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Il-Chul Moon

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Computer Science

About the Lab

Professor Il-Chul Moon's research lab specializes in modeling and simulation of complex socio-technical systems, with a focus on multiagent systems, social network analysis, and environmental forecasting. The lab develops theoretical and computational models to understand the coevolution of social and spatial dynamics in security contexts—such as terrorist networks—and applies these models to real-world challenges like fine dust pollution in urban environments. By integrating data from diverse sources—including meteorological, topographical, and human activity data—the lab advances predictive analytics for crisis management and organizational intelligence. The lab also explores the intersection of social dynamics and organizational workflows, using game-based simulations to study human behavior and team evolution.

multiagent systemssocial network analysisenvironmental forecastingorganizational modelingsimulation and modeling

Research Overview

Papers
178
Total Citations
1,719
Papers (5y)
39
Primary Field
Computer Science

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
39total
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Citations per year (5y)
126total
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|64 citations·2007
Modeling and Simulating Terrorist Networks in Social and Geospatial Dimensions
Il‐Chul Moon, Kathleen M. Carley
SJR Q1IEEE Intelligent Systems

A simple theoretical multiagent model reasons about the criticality of terrorists and regions as terrorist interactions coevolve in geographical and social spaces. Social and spatial relations evolve over time. Estimating their evolutions is important for management, command and control structures, and intelligence analysis research. By knowing future agent social and spatial distributions, an analyst can identify emergent leaders, hot spots, and organizational vulnerabilities. Historically, suc

Statistical and Nonlinear PhysicsPhysics and Astronomy
2
Article|60 citations·2007
Modeling and Simulating Terrorist Networks in Social and Geospatial Dimensions
Il‐Chul Moon, Kathleen M. Carley
SJR Q1IEEE Intelligent Systems

A simple theoretical multiagent model reasons about the criticality of terrorists and regions as terrorist interactions coevolve in geographical and social spaces. Social and spatial relations evolve over time. Estimating their evolutions is important for management, command and control structures, and intelligence analysis research. By knowing future agent social and spatial distributions, an analyst can identify emergent leaders, hot spots, and organizational vulnerabilities. Historically, suc

Statistical and Nonlinear PhysicsPhysics and Astronomy
3
Article|59 citations·2015
Efficient extraction of domain specific sentiment lexicon with active learning
Sungrae Park, Wonsung Lee, Il‐Chul Moon
SJR Q1Pattern Recognition Letters
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
4
Article|26 citations·2017
Identifying prescription patterns with a topic model of diseases and medications
Sungrae Park, Doo‐Sup Choi, Minki Kim, Wonchul Cha, Chuhyun Kim, Il‐Chul Moon
SJR Q1Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Molecular BiologyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
5
Article|17 citations·2018
State Prediction of High-speed Ballistic Vehicles with Gaussian Process
Il‐Chul Moon, Kyungwoo Song, Sanghyeon Kim, Han‐Lim Choi
SJR Q2International Journal of Control Automation and Systems
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
6
Article|17 citations·2020
Forecasting the Concentration of Particulate Matter in the Seoul Metropolitan Area Using a Gaussian Process Model
JoonHo Jang, Seungjae Shin, Hyunjin Lee, Il‐Chul Moon
SJR Q1SensorsOA

Recently, the population of Seoul has been affected by particulate matter in the atmosphere. This problem can be addressed by developing an elaborate forecasting model to estimate the concentration of fine dust in the metropolitan area. We present a forecasting model of the fine dust concentration with an extended range of input variables, compared to existing models. The model takes inputs from holistic perspectives such as topographical features on the surface, chemical sources of the fine dus

Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental Science
7
Article|15 citations·2013
Theoretic interplay between abstraction, resolution, and fidelity in model information
Il‐Chul Moon, Jeong Hee Hong
2013 Winter Simulations Conference (WSC)

Modeling and simulating a real world scenario is fundamentally an abstraction that takes only part of the given scenario into the model. Furthermore, the level of detail in the model, a.k.a. the resolution, plays an important role in the modeling and simulation process. Finally, the abstraction and resolution of the model determine the fidelity of the modeling and simulation, which becomes the ultimate utility for the model users. While abstraction, resolution and fidelity are the corner stones

Management Science and Operations ResearchDecision Sciences
8
Article|13 citations·2019
Black-box Modeling for Aircraft Maneuver Control with Bayesian Optimization
Dohyung Kim, Hyun-Shik Oh, Il‐Chul Moon
SJR Q2International Journal of Control Automation and Systems
Control and Systems EngineeringEngineering
9
Article|13 citations·2008
Vulnerability Assessment on Adversarial Organization: Unifying Command and Control Structure Analysis and Social Network Analysis
Il‐Chul Moon, Kathleen M. Carley, Alexander H. Levis
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining

People often look at social networks as a way of explaining and understanding the design of an organization. The structure of an organization, in terms of workflow, can itself be assessed for feasibility, strength and robustness. Currently, tools for assessing organizations from a social network and from a workflow perspective are completely separate. Thus, we show how you can infer the workflow from the social network and what additional information can be extracted. This enables you to assess

Information SystemsComputer Science
10
Article|12 citations·2015
Associative topic models with numerical time series
Sungrae Park, Wonsung Lee, Il‐Chul Moon
SJR Q1Information Processing & Management
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
11
book|12 citations·2013
Modeling and Simulating Command and Control
Il‐Chul Moon, Kathleen M. Carley, Tag Gon Kim
SpringerBriefs in computer science
Management Science and Operations ResearchDecision Sciences
12
Article|11 citations·2006
Evolution of Player Skill in the America's Army Game
Il‐Chul Moon, Mike Schneider, Kathleen M. Carley
SJR Q2SIMULATION

Many disciplines utilize computer games as interactive training simulations.However, their use is often limited to training mechanical skills, and they are not viewed as a sophisticated training tool with which to teach human interactions within organizations and social/organizational skills. Therefore, in this paper we examine how the players of the game America's Army changed their performance, play styles and social positions after one year of game play experience. For the initial investigati

Developmental and Educational PsychologyPsychology
13
Article|9 citations·2011
Analyzing social media in escalating crisis situations
Il‐Chul Moon, Alice Oh, Kathleen M. Carley

The rapid diffusion of information and opinions through social media, such as web forums and micro-blogs, is affecting the development of crisis situations, such as the Iranian presidential election, the Egyptian protest, and the ROKS Cheonan sinking. Understanding this rapid widespread diffusion, and assessing what information is spreading, what ideas are becoming common, and who is talking about what, is critical for crisis management. This paper presents a computational system for social medi

Statistical and Nonlinear PhysicsPhysics and Astronomy
14
report|8 citations·2005
Detailed Analysis of Team Movement and Communication Affecting Team Performance in the America's Army Game
Il‐Chul Moon, Kathleen M. Carley, Mike Schneider, Oleg Shigiltchoff

We conducted the second data analysis with a new game log record dataset and focused on what the optimal team structure is in terms of communication and movement.We utilized regression analyses and correspondence analyses to make the optimal network, and we identified several important features of optimal networks from those analyses.Furthermore we coded 'Network Fitter' and used it to make a computer program figure out the most effective team organization.From the fitting result, we could obtai

Economics and EconometricsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
15
Article|7 citations·2007
Self-organizing social and spatial networks under what-if scenarios
Il‐Chul Moon, Kathleen M. Carley

Multi-agent models have been used to simulate complex systems in many domains. In some models, the agents move in a physical/grid space and are constrained by their locations on the spatial space, e.g. Sugarscape. In others, the agents interact in a social multi-dimensional space and are bound to their knowledge and social positions, e.g. Construct. However, many real world problems require a mixed model containing both spatial and social features. This paper introduces such a multi agent system

Statistical and Nonlinear PhysicsPhysics and Astronomy

Research Areas

Artificial IntelligenceManagement Science and Operations ResearchStatistical and Nonlinear PhysicsInformation SystemsComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionAerospace Engineering

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