Social psychologists have studied the psychological processes involved in persuasion,
conformity, and other forms of social influence, but they have rarely modeled the ways …

Image blur is caused by a number of factors such as motion, defocus, capturing light over the
non-zero area of the aperture and pixel, the presence of anti-aliasing filters on a camera …

Affordable and ubiquitous online communications (social media) provide the means for
flows of ideas and opinions and play an increasing role for the transformation and cohesion …

This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on the role of model-based approaches, such
as agent-based modelling, in the future of demography. First we call attention to the …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to argue that in cross-cultural and strategic
management, we must pay attention to the processes creating and maintaining culture. How …

The paper deals with the use of empirical data in social science agent-based models. Agent-
based models are too often viewed just as highly abstract thought experiments conducted in …

This study examines how social and natural scientists converged on a new ontological
approach to science. Three distinguishing features comprise this new approach. They …

There has so far been no shared understanding of validity in agent-based simulation. We
here conceptualise validation as systematically substantiating the premises on which …

The growing field of studies of opinion formation using physical formalisms and computer
simulation based tools suffers from relative lack of connection to the'real world'societal …

Traditionally, researchers have employed statistical methods to model crime. However,
these approaches are limited by being unable to model individual actions and behaviour …