Handbook of logic in artificial intelligence and logic programming (vol. 3)
A systematic methodology for cognitive modelling
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on empirical methods
Emergence: from chaos to order
Emergence: from chaos to order
The use of models—making MABS more informative
MABS 2000 Proceedings of the second international workshop on Multi-agent based simulation
Mapping the envelope of social simulation trajectories
MABS 2000 Proceedings of the second international workshop on Multi-agent based simulation
Artificial Societies: The Computer Simulation of Social Life
Artificial Societies: The Computer Simulation of Social Life
SDML: A Multi-Agent Language for Organizational Modelling
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Validation and Verification in Social Simulation: Patterns and Clarification of Terminology
Epistemological Aspects of Computer Simulation in the Social Sciences
A DEVS-based M&S method for large-scale multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 2013 Summer Computer Simulation Conference
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The problem of social simulation is analysed, identifying what I call 'syntactic' and 'semantic' complexity. These mean that social simulation has particular needs in terms of computational tools. I suggest an approach where one identifies, documents and checks constraints from a variety of sources. Eight criteria for a computational tool to support social simulation are proposed and illustrated using the language SDML. I speculate that a general tool for developing, running and comparing sets of models and results could greatly aid social simulation. This would help manage the clusters of closely related models that social systems seem to necessitate.