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Sociology and Social Theory in Agent Based Social Simulation: A Symposium

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  • Rosaria Conte
  • Bruce Edmonds
  • Scott Moss
  • R. Keith Sawyer

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A lengthy and intensive debate about the role of sociology in agent based social simulation dominated the email list simsoc@jiscmail.ac.uk during the autumn of 2000. The debate turned on the importance of models being devised to capture the properties of whole social systems and whether those properties should determine agent behaviour or, conversely, whether the properties of social systems should emerge from the behaviour and interaction of the agents and, if so, how that emergence should be represented. The positions of four of the main protagonists concerned specifically with the modelling issues are reprised and extended in this symposium.

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  • Rosaria Conte & Bruce Edmonds & Scott Moss & R. Keith Sawyer, 2001. "Sociology and Social Theory in Agent Based Social Simulation: A Symposium," Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer, vol. 7(3), pages 183-205, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:comaot:v:7:y:2001:i:3:d:10.1023_a:1012919018402
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1012919018402
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