The estimation of various social objects is necessary in different fields of social life, science,education, etc. This estimation is usually used for forecasting, for evaluating of different propertiesand for other goals in complex man-machine systems.[...]

This book gives an overview of the state of the art in five different approaches to social science simulation on the individual level. The volume contains microanalytical simulation models designed for policy implementation and evaluation, multilevel simulation methods designed for detecting...