A challenge to many social and economic policies is to tackle the interactive processes between actors and institutions involved, bound to a geographical, economic, and cultural context over which the...

This is where members of the ESSA SIG-MTC can exchange their ideas, share interesting thoughts or literature, or whatever else is on their mind. - GitHub - sig-mtc/interaction_space: This is where...

By Thorid Wagenblast1, Nicholas Roxburgh2 and Alessandro Taberna3 1 Delft University of Technology, 0009-0003-5324-37782 The James Hutton Institute, 0000-0002-7821-18313 CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, 0000-0002-0207-4148 Introduction Most agent-based models (ABMs) are designed around the assumption of a broadly stable system architecture. Whether exploring emergent dynamics or testing the effects of external interventions or stressors, such models typically operate with a fixed ontology – predefined agent types, attribute classes, behavioural repertoires, processes, and social and institutional structures.

By Peter Steiglechner1, Marijn Keijzer2 1 Complexity Science Hub, Austria; [email protected] Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, France Abstract ‘Noisy’ behavior, belief updating, or decision-making is universally observed, yet typically treated superficially or not even accounted for at all by social simulation modelers. Here, we show how noise can affect model dynamics and outcomes, argue why injecting noise should become a central part of model analyses, and how it can help our understanding of (our mathematical models for) social behavior.

By Corinna Elsenbroich & Petra Ahrweiler The first piece on winners of the European Social Simulation Association's Rosaria Conte Outstanding Contribution Award for Social Simulation. “Gilbert, a former sociologist of science, has been one of the chief links in Britain between computer scientists and sociologists of science” Nigel has always been and still is a sociologist - not only of science, but also of technology, innovation, methods and many other subfields of sociology with important contributions in theory, empirical research and sociological methods.

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By Mario Paolucci This is the “header piece” for a short series on those who have been awarded the “Rosaria Conte Outstanding Award for Social Simulation” awarded by the European Social Simulation …

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