Product Description
An invaluable guide to the
complex and increasingly
vital study of social
simulation
This is a revised, completely updated edition
of the practical textbook that examines 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 capabilities and software programs.
The focus on this area of expertise
is also influenced by a rising interest in the
application of ideas of complexity, evolution,
adaptation, and chaos in the social
sciences.
This authoritative book details all of 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 are a
chapter on how to use simulation as a tool,
as well as a chapter on multi-agent systems
to explain why and how multi-agent modeling
has become the preferred approach to
simulation.
