Ontology, a Mediator for Agent-Based Modeling in Social Science
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Ontology, a Mediator for Agent-Based Modeling in Social Science
Agent-Based Models are useful to describe and understand social, economic and spatial systems' dynamics. But, beside the facilities which this methodology offers, evaluation and comparison of simulation models are sometimes problematic. A rigorous conceptual frame needs to be developed. This is in order to ensure the coherence in the chain linking at the one extreme the scientist's hypotheses a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1460-7425
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.1538