We are now well into the decade of an era in which simulation has become a most widely used technique, extensively applied in such diverse areas as social systems and space developments. In particular, this paper is devoted to exploring the impact of computer simulation on the social sciences. This article briefly reviews the use of simulation in sociology and goes on to consider in more detail...

There are considerable difficulties in the way of the development of useful and reliable simulation models of social phenomena, including that any simulation necessarily includes many assumptions that are not directly supported by evidence. Despite these difficulties, many still hope to develop quite general models of social phenomena. This paper argues that such hopes are ill-founded, in other...

Community detection is a task of fundamental importance in social network analysis. Community structures enable us to discover the hidden interactions among the network entities and summarize the network information that can be applied in many applied domains such as bioinformatics, finance, e-commerce and forensic science. There exist a variety of methods for community detection based on diffe...

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In this paper we present an approach based on the view that creativity is essentially determined by social evaluation and that any computational modelling of creativity needs to account for this. Directions for modelling creative social systems are suggested based on results of computational social simulations of creativity and innovation.

When dealing with non-trivial social systems, MultiAgent Based Simulation (MABS) makes it possible to model and simulate social aspects without neglecting articulated motivations, decisions and behaviours by individuals. In this paper, we experiment with the simulation of a peculiar sort of social system – namely, Medieval Battles – by using general-purpose agent methodologies and technologies ...