Simulating social complexity : a handbook /
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Springer,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin ; New York : |
Publication Dates: | 2013. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Understanding complex systems. Springer complexity. |
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Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93813-2 |
Item Description: | Includes index. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
ISBN: |
9783540938132 (electronic bk.) 3540938133 (electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | HM291 |
CLC: | C912 |
Contents: |
Introductory Material. Introduction to the Handbook / Historical Introduction / Types of Simulation / Informal Approaches to Developing Simulation Models / A Formal Approach to Building Compositional Agent-Based Simulations / Checking Simulations: Detecting and Avoiding Errors and Artefacts / Documenting Social Simulation Models: The ODD Protocol as a Standard / Validating Simulations / Understanding Simulation Results / Participatory Approaches / Combining Mathematical and Simulation Approaches to Understand the Dynamics of Computer Models / Interpreting and Understanding Simulations: The Philosophy of Social Simulation / Mechanisms. Utility, Games, and Narratives / Social Constraint / Reputation / Social Networks and Spatial Distribution / Learning / Evolutionary Mechanisms / Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation Applied to Environmental Management / Assessing Organisational Design / Distributed Computer Systems / Simulating Complexity of Animal Social Behaviour / Agent-Based Simulation as a Useful Tool for the Study of Markets / Movement of People and Goods / Modeling Power and Authority: An Emergentist View from Afghanistan / Human Societies: Understanding Observed Social Phenomena / |