This book presents a method for creating a working model of society, using data systems and simulation techniques, that can be used for testing propositions of

This book presents a method for creating a working model of society, using data systems and simulation techniques, that can be used for testing propositions of

Social systems are among the most complex known. This poses particular problems for those who wish to understand them. The complexity often makes analytic appro

This book is the conference proceedings of ESSA 2013, the 9th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association. ESSA conferences constitute annual event

Model building in the social sciences can increasingly rely on well elaborated formal theories. At the same time inexpensive large computational capacities are