Introduction to Computational Social Science Principles and Applications /

• Main Author: Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Texts in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data mining.; Computer simulation.; Application software.; Graph theory.; Social sciences.; Computer Science.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Graph Theory.; Simulation and Modeling.

The emerging field of computational social science (CSS) is devoted to the pursuit of interdisciplinary social science research from an information processing perspective, through the medium of advanced computing and information technologies. This reader-friendly textbook/reference is the first work...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Computation and Social Science
• Automated Information Extraction
• Social Networks
• Social Complexity I: Origins and Measurement
• Social Complexity II: Laws
• Social Complexity III: Theories
• Simulations I: Methodology
• Simulations II: Variable-Oriented Models
• Simulations III: Object-Oriented Models.