Simulating Social Complexity : A Handbook - Edmonds, Bruce; Meyer, Ruth.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017)
Part1. Introduction -- Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Historical Introduction -- Chapter3. Types of Simulation -- Chapter4. Different Modelling Purposes -- Part2. Methodology -- Chapter5. Informal Approaches to Developing Simulations -- Chapter6. Applying software engineering methods to simulation development -- Chapter6. Checking Simulations -- Chapter7. Verifying and Validating simulations -- Chapter8. Understanding Simulation Results -- Chapter9. How many runs should one do -- Chapter10. Participatory Approaches -- Chapter11. Combining Analytic and Simulation Approaches -- Chapter12. Interpreting and Understanding Simulations -- Chapter13. Documenting Social Simulation Models: The ODD Protocol as a Standard -- Part3. Mechanisms -- Chapter14. Utility, Games, and Narratives -- Chapter15. Social Constraint -- Chapter16. Reputation -- Chapter17. Social Networks and Spatial Distribution -- Chapter18. Learning -- Chapter19. Evolutionary Mechanisms -- Part4. Applications -- Chapter20. Agent-based Modelling and Simulation Applied to Environmental Management -- Chapter21. Distributed Computer Systems -- Chapter22. Simulating Complexity of Animal Social Behaviour -- Chapter23. Agent-based Simulation as a Useful Tool for the Study of Markets -- Chapter24. Movement of People and Goods -- Chapter25. Modeling Power and Authority: An Emergentist View from Afghanistan -- Chapter26. Human Societies - Understanding Observed Social Phenomena -- Chapter27. Some pitfalls to beware when applying models to issues of policy relevance.
Keywords: Application software; Social sciences; Statistical physics; Dynamical systems; Behavioral sciences; Game theory; Computer simulation; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social Sciences, general; Complex Systems; Behavioral Sciences; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences; Simulation and Modeling