Advances in Social Simulation

1. To Stay or Not to Stay? Artificial Sociality in GRASP World

   • Gert Jan Hofstede, Chutao Liu

   Pages 217-231

2. Simulating a Direct Energy Market: Products, Performance, and Social Influence

   • Sascha Holzhauer, Friedrich Krebs, Christoph Nölle

   Pages 233-238

3. Looking into the Educational Mirror: Why Computation Is Hardly Being Taught in the Social Sciences, and What to Do About It

   • Wander Jager, Katarzyna Abramczuk, Agata Komendant-Brodowska, Anna Baczko-Dombi, Benedikt Fecher, Natalia Sokolovska et al.

   Pages 239-245

4. Effects of Heterogeneous Strategy Composition on Cooperation in the Repeated Public Goods Game

   • Marie Lisa Kapeller, Georg Jäger, Manfred Füllsack

   Pages 247-257

5. A Health Policy Simulation and Gaming Model of Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever and Zika Fever

   • Setsuya Kurahashi

   Pages 259-265

6. A Toy Model for Tertiary Educational Choices in Italy

   • Silvia Leoni

   Pages 267-272

7. (Ir-)Rationality of Teams: A Process-Oriented Model of Team Cognition Emergence

   • Iris Lorscheid, Matthias Meyer

   Pages 273-286

8. Early Holocene Socio-Ecological Dynamics in the Iberian Peninsula: A Network Approach

   • Sergi Lozano, Luce Prignano, Magdalena Gómez-Puche, Javier Fernández-López de Pablo

   Pages 287-290

9. Influences of Innovation in Market Value

   • Nuno Trindade Magessi, Luis Antunes

   Pages 291-305

10. Making Use of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps in Agent-Based Modeling

    • Sara Mehryar, Nina Schwarz, Richard Sliuzas, Martin van Maarseveen

    Pages 307-313

11. Policy Option Simulation in Socio-ecological Systems

    • Sara Mehryar, Richard Sliuzas, Nina Schwarz, Martin van Maarseveen

    Pages 315-320

12. An Integrated Model to Assess the Impacts of Dams in Transboundary River Basins

    • Kavin Narasimhan, Nigel Gilbert, Corinna Elsenbroich

    Pages 321-327

13. Norms in Social Simulation: Balancing Between Realism and Scalability

    • Cezara Pastrav, Frank Dignum

    Pages 329-342

14. Collaborating Like Professionals: Integrating NetLogo and GitHub

    • Nicolas Payette

    Pages 343-348

15. Kickstarting Cooperation: Experience-Weighted Attraction Learning and Norm Conformity in a Step-Level Public Goods Game

    • Nicolas Payette, Áron Szekely, Giulia Andrighetto

    Pages 349-354

16. Using Agent-Based Simulation to Understand the Role of Values in Policy-Making

    • Antoni Perello-Moragues, Pablo Noriega

    Pages 355-369

17. A Philosophical Framework of Shared Worlds and Cultural Significance for Social Simulation

    • Tom Poljanšek

    Pages 371-377

18. Students of Religion Studying Social Conflict Through Simulation and Modelling: An Exploration

    • Amrit Bahadur Poudel, Pauline Vos, F. LeRon Shults

    Pages 379-383

19. Using Cognitive Work Analysis to Inform Agent-Based Modelling of Automated Driving

    • Gemma J. M. Read, Paul M. Salmon, Jason Thompson

    Pages 385-390

20. Modelling the “Captain’s Nose”: Exploring the Shift Towards Autonomous Fishing with Social Simulation

    • Jorge Santos, Melania Borit, Loïs Vanhée

    Pages 391-397

​This book presents the state-of-the-art in social simulation as presented at the Social Simulation Conference 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. It covers the developments in applications and methods of social simulation, addressing societal issues such as socio-ecological systems and policy making. Methodological issues discussed include large-scale empirical calibration, model sharing and interdisciplinary research, as well as decision making models, validation and the use of qualitative data in simulation modeling. Research areas covered include archaeology, cognitive science, economics, organization science, and social simulation education.


This collection gives readers insight into the increasing use of social simulation in both its theoretical development and in practical applications such as policy making whereby modelling and the behavior of complex systems is key.  The book will appeal to students, researchers and professionals in the various fields. 

• digital society
• complexity theory
• public policy
• applications of social simulation
• methods of social simulation
• opinion dynamics
• simulating human interaction
• changing mobility patterns
• system of systems
• computational social sciences

• Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

  Harko Verhagen

• Norwegian College of Fishery Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

  Melania Borit

• Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications, Växjö, Sweden

  Giangiacomo Bravo

• Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

  Nanda Wijermans

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