Advances in Social Simulation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. How Social Simulation Could Help Social Science Deal with Context

   • Bruce Edmonds

   Pages 1-14

3. Agent-Based Modeling with and Without Methodological Individualism

   • Julie Zahle, Harold Kincaid

   Pages 15-25

4. Inflation Expectations in a Small Open Economy

   • Emiliano Alvarez, Juan Gabriel Brida, Marco Dueñas

   Pages 27-32

5. Qualitative Data in the Service of Model Building: The Case of Structural Shirking

   • Patrycja Antosz, Harko Verhagen

   Pages 33-45

6. Causation in Agent-Based Computational Social Science

   • David Anzola

   Pages 47-62

7. Times of Crises and Labour Market Reforms

   • Tom Bauermann

   Pages 63-69

8. Selecting the Right Game Concept for Social Simulation of Real-World Systems

   • Femke Bekius, Sebastiaan Meijer

   Pages 71-79

9. Physician, Heal Thyself! The Prospects for Using ABM to Target Interventions to Raise ABM Engagement

   • Edmund Chattoe-Brown

   Pages 81-87

10. So You Got Two Ologies? The Challenge of Empirically Modelling Medical Prescribing Behaviour and Its Effect on Antimicrobial Resistance as a Case Study

    • Edmund Chattoe-Brown, Andrew M. Colman, David R. Jenkins, Eva M. Krockow, Shaheen Mehtar, Nelun Perera et al.

    Pages 89-99

11. Ethics-Based Cooperation in Multi-agent Systems

    • Nicolas Cointe, Grégory Bonnet, Olivier Boissier

    Pages 101-116

12. Rich and Poor: Simulating Social Policies to Build a Fairer Society

    • Diogo Costa, José Soares, Pedro A. Santos

    Pages 117-134

13. Multi-scale Validation of an Agent-Based Housing Market Model

    • Koen de Koning, Tatiana Filatova

    Pages 135-140

14. Towards Agent-Based Models of Rumours in Organizations: A Social Practice Theory Approach

    • Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Rijk Mercuur, Virginia Dignum, Catholijn M. Jonker, Bartel van de Walle

    Pages 141-153

15. Fixing Sample Biases in Experimental Data Using Agent-Based Modelling

    • Mike Farjam, Giangiacomo Bravo

    Pages 155-159

16. Simulation of Behavioural Dynamics Within Urban Gardening Communities

    • Arthur Feinberg, Elena Hooijschuur, Amineh Ghorbani

    Pages 161-167

17. Unleashing the Agents: From a Descriptive to an Explanatory Perspective in Agent-Based Modelling

    • Christopher K. Frantz

    Pages 169-185

18. Participatory Policy Development with Agent-Based Modelling: Overcoming the Building Energy-Efficiency Gap

    • Eva Halwachs, Anne von Streit, Christof Knoeri

    Pages 187-193

19. Go Big or Go Home? Simulating the Effect of Publishing Adopter Numbers for Two-Sided Platforms

    • Michelle D. Haurand, Christian Stummer

    Pages 195-199

20. Simulations with Values

    • Samaneh Heidari, Maarten Jensen, Frank Dignum

    Pages 201-215

​This book presents the state-of-the-art in social simulation as presented at the Social Simulation Conference 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. It covers the developments in applications and methods of social simulation, addressing societal issues such as socio-ecological systems and policy making. Methodological issues discussed include large-scale empirical calibration, model sharing and interdisciplinary research, as well as decision making models, validation and the use of qualitative data in simulation modeling. Research areas covered include archaeology, cognitive science, economics, organization science, and social simulation education.


This collection gives readers insight into the increasing use of social simulation in both its theoretical development and in practical applications such as policy making whereby modelling and the behavior of complex systems is key.  The book will appeal to students, researchers and professionals in the various fields. 

• digital society
• complexity theory
• public policy
• applications of social simulation
• methods of social simulation
• opinion dynamics
• simulating human interaction
• changing mobility patterns
• system of systems
• computational social sciences

• Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

  Harko Verhagen

• Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

  Melania Borit

• Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications, Växjö, Sweden

  Giangiacomo Bravo

• Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

  Nanda Wijermans

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