Editorial: At the Crossroads: Lessons and Challenges in Computational Social Science
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1 Complex Systems Group (CoSIN3), Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 2 Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar, 3 Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, 4 Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, 5 Institute for Scientific Interchange, Torino, Italy, 6 Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 7 Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
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