Journal Articles

•  Jiang, N., Crooks, A.T., Burger, A., Kavak, H., Kennedy, W.G. (2021), A Method to Create a Synthetic Population with Social Networks for Geographically Explicit Agent-Based Models, Computational Urban Science DOI:doi.org/10.1007/s43762-022-00034-1 |Award: Top 3 Most Read Paper

• Jiang, N., Crooks, A.T., Wang, W. and Xie, Y. (2021), Simulating Urban Shrinkage in Detroit via Agent-Based Modeling, Sustainability, 13, 2283. DOI:doi.org/10.3390/su13042283

Reviewed Conference Papers 

• Jiang, N., Crooks, A.T., Kennedy, W.G., and Kavak, H. (2021), Generation of Reusable SyntheticPopulation And Social Networks for Agent-Based Modeling, 2021 Annual Modeling and SimulationConference (ANNSIM). (pdf)

• Jiang, N., Burger, A., Crooks, A.T., and Kennedy, W.G.. (2020), Integrating Social Networks into Large-scale Urban Simulations for Disaster Responses. 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoSpatial Simulation (GeoSim’20), 2020. (pdf)

• Jiang, N. and Crooks, A.T. (2020), Utilizing Agents to Explore Urban Shrinkage: A Case Study of Detroit, 2020 Spring Simulation Conference (SpringSim’20). (pdf)

• Burger, A., Kennedy, W.G., Crooks, A.T., Jiang, N. and Guillen-Piazza, D. (2019), Modeling Social Networks in an Agent-Based Model of a Nuclear Weapon of Mass Destruction Event, The 2019 Computational Social Science Society of Americas Conference, Santa Fe, NM. (pdf)

• Jiang, N., and Crooks A.T., (2023), Leveraging Newspapers to Understand Urban Issues: A Longitudinal Analysis of Urban Shrinkage in Detroit, The Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 23rd –27th March, Denver, CO. 

• Jiang, N., (2022), Exploring Urban Shrinkage via Computational Approaches: A Case Study of Detroit, The Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 7th-11th, Feb. 25 – March 1 Online.

• Jiang, N., Burger, A. and Crooks, A.T. (2021), Generation of Reusable Synthetic Population and Social Networks for Agent-Based Modeling, The Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 7th-11th, April, Online.

• Jiang, N., Burger, A., Guillen-Piazza, D., Crooks, A.T. and Kennedy, W.G. (2020), Modeling a Society’s Reaction to a Disaster: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach, The Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 6th-10th, April, Denver, CO. 

• Crooks A.T., Burger, A., Jiang, N., Guillen-Piazza, D. and Kennedy W.G. (2019), Decision-making in Times of Crisis: An Agent-Based Model of Disaster, The Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 3rd-7th, April, Washington, DC. 

• Jiang, N., and Crooks A.T., (2019), Modeling Urban Shrinkage by Simulating Household Mobility in Detroit metropolitan area: An Agent-based Model Implementation from Abstract to Empirical, The Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 3rd-7th, April, Washington, DC.