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Migration, Communication and Social Networks – An Agent-Based Social Simulation

2013
Due to the high dynamics present on several social phenomena, it is extremely difficult to carry out scientific investigations on social sciences. This is true especially for those phenomena most relevant for social sciences (e.g., human migration) which significantly increase the difficulty to perform an objective scientific investigation. To overcome
Hugo Serrano Barbosa Filho, Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto, Wilson Fusco   +2 more
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Social Epistemology and Validation in Agent-Based Social Simulation

Philosophy & Technology, 2021
The literature in agent-based social simulation suggests that a model is validated when it is shown to ‘successfully’, ‘adequately’ or ‘satisfactorily’ represent the target phenomenon. The notion of ‘successful’, ‘adequate’ or ‘satisfactory’ representation, however, is both underspecified and difficult to generalise, in part, because practitioners use ...
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Agent-Based Social Simulations

2014
We start with a brief introduction to complex systems. Then we briefly review the so-called cellular automata, of which the Game of Life is just one fascinating example. After that we shift attention towards a special kind of computational models called agent-based models, that can be seen as natural extensions of cellular automata.
Rodik, Petra, Srbljinović, Armano
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Soil: An Agent-Based Social Simulator in Python for Modelling and Simulation of Social Networks

2017
Social networks have a great impact in our lives. While they started to improve and aid communication, nowadays they are used both in professional and personal spheres, and their popularity has made them attractive for developing a number of business models.
Jesús M. Sánchez, Carlos Angel Iglesias, J. Fernando Sánchez-Rada   +2 more
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FARM: Architecture for Distributed Agent-Based Social Simulations

2019
In many domains, high-resolution agent-based simulations require experiments with a large number (tens or hundreds of millions) of computationally complex agents. Such large-scale experiments are usually run for efficiency on high-performance computers or clusters, and therefore agent-based simulation frameworks must support parallel distributed ...
Jim Blythe, Alexey Tregubov
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Intrusion of Agent-Based Social Simulation in Economic Theory

2009
This paper discusses the results of the agent based model's cross-validation with domain experts. Subsequently, the next research step --- the conceptual design of the evidence based outsourcing model --- is introduced and implementation difficulties are discussed.
Bogdan Werth, Scott Moss
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Krowdix: Agent-Based Simulation of Online Social Networks

2014
Simulations can be used for the study of Online Social Networks (OSNs) as a means to harness their size and complexity, and to overcome the difficulties to set up experiments in real environments. Most existing tools for the analysis of OSNs focus on the graph structure of networks and emulate changes only from statistical data.
Diego Blanco-Moreno, Marlon Cárdenas, Rubén Fuentes-Fernández, Juan Pavón   +3 more
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An Analysis and Design Framework for Agent-Based Social Simulation

2012
Agent-based modeling is one of the popular tools for analyzing complex social systems. To model such systems, social attributes such as culture, law and institutions need to implemented as part of the context of a MAS, independently of individual agents.In this paper, we present MAIA; a framework for modeling agent-based systems based on the ...
Amineh Ghorbani, Virginia Dignum, Gerard P. J. Dijkema   +2 more
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AGENT-BASED SOCIAL SIMULATION: A DYNAMICAL-SYSTEMS VIEWPOINT

Cybernetics and Systems, 2010
Physics is expanding outward from its traditional base; nowadays many physicists work on phenomena involving biology, economics, and sociology. How can we get to grips with physics in these fields where traditional equation-based modelling is difficult to implement?
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Agent Based Modelling for Social Simulation

2013
This document is the result of an exploratory project looking into the status of, and opportunities for Agent Based Modelling (ABM) at TNO. The project focussed on ABM applications containing social interactions and human factors, which we termed ABM for social simulation (ABM4SS). During the course of this project two workshops were organized.
Smit, S.K., Ubink, E.M., Vecht, B. van der, Langley, D.J.   +3 more
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