Two Outline Models of Science: AMS And HAMS

Jim Doran ()
Additional contact information
Jim Doran: http://www.essex.ac.uk/csee/people/emeritus/doran.aspx

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2011, vol. 14, issue 4, pages 5

Abstract: Two abstract and computational models of the long-term process of science are proposed: AMS and HAMS. An outline specification of each model is given and the relationship between them explained. AMS takes an Olympian (\"artificial world\") view of science and its processes. HAMS is simpler and relatively more abstract and comprises only a small set of core processes. A first implementation of HAMS is described. How AMS and HAMS might be validated and used in experimental investigations is considered including problems that might arise. Further work is proposed. A brief coda concerns a related model of science formulated from an idealist rather than a materialist perspective.

Keywords: Computational Models of Science; Individual-Based Modelling; Scientific Method; Belief Systems; Belief Verification; Idealism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-10-31
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations Track citations by RSS feed

Downloads: (external link)
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/14/4/5/5.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jas:jasssj:2011-56-1

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation from Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Series data maintained by Nigel Gilbert ().