Multiagent modeling in Natural and Social Sciences

faculty of psychology and social sciences group of anthropology master thesis in major of anthropology

چکیده پایان نامه (شامل خلاصه، اهداف، روش های اجرا و نتایج به دست آمده): کار جمع آوری گو یش های محلی در سال های اخیر شتاب امیدوار کننده ای به خود گرفته است. شاید از بارزترین اهداف جمع آوری گویش های مختلف، ثبت و ضبط آن، جلوگیری از نابودی و مهمتر از همه حل مشکلات دستوری زبان رسمی باشد. دقت در فرآیند های زبانی گویش های محلی نوع ارتباط مردم نواحی مختلف با پیرامون نشان را به ما نشان خواهد داد. از س...

in Humanities , Social Sciences , and Natural Sciences

The scale issue in social and natural sciences

Spatial scale is a major concept in many sciences concerned with human activities and physical processes occurring at the Earth’s surface. In particular, geographic literature is rich in discussions about the importance of scale in both the scientific and the familiar representations of the world (Meentemeyer, 1989; Ferras, 1992). Scale is now increasingly recognized as a central concept in the...

Beyond funding: Acknowledgement patterns in biomedical, natural and social sciences

For the past 50 years, acknowledgments have been studied as important paratextual traces of research practices, collaboration, and infrastructure in science. Since 2008, funding acknowledgments have been indexed by Web of Science, supporting large-scale analyses of research funding. Applying advanced linguistic methods as well as Correspondence Analysis to more than one million acknowledgments ...

Modeling Social Mechanisms: Mechanism-Based Explanations and Agent-Based Modeling in the Social Sciences

An increasing number of philosophers of social sciences and of social scientists are getting interested in the relevance of mechanism-based explanations (MBE) in the social sciences. According to MBE, we explain a phenomenon by revealing the mechanism(s) responsible for its occurrence. In the social sciences, MBE has been particularly endorsed by analytical sociology. According to several propo...