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LCCD projects

  

OASYS: Opinion Analysis System
  

STORY
  

SOMA: Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents

  

CAGE: Cultural Adversarial Game Engine
  

T-REX

LCCD Applications

  

Tribes in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Region
  

Drug Trade in Afghanistan
  

Minorities at Risk
  

Terrorism in Peru
  

Conflict in Guatemala

Welcome to the
Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics!

LCCD is located within the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). The faculty and staff are from many different academic units, including UMIACS, the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Government and Politics, the Institute for Systems Research, the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, the Department of Psychology, and the R. H. Smith School of Business.

The purpose of the laboratory is to develop the theory and algorithms required for tools to support decision making in cultural contexts. Here is V.S. Subrahmanian's Overview of LCCD presented at last year's Workshop on Decision Making in Adversarial Domains.

The LCCD Summit originally scheduled for April 14 is being rescheduled.

Latest News

Mar. 15, 2008: LCCD's work on STOP is discussed in the New Scientist magazine. Subscription needed.

Feb. 29, 2008: LCCD's SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP) was described in over 25 press articles from around the world, including Information Week, Canadian TV's Canada AM program, American Public Media's Future Tense program shown on over 100 public radio channels, Government Computer News, the Financial Express (India), and many other news outlets. Jan. 13, 2008: V.S. Subrahmanian's work on developing principled methods of generating forecasts of the behaviors of different groups worldwide was extensively discussed in the Manila (Sunday) Times in the Philippines.

Nov. 14, 2007: Aaron Mannes, and V.S. Subrahmanian wrote an op/ed for the New York Sun about the role of video games in combating radical ideologies.

Oct. 23, 2007: Aaron Mannes's OpEd on the assassination attempt on former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto published in the National Review Online

Sep. 14, 2007: V.S. Subrahmanian's article on "Real-time Computational Cultural Modeling" was published in Science, Vol. 317, Nr. 5844, pages 1509-1510.

August 27-28: First International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics.

July 26: Aaron Mannes' views on the decline of support for suicide bombings in the Muslim world were reported in the National Review Online

July 20: LCCD co-director V.S. Subrahmanian was quoted in Science Magazine discussing a new Department of Defense funding initiative to improve expertise in national security.

July 6: Aaron Mannes wrote an article for National Review Online urging the United States to prepare an aid package for southern Pakistan.

July 2007: LCCD researcher Aaron Mannes was interviewed by Ohio Cable, about "Terror on Internet Web servers owned by American Companies."

June 22: V.S. Subrahmanian was quoted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in an article discussing his important work using new software and quantitative methods to assess the behavior of insurgent groups.

June 14: V.S. Subrahmanian gave a talk on "Computational Cultural Dynamics" on Capitol Hill.

June 5: Aaron Mannes co-authored an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the need for international standards to protect the Internet from attack.

April 2007: LCCD research on cultural understanding highlighted in Science magazine.

                               
Last updated: February 15, 2008
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