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Overview

Nigel Gilbert is affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interconnected fields including economics and econometrics, management science and operations research, sociology and political science, as well as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The scientist's work focuses on complex systems and decision making, with particular attention to COVID-19 epidemiological studies. Other main topics of research include housing, finance, and neoliberalism; innovative human-technology interaction; smart cities and technologies; innovative approaches in technology and social development; and housing market and economics.

Recent publications by Nigel Gilbert include:

  • Computational Models That Matter During a Global Pandemic Outbreak: A Call to Action, 2020, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  • Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Deep Learning-Based Energy Disaggregation and On/Off Detection of Household Appliances, 2021, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
  • Mitigating the impact of air pollution on dementia and brain health: Setting the policy agenda, 2022, Environmental Research
  • Guidance on the use of complex systems models for economic evaluations of public health interventions, 2023, Health Economics

Frequent coauthors working with Nigel Gilbert include:

  • Corinna Elsenbroich
  • Hazel Squires
  • Robin C. Purshouse
  • Jennifer Boyd
  • Valentine Seymour

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues, notably:

  • Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  • Health Economics
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
  • Environmental Research

Best Publications

  • Simulation for the Social Scientist

    G. Nigel Gilbert;Klaus G. Troitzsch

  • Opening Pandora's Box: A Sociological Analysis of Scientists' Discourse

    G. Nigel Gilbert;Michael Mulkay

  • Agent-Based Models

    G. Nigel Gilbert

  • Researching social life

    G. Nigel Gilbert

  • Agent-based land-use models: a review of applications

    Robin B. Matthews;Nigel G. Gilbert;Alan Roach;J. Gary Polhill

  • Referencing as Persuasion

    G. Nigel Gilbert

  • How to build and use agent-based models in social science

    Nigel Gilbert;Pietro Terna

  • Simulating speech systems

    Norman M. Fraser;G.Nigel Gilbert

  • Artificial Societies: The Computer Simulation of Social Life

    Nigel Gilbert;Rosaria Conte

  • Manifesto of computational social science

    R. Conte;N. Gilbert;G. Bonelli;C. Cioffi-Revilla

  • INNOVATION NETWORKS-A SIMULATION APPROACH

    Nigel Gilbert;Andreas Pyka;Petra Ahrweiler

  • A Simulation of the Structure of Academic Science

    Nigel Gilbert

  • Platforms and methods for agent-based modeling

    Nigel Gilbert;Steven Bankes

  • Men: the forgotten carers

    Sara Arber;Nigel Gilbert

  • The Transformation of Research Findings into Scientific Knowledge

    G. Nigel Gilbert

  • Emergence in social simulation

    Nigel Gilbert

  • Agent-based social simulation: dealing with complexity

    N Gilbert

  • How Do Agents Make Decisions? A Survey

    Tina Balke;G. Nigel Gilbert

  • Computational models that matter during a global pandemic outbreak: A call to action

    Flaminio Squazzoni;J. Gareth Polhill;Bruce Edmonds;Petra Ahrweiler

  • Paid employment and women’s health: a benefit or a source of rôle strain?

    Sara Arber;G. Nigel Gilbert;Angela Dale

  • A new model for university-industry links in knowledge-based economies

    Petra Ahrweiler;Andreas Pyka;Nigel Gilbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Pyka
Andreas Pyka University of Hohenheim
Rosaria Conte
Rosaria Conte National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Sara Arber
Sara Arber University of Surrey
Dirk Helbing
Dirk Helbing ETH Zurich
Christl A. Donnelly
Christl A. Donnelly University of Oxford
Alun L. Lloyd
Alun L. Lloyd North Carolina State University
Martina Morris
Martina Morris University of Washington
Paul Luff
Paul Luff King's College London
Robin Matthews
Robin Matthews James Hutton Institute
Peter Challenor
Peter Challenor University of Exeter

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