Publications

International refereed Journal articles

2025

Veltmeijer, E., and Gerritsen, C. (2025). Legal and ethical implications of AI-based crowd analysis: the AI Act and beyond. AI Ethics (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-024-00644-x

2024

Haeringen, E. S. van, Veltmeijer, E. A. and Gerritsen, C. (2024). Empirical Validation of an Agent-Based Model of Emotion Contagion.  In: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 15, 1, p. 273-284

Harte, J.M., van Gurp, J., Gerritsen, C. and Hindriks, K. (2024) Personeelskrapte en de inzet van sociale robotica in de forensische zorg. In: Tijdschrift voor Forensische Psychiatrie en Psychologie. 2, 1, p. 65-80 16 p.

Reemst, L. van, Thomas, J., van Bruchem, M., Gerritsen, C., Bernasco, W. and Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, M. (2024). Hoe handelen agenten bij conflicten tussen burgers? Een onderzoek op basis van video-opnames. Politie & Wetenschap. 68 p.

Veltmeijer, E.A. and Gerritsen, C. (2024). Automatic Domain-Adaptive Sentiment Analysis with SentiMap. In: International Journal of Semantic Computing. 18, 1, p. 97-120 24 p.

2023

Haeringen, E. S. van, Gerritsen, C., and Hindriks, K. V. (2023). Emotion contagion in agent-based simulations of crowds: a systematic review. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), 37(1), 1-41.

Lubbe, L. M. van der, Gerritsen, C., Klein, M. C. A., Rodgers, R. F. and Hindriks, K. V., (2023). Experiences of users with an online self-guided mental health training program using gamification. Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research.

2021

Jabeen, F., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J. (2021). Healing the next generation: an adaptive agent model for the effects of parental narcissism. Brain informatics, 8(1), 1-20.

Lubbe, L. M. van der, Gerritsen, C., Klein, M. C., and Hindriks, K. V. (2021). Empowering vulnerable target groups with serious games and gamification. Entertainment Computing, 38, 100402.

Medeiros, L., Bosse, T., and Gerritsen, C. (2021). Can a Chatbot Comfort Humans? Studying the Impact of a Supportive Chatbot on Users’ Self-Perceived Stress. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 52(3), 343-353.

Veltmeijer, E. A., Gerritsen, C., and Hindriks, K. (2021). Automatic emotion recognition for groups: a review. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.

2020

Andrianov, A., Ziabara, S.S.M. and Gerritsen, C. (2020). A Brain-Inspired Cognitive Support Model for Stress Reduction based on an Adaptive Network Model. In: BICA*AI special issue of Cognitive Systems Research.

Jabeen, F. Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J.  (2020). Narcissism and Fame: A Complex Network Model for the Adaptive Interaction of Digital Narcissism and Online Popularity. Applied Network Science, 5(1), 1-31

Jabeen, F., Hirzalla, N. A., Maaiveld, T. M., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J. (2020). Victim no more: a temporal-causal analysis of how a mediator can help out a bullying victim. Journal of Information and Telecommunication, 4(2), 229-250.

Lubbe, L. van der, Gerritsen, C., and Bosse, T. (2020). A serious game to improve the verbal resilience against doorstep scams. International Journal of Serious Games.

Rosés, R., Kadar, C., Gerritsen, C., and Rouly, C. (2020). Simulating offender mobility: Modeling activity nodes from large-scale human activity data. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 68, 541-570.

2018

Gerritsen, C., and Bosse, T. (2018). Virtual Communication Training for the Law Enforcement Domain. EAI Transactions: Creative Technologies.

2015

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Man, J. de, and Treur, J., Towards Virtual Training of Emotion Regulation. Brain Informatics, 1: 27-37.

Gerritsen, C., Agent-based modelling as a research tool for criminological research. Crime Science, 4:2, 2015.

2013

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Agent-Based Simulation of Episodic Criminal Behaviour. International Journal of Multi-Agent and Grid Systems. IOS Press, 9(4):315-334.

2012

Bosse, T., Both, F., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., and Treur, J., Methods for Model-Based Reasoning within Agent-Based Ambient Intelligence Applications. Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, volume 27.

2011

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., Jaffry, S.W., and Treur, J., Agent-Based versus Population-Based Simulation of Displacement of Crime: a Comparative Study. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems Journal, IOS Press, volume 9, pp. 147-160.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Combining Rational and Biological Factors in Virtual Agent Decision Making. Journal of Applied Intelligence, volume 34 (1), pp. 87-101.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., On the Relation between Cognitive and Biological Modelling of Criminal Behaviour. Computers in Human Behavior, volume 27, pp. 1593-1611.

2010

Bosse, T. and Gerritsen, C., Social Simulation and Analysis of the Dynamics of Criminal Hot Spots. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, volume 13 (2).

Bosse, T., Elffers, H., and Gerritsen, C., Simulating the Dynamical Interaction of Offenders, Targets and Guardians. Crime Patterns and Analysis, volume 3 (1), pp. 51-66.

2009

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Towards Integration of Biological, Psychological, and Social Aspects in Agent-Based Simulation of Violent Offenders. Simulation Journal: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, volume 85 (10), pp. 635-660.

Book Chapters

Gerritsen, C., Haeringen, E.S. van, Veltmeijer, E.A. (2020).  Het voorspellen van het gedrag van een menigte op basis van agent-gebaseerd modeleren en sociale media analyse.

Araujo, E. and Gerritsen, C. (2020).Creating a temporal pattern for street robberies using ABM and data from a small city in South East Brazil. In: Agent-based modelling for testing criminological theories, eds. C. Gerritsen and H. Elffers. Routledge.

Gerritsen, C. (2020). Big Data and Criminology from an AI perspective. In: LeClerc, B., and Cale, J. (eds.), Criminology at the Edge: Big Data in Criminology. Routledge, pp. 29-39

Gerritsen, C., and Bosse, T. (2017). Crime Prevention: a Model-Based Reasoning Approach. Handbook of Model-based Science. Part I: Architecture, Economics, and the Human Sciences, L. Magnani and C. Shelley (eds.). Springer, pp. 1051-1065.

Gerritsen, C., and Elffers, H. (2016). Investigating Prevention with Simulation Methods. In: LeClerc, B., and Savona, E. (eds.), Crime Prevention in the 21^st Century, Springer, pp. 235-247.

Gerritsen, C., and Klein, M.C.A., (2014). Dynamical simulation as a research tool in criminology. In: Bruinsma, G. and Weisburd, D. (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York: Springer Verlag, pp. 1220-1231.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Klein, M.C.A., (2009). Modelling Social Learning of Adolescence-Limited Criminal Behaviour. In: Filipe, J., Fred, A., and Sharp, B. (eds), Best papers of Agents and Artificial Intelligence 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), Springer Verlag, 2010, pp. 19-32.

International Refereed Conference Papers

2023

Haeringen, E.S. van, and Gerritsen, C. (2023). Simulating panic amplification in crowds via a density-emotion interaction. Proceedings of the 22^nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS2023/

Veltmeijer, E.A. and Gerritsen, C., (2023). SentiMap: Domain-Adaptive Geo-Spatial Sentiment Analysis. Proceedings of the 17^th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, to appear.

2022

Haeringen, E.S. van, Liistro, G., and Gerritsen, C. (2022). An Agent-Based Model of Emotion Contagion and Group Identification: A Case Study in the Field of Football Supporters. In International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (pp. 410-422). Springer, Cham.

Lubbe, L. M. van der, Groot, N., and Gerritsen, C. (2022). Using Topic Modelling to Personalise a Digital Self-compassion Training. In International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (pp. 522-532). Springer, Cham.

Veltmeijer, E.A., Gerritsen, C., and Hindriks, K. (2022). Automatic Recognition of Emotional Subgroups in Images. In Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-22 (pp. 1363-1370). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization.

2021

Haeringen, E.S. van, Gerritsen, C., and Hindriks, K. (2021). Integrating Valence and Arousal Within an Agent-Based Model of Emotion Contagion. In International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (pp. 303-315). Springer, Cham.

Lubbe, L. M. van der, Gerritsen, C., Klein, M. C. A., Hindriks, K. V., and Rodgers, R. F. (2021). A pilot study of a gamified self-compassion training. In 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation, GAME-ON 2021 (pp. 86-93). Eurosis.

Lubbe, L. M. van der, Gerritsen, C., Klein, M. C. A., Hindriks, K. V., and Rodgers, R. F. (2021). Designing a gamified self-compassion training. In 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation, GAME-ON 2021 (pp. 79-85). Eurosis.

2020

Jabeen, F., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J. (2020, September). Are We Producing Narci-nials? An Adaptive Agent Model for Parental Influence. In International Conference on Brain Informatics (pp. 16-28). Springer, Cham.

Jabeen, F., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J. (2020). From Victim to Survivor: A Multilayered Adaptive Mental Network Model of a Bully Victim. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (pp. 679-689). Springer, Cham.

Ziabari, S.S.M. and Gerritsen, C. (2020). An Adaptive Temporal-Causal Network Model Using Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) for PTSD Patients. In: proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT.

2019

Jabeen, F., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J. (2019). ‘I Ain’t Like You’ A Complex Network Model of Digital Narcissism. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, COMPLEX NETWORKS’19. Volume: Cherifi H., Gaito S., Mendes J., Moro E., Rocha L. (eds) Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 882, pp. 337-349. Springer, Cham

Jabeen, F., Treur, J., and Gerritsen, C. (2019). Learning to Explain Anger: An Adaptive Humanoid-Agent for Cyber-Aggression. In: Proc. of the 22nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA’19, pp. 559-567. Lecture Notes in AI, Springer Verlag.

Lubbe, L. M. van der, Gerritsen, C., Formolo, D., Otte, M., and Bosse, T. (2019). A serious game for training verbal resilience to doorstep scams. In International conference on games and learning alliance (pp. 110-120). Springer, Cham.

Medeiros, L., Gerritsen, C., and Bosse, T. (2019). Towards humanlike chat bots helping users cope with stressful situations. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI. LNCS, volume 11683, pp. 232-243. Springer.

2018

Rosés, R., Kadar, C., Gerritsen, C., and Rouly, C. (2018, July). Agent-based simulation of offender mobility: integrating activity nodes from location-based social networks. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 804-812).

Lubbe, van der L.M., Bosse, T. and Gerritsen, C. (2018). Design of an Agent-Based Learning Environment for High-Risk doorstep scam victims. In: Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity; the PAAMS Collection. CCIS, vol.887, Springer, pp. 335-347.

Lubbe, van der L.M., Gerritsen, C., Formolo, D., Otte, M., and Bosse, T.  (2018). A Serious Game for Training Verbal Resilience to Doorstep Scams. In: Proceedings of the Games and Learning Alliance conference, GALA, Springer LNCS, pp. 110-120.

Lubbe, L. M. van der, Gerritsen, C., Formolo, D., Otte, M., and Bosse, T. (2018). An application for training verbal resilience to doorstep scams using virtual agents. In 30th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, BNAIC 2018 (pp. 125-126). BNAIC.

2017

Stam, M., Gerritsen. C., Breda, W. van, and Krainski, E. (2017) Assessing the Spatiotemporal Relation between Twitter Data and Violent Crime. In: Preproceedings of the 29^th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Springer, pp. 213-224.

2016

Bosse, T. and Gerritsen, C. Towards Serious Gaming for Communication Training – a pilot study with Police Academy Students. In: Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, Springer.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Man, J. de, An Intelligent System for Aggression De-escalation Training. In: Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI’16. IOS Press, 2016, pp. 1805-1811.

2015

Blankendaal, R., Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Jong, T. de, and Man, J. de. Are Aggressive Agents as Scary as Aggressive Humans? In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2015), Bordini, Elkind, Weiss, Yolum (eds.).  ACM Press, pp. 553-561.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Man, J. de, and Tolmeijer, S. Adaptive training for aggression de-escalation. In: Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents, CCIS vol. 519, Springer, pp. 80-93.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and  Man, J. de. Evaluation of a Virtual Training Environment for Aggression De-escalation. In: Proceedings of the 16th annual European GAMEON Conference on Simulation and AI in Computer Games, pp. 48-54.

Gerritsen, C., and Breda, W.R.J. van. Simulation-based Prediction and Analysis of Collective Emotional States. In: Proceedings of the 17^th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII’15. Springer Verlag, pp. 118-126.

Gerritsen, C. and Vught, W. van. Aggressive versus Loud Virtual Agents; Investigating the influence of sound on the stress response in the use of virtual agents. In: Proceedings of the 16th annual European GAMEON Conference on Simulation and AI in Computer Games, pp. 81-86.

2014

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Man, J. de, Agent-Based Simulation as a Tool for the Design of a Virtual Training Environment. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT’14. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 40-47.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Man, J. de, and Stam, M., Inducing Anxiety through Video Material. In: Proceedings of the 16^th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII’14. Springer Verlag, pp. 301-306.

Cusveller, J.J., Gerritsen, C., and Man, J. de, Evoking and Measuring Arousal in Game Settings. In: Proceeding of the 3^rd International Conference on Serious Games, Gamedays’14, Springer-Verlag, pp. 165-174.

2013

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Man, J. de, and Treur, J., Effects of Virtual Training on Emotional Response: A Comparison Between Different Emotion Regulation Strategies. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Brain and Health Informatics, BHI’13. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp.21-32.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Man, J. de, and Treur, J., Learning Emotion Regulation Strategies: A Cognitive Agent Model. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT’13. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 245-252.

Gerritsen, C., Man, J. de, and Meij, J. van der, Physiological and subjective response to injustice. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence, HAI’13. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 179-182.

2012

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Man, J. de, and Treur, J., Measuring Stress-Reducing Effects of Virtual Training Based on Subjective Response. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP’12. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, pp. 322-330.

2011

Gerritsen, C., The Bystander Effect: Agent-Based Simulation of People’s Reaction to Norm Violation. In: Lu, B., Zhang, L., and Kwok, J. (eds), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Neural information Processing, ICONIP’11, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, pp. 26-35.

Gerritsen, C., Using Ambient Intelligence to Control Aggression in Crowds. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence, HAI’11, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 53-56.

2010

Bosse, T., and Gerritsen, C., An Agent-Based Framework to Support Crime Prevention. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS’10, ACM Press, pp. 525-532.

Bosse, T., and Gerritsen, C., A Model-Based Reasoning Approach to Prevent Crime. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology, MBR’09, Springer-Verlag, pp.159-177.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Klein, M.C.A., Predicting the Development of Juvenile Delinquency by Simulation. In: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE’10. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume 6097. Springer Verlag, pp. 565-574.

2009

Bosse, T., and Gerritsen, C., A Model for Criminal Decision Making based on Hypothetical Reasoning about the Future. In: Ali, M., Chen, S.M., Chien, B.C., Hong, T.P. (eds.), Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA-AIE 2009. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, pp. 24-35.

Bosse, T. and Gerritsen, C., Comparing Crime Prevention Strategies by Agent-Based Simulation. In: Proceedings of the 9^th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT’09. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 491-496.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Klein, M.C.A., Agent-Based Simulation of Social Learning in Criminology. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART’09, pp. 5-13.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Klein, M.C., and Weerman, F.M., Development and Validation of an Agent-Based Simulation Model of Juvenile Delinquency. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking, SIN’09. In conjunction with the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom’09. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 200-207.

Gerritsen, C., and Hoogendoorn, M., Avoidance of Norm Violation in Multi-Agent Organizations. In: Proceedings of the 23th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS’09. European Council on Modelling and Simulation.

2008

Bosse, T., Both. F., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., and Treur, J., Model-Based Reasoning Methods within an Ambient Intelligent Agent Model. In: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence, HAI’07. Published in: M. Mühlhäuser, A. Ferscha, and E. Aitenbichler (eds.), Constructing Ambient Intelligence: AmI-07 Workshops Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), vol. 11, Springer Verlag, pp. 352-370.

Bosse, T., and Gerritsen, C., Agent-Based Simulation of the Spatial Dynamics of Crime: On the Interplay between Criminal Hot Spots and Reputation. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS’08. ACM Press, pp. 1129-1136.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., Jaffry, S.W., and Treur, J., Agent-Based and Population-Based Simulation of Displacement of Crime. In: Ghallab, M. (ed.) Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI’08. IOS Press, pp. 877-878.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., Jaffry, S.W., and Treur, J., Comparison of Agent-Based and Population-Based Simulations of Displacement of Crime. In: Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT’08. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 469-476.

Both, F., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., and Treur, J., Model-Based Default Refinement of Partial Information within an Ambient Agent. In: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Methods for Ambient Intelligence. Published in: M. Mühlhäuser, A. Ferscha, and E. Aitenbichler (eds.), Constructing Ambient Intelligence: AmI-07 Workshops Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), vol. 11, Springer Verlag, pp. 34-43.

2007

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Case Analysis of Criminal Behaviour. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE’07. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer Verlag, pp. 621-632.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Cognitive and Social Simulation of Criminal Behaviour: the Intermittent Explosive Disorder Case. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS’07. ACM Press, pp. 367-374.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Grounding a Cognitive Modelling Approach for Criminal Behaviour. In: Vosniadou, S., Kayser, D., and Protopapas, A. (eds.), Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science Conference, EuroCogSci’07. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 776-781.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Integrating Rational Choice and Subjective Biological and Psychological Factors in Criminal Behaviour Models. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, ICCM’07. Taylor and Francis, pp. 181-186.

Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Integration of Biological, Psychological and Social Aspects in Agent-Based Simulation of a Violent Psychopath. In: Shi, Y., Albada, G.D. van, Dongarra, J., and Sloot, P.M.A. (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS’07. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.4488, Springer Verlag, pp. 888-895.

PhD Thesis

Gerritsen, C., Caught in the Act: Investigating Crime by Agent-Based Simulation. Amsterdam, 2010.