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Epistemological Aspects of Computer Simulation in the Social Sciences Second International Workshop, EPOS 2006, Brescia, Italy, October 5-6, 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers /

This volume collects the revised versions of the invited and selected papers that were presented at the Second EPOS--Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation--Workshop, held in Brescia, Italy, in October 2006. EPOS is a bi-annual cross-disciplinary workshop on simulation originally established by...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Squazzoni, Flaminio (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5466
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • EPOS-Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation: An Introduction
  • EPOS-Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation: An Introduction
  • Invited Papers
  • The Epistemologies of Social Simulation Research
  • From Simulation to Theory (and Backward)
  • Selected Papers
  • Talking about ABSS: Functional Descriptions of Models
  • What Does Emergence in Computer Simulations? Simulation between Epistemological and Ontological Emergence
  • Emergence as an Explanatory Principle in Artificial Societies. Reflection on the Bottom-Up Approach to Social Theory
  • Reconstruction Failures: Questioning Level Design
  • Narrative Scenarios, Mediating Formalisms, and the Agent-Based Simulation of Land Use Change
  • Validation and Verification in Social Simulation: Patterns and Clarification of Terminology
  • Validation and Verification of Agent-Based Models in the Social Sciences
  • Abductive Fallacies with Agent-Based Modeling and System Dynamics
  • Algorithmic Analysis of Production Systems Used as Agent-Based Social Simulation Models
  • The Nature of Noise.