The Nxtlight Workshop reflects my interest in modeling and simulation of interesting social scientific problems, especially around cognition and behavioral neuroscience. I explore how people make sense of complex scientific information and conflicting sources of data.
Here is an overview on how humans update their beliefs in social environments:
Bounded Beliefs Article PDF
Our major contribution is the NxtLight Computational Research Tool, free for academic use in exploring the behavior of a variety of Complex Systems.
The NxtLight Framework addresses a gap in scientific software: the absence of a unified, domain-agnostic platform for simulating dynamical processes on networks whose topology, node state, and edge connectivity can evolve in real time. Existing tools either target a specific domain (epidemiological compartment models, power grid simulators, financial contagion packages) or require deep software engineering expertise to adapt.
