Generative Social Science: A Challenge

Simulation as Formal and Generative Social Science: The Very Idea

From the very beginning of the multiagent-systems paradigm, the sources of analogies between agent-based technologies and models of actual social systems fomented interdisciplinary efforts between computer and social scientists. Nowadays this trend reflects an intense interface of research across the computer and social sciences, under the umbrella of a consolidated scientific field, which is c...

Agent-based computational models and generative social science

This article argues that the agent-based computational model permits a distinctive approach to social science for which the term “generative” is suitable. In defending this terminology, features distinguishing the approach from both “inductive” and “deductive” science are given. Then, the following specific contributions to social science are discussed: The agent-based computational model is a ...

Remarks on the Foundations of Agent-Based Generative Social Science

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Chapter 1 AGENT - BASED COMPUTATIONAL MODELS AND GENERATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE

This article argues that the agent-based computational model permits a distinctive approach to social science for which the term “generative” is suitable. In defend­ ing this terminology, features distinguishing the approach from both “inductive” and “deductive” science are given. Then, the following specific contributions to social science are discussed: The agent-based computational model is ...

Dagstuhl Seminar on Social Science Microsimulation: A Challenge to Computer Science