Computational Social Science

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ISBN: 9781847871718 | 1847871712
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Copyright: 10/1/2010

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Computational social science is an approach increasingly influential in a broad range of social sciences. It involves building a computer program model that represents a theory and then 'executing' the program and observing the output as a way of validating the theory, making predictions about the social world or exploring the implications of social interventions. Computational Social Science, a four volume set republishes the widely dispersed key articles in the emerging field of computational social science.


Introduction
Why Agents? On the varied motivations for agent computing in the social sciences
On Generating Hypotheses Using Computer Simulations
The Computer as a Laboratory
Learning to Speculate: Experiments with artificial and real agents
Agent-Based Computational Models and Generative Social Science
Seeing Around Corners
Precursors and Early Work
A Computer Simulation of Community Referendum Controversies
A Monte Carlo Approach to Diffusion
Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A distributed behavioral model
The Checkerboard Model of Social Interaction
Dynamic Models of Segregation
Negotiation as a Metaphor for Distributed Problem Solving
Agent-based Computational Economics
Auctions with Artificial Adaptive Agents
Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events
Why Are We Simulating Anyway? Some answers from economics
The Emergence of Economic Classes in an Agent-Based Bargaining Model
Artificial Adaptive Agents in Economic Theory
Evolving Market Structure: An ACE model of price dispersion and loyalty
Artificial Worlds and Economics, Part II
Modeling Macroeconomies as Open-Ended Dynamic Systems of Interacting Agents
Why are Economists Sceptical about Agent-based Simulations?
Agent-Based Modelling - A Methodology for the Analysis of Qualitative Development Processes

Modelling Sociality
Symbolic Interactionist Modeling: The coevolution of symbols and institutions
Modeling Sociality: The view from Europe
The Emergence of Computational Sociology
From Factors to Actors: Computational sociology and agent-based modeling
Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning
Multi-Agent Systems for the Simulation of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: A review
Multi-Agent Dependence by Dependence Graphs
Groups
Sociophysics: A new approach of sociological collective behavior
Towards a Theory of Collective Phenomena: Consensus and attitude changes in groups
Status and Participation in Task Groups: A dynamic network model
Organisations
A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice
Societies
Population Growth and Collapse in a Multiagent Model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley
The "Wedding-Ring": An agent-based marriage model based on social interaction
The EOS Project: Integrating two models of palaeolithic social change
Persuasion Dynamics
Networks
The Structure of Scientific Collaboration Networks
Opinion Evolution in Closed Community
The "New" Science of Network

Social Dilemmas
Agent-Based Simulation in the Study of Social Dilemmas
Learning, Signaling, and Social Preferences in Public-Good Games
Nucleus and Shield: The evolution of social structure in the iterated prisoner's dilemma
Cognition and Norms
An Evolutionary Approach to Norms
Simulating Fishermen Society
The Emperor's Dilemma: A computational model of self-enforcing norms
Understanding the Functions of Norms in Social Groups through Simulation
Evolving Specialisation, Altruism and Group-Level Optimisation Using Tags
The Evolution of Ethnocentrism
Fashions, Habits and Changing Preferences: Simulation of psychological factors affecting market dynamics
Modeling Agents within a BDI Architecture
A Multi-Agent Model for Describing Transhumance in North Cameroon: Comparison of different rationality to develop a routine
The Evolution of Communication Systems by Adaptive Agents
Cognitive Science Meets Multi-Agent Systems: A prolegomenon
Methodology
From KISS to KIDS - An 'Anti-simplistic' Modelling Approach

Emergence
Varieties of Emergence
Computation at the Edge of Chaos: Phase transitions and emergent computation
Emergent Properties of Balinese Water Temple Networks: Coadaptation on a rugged fitness landscape
The Standing Ovation Problem
Artificial Societies: Multiagent systems and the micro-macro link in sociological theory
Computational Models of Emergent Properties
Tools and Techniques
Advancing the Art of Simulation in the Social Sciences
Multi-Agent Systems and Role Games: Collective learning processes for ecosystem management
Agent-Based Modeling vs. Equation-Based Modeling: A case study and users' guide
How to Build and Use Agent-Based Models in Social Science
A Standard Protocol for Describing Individual-Based and Agent-Based Models
Cellular Automata in the Social Sciences: Perspectives, restrictions and artifacts
Agent-Based Simulation Platforms: Review and development recommendations
A Common Protocol for Agent-Based Social Simulation
Validation
Aligning Simulation Models: A case study and results
Validation, Verification, and Testing Techniques throughout the Life Cycle of a Simulation Study
Sociology and Simulation: Statistical and qualitative cross-validation
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