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Analytical sociology and computational social science. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Comput Soc Sci, 2018
Analytical sociology focuses on social interactions among individuals and the hard-to-predict aggregate outcomes they bring about. It seeks to identify generalizable mechanisms giving rise to emergent properties of social systems which, in turn, feed ...
Keuschnigg M, Lovsjö N, Hedström P.
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Computational Conflict Research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence.

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Methods and applications in social networks analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The Social Network Analysis perspective has proven the ability to develop a significant breadth of theoretical and methodological issues witnessed by the contribution of an increasing number of scholars and the multiplication of empirical applications in
Giordano, Giuseppe   +2 more
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Computational appraisal of gender representativeness in popular movies

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021
Gender representation in mass media has long been mainly studied by qualitatively analyzing content. This article illustrates how automated computational methods may be used in this context to scale up such empirical observations and increase their ...
Antoine Mazières   +2 more
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MANIFESTO OF COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE

open access: yesMediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2013
The increasing integration of technology into our lives has created unprecedented volumes of data on society’s everyday behaviour. Such data opens up exciting new opportunities to work towards a quantitative understanding of our complex social systems ...
Rosaria Conte   +13 more
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Visualization in Computational Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This section and the papers that follow relate to to the workshop on Visualization in Computational Science which is held at the Tenth International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS2010) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Belleman, Robert G.   +2 more
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Special Issue “Computational Social Science”

open access: yesInformation, 2019
The last centuries have seen a great surge in our understanding and control of “simple” physical, chemical, and biological processes through data analysis and the mathematical modeling of their underlying dynamics [...]
Gerardo Iñiguez   +2 more
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Mechanistic models in computational social science

open access: yesFrontiers in Physics, 2015
Quantitative social science is not only about regression analysis or, in general, data inference. Computer simulations of social mechanisms have an over 60 years long history. They have been used for many different purposes—to test scenarios, to test the
Petter eHolme, Fredrik eLiljeros
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How Well Do Reinforcement Learning Approaches Cope With Disruptions? The Case of Traffic Signal Control

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
Data-driven and machine-learning-based methods are increasingly used in attempts to master the challenges of the world. But are they really the best approaches to manage complex dynamical systems?
Marcin Korecki   +2 more
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On the accuracy of short-term COVID-19 fatality forecasts

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Forecasting new cases, hospitalizations, and disease-induced deaths is an important part of infectious disease surveillance and helps guide health officials in implementing effective countermeasures.
Nino Antulov-Fantulin, Lucas Böttcher
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