Critics concerning the real impact of traditional microfinance as a tool for poverty alleviation
are becoming frequent. In contrast, the financial crisis brought out interest for Islamic finance …

this work is motivated by the need to establish a general methodology for the study of social
systems in situations where conventional analysis is insufficient in describing the intricacies …

Financial services for the poor have existed since early ages and have been evolving from
simple transactions to the nowadays microfinance sophisticated products and complex …

Traditional microfinance as a tool for poverty alle-viation is becoming increasingly
controversial. In contrast, after the 2008 global financial crisis, islamic finance saw a great …

Social Simulation allows us to experiment in the social arena while avoiding unnecessary
expenses and potential threats; a clear example of this is reflected in the simulation of urban …

This work has as its main objective to apply the distributed agency methodology, which
consists of several techniques used in computer science, to solve complex social problems …

There are many ways to model a complex social system such as the level of poverty of an
entity and many ways to measure poverty in an entity given the variety of definitions …

There are several ways to model a complex social system, as is the employment. This work
is motivated by need to establish a model for the study of social and economic systems in …