Methodological investigations in agent-based modelling : with applications for the social sciences /

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Author / Creator:	Silverman, Eric, author.
Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource (xxiii, 235 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences ; 13 Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences ; 13.
Subject:	Social sciences -- Mathematical models. Intelligent agents (Computer software) Computer simulation Demography Philosophy and science Philosophy and social sciences Social sciences
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12333066

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ISBN:	9783319724089 3319724088 9783658172756 3658172754 9783658172763 3658172762 9783319724072 331972407X 9783030101954 3030101959 3319724061 9783319724065
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	English.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Printed edition: 9783319724065
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-319-72408-9

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