Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling

Princeton University Press (2006)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This book argues that this powerful technique permits the social sciences to meet an explanation, in which one 'grows' the phenomenon of interest in an artificial society of interacting agents: heterogeneous, boundedly rational actors.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

2007

ISBN(s)

9780691125473   0691125473
View all bargains

Buy this book

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,386

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Modeling social inference in virtual agents.Wenji Mao & Jonathan Gratch - 2009 - AI and Society 24 (1):5-11.
Agent-based modeling and the fallacies of individualism.Brian Epstein - 2011 - In Paul Humphreys & Cyrille Imbert (eds.), Models, Simulations, and Representations. Routledge. pp. 115444.
How to build and use agent-based models in social science.Nigel Gilbert & Pietro Terna - 2000 - Mind and Society 1 (1):57-72.
Generative Explanation and Individualism in Agent-Based Simulation.Caterina Marchionni & Petri Ylikoski - 2013 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43 (3):323-340.
Modeling complex systems macroscopically: Case/agent‐based modeling, synergetics, and the continuity equation.Rajeev Rajaram & Brian Castellani - 2013 - Complexity 18 (2):8-17.
Cognitive social simulation incorporating cognitive architectures.Ron Sun - unknown
Alcohol consumption among college students: An agent‐based computational simulation.Laura A. Garrison & David S. Babcock - 2009 - Complexity 14 (6):35-44.
Agent-Based Computational Economics: A Constructive Approach to Economic Theory.Leigh Tesfatsion - 2006 - In Leigh Tesfatsion & Kenneth L. Judd (eds.), Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 2: Agent-Based Computational Economics. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier.
Emerging the emergence sociology: The philosophical framework of agent-based social studies.Hokky Situngkir - 2003 - [Journal (on-Line/Unpaginated)].
Framework for Models and Simulations with Agents in regard to Agent Simulations in Social Sciences: Emulation and Simulation.Franck Varenne - 2010 - In Alexandre Muzy, David R. C. Hill & Bernard P. Zeigler (eds.), Activity-Based Modeling and Simulation. Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal.
The Cambridge handbook of computational psychology.Ron Sun (ed.) - 2008 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
On the epistemological analysis of modeling and computational error in the mathematical sciences.Nicolas Fillion & Robert M. Corless - 2014 - Synthese 191 (7):1451-1467.
Logic and social cognition the facts matter, and so do computational models.Rineke Verbrugge - 2009 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 38 (6):649-680.

Analytics

Added to PP
2014-03-09

Downloads
26 (#596,950)

6 months
7 (#418,426)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

Collective Behavior.Robert L. Goldstone & Todd M. Gureckis - 2009 - Topics in Cognitive Science 1 (3):412-438.

View all 58 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references