The omnipresence of workplace gossip makes understanding gossip processes imperative
to understand social life in organizations. Although gossip research has recently increased …

This article looks at 20 years of applications of agent‐based models (ABMs) in sociology
and, in particular, their explanatory achievements and methodological insights. These …

The proliferation of agent-based models (ABMs) in recent decades has motivated model
practitioners to improve the transparency, replicability, and trust in results derived from …

Most of the intriguing social phenomena of our time, such as international terrorism, social
inequality, and urban ethnic segregation, are consequences of complex forms of agent …

This article provides an overview of the social simulation approach to the study of social
phenomena. We focus especially on the relevance of heterogeneity of social behavior and …

This paper provides an overview on the impact of agent-based models in the social
sciences. It focuses on the reasons why agent-based models are seen as important …

This article investigates the importance of the endogenous selection of partners for trust and
cooperation in market exchange situations, where there is information asymmetry between …

This article has a general goal: it provides an overview of the main theoretical and
methodological dimensions structuring the field of research that is based on agent-based …

This article is concerned with the study of statistical power in agent-based modeling (ABM).
After an overview of classic statistics theory on how to interpret Type-II error (whose …

This paper investigates the impact of referee reliability on the quality and efficiency of peer
review. We modeled peer review as a process based on knowledge asymmetries and …