Data entitled "Investigating coordinated account creation using burst detection and network analysis". Read the paper here.
• CASOS director Kathleen M. Carley is interviewed and quoted in the french publication Science & Medicine
in the January 2023 issue in the article entitled, "Les Nouvelles Règles de Twitter Inquiètent la Recherche" ("New Twitter Rules Worry Researchers"). Access the acticle here.
• CASOS and IDeaS Center graduate student Lynnette Ng has a new publication in Applied Network Science, "A combined synchronization index for evaluating collective action social media". Check out the publication here
• CASOS graduate student Daniele Bellutta has a new publication in the Journal of Big Data, "Investigating coordinated account creation using burst detection and network analysis". Check out the publication here.
• Director Kathleen M. Carley was interviewed for a new article on GRID. Check out her comments about Twitter API access for researchers here.
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