Extended material for the paper Validating viral marketing strategies in Twitter via Agent-based Social Simulation presented in the Expert Systems with Applications journal (ESWA) in 2015.

Power in Afghanistan can be explained by the notion of the qawm. Qawms denote opportunistic solidarity networks in Afghanistan. We computationally grow qawms by means of agent-based social simulation informed by real actor behaviour. Emerging from our simulation are social networks which bear important structural and functional resemblance with their target system when subsequently compared wit...

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems’ main goal is to augment live quality of elderly people, by using ICT based systems. In this paper, we are concerned with the artificial reproduction of a physical environment (i.e. a house) and an elder (i.e. the attended) living in such environment. An agent based social simulation system is used for such purpose. Such simulator will allow the integration...

This article compares three agent-based social simulation models in the area of land use change using a model documentation protocol, ODD, from the ecological literature, with a view to examining how well it enables the models to be compared, how well fitted it is to social simulations, and how successful it might be in increasing communication between individualand agent-based modellers. Such ...

A promising area of application for agent based social simulation is social policy analysis. This promise stems from the ability of ABSS models to describe key processes and relationships in actual societies. However, existing descriptive studies with ABSS have been too abstract convincingly to inform policy analysis. This paper describes the transition from one such study towards a usefully de...

The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) provides a conceptual model for use in assessing behavioral intentions of humans. Agent based social simulations seek to represent the behavior of individuals in societies in order to understand the impact of a variety of interventions on the population in a given area. Previous work has described the implementation of the TPB in agent based social simulatio...

It is becoming widely accepted that applied social simulation research is more effective if potential users and stakeholders are closely involved in model specification, design, testing and use, using the principles of participatory research. In this paper, a review of software engineering principles and accounts of the development of simulation models are used as the basis for recommendations ...

This paper summarises work within an interdisciplinary collaboration which has explored different approaches to modelling complex systems in order to identify and develop common tools and techniques. We present an overview of the models that have been explored and the techniques that have been used by two of the partners within the project. On the one hand, there is a partner with a background ...