SIMIAN: Simulation Innovation: A Node
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Surrey
Department Name: Sociology
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Lynne Hamill (Co-Author)
(2010)
Simulating large social networks in agent-based models : a social circle model
in Emergence : complexity and organization
Lynne Hamill (Co-Author)
(2009)
Social circles : a simple structure for agent-based social network models
in Journal of artificial societies and social simulation
Dykstra P
(2013)
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: DIAL, A Dialogical Model for Opinion Dynamics
in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Elsenbroich C
(2012)
Explanation in Agent-Based Modelling: Functions, Causality or Mechanisms?
in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Chattoe-Brown E
(2012)
How do we convince agent-based modeling agnostics?
in Religion, Brain & Behavior
Watts C
(2011)
Does cumulative advantage affect collective learning in science? An agent-based simulation
in Scientometrics
Chattoe-Brown E
(2013)
Why Sociology Should Use Agent Based Modelling
in Sociological Research Online
Xenitidou M
(2010)
Construct Validity and Theoretical Embeddedness of Agent-based Models of Normative Behaviour
in The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review
Maria Xenitidou
(2009)
Innovations in social science research methods
Edmonds, Bruce; Meyer, Ruth; Moss, Scott
(2010)
Simulating Social Complexity: A Handbook
| Description | The application of agent-based models to a variety of domains, especially innovation and crime. |
| Exploitation Route | The development of more advanced agent-based models |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| URL | http://www.simian.ac.uk/home |
| Description | The project was not intended to provide 'findings' in the ordinary sense. It ran training courses and produced two monographs as well as a large number of research papers. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2008 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |