Overview
- Offers a new approach to investigating culture
- Includes contributions from leading researchers in Philosophy, Social Science and Computer Science
- Chapters are based on presentations and discussions at the workshop “Integrating Cultures; Models, Simulations and Applications”, 2010 at the Lorentz center in Leiden, the Netherlands
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality (SIPS, volume 3)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Analysis and Modelling of Culture
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This volume analyses, from a computational point of view, how culture may arise, develop and evolve through time. The four sections in this book examine and analyse the modelling of culture, group and organisation culture, culture simulation, and culture-sensitive technology design.
Different research disciplines have different perspectives on culture, making it difficult to compare and integrate different concepts and models of culture. By taking a computational perspective this book nevertheless enables the integration of concepts that play a role in culture, even though they might originate from different disciplines.
Culture is usually regarded as something vague and qualitative and thus difficult to deal with in a computational and formal setting. Taking a computational approach to culture thus encompasses a twofold risk: taking a too simplistic approach to cultural influence on behaviour; or trying to capture too much, hence not leading to useful computational tools. However, the approaches and insights in this collection show how different perspectives by leading researchers described in thirteen chapters still can form a coherent picture. The book thus illustrates the potential of using computing systems to better understand culture.
By describing methods, theories and concrete application results about the integration of cultural aspects into computer systems, this book provides inspiration to researchers of all disciplines alike and presents the start of an interdisciplinary dialogue on culture.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perspectives on Culture and Agent-based Simulations
Book Subtitle: Integrating Cultures
Editors: Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum
Series Title: Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01952-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01951-2Published: 27 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37823-7Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01952-9Published: 11 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2542-9094
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9108
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 249
Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Philosophy of Technology