Social Simulation For A Digital Society

Author : Diane Payne,Johan A. Elkink,Nial Friel,Thomas U. Grund,Tamara Hochstrasser,Pablo Lucas,Adrian Ottewill
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030302986

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Social Simulation for a Digital Society by Diane Payne,Johan A. Elkink,Nial Friel,Thomas U. Grund,Tamara Hochstrasser,Pablo Lucas,Adrian Ottewill Pdf

“Social Simulation for a Digital Society” provides a cross-section of state-of-the-art research in social simulation and computational social science. With the availability of big data and faster computing power, the social sciences are undergoing a tremendous transformation. Research in computational social sciences has received considerable attention in the last few years, with advances in a wide range of methodologies and applications. Areas of application of computational methods range from the study of opinion and information dynamics in social networks, the formal modeling of resource use, the study of social conflict and cooperation to the development of cognitive models for social simulation and many more. This volume is based on the Social Simulation Conference of 2017 in Dublin and includes applications from across the social sciences, providing the reader with a demonstration of the highly versatile research in social simulation, with a particular focus on public policy relevance in a digital society. Chapters in the book include contributions to the methodology of simulation-based research, theoretical and philosophical considerations, as well as applied work. This book will appeal to students and researchers in the field.

Author : Punziano, Gabriella,Delli Paoli, Angela
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 919 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781799884743

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Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society by Punziano, Gabriella,Delli Paoli, Angela Pdf

Doing research is an ever-changing challenge for social scientists. This challenge is harder than ever today as current societies are changing quickly and in many, sometimes conflicting, directions. Social phenomena, personal interactions, and formal and informal relationships are becoming more borderless and disconnected from the anchors of the offline “reality.” These dynamics are heavily marking our time and are suggesting evolutionary challenges in the ways we know, interpret, and analyze the world. Internet and computer-mediated communication (CMC) is being incorporated into every aspect of daily life, and social life has been deeply penetrated by the internet. This is due to recent technological developments that increase the scope and range of online social spaces and the forms and time of participation such as Web 2.0, which widened the opportunities for user-generated content, the emergence of an “internet of things,” and of ubiquitous mobile devices that make it possible to always be connected. This implies an adjustment to epistemological and methodological stances for conducting social research and an adaption of traditional social research methods to the specificities of online interactions in the digital society. The Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society covers the different strands of methods most affected by the change in a digital society and develops a broader theoretical reflection on the future of social research in its challenge to always be fitting, suitable, adaptable, and pertinent to the society to be studied. The chapters are geared towards unlocking the future frontiers and potential for social research in the digital society. They include theoretical, epistemological, and ontological reflections about the digital research methods as well as innovative methods and tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data. This book is ideal for social scientists, practitioners, librarians, researchers, academicians, and students interested in social research methodology and its developments in the digital scenario.

Author : Harko Verhagen,Melania Borit,Giangiacomo Bravo,Nanda Wijermans
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030341275

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Advances in Social Simulation by Harko Verhagen,Melania Borit,Giangiacomo Bravo,Nanda Wijermans Pdf

​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.

Author : Zaremohzzabieh, Zeinab,Ahrari, Seyedali,Krauss, Steven Eric,Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi,Omar, Siti Zobidah
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799829577

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Youth Work in a Digital Society by Zaremohzzabieh, Zeinab,Ahrari, Seyedali,Krauss, Steven Eric,Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi,Omar, Siti Zobidah Pdf

The integration of digital technologies into practice presents opportunities and challenges for the field of youth work. Digitalization procedures transform interactions with users, in addition to their needs. These also transform the organizations where youth workers are involved in professional practice. Adapting digital technological tools is a crucial challenge for the youth work profession. Youth Work in a Digital Society is an essential scholarly publication that explores how to overcome any challenges and issues facing youth development work in the digital age and to what extent modern digital technologies can contribute to empowering youth work practice. Featuring a wide range of topics such as digital inclusion, mobile technologies, and social media, this book is ideal for executives, managers, researchers, professionals, academicians, policymakers, practitioners, and students.

Author : Corinne Bieder
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031569951

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Climate Change and Safety in High-Risk Industries by Corinne Bieder Pdf

Author : Jens Martin Gurr,Rolf Parr,Dennis Hardt
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839463109

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Metropolitan Research by Jens Martin Gurr,Rolf Parr,Dennis Hardt Pdf

Metropolitan research requires multidisciplinary perspectives in order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines including architectural history, art history, heritage conservation, literary and cultural studies, spatial planning and planning theory, geoinformatics, urban sociology, economic geography, operations research, technology studies, transport planning, aquatic ecosystems research and urban epidemiology. It is this scope of disciplinary - and increasingly also interdisciplinary - approaches that allows metropolitan research to address recent societal challenges of urban life, such as mobility, health, diversity or sustainability.

Author : William Bogard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521550815

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The Simulation of Surveillance by William Bogard Pdf

This compelling book, first published in 1996, is an exploration of the imaginary of perceptual control technologies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. William Bogard constructs a 'social science fiction' of how the revolution in simulation technology reconfigures and intensifies the role of surveillance in war, work, sexuality and private life, enabling forms of control which hyper realise our experience of time, space, agency and society itself. His is a critique of the imaginary in which control breaks free of its prior limits, an imaginary of unmediated perception with effects everywhere in fantastic systems for the relentless conversion of objects, events and people into information.

Author : Maria José Sousa,Célio Gonçalo Marques
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000615609

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Innovations and Social Media Analytics in a Digital Society by Maria José Sousa,Célio Gonçalo Marques Pdf

Recent advances in digitization are transforming healthcare, education, tourism, information technology, and some other sectors. Social media analytics are tools that can be used to measure innovation and the relation of the companies with the citizens. This book comprises state-ofthe-art social media analytics, and advanced innovation policies in the digitization of society. The number of applications that can be used to create and analyze social media analytics generates large amounts of data called big data, including measures of the use of the technologies to develop or to use new services to improve the quality of life of the citizens. Digitization has applications in fields from remote monitoring to smart sensors and other devices. Integration generates data that need to be analyzed and visualized in an easy and clear way, that will be some of the proposals of the researchers present in this book. This volume offers valuable insights to researchers on how to design innovative digital analytics systems and how to improve information delivery remotely.

Author : Shingo Takahashi,David Sallach,Juliette Rouchier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9784431731672

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Advancing Social Simulation: The First World Congress by Shingo Takahashi,David Sallach,Juliette Rouchier Pdf

Bringing together diverse approaches to social simulation and research agendas, this book presents a unique collection of contributions from the First World Congress on Social Simulation, held in 2006 in Kyoto, Japan. The work emerged from the collaboration of the Pacific Asian Association for Agent-Based Approach in Social Systems Sciences, the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science, and the European Social Simulation Association.

Author : Ying Tan,Yuhui Shi,Wenjian Luo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031366253

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Advances in Swarm Intelligence by Ying Tan,Yuhui Shi,Wenjian Luo Pdf

This two-volume set LNCS 13968 and 13969 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2023, which took place in Shenzhen, China, China, in July 2023. The theme of this year’s conference was “Serving Life with Swarm Intelligence”. The 81 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 170 submissions. The papers are organized into 12 cohesive sections covering major topics of swarm intelligence research and its development and applications. The papers of the second part cover topics such as: Swarm Robotics and UAV; Machine Learning; Data Mining; Routing and Scheduling Problems; Stock Prediction and Portfolio Optimization; ICSI-Optimization Competition.

Author : Nigel Gilbert,Jim Doran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351165112

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Simulating Societies by Nigel Gilbert,Jim Doran Pdf

The most exciting and productive areas of academic inquiry are often where the interests of two disciplines meet. This is certainly the case for the subject of this book, originally published in 1994, which explores the contribution that computer-based modelling and artificial intelligence can make to understanding fundamental issues in social science. Simulating Societies shows how computer simulations can help to clarify theoretical approaches, contribute to the evaluation of alternative theories, and illuminate one of the major issues of the social sciences: how social phenomena can "emerge" from individual action. The authors discuss how simulation models can be constructed using recently developed artificial intelligence techniques and they consider the methodological issues involved in using such models for theory development, testing and experiment. The introductory chapters situate the book within social science, and suggest why the time was ripe for significant progress, before defining basic terminology, showing how simulation has been used to theorize about organizations, and indicating through examples some of the fundamental issues involved in simulation. The main body of the text provides case studies drawn from economics, anthropology, archaeology, planning, social psychology and sociology. The appeal of this path-breaking book was twofold. It offered an essential introduction to simulation for social scientists and it provided case study applications for computer scientists interested in the latest advances in the burgeoning area of distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) at the time.

Author : Eric Silverman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319724089

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Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling by Eric Silverman Pdf

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 of artificial life and population biology, then demonstrates the growing popularity and relevance of these methods in the social sciences. Following an in-depth analysis of the potential impact of these methods on social science and social theory, the text provides substantive examples of the application of agent-based models in the field of demography. This work offers a unique combination of applied simulation work and substantive, in-depth philosophical analysis, and as such has potential appeal for specialist social scientists, complex systems scientists, and philosophers of science interested in the methodology of simulation and the practice of interdisciplinary computing research.​

Author : Petra Ahrweiler,Martin Neumann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030615057

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Advances in Social Simulation by Petra Ahrweiler,Martin Neumann Pdf

This book presents the state of the art in social simulation as presented at the Social Simulation Conference 2019 in Mainz, Germany. It covers the developments in applications and methods of social simulation, addressing societal issues such as socio-ecological systems and policymaking. 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 book gives readers insight into the increasing use of social simulation in both its theoretical development and in practical applications such as policymaking whereby modeling and the behavior of complex systems is key. The book appeals to students, researchers and professionals in the various fields.

Author : Isabell Gstach,Elisabeth Kapferer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527505155

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Rethinking Social Capital by Isabell Gstach,Elisabeth Kapferer Pdf

Concepts of social capital play a well-established role in a number of academic disciplines and continue to grow in popularity in the discourses of the sciences, as well as those of civil society and social practice. As an element that is fundamental and constitutive of various forms of societal coexistence and wellbeing, social capital apparently generates positive effects. However, it also contributes to inequalities and unequal distribution of power, and is, consequently, a rather controversial subject. This collection of essays represents reflections and case studies from all over the world. They step out of well-known paths of discourse and discuss the phenomenon of social capital in manifold ways and from new perspectives. In addition to rethinking social capital theoretically and methodologically, the authors focus especially on issues and challenges of its practical application. The contributions come from researchers and practitioners of different backgrounds including sciences such as sociology, philosophy, social geography, economics, health studies, history, interpersonal communication studies and cultural studies, as well as social practice in development aid. The volume will appeal to a broad audience from diverse disciplines, both academic and practical.

Author : Bogumił Kamiński,Grzegorz Koloch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642398292

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Advances in Social Simulation by Bogumił Kamiński,Grzegorz Koloch Pdf

This book is the conference proceedings of ESSA 2013, the 9th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association. ESSA conferences constitute annual events, which serve as an international platform for the exchange of ideas and discussion of cutting-edge research in the field of social simulations, both from the theoretical as well as applied perspective. This book consists of 33 articles, which are divided into four themes: Methods for the development of simulation models, Applications of agent-based modeling, Adaptive behavior, social interactions and global environmental change and using qualitative data to inform behavioral rules. We are convinced that this book will serve interested readers as a useful compendium which presents in a nutshell the most recent advances at the frontiers of social simulation research.