Understanding Complex Social Dynamics: a Plea for Cellular Automata Based Modelling

The article argues that using cellular automata (CA) is a promising modelling approach to understand social dynamics. The first section introduces and illustrates the concept of CA. Section 2 gives a short history of CA in the social sciences. Section 3 describes and analyses a more complicated model of evolving support networks. The final section summarises the advantages of the CA approach.

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Year of publication:	1998-06-30
Authors:	Flache, Andreas ; Hegselmann, Rainer
Published in:	Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. - Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. - Vol. 1.1998, 3, p. 1-1
Publisher:	Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Subject:	Cellular Automata \| Social Dynamics \| Modelling

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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