How to build and use agent-based models in social science
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ABMs are the cornerstone of opinion dynamics simulation, defining mathematical rules for agents' opinion updates in response to messages.
“Agent-Based Models (ABMs) are the cornerstone of opinion dynamics simulation, defining mathematical rules for agents' opinion updates in response to messages (Gilbert and Terna, 2000; Smaldino, 2023; Lorenz et al., 2021; Chuang and Rogers, 2023; Epstein, 2012; Flache et al., 2017).”
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“S OCIAL science research methods often simplify and abstract social phenomena to establish simplified representations [1].”
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“This method, compensating for the limitations of social experiments, is widely applied in studies across social science [41, 18, 39], political science [27, 60, 64], economics [10, 34], and other interdisciplinary fields [8, 38, 79, 80], advancing their understanding of human behaviors and society…”
- Authors
- Gilbert, N., & Terna, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Surrey (GB)
- University of Turin (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Terna, Pietro
- Venue
- Mind & Society
- Published
- 2000-03
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 57-72
- ISSN
- 1593-7879 (ISSN-L)
- 1860-1839
- OpenAlex
- W1978706036
- Cited by
- 507
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 36 · 2016: 36 · 2015: 37 · 2014: 29 · 2013: 33 · 2012: 32
- FWCI
- 5.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Mind & Society (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Surrey Research Insight Open Access (The University of Surrey) (submittedVersion)
- Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Simulation Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
- Keywords
- agent-based modeling, computer simulation, social science methodology, emergence, simulation debugging
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