Formal modelling is potentially a useful method to help understand the many mechanisms
underlying transitions and their complex interactions. This article reviews existing models of …

Recent years have seen an increase in the application of ideas from the social sciences to
computational systems. Nowhere has this been more pronounced than in the domain of …

Norms in human societies are expectations of behaviours of the individuals. In human
societies, there are several types of norms such as moral norms, social norms and legal …

In this paper, we present ChatDashboard, a framework for collecting, linking, and processing
donated WhatsApp chat log data. The framework consists of the WhatsR R package for …

Complexity science and its methodological applications have increased in popularity in
social science during the last two decades. One key concept within complexity science is …

In this chapter we provide an introductory presentation of normative multi-agent systems
(nMAS). The key idea of the chapter is that any definition of nMAS should preliminarily clarify …

Background Cooperation is of utmost importance to society as a whole, but is often
challenged by individual self-interests. While game theory has studied this problem …

Social scientists associate agent-based simulation (ABS) models with three ideas about
explanation: they provide generative explanations, they are models of mechanisms, and …

Background. By defining what is “normal,” appropriate, expected, and unacceptable, social
norms shape human behavior. However, the individual-level mechanisms through which …

The academic study and the applied use of agent-based modelling of social processes has
matured considerably over the last thirty years. The time is now right to engage seriously …