Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling

With Applications for the Social Sciences

Eric Silverman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXIII, 235 Seiten

2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783030101954 (ISBN)

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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.

Part I Agent-Based Models: 1 Introduction.- 2 Simulation and Artificial Life.- 3 Making the Artificial Real.- 4 Modelling in Population Biology.- Part II Modelling Social Systems: 5 Modelling for the Social Sciences.- 6 Analysis: Frameworks and Theories.- 7 Schelling: A Success for Simplicity.- 8 Conclusions Part III Case Study: Simulation in Demography.- 9 Modelling in Demography: From Statistics to Simulations.- 10 Model-Based Demography in Practice: I.- 11 Model-Based Demography in Practice: II.- 12 Conclusions.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Methodos Series
Co-Autor	Daniel Courgeau, Robert Franck, Jakub Bijak, Jason Hilton, Jason Noble, John Bryden
Zusatzinfo	XXIII, 235 p. 18 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	403 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
Schlagworte	Agent-Based demography • Agent-Based Modelling ABM • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and A-life • Complex systems science • Computational Social Science • Model-Based demography • Model-Based science • Modelling health and social care • open access • Population health • Population sciences • social simulation
ISBN-13	9783030101954 / 9783030101954
Zustand	Neuware