Comparing Agent-Based Computational Simulation Models in Cross-Cultural Research
| dc.contributor.author | Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-27T19:21:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-03-27T19:21:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Mel Ember was co-Principal Investigator in the Mason-HRAF Joint Project on Eastern Africa, a multiyear project aimed at developing and analyzing advanced computational agent-based models of human societies across 10 countries and 12 ecosystems. A major unsolved challenge in this kind of social science research is to devise a systematic way to compare, contrast, and communicate different models of social dynamics along relevant dimensions and characteristics, given the inherent complexity of most computational agent-based models. This article proposes a viable systematic framework for comparing models and illustrates its application using some of the models that Mel helped inspire and develop as senior project participant. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Funding for this study was provided by the Center for Social Complexity of George Mason University and by ONR MURI grant no. N00014-08-1-0921. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio, Comparing Agent-Based Computational Simulation Models in Cross-Cultural Research. Cross-Cultural Research 45(2) 208-230, 2011. | |
| dc.identifier.other | DOI: 10.1177/1069397110393894 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1920/9239 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | SAGE | |
| dc.rights | © 2010 SAGE Publications | |
| dc.subject | Agent-based model | |
| dc.subject | Social sciences--Simulation methods | |
| dc.subject | Africa, East | |
| dc.subject | Cross-cultural studies | |
| dc.title | Comparing Agent-Based Computational Simulation Models in Cross-Cultural Research | |
| dc.type | Article |