Understanding dynamics of polarization via multiagent social simulation. [PDF]
It is widely recognized that the Web contributes to user polarization, and such polarization affects not just politics but also peoples’ stances about public health, such as vaccination.
Haque A, Ajmeri N, Singh MP.
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Social Simulation for Social Justice
We argue that social simulation can help us understand social justice issues. In particular, modeling certain social dynamics within computational systems can be used to creatively explore and better understand the social and identity dynamics of ...
Melanie Dickinson +2 more
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Analysing the Combined Health, Social and Economic Impacts of the Corovanvirus Pandemic Using Agent-Based Social Simulation. [PDF]
During the COVID-19 crisis there have been many difficult decisions governments and other decision makers had to make. E.g. do we go for a total lock down or keep schools open? How many people and which people should be tested?
Dignum F +13 more
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Social Simulation of Intergroup Conflicts Using a New Model of Opinion Dynamics
The social identity theory proposed by Tajfel et al. provides insight into how group membership and self-categorization cause intergroup prejudice and discrimination, finally leading to social conflicts.
Akira Ishii +3 more
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Location-Based Social Simulation [PDF]
Location-based social networks (LBSNs) have been studied extensively in recent years. However, utilizing real-world LBSN datasets in such studies has severe weaknesses: sparse and small datasets, privacy concerns, and a lack of authoritative ground-truth.
H. Kavak +5 more
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Assessing peer review by gauging the fate of rejected manuscripts: the case of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. [PDF]
This paper investigates the fate of manuscripts that were rejected from JASSS-The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, the flagship journal of social simulation. We tracked 456 manuscripts that were rejected from 1997 to 2011 and traced
Casnici N +4 more
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The Value of Values and Norms in Social Simulation [PDF]
Social simulations gain strength when agent behaviour can (1) represent human behaviour and (2) be explained in understandable terms.
Rijk Mercuur, Virginia Dignum, C. Jonker
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Social Simulation That 'Peers into Peer Review' [PDF]
This article suggests to view peer review as a social interaction problem and shows reasons for social simulators to investigate it. Although essential for science, peer review is largely understudied and current attempts to reform it are not supported by scientific evidence.
Karoly Takacs, Flaminio Squazzoni
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The false life of modern society and its connection with social imitation
The relevance of the problem under study is determined by the wide spread of social imitative realities that cause the emergence of false content in modern socio-cultural reality.
T. V. Zakirova
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Specification and Description Language Models Automatic Execution in a High-Performance Environment
Specification and Description Language (SDL) is a language that can represent the behavior and structure of a model completely and unambiguously.
Pau Fonseca i Casas +2 more
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