An Interpretive Account to Agent-based Social Simulation

ISBN-13: 9781032489704 / Twarda / 2023 / 192 str.

Opis

Using the investigation of criminal culture as an example application, this edited volume presents a novel approach to agent-based simulation: interpretive agent-based social simulation as a methodological and transdisciplinary approach to examining the potential of qualitative data and methods for agent-based modelling (ABM).

Spis treści

1. Introduction. An Interpretive Account of an Agent-Based Social Simulation  2. Epistemological foundations  3. The use of ethnographic social simulation for crime research: From the field to the model  4. A framework for simulation in interpretive research: Growing criminal culture  5. Analysis of the breakdown of a criminal network: Criminal collapse  6. A simulation model of intra-organisational conflict regulation in the crime world  7. Hermeneutics of Social Simulations  8. Transdisciplinary reflections: Science in context  9. On the Construction of Plausible Futures in Interpretive Agent-Based Modelling  10. Outlook on potential further directions

O autorze

Martin Neumann is Research Associate at the Department of Language, Culture, History and Communication of the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.