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Agent-Based Modeling in Social Science, History, and Philosophy : An Introduction

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2018
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Klein, Dominik
Marx, Johannes
Fischbach, Kai
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GESIS, Leibniz Inst. for the Social Sciences
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»Agentenbasierte Modelle in den Sozialwissenschaften, Geschichte und Philosophie« Agent-based modeling has become a common and wellestablished tool in the social sciences and certain of the humanities. Here, we aim to provide an overview of the different modeling approaches in current use. Our discussion unfolds in two parts: we first classify different aspects of the model-building process and identify a number of characteristics shared by most agent-based models in the humanities and social sciences; then we map relevant differences between the various modeling approaches. We classify these into different dimensions including the type of target systems addressed, the intended modeling goals, and the models’ degree of abstraction. Along the way, we provide reference to related debates in contemporary philosophy of science.
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Agent-based Modeling, Methodology, Toy Models, Philosophy of Modeling.
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