This book covers the latest advances in applying agent-based modelling in social sciences. The Social Simulation Conference is the major global conference devoted to this topic. It is aimed at promoting social simulation and computational social science.
This year’s special theme is “Social Simulation—Crossroads Between Social Science and Computational Methods”, focused on modelling of social phenomena, computational aspects and the theory linking these two scientific fields.
The primary audience of this book are scholars and practitioners in computational social sciences including economics, business, sociology, politics, psychology and urban studies.
Agent-Based Social Simulation for Professional Training: What to Know?.-
Attitude change through economic narratives.- Blueprinting Organ Donation: A
Policy-first Approach for Developing Agent-based Models.- On the liquidity of
the illiquid (hard-to-trade) assets.- The effect of models of criminal
behavior on police interception strategies.- Combining Vignette Surveys with
Agent-Based Modeling: Insights on Fraud Dynamics with Empirically Calibrated
Norm Sensitivities.- Strongly Empirical Modelling.- Exploring the complex
behaviours of electric vehicle drivers based on an Agent-based Reinforcement
Learning method.- Theorizing (co-) evolution of agent-based modelling and
simulation for studying community energy systems: the case of collective
energy security modelling.- A behavioural agent-based model for housing
markets: impact of a financial shock on wealth in the UK.- Bringing worlds
together: When public health and social simulation approaches collide.- A
Generic Modelling Framework for Last-Mile Delivery Systems.- Towards a
Formalism for the Social Identity Approach.- Beyond Numbers: Qualitative
Structural Validation of Social Agent-Based Models.- Using an Agent-Based
Simulation to Investigate Whether Alternating Normal and Abnormal Conditions
Could Benefit Individual and Organizational Fitness.- Modelling
Misinformation Spread: The Role of Network Density in Diverse Social
Structures.- Toward Automating Agent-based Model Generation: A Benchmark for
Model Extraction using Question-Answering Techniques.- Evaluation of
Infection Prevention Measures in Elementary Schools using an Agent-Based
Model.- Uncertainty Quantification for Agent Based Models: A Tutorial.-
Assessing Effectiveness of Anti-Money Laundering System with Agent-Based
Model.- Digital Twins for Decision Support in Regional Transforming Steel
Industries.- The Agent-based Model of Online Protest and Repression in
Authoritarian Settings.- On the effects of decision-making modes on
organizational resilience.- Text, interviews, and expert coding: Using
qualitative and quantitative data in an agent-based model of compliance with
Human Rights judgments.- Modelling for Policy Without Policy Modelling.- How
to get people to leave: Exploring the influence of warning message
informativity on the evacuation of large-scale events.- Different Facets for
Different Experts: A Framework for Streamlining The Integration of
Qualitative Insights into ABM Development.- Different Bottom-Up Simulation
Methods and Policy Applications: A Perspective.- Relationship Between Family
Grant Program and Social Inequality in Brazil: An Agent-Based Model.- Ethical
Dimensions to Empirical Applications of Agent-Based Social Simulation.-
Episode Map for Stakeholder Engagement in Co-creating Modeling.- Towards
Dynamic Population Synthesis Through the Use of Machine Learning.-
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Market Competition in Mobility
Services.- Democracy in Crisis: Using Social Simulation to Explore Policies
for Countering Radicalization.- Death, Taxes and Inequality: Can a Minimal
Model Explain Real Economic Inequality?.- The Role of Network Rewiring in
Influencing Extremism and Pluralistic Ignorance.- Invasion of the mind
snatchers: the use of generative AI agents in agent-based social simulation.-
Invasion of the mind snatchers: the use of generative AI agents in
agent-based social simulation.- Real time Parameter Changes in Agent-Based
Models with Mesa.- Hill-Climbing or Satisficing: Does the Algorithmic
Representation of Human Decision-Making in Agent-based Models of
Organizations Matter?.- Towards understanding collective resource use: the
role of individual attribution of ecological change.- Health-Economic
Synergies of Carbon Emission Reduction Policies.- How Interdisciplinary Are
Agent Based Models in General and Those of Human Decision in Particular? A
Bibliometric Analysis.
Marcin Czupyrina is an associate professor in the Financial Markets Department of Cracow University of Economics, Poland. He holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics. He obtained a Marie Curie Scholarship in 2004 (Centre for operations research and econometrics, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).
His research concentrates on decisions under risk and uncertainty, behavioural aspects of decision process with the application to the financial markets as well as on microstructural aspects of the markets.
Bogumi Kamiski is an associate professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, and adjunct professor at Ryerson University, Canada. His research fields are computational social science and operations research. He is an expert in design and analysis of simulation experiments and high-performance computing using the Julia language.
Harko Verhagen is a professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences of Stockholm University where he also defended his PhD. He is author of over 110 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers as well as editor of several books. His research addresses norms and other social science concepts for artificial agents, social aspects of computer gaming, agent-based social simulation, and ethics and AI design and development.
