Who are we?

The Network for Agent-based modelling of Socio-ecological Systems in Archaeology (NASSA) is a research network funded by the Research Foundation Flanders Scientific Research Network Funding (W001220N-3H200066) with the goal to gather an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers to collect and compile agent-based modelling (ABM) elements (implementation modules, techniques, approaches, etc.) and organise them as an open modelling library.

The targets of this network are:

1. identify and compile crucial modelling topics for the library;
2. collect and develop best practices and modelling guidelines;
3. develop tools for interoperability following the FAIR principles;
4. guarantee sustainability of the library;
5. create a structure for international collaboration resulting in joint publications within the network.

Join us at nassaabm@googlegroups.com (Google Groups) or by contacting Andreas Angourakis.

Research units currently active in NASSA are:

• Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project (SARP), University of Leuven
• Roman Mediterranean Archaeology Research Unit, Ghent University
• Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities (GhentCDH), Ghent University
• CLUE+, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Research Centre for the Roman Period and the Migration Period, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno
• Cultures and Environments. Prehistory, Antiquity and Middle Ages (CEPAM), French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), University Côte d’Azur
• Computational and Digital Archaeology Laboratory (CDAL), McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research-Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
• Classical Archaeology, Aarhus University
• Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), Aarhus University
• Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University
• School of Culture and Society and CLIOARCH, Aarhus University
• Analytical Sociology and Institutional Design (GSADI Group), Autònoma University of Barcelona
• Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department for Prehistoric Archaeology, Bern University
• The Santa Fe Institute (SFI)
• Institute of Archaeology (IoA), University College London
• GIO - Grupo de Ingeniería de Organización, Universidad de Burgos
• Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project, University of Toronto
• Water Resources / CEG (WRM Group), Delft University of Technology
• Faculté des Sciences Humaines, des Sciences de l’Éducation et des Sciences Sociales, University of Luxembourg
• Institute of Archaeological Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Cologne Digital Archaeology Laboratory (CoDArchLab), Institute of Archaeology, University of Cologne