Systemic Bias: Algorithms and Society looks at issues of computational bias in the contexts of cultural works, metaphors of magic and mathematics in tech culture, and workplace psychometrics. Systemic Bias: Algorithms a...More info...
This book is a collection of research articles that deal with three aspects of simulation and gaming for social design: (1) Theory and methodology, including game system theory and agent-based modeling; (2) Sustainability, including global warming...More info...
Systemic Bias: Algorithms and Society looks at issues of computational bias in the contexts of cultural works, metaphors of magic and mathematics in tech culture, and workplace psychometrics....More info...
This book is a collection of research articles that deal with three aspects of simulation and gaming for social design: (1) Theory and methodology, including game system theory and agent-based modeling; (2) Sustainability, including global warming...More info...
This book deals with the philosophy of model use; focuses on the role of models in the natural sciences; and introduces a new paradigm to the social sciences, catastrophe model. It outlines the role of models concerned with conflict problems, particu...More info...
Agent-based simulation has become increasingly popular as a modeling approach in the social sciences because it enables researchers to build models where individual entities and their interactions are directly represented. The Second Editi...More info...
This book deals with the philosophy of model use; focuses on the role of models in the natural sciences; and introduces a new paradigm to the social sciences, catastrophe model. It outlines the role of models concerned with conflict problems, particu...More info...
(Pub. Date: 29-Oct-2018, Hardback, Publisher: Information Age Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781641133210)
This book emphasizes the importance of using simulations in social studies to engage students in real-life processes. It highlights the need for training resources to help teachers implement simulations effectively. By integrating simulations, socia...More info...
(Pub. Date: 29-Oct-2018, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Information Age Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781641133203)
John Dewey wrote in multiple places that education should be an experience of the content and processes of life itself. Too often, social studies is taught in a way that tells students about real-life, but fails to engage them in the process of li...More info...
This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields o...More info...
This book illustrates how the one-dot theory, which is a dialectical study, is well suited to describing, explaining and inferring contemporary Chinas past, present and future. It argues that since October 1949, the field of contemporary China st...More info...
Microsimulation as a modelling tool in social sciences has increased in importance over the last few decades. Once restricted to a handful of universities and government departments, as a scientific field it has achieved a new dynamism during the las...More info...
This book explores how complexity science and social simulation can be used to improve and inform policy-making in both research and innovation. Beginning with an introduction to conceptual definitions of complexity science and social simulation, th...More info...
Learn how to use mock trials to bring history and literature to life! When students take on the roles of lawyers and witnesses in historical or literary trials, they develop greater investment in the topics, they learn rigorous close-reading and q...More info...
Learn how to use mock trials to bring history and literature to life! When students take on the roles of lawyers and witnesses in historical or literary trials, they develop greater investment in the topics, they learn rigorous close-reading and q...More info...
Microsimulation as a modelling tool in social sciences has increased in importance over the last few decades. Once restricted to a handful of universities and government departments, as a scientific field it has achieved a new dynamism during the las...More info...
Carsey (U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and Harden (U. of Colorado-Boulder) introduce students and researchers in the social sciences to a set of quantitative methods that could help them draw inferences about the larger population from which the d...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Apr-2013, Hardback, Publisher: Idea Group,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781466638907)
This book provides original research on the theoretical and applied aspects of artificial life, as well as addresses scientific, psychological, and social issues of synthetic life-like behavior and abilities-- Research on living systems, hu...More info...
People who are trying to solve tough economic, social, or environmental problems often find themselves frustratingly stuck. They cannot solve their problems in their current context; the larger system within which they are operating is too unsta...More info...
This book offers an alternative view to current postmodern approaches to composition. It takes a critical realist stance to arrive at the essence of written communication with the aim of informing a practical application: a computerised writing tu...More info...
