Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers and Book Chapters

  • Gunaratne, C., Garibay, I. (2021). NL4Py: Agent-Based Modeling in Python with Parallelizable NetLogo Workspaces. SoftwareX, 16, 100801.

  • Chen, S. H., LondoÃśo-Larrea, P., Mcgough, A. S., Bible, A., Gunaratne, C., Granda, P. A. A, Morrell-Falvey, J., Bhowmik, D., & Fuentes-Cabrera, M. (2021). Application of Machine Learning Techniques to an Agent-Based Model of Pantoea. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2638.

  • Senevirathna, C., Gunaratne, C., Rand, W., Jayalath, C., & Garibay, I. (2021). Influence Cascades: Entropy-Based Characterization of Behavioral Influence Patterns in Social Media. Entropy, 23(2), 160. MDPI AG. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23020160

  • Gunaratne, C., Rand, W. & Garibay, I. Inferring mechanisms of response prioritization on social media under information overload. Scientific Reports 11, 1346 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79897-5

  • Gunaratne, C., Garibay I (2020) Evolutionary model discovery of causal factors behind the socio-agricultural behavior of the Ancestral Pueblo. PLOS ONE 15(12): e0239922. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239922

  • Gunaratne, C., Baral, N., Rand, W. et al. The effects of information overload on online conversation dynamics. Computational Mathematical Organization Theory 26, 255–276 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10588-020-09314-9

  • Garibay, I., Gunaratne, C., Yousefi, N. & Scheinert, S. (2019). The Agent-Based Model Canvas: A Modeling Lingua Franca for Computational Social Science. In Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems, 523–544 (eds P.K. Davis, A. O’Mahony and J. Pfautz) 523–544. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119485001.ch22

Peer-Reviewed Papers in Conference Proceedings

  • Gunaratne, C., Ray, S. K., Alves, C. L., & Waldl, M. (2020). Exogenous Shocks Lead to Increased Responsiveness and Shifts in Sentimental Resilience in Online Discussions. In the Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas (pp. 57-71). Springer, Cham.

  • Rajabi, A., Gunaratne, C., Mantzaris, A. V., & Garibay, I. (2020, October). On countering disinformation with caution: Effective inoculation strategies and others that backfire into community hyper-polarization. In International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (pp. 130-139). Springer, Cham.

  • Saadat, S., Gunaratne, C., Baral, N., Sukthankar, G., & Garibay, I. (2018, July). Initializing agent-based models with clustering archetypes. In International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (pp. 233-239). Springer, Cham.

  • Gunaratne, C., & Garibay, I. (2017, July). Alternate social theory discovery using genetic programming: towards better understanding the artificial anasazi. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 115-122).

  • Söyler, E., Gunaratne, C., & Akbaş, M. İ. (2017). Towards a comprehensive simulator for public speaking anxiety treatment. In Advances in Applied Digital Human Modeling and Simulation (pp. 195-205). Springer, Cham.

  • Akbaş, M. İ., Gunaratne, C., Garibay, Ö. Ö., Garibay, I., & O’Neal, T. (2015, December). Role of entrepreneurial support for networking in innovation ecosystems: An agent based approach. In 2015 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) (pp. 3112-3113). IEEE.

  • Gunaratne, C., & Wimalaratne, P. (2013, August). Simulating gait and structural effects of aging for improved diversity in virtual crowds. In 2013 10th International Conference Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (pp. 17-22). IEEE.

  • Garibay, I., Akbaş, M. İ., Gunaratne, C., Garibay, Ö. Ö., & O’Neal, T. (2015, October). An Agent Based Approach to Study Incubation in Innovation Ecosystems. In the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas Conference (CSSSA), Santa Fe, Mexico.

Doctoral Dissertation

  • Gunaratne, C. (2019). Evolutionary Model Discovery: Automating Causal Inference for Generative Models of Human Social Behavior (Doctoral dissertation, University of Central Florida).

Non-archival Conference and Workshop Presentations

  • Gunaratne, C., Senevirathna, C., Jayalath, C., Baral, N., Rand, W., & Garibay, I. (2019). A multi-action cascade model of conversation. In 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science.

Non-Refereed Publications/Pending Peer-Review

  • Gunaratne, C., Reyes R., Hemberg, E, & O’Reilly, U-M. (2021). Evaluating Efficacy of Indoor Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions against COVID-19 Outbreaks with a Coupled Spatial-SIR Agent-Based Simulation Framework. In Review: Scientific Reports.

  • Gunaratne, C., Akbas, M. I., Garibay, I., & Ozmen, O. (2016). Evaluation of Zika vector control strategies using agent-based modeling. arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.06121.