Representing qualitative social science in computational models to aid reasoning under uncertainty: National security examples

PK Davis, A O'Mahony - The Journal of Defense Modeling …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Representing causal social science knowledge in models is difficult: much of the best
knowledge is qualitative and ambiguously conditional, unlike the knowledge in “physics …

Agent-based computational modeling and international relations theory: Quo vadis?

C Cioffi-Revilla - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2017 - oxfordre.com
Agent-based computational modeling (ABM, for short) is a formal and supplementary
methodological approach used in international relations (IR) theory and research, based on …

Panel Discussion: Moving Social‐Behavioral Modeling Forward

A O'Mahony, PK Davis, S Appling… - … for Complex Systems, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Contributors offered suggestions to improve multi‐scale modeling that focused mainly on
getting model substance right. This chapter is an edited but not iterated recounting of …

Simulating complex social-behavioral systems

KM Carley - 2019 Spring Simulation Conference (SpringSim), 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social-behavioral systems are complex. Consequently, they are often assessed using
simulation. Particularly valuable is the artificial society approach, in which the social …