Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling [electronic resource] : With Applications for the Social Sciences

• Tác giả: Eric Silverman
• Ngôn ngữ: ger
• ISBN-13: 978-3319724089
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 300.1 Philosophy and theory
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018
• Mô tả vật lý: XXIII, 235 p. 18 illus. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 169276
• Chủ đề: 1. Computer simulation; 2. Demography; 3. Philosophy and science; 4. Philosophy and social sciences; 5. Social sciences; 6. Methodology of the Social Sciences; 8. Philosophy of Science; 9. Philosophy of the Social Sciences; 10. Simulation and Modeling

Tóm tắt

This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain.  The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life and population biology, then demonstrates the growing popularity and relevance of these methods in the social sciences.  Following an in-depth analysis of the potential impact of these methods on social science and social theory, the text provides substantive examples of the application of agent-based models in the field of demography.  This work offers a unique combination of applied simulation work and substantive, in-depth philosophical analysis, and as such has potential appeal for specialist social scientists, complex systems scientists, and philosophers of science interested in the methodology of simulation and the practice of interdisciplinary computing research.