Advances in Social Simulation 2015

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. From Field Data to Attitude Formation

   • Kei-Léo Brousmiche, Jean-Daniel Kant, Nicolas Sabouret, François Prenot-Guinard

   Pages 1-14

3. A Simple-to-Use BDI Architecture for Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

   • Philippe Caillou, Benoit Gaudou, Arnaud Grignard, Chi Quang Truong, Patrick Taillandier

   Pages 15-28

4. Food Incident Interactive Training Tool: A Serious Game for Food Incident Management

   • Paolo Campo, Elizabeth York, Amy Woodward, Paul Krause, Angela Druckman

   Pages 29-36

5. A Cybernetic Model of Macroeconomic Disequilibrium

   • Ernesto Carrella

   Pages 37-52

6. How Should Agent-Based Modelling Engage With Historical Processes?

   • Edmund Chattoe-Brown, Simone Gabbriellini

   Pages 53-66

7. Evolutionary Cooperation in a Multi-agent Society

   • Marjolein de Vries, Pieter Spronck

   Pages 67-79

8. Design of an Empirical Agent-Based Model to Explore Rural Household Food Security Within a Developing Country Context

   • Samantha Dobbie, Stefano Balbi

   Pages 81-94

9. Comparing Income Replacement Rate by Prefecture in Japanese Pension System

   • Nisuo Du, Tadahiko Murata

   Pages 95-108

10. Hybrid Simulation Approach for Technological Innovation Policy Making in Developing Countries

    • Maryam Ebrahimi

    Pages 109-119

11. Modelling Contextual Decision-Making in Dilemma Games

    • Harko Verhagen, Corinna Elsenbroich, Kurt Fällström

    Pages 121-127

12. Preliminary Results from an Agent-Based Model of the Daily Commute in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, UK

    • Jiaqi Ge, Gary Polhill

    Pages 129-142

13. Agent-Based Modelling of Military Communications on the Roman Frontier

    • Nicholas M. Gotts

    Pages 143-148

14. The Leviathan Model Without Gossips and Vanity: The Richness of Influence Based on Perceived Hierarchy

    • Sylvie Huet, Guillaume Deffuant

    Pages 149-162

15. A Calibration to Properly Design a Model Integrating Residential Mobility and Migration in a Rural Area

    • Sylvie Huet, Nicolas Dumoulin, Guillaume Deffuant

    Pages 163-179

16. Modeling Contagion of Behavior in Friendship Networks as Coordination Games

    • Tobias Jordan, Philippe de Wilde, Fernando Buarque de Lima-Neto

    Pages 181-194

17. A Model of Social and Economic Capital in Social Networks

    • Bogumił Kamiński, Jakub Growiec, Katarzyna Growiec

    Pages 195-200

18. The Impact of Macro-scale Determinants on Individual Residential Mobility Behaviour

    • Andreas Koch

    Pages 201-206

19. Modelling the Energy Transition: Towards an Application of Agent Based Modelling to Integrated Assessment Modelling

    • Oscar Kraan, Gert Jan Kramer, Telli van der Lei, Gjalt Huppes

    Pages 207-216

20. A Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Model of the Diffusion of Green Electricity: Model Setup and Retrodictive Validation

    • Friedrich Krebs, Andreas Ernst

    Pages 217-230

This book highlights recent developments in the field, presented at the Social Simulation 2015 conference in Groningen, The Netherlands. It covers advances both in applications and methods of social simulation. Societal issues addressed range across complexities in economic systems, opinion dynamics and civil violence, changing mobility patterns, different land-use, transition in the energy system, food production and consumption, ecosystem management and historical processes. Methodological developments cover how to use empirical data in validating models in general, formalization of behavioral theory in agent behavior, construction of artificial populations for experimentation, replication of models, and agent-based models that can be run in a web browser.


Social simulation is a rapidly evolving field. Social scientists are increasingly interested in social simulation as a tool to tackle the complex non-linear dynamics of society. Furthermore, the software and hardware tools available for social simulation are becoming more and more powerful. This book is an important source for readers interested in the newest developments in the ways in which the simulation of social interaction contributes to our understanding and managing of complex social phenomena.

• applications of social simulation
• methods of social simulation
• opinion dynamics
• simulation human interaction
• changing mobility patterns

• University College Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  Wander Jager

• Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  Rineke Verbrugge

• Faculty for Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  Andreas Flache

• Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Department of Spatial Planning and Environment, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  Gert de Roo

• Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  Lex Hoogduin

• Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Behavioural Ecology and Self-organisation, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  Charlotte Hemelrijk

The editors are collaborators at the Groningen Center for Social Complexity Studies (GCSCS) and organised the Social Simulation Conference 2015 in Groningen, The Netherlands. The GCSCS serves as a platform connecting researchers at or affiliated with the University of Groningen working in the field of social complexity. The aim of the GCSCS is to provide high quality research and education, interacting actively with business, government and the public, and in particular to address the goal of stimulating cross-border research and education.

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