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Multi‐model Modeling In Support Of Crisis De‐escalationLanham, Michael J.; Morgan, Geoff P.; Carley, Kathleen M.Agent‐Based Models and Multi‐Agent SystemsAgent Based Models, ORA, AutoMap, Modeling, agent‐based modeling, ConstructFRI.PM2The combination of network extraction from texts, network analytics to identify key actors, and then simulation to assess alternative interventions in terms oftheir impact on the network is a powerful approach for supporting crisis de‐escalation activities. In this talk, we describe how this approach was used as part ofa scenario‐driven modeling effort. The researchers, mimicking the supporting staff of two Geographic Combatant Commands, US Central Command and USPacific Command, used the disparate tools to model the inputs and outputs of various courses of action in a US‐led effort to deescalate a fictionalizedinternational crisis between India and Pakistan. We demonstrate the strength of going from data to model, that even with the same tools the commands willreach different conclusions due to differences in focus, and that proposed interventions would not have de‐escalated the crisis. Forecasted results wereconfirmed by researchers at GMU using alternative non‐network methodologies.Multiplex Ties And Buffering TransgressionsShah, Neha; Venkataramani , VijayaOrganizational NetworksMultiplexity, TransgressionsSAT.PM1Network researchers have found that the presence of a social relationship affects whether and how task‐based relations influence individuals’ behavior. Inparticular, scholars have noted that these combined relations act as governance structures to limit transgressions against relationship partners. We take adifferent perspective to consider how individuals react to transgressions that the relational partners commit against third parties. We contend that individualsmay be more likely to condone their partners’ transgressions if they share combined or multiplex ties, than they would if they did not share a combinedrelationship. Further, the individuals likely condone more serious transgressions than they would if only a uniplex tie was present. Thus, the multiplex tie actsas a buffer against sanctions. We refer to transgressions as behaviors that seemed questionable, inappropriate, or wrong to the individual. In task groups, weconsider how the person’s relation to the transgressor, the transgressor’s position in the network, the salience of the transgression to the individual, and thetarget of the transgression affects the severity of the sanctions that the person chooses to pursue against the transgressor. We contribute to the existingnetwork research by pushing forward the existing knowledge of how multiplex ties affect individual behavior in organizations.