25th Biennial meeting of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the
Behavioural Sciences (SMABS)
and
2nd Conference of the European Association of Methodology (EAM)
SMABS - EAM Conference 2006, Budapest, 2-5th July 2006
Pre-conference Workshop: Simulation methods in the social sciences
1 July 2006, Budapest
Klaus G. Troitzsch, University of Koblenz-Landau
Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey
This workshop will provide a rationale for using simulation in the social
sciences and outline a number of approaches to social simulation.
Programme:
(1) An overview of and introduction to simulation for social scientists to
give them an idea what they could do in general with the help of this
method,
(2) an overview of the very data-oriented method of microanalytical
simulation (starting from a large sample of a nation's population from which
future states of this population can be predicted in terms of demography,
taxes, labour market, pension claims and so on) and of freely available
software tools, with a number of practical examples with real data from
Germany and New Zealand,
(3) an overview of agent-based methods used in concept-based simulation
(computer-assisted theory building of processes of the emergence of norms,
institutions and so on), with a number of practical examples with freely
available software tools.
Conference website: http://smabseam2006.tatk.elte.hu/
Workshop details: http://smabseam2006.tatk.elte.hu/tro-gil.htm
Registration: http://smabseam2006.tatk.elte.hu/regmet.htm
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Professor Nigel Gilbert, ScD, FREng, AcSS, Professor of Sociology,
University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483 689173
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