The Ph.D. program in Computation, Organizations and Society (COS)
“Computing About and For Society”
The Ph.D. program in Computation, Organizations and Society (COS):
- Prepares students to be tomorrow’s leaders in designing, constructing and assessing software that will transform society, business, policy, and law or be used to computationally reason about these complex socio-computational transformations.
- World-class interdisciplinary faculty
- Unique multi-disciplinary curriculum - focused on the cutting edge in computer science, statistical and network methods, theories and findings from the social, organizational, management and policy sciences.
- Engage in hands-on applications and cutting-edge research starting in year 1.
- Application areas include: privacy, dynamic social networks, link analysis, team and organizational performance, computer simulation, bio-surveillance, sustainability, electronic voting, and supply chain management.
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Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS)CASOS brings together computational and social network techniques to develop a better understanding of the fundamental principles of organizing, coordinating, managing and destabilizing systems of intelligent adaptive agents (human and artificial) engaged in real tasks at the team, organizational or social level. |
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Mobile Commerce LaboratoryThe Mobile Commerce Laboratory researches new technologies and applies user-centered design principles in the development of solutions to reconcile context-awareness and privacy in mobile and pervasive computing environments. |
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e-Supply Chain Management LaboratoryThe e-Supply Chain Management Laboratory conducts interdisciplinary research on decision support tools and advanced technologies aimed at significantly increasing enterprise supply chain agility. |
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CyLab Usable Privacy and Security (CUPS) LaboratoryCUPS conducts research to make secure systems more usable by building systems that "just work" without involving humans in security-critical functions, making secure systems intuitive and easy to use, and teaching humans how to perform security-critical tasks. |
May 2013
In July 2013, CASOS Ph.D. graduate Ian McCulloh's new book, Social Network Analysis with Applications will be published and sold. It will feature ORA as its primary network analysis tool. The book is also co-authored by Prof. Helen Armstrong and Anthony Johnson. You can visit the book's website here: [Link]
COS Ph.D. student Peter Landwehr and Prof. Kathleen Carley's work was recently published in Simulation & Gaming. You can read a short review of its contents and the link between using issues in games to solve real-world problems. The paper is linked in our publications section.
March 2013
A guide of Facebook privacy options, written by COS professor Lorrie Cranor, was featured by The Wall St Journal on March 11, 2013. You can read the full article and see the video here: [link]
