Social Science Computer Review

Critical Review of the Iranian Attempts towards the Development of Alternative Sociologies

Analysis and synthesis: multi-agent systems in the social sciences

Although they flow from a common source, the uses of multi-agent systems (or “agent-based computational systems” — ACE) vary between the social sciences and computer science. The distinction can be broadly summarised as analysis versus synthesis, or explanation versus design. I compare and contrast these uses, and discuss sufficiency and necessity in simulations in general and in multi-agent sy...

The 1st international workshop on computational social choice

Computational social choice is a new discipline currently emerging at the interface of social choice theory and computer science. It is concerned with the application of computational techniques to the study of social choice mechanisms, and with the integration of social choice paradigms into computing. The first international workshop specifically dedicated to this topic took place in December...

Comparison of the Social Impact of Review Articles with Original Re-search Articles Indexed in the Web of Science in Pharmacy, Biology, Psy-chology, and Agriculture fields

Background and Aim: The last two decades have witnessed efforts to identify ways and tools of showing the value of science for society known as the social impact of science, the efforts that have been made under various titles such as social benefits, social quality, social utility, social relevance, and so on. Academic publications, especially academic articles, are objective representation of...

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Social Development of Students Participating in Physical Activity and Computer Games

The purpose of this study was to compare the participation in physical activity and computer games on the social development of students. The population of this research was made up entirely of male students from secondary schools in the city of Marivan (mean age of 13.5 years). Among them, 300 were selected purposively (150 athletes, 150 computer games players). In order to collect the informa...