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Agent-Based Models of Social Life

Fundamentals

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Buch | Softcover
75 Seiten
2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-79620-0 (ISBN)
21,20 inkl. MwSt
Simple, elegant, and powerful, tools are available in user-friendly, free software to help design, build, and run models of social interactions, even on the most basic laptop. Focusing on a well-known model of housing segregation, this Element sets out the fundamentals of what is now known as 'agent based modeling'.
Social interactions are rich, complex, and dynamic. One way to understand these is to model interactions that fascinate us. Some of the more realistic and powerful models are computer simulations. Simple, elegant and powerful, tools are available in user-friendly free software to help you design, build and run your own models of social interactions that intrigue you, and do this on the most basic laptop computer. Focusing on a well-known model of housing segregation, this Element is about how to unleash that power, setting out the fundamentals of what is now known as 'agent based modeling'.

1. Introduction; 2. Social segregation: basics; 3. Social segregation: power user; 4. Social segregation: extending the model; 5. Social segregation: stochastic models; 6. Trading realism against intuition.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 229 mm
Gewicht 210 g
Themenwelt Informatik Theorie / Studium Kryptologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10 1-108-79620-6 / 1108796206
ISBN-13 978-1-108-79620-0 / 9781108796200
Zustand Neuware
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