Overview
- Introduces the key concepts in computational social science, providing formal definitions and a glossary
- Describes the scope of each sub-field, covering topics on information extraction, social networks, complexity theory and social simulations
- Discusses such methodological tools as extracting entities from text, computing social network indices and building an agent-based model
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Texts in Computer Science (TCS)
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“This 300 pages book a very good introduction to CSS, as it covers all relevant aspects that are fundamental to start a CSS research. … the book could be used for teaching methodological aspects of modeling in the social sciences … . Claudio-Cioffi’s book is a must read for any beginner of CSS. … It is a great synthesis of the main achievements in this field that could be fruitfully adopted by anyone teaching CSS as an introductory guide.” (František Kalvas, jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk, February, 2015)
“It is a nice introduction for beginners to grasp the fundamentals of CSS. … This well-organized book provides a timely and comprehensive systematic introduction to CSS. The chapters are relatively independent. … Although this book is intended as a CSS textbook for graduate students … anyone who is interested in the fundamentals of CSS would benefit from reading it.” (Chenyi Hu, Computing Reviews, August, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
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Book Title: Introduction to Computational Social Science
Book Subtitle: Principles and Applications
Authors: Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
Series Title: Texts in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5661-1
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-5661-1Published: 31 December 2013
Series ISSN: 1868-0941
Series E-ISSN: 1868-095X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 320
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Graph Theory, Simulation and Modeling