Epistemological Aspects of Computer Simulation in the Social Sciences Second International Workshop, EPOS 2006, Brescia, Italy, October 5-6, 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Squazzoni, Flaminio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5466
• Subjects: Computer science.; Logic design.; Computer Science.; Logic Design.; Computer Science, general.

This volume collects the revised versions of the invited and selected papers that were presented at the Second EPOS––Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation––Workshop, held in Brescia, Italy, in October 2006. EPOS is a bi-annual cross-disciplinary workshop on simulation originally established by...

Table of Contents:

• EPOS-Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation: An Introduction
• EPOS-Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation: An Introduction
• Invited Papers
• The Epistemologies of Social Simulation Research
• From Simulation to Theory (and Backward)
• Selected Papers
• Talking about ABSS: Functional Descriptions of Models
• What Does Emergence in Computer Simulations? Simulation between Epistemological and Ontological Emergence
• Emergence as an Explanatory Principle in Artificial Societies. Reflection on the Bottom-Up Approach to Social Theory
• Reconstruction Failures: Questioning Level Design
• Narrative Scenarios, Mediating Formalisms, and the Agent-Based Simulation of Land Use Change
• Validation and Verification in Social Simulation: Patterns and Clarification of Terminology
• Validation and Verification of Agent-Based Models in the Social Sciences
• Abductive Fallacies with Agent-Based Modeling and System Dynamics
• Algorithmic Analysis of Production Systems Used as Agent-Based Social Simulation Models
• The Nature of Noise.