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 …

The increasing integration of technology into our lives has created unprecedented volumes
of data on society's everyday behaviour. Such data opens up exciting new opportunities to …

Numerous developments have taken place in Computational Social Science (CSS) in the
short time since the first edition of this textbook appeared in 2014. They include new …

Sociologists have long believed that psychology alone can't explain what happens when
people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and …

We review tourism decision-making paradigms. We conclude that the literature is dominated
by 'variance'studies of tourists' decisions by causal analysis of independent variables …

Many accounts of the micro-macro link use the philosophical notion of emergence to argue
that collective phenomena are collaboratively created by individuals yet are not reducible to …

How do organizations become created? Entrepreneurship scholars have debated this
question for decades, but only recently have they been able to gain insights into the non …

Agent Based Modeling (ABMs) and Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM) are complementary
modeling techniques: the former represents interacting agents across a landscape over time …

This article introduces a general sociological readership to multiagent systems (MAS), a new
computer simulation technology that has increasingly been used to describe and explain …

This paper draws on the metaphor of a spectrum of models ranging from the most theory-
driven to the most evidence-driven. The issue of concern is the practice and criteria that will …