Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio2015-03-272015-03-272011-05Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio, Comparing Agent-Based Computational Simulation Models in Cross-Cultural Research. Cross-Cultural Research 45(2) 208-230, 2011.DOI: 10.1177/1069397110393894https://hdl.handle.net/1920/9239Mel 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.en-US© 2010 SAGE PublicationsAgent-based modelSocial sciences--Simulation methodsAfrica, EastCross-cultural studiesArticle