Towards an Ideal Social Simulation Language
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In this paper we discuss the purpose, design and direction of systems for the computational simulation of social phenomena. We do this by arguing and speculating about what an ideal system of this type might look like. We illustrate this with the tentative steps that have been made in this direction with respect to SDML. We hope that this will inform and stimulate the further development of social tools.
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