Kathleen M. Carley

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Professor of Sociology,Organizations and Information Technology Institute for Software Research, International, SCS

Teaching and Research Interests:

• She is the director of the center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), a university wide interdisciplinary center that brings together network analysis, computer science and organization science (www.casos.ece.cmu.edu) and has an associated NSF funded training program for Ph.D. students. She carries out research that combines cognitive science, dynamic social networks, text processing, organizations, social and computer science in a variety of theoretical and applied venues. Her specific research areas are computational social and organization theory; dynamic social networks; multi-agent network models; group, organizational, and social adaptation, and evolution; statistical models for dynamic network analysis and evolution, computational text analysis, and the impact of telecommunication technologies on communication and information diffusion within and among groups. She is the lead developer of ORGAHEAD, a tool for examining organizational adaptation, CONSTRUCT-TM, a computational model of the co-evolution of people and social Networks, DyNet, a computational model for network destabilization, BioWar a city-scale multi-agent network model of weaponized biological attacks, MECA and AutoMap which are computational tools for automated text analysis.

Published Papers: 

• The contingent effects of transactive memory: When is it more beneficial to know what others know?
  Management Science 52, 2006; 671-682.
  (With: Linda Argote, Yuqing Ren)
  
  
• Destabilizing Networks
  Connections, 2002.
  (With: David Krackhardt, Ju-Sun Lee)
  
  
• Destabilizing Networks
  Connections 24, 2002; 31-34.
  (With: Ju-Sun Lee, David Krackhardt)
  
  
• Extracting Team Mental Models Through Textual Analysis
  Journal of Organizational Behavior 18, 1997; 533-538.
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Publications: 

• "Computational Organization Science: A New Frontier"
  Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium Series on Adaptive Agents, Intelligence and Emergent Human Organization: Capturing Complexity through Agent-Based Modeling October 4-6, 2001, Irvine, CA, 7257-7262, National Academy of Sciences Press, (January, 2002).
  
  
• "Intra-Organizational Computation and Complexity"
  in Joel A. C. Baum (ed.) Companion to Organizations, Blackwell Publishers, (January, 2002).
  
  
• "Smart Agents and Organizations of the Future"
  in Leah Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone (ed.) The Handbook of New Media, 206-220, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, (January, 2002).
  
  
• "Structural Change and Learning Within Organizations"
  in Alessandro Lomi and Erik R. Larsen (ed.) Dynamics of Organizations: Computational Modeling and Organizational Theories, 63-92, MIT Press/AAAI Press/Live Oak, (January, 2001).
  (With: V. Hill)
  
  
• "On the Evolution of Social and Organizational Networks"
  in Steven B. Andrews and David Knoke (ed.) Research in the Sociology of Organizations on Networks In and Around Organizations, 3-30, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press Inc., (January, 1999).
  
  

Awards:

• Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sociology & Computers Section of the ASA - 2001
• President for ASA Mathematical Sociology Section - 1999-2000

Editorial Boards:

• Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 1997
• Organization Science (Guest Editor), 1996-1999
• Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (Founding Co-Editor), 1995-
• Management Science, 1995-1999