This research thesis considers the role of affect in the domain of social simulation. Focus is given to primate-like social organisation and potential internalisation mechanisms. Autonomous (bottom-up) adaptation of hierarchical social organisation and interaction is argued as feasible, by the introduction of affective and simple normative mechanisms into an individual agent architecture. This ...

Theories in the social sciences are informed either by sociology or by economics. That is, they either draw generalizations from verbal descriptions of social interaction or from mathematical representations of interacting agents as constrained maximizers. The three models discussed in this paper are not less rigorous than economic models and, because they are validated relative to a formal log...

As we know, a cognitive architecture is a domain-generic computational cognitive model that may be used for a broad analysis of cognition and behavior. Cognitive architectures embody theories of cognition in computer algorithms and programs. Social simulation with multi-agent systems can benefit from incorporating cognitive architectures, as they provide a realistic basis for modeling individua...

With the increasing popularity of social networks, it is becoming more and more crucial for the decision makers to analyze and understand the evolution of these networks in order to identify e.g., potential business opportunities. Unfortunately, understanding social networks, which are typically complex and dynamic, is not an easy task. In this paper, we propose an effective and practical appro...

Macro-control is an important system of regulation in the body of socialist market economy; it plays a significant role in the social economy. To make it come into play, it is necessary for us to avoid the grave twists in the economy development. For the past few years, the unbalance of our economy development and the speculation makes a negative effect to the normal development of socialist ec...

In this paper we present a methodology aimed at systematically exploring the shape of the ‘envelope’ of simulation trajectories and the implicit theory that a simulation represents. Thus it complements methods like Monte Carlo analysis, the inspection of single scenarios and syntactical proof. We propose a method for searching for tendencies and proving their necessity relative to a range of pa...

Our research centres in the application of computational modelling to social sciences, more concretely, computer simulation of social phenomena. When these programs are represented specifically like agents we refer to them as Agent Based Modelling (ABM). The executions of these agent-based computational models are known as Agent-Based Social Simulations (ABSS). There are various libraries for d...