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Chapter and Conference Paper
Peek Over the Fence—How to Introduce Students to Computational Social Sciences
The aim of the paper is to present an idea on how to introduce students of social sciences to computational approach. We discuss why there is a need to develop computational education in the social sciences an...
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Informing Agent-Based Models of Social Innovation Uptake
This paper discusses how data and theory were used to inform ten agent-based models in an EU Horizon 2020 project SMARTEES. The project investigates cases of social innovations implemented in different Europea...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Looking into the Educational Mirror: Why Computation Is Hardly Being Taught in the Social Sciences, and What to Do About It
In the current digital era, with an increasingly complex and turbulent society, demand is rising for social scientists capable of analysing behavioural dynamics. Studying behavioural dynamics is a valuable len...
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The Energy Transition Game: Experiences and Ways Forward
We discuss our experiences with the energy transition game (ETG) in Groningen, Tokyo, and Osnabrück, all in educational settings. The ETG is an agent-based game in which roles that can be played are energy com...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Psychologically Plausible Models in Agent-Based Simulations of Sustainable Behavior
Agent-based modelling (ABM) proves successful as a methodology for the social sciences. To continue bridging the micro-macro link in social simulations and applying ABM in real-world conditions, conventional a...
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Open AccessGoing beyond perfect rationality: drought risk, economic choices and the influence of social networks
Theoretical and experimental studies from psychological and behavioral sciences show that heuristics and social networks play an important role in decision-making under risk. The goal of this paper is to inves...
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Management of Complex Systems: Toward Agent-Based Gaming for Policy
In this chapter, we discuss the implications of complexities in societal systems for management. After discussing some essential features of complex systems, we discuss the current focus of managers and manage...
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Policy Making and Modelling in a Complex World
In this chapter, we discuss the consequences of complexity in the real world together with some meaningful ways of understanding and managing such situations. The implications of such complexity are that many ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Diffusion Dynamics of Electric Cars and Adaptive Policy: Towards an Empirical Based Simulation
In this paper we apply the updated consumat approach to the case of diffusion of electric cars. We will discuss how data from a large sample can be used to parameterize a number of main behavioural drivers, an...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
Social Informatics
4th International Conference, SocInfo 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland, December 5-7, 2012. Proceedings
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Task dynamics in self-organising task groups: expertise, motivational, and performance differences of specialists and generalists
Multi-agent simulation is applied to explore how different types of task variety cause workgroups to change their task allocation accordingly. We studied two groups, generalists and specialists. We hypothesise...
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Diffusion dynamics in small-world networks with heterogeneous consumers
Diffusions of new products and technologies through social networks can be formalized as spreading of infectious diseases. However, while epidemiological models describe infection in terms of transmissibility,...
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Guess You’re Right on This One Too: Central and Peripheral Processing in Attitude Changes in Large Populations
In processes of attitude change people may employ different mechanisms, for example focussing on arguments (central processing) versus focusing on the reputation of the source (peripheral processing). In this ...
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Newcomers in Self-Organising Task Groups: A Pilot Study
This paper describes the consequences of turnover, especially how a work group and a newcomer mutually adapt. We tested two groups, a group in which the task allocation gives space for a newcomer to fit in and...
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Uniformity, Bipolarization and Pluriformity Captured as Generic Stylized Behavior with an Agent-Based Simulation Model of Attitude Change
This paper focuses at the dynamics of attitude change in large groups. A multi-agent computer simulation has been developed as a tool to study hypothesis we take to study these dynamics. A major extension in c...
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Diffusion Processes in Demographic Transitions: A Prospect on Using Multi Agent Simulation to Explore the Role of Cognitive Strategies and Social Interactions
Multi agent simulation (MAS) is a tool that can be used to explore the dynamics of different systems. Considering that many demographic phenomena have roots in individual choice behaviour and social interactio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Need for and Development of Behaviourally Realistic Agents
In this paper we argue that simulating complex systems involving human behaviour requires agent rules based on a theoretically rooted structure that captures basic behavioural processes. Essential components o...
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Stimulating diffusion of green products
This paper presents a model-based analysis of the introduction of green products, which are products with low environmental impacts. Both consumers and firms are simulated as populations of agents who differ ...
