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| About the book |
This authoritative book details all 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:
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| About the authors |
Professor Nigel Gilbert is a member of the Sociology Department at the University of Surrey. He has published many articles and has been both an editor and author of sociology books. Professor Dr Klaus G. Troitzsch is a member of the Universitat Koblenz-Landau, and has been an author and editor of many books and articles in sociology and political science. |
| Table of contents |
1: Simulation and social science 2: Simulation as a method 3: Systems dynamics and world models 4: Microanalytical simulation models 5: Queuing models 6: Multilevel simulation models 7: Cellular automata 8: Multi-agent models 9: Developing multi-agent systems 10: Learning and evolutionary models Appendix A (websites) Appendix B (Linear stability analysis of the hawk'dove'lawabider model) Appendix C (Random number generators) |
