Simulation for the social scientist
Simulation for the social scientist
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1999
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Nigel Gi lbert;K. G. Troitzsch
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Nigel Gi lbert;K. G. Troitzsch
计算机模拟对社会科学有什么贡献？在众多的模拟方法中，哪一种最适合我的社会科学项目？如何设计、执行和分析计算机模拟的结果？这是一本关于建立计算机模拟技术的实用教科书，以帮助理解社会和经济问题。随着硬件和软件的日益强大，以及对复杂性、进化、适应和混沌思想在社会科学中的应用的兴趣日益浓厚，对社会模拟的兴趣在全球范围内迅速增长。这本权威的书详细介绍了社会模拟的所有常见方法，为社会科学家提供了对文献的欣赏，并允许那些具有一些编程技能的人创建自己的模拟。这一版本的新内容是关于如何使用模拟作为工具的一章。还增加了关于多代理系统的新章节，以支持多代理建模已成为模拟的首选方法这一事实。社会科学家在广泛的领域会发现这本书的研究，特别是在社会学，经济学，人类学，地理学，组织理论，政治学，社会政策，认知心理学和认知科学的重要工具。它还将吸引对分布式人工智能，多代理系统和代理技术感兴趣的计算机科学家。
What can computer simulation contribute to the social sciences? Which of the many approaches to simulation would be best for my social science project? How do I design, carry out and analyse the results from a computer simulation? This is a practical textbook on the techniques of building computer simulations to assist understanding of social and economic issues and problems. Interest in social simulation has been growing rapidly worldwide as a result of increasingly powerful hardware and software and also a rising interest in the application of ideas of complexity, evolution, adaptation and chaos in the social sciences. This authoritative book details all the common approaches to social simulation, to provide social scientists with an appreciation of the literature and allow those with some programming skills to create their own simulations.New for this edition is a chapter on how to use simulation as a tool. A new chapter on multi-agent systems has also been added to support the fact that multi-agent modelling has become the preferred approach to simulation. Social scientists in a wide range of fields will find this book an essential tool for research, particularly in sociology, economics, anthropology, geography, organizational theory, political science, social policy, cognitive psychology and cognitive science. It will also appeal to computer scientists interested in distributed artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems and agent technologies.