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: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2017.
• 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.

This indispensable textbook/reference provides a comprehensive and reader-friendly introduction to the emerging field of computational social science (CSS). Presenting a unified treatment, the text examines in detail the four key methodological approaches of automated social information extraction,...

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.