Understanding Complex Social Dynamics: a Plea for Cellular Automata Based Modelling

Andreas Flache () and Rainer Hegselmann ()

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 1998, vol. 1, issue 3, 1

Abstract: The article argues that using cellular automata (CA) is a promising modelling approach to understand social dynamics. The first section introduces and illustrates the concept of CA. Section 2 gives a short history of CA in the social sciences. Section 3 describes and analyses a more complicated model of evolving support networks. The final section summarises the advantages of the CA approach.

Keywords: Cellular Automata; Social Dynamics; Modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-06-30
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (22)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.jasss.org/1/3/1/1.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: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jas:jasssj:1998-5-1

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation from Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Francesco Renzini ().