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Simulation for the Social Scientist
Nigel Gilbert,Klaus G. Troitzsch +1 more
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Social scientists in a wide range of fields will find this book an essential tool for research, particularly in sociology, economics, anthropology, geography, organizational theory, political science, social policy, cognitive psychology and cognitive science, and it will also appeal to computer scientists interested in distributed artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems and agent technologies.Abstract:
What can computer simulation contribute to the social sciences? Which of the many approaches to simulation would be best for my social science project? How do I design, carry out and analyse the results from a computer simulation? This is a practical textbook on the techniques of building computer simulations to assist understanding of social and economic issues and problems. Interest in social simulation has been growing rapidly worldwide as a result of increasingly powerful hardware and software and also a rising interest in the application of ideas of complexity, evolution, adaptation and chaos in the social sciences. This authoritative book details all the common approaches to social simulation, to provide social scientists with an appreciation of the literature and allow those with some programming skills to create their own simulations.New for this edition is a chapter on how to use simulation as a tool. A new chapter on multi-agent systems has also been added to support the fact that multi-agent modelling has become the preferred approach to simulation. Social scientists in a wide range of fields will find this book an essential tool for research, particularly in sociology, economics, anthropology, geography, organizational theory, political science, social policy, cognitive psychology and cognitive science. It will also appeal to computer scientists interested in distributed artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems and agent technologies.read more
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A standard protocol for describing individual-based and agent-based models
Volker Grimm,Uta Berger,Finn Bastiansen,Sigrunn Eliassen,Vincent Ginot,Jarl Giske,John D. Goss-Custard,Tamara C. Grand,Simone K. Heinz,Geir Huse,Andreas Huth,Jane Uhd Jepsen,Christian Jorgensen,Wolf M. Mooij,Birgit Müller,Guy Pe'er,Cyril Piou,Steven F. Railsback,Andrew M. Robbins,Martha M. Robbins,Eva Rossmanith,Nadja Rüger,Espen Strand,Sami Souissi,Richard A. Stillman,Rune Vabø,Ute Visser,Donald L. DeAngelis +27 more
TL;DR: A proposed standard protocol for describing IBMs and ABMs, developed and tested by 28 modellers who cover a wide range of fields within ecology, and considered as a first step for establishing a more detailed common format of the description of IBm and ABM.
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Multi-Agent Systems for the Simulation of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: A Review
TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of multi-agent system models of land-use/cover change (MAS/LUCC) is presented, which combine a cellular landscape model with agent-based representations of decisionmaking, integrating the two components through specification of interdependencies and feedbacks between agents and their environment.
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Tutorial on agent-based modelling and simulation
TL;DR: A brief introduction to ABMS is provided, the main concepts and foundations are illustrated, some recent applications across a variety of disciplines are discussed, and methods and toolkits for developing agent models are identified.
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FROM FACTORS TO ACTORS: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling
Michael W. Macy,Robert Willer +1 more
TL;DR: Agent-based models (ABMs) as mentioned in this paper have been widely used in computational sociology to model social life as interactions among adaptive agents who influence one another in response to the influence they receive, such as diffusion of information, emergence of norms, coordination of conventions or participation in collective action.
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MASON: A Multiagent Simulation Environment
TL;DR: This paper describes the MASON system, its motivation, and its basic architectural design, and compares MASON to related multi-agent libraries in the public domain, and discusses six applications of the system built over the past year which suggest its breadth of utility.
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