Tom Briggs
Affiliations Personal homepage Professional homepagehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tom_Briggs
ORCID more infohttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7462-6426
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Department of Computational and Data Sciences
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, USA
Research Interests
I use ABM to study organizations, leadership, employee behavior and performance, and the social/psychological theories addressing workplace behavior and outcomes.
I have also used ABM to explore mass violence, active shooters, and mass shootings, including the spread of mass violence and its antecedents.
Formal Organization Hierarchy and Informal Networks - "The Company Behind the Org Chart"
Tom Briggs | Published Sunday, April 18, 2021A generalized organizational agent- based model (ABM) containing both formal organizational hierarchy and informal social networks simulates organizational processes that occur over both formal network ties and informal networks.
Active Shooter: An Agent-Based Model of Unarmed Resistance
Tom Briggs William Kennedy | Published Thursday, December 29, 2016 | Last modified Tuesday, April 04, 2017A NetLogo ABM developed to explore unarmed resistance to an active shooter. The landscape is a generalized open outdoor area. Parameters enable the user to set shooter armament and control for assumptions with regard to shooter accuracy.
Under development.