Open Access for Social Simulation

J. Gareth Polhill () and Bruce Edmonds ()
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J. Gareth Polhill: https://www.hutton.ac.uk/people/gary-polhill/
Bruce Edmonds: http://cfpm.org

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2007, vol. 10, issue 3, 10

Abstract: We consider here issues of open access to social simulations, with a particular focus on software licences, though also briefly discussing documentation and archiving. Without any specific software licence, the default arrangements are stipulated by the Berne Convention (for those countries adopting it), and are unsuitable for software to be used as part of the scientific process (i.e. simulation software used to generate conclusions that are to be considered part of the scientific domain of discourse). Without stipulating any specific software licence, we suggest rights that should be provided by any candidate licence for social simulation software, and provide in an appendix an evaluation of some popularly used licences against these criteria.

Keywords: Agent-Based Social Simulation; Replication; Software Licences; Documentation; Archiving (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-06-30
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