Editorial: Modelling Values in Social, Technical, and Ecological Systems

Anna Melnyk (), Bruce Edmonds (), Amineh Ghorbani () and Ibo van de Poel ()
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Anna Melnyk: https://www.tudelft.nl/tbm/over-de-faculteit/afdelingen/values-technology-and-innovation/people/phd-candidates/a-anna-melnyk
Bruce Edmonds: http://cfpm.org
Amineh Ghorbani: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tpm/about-the-faculty/departments/engineering-systems-and-services/people/assistant-professors/dr-a-amineh-ghorbani/
Ibo van de Poel: https://www.tudelft.nl/tbm/over-de-faculteit/afdelingen/values-technology-and-innovation/people/full-professors/profdrir-ir-ibo-van-de-poel

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2024, vol. 27, issue 1, 20

Abstract: This editorial paper for the special section on “Modelling Values in Socio/Technical/Ecological Systems†introduces interdisciplinary perspectives on values and reflects on growing appeals for modelling values. In public and academic discourses, values typically relate to the matter of importance (e.g., beliefs, priorities) and principles about what is considered to be good (e.g., moral values) and are often seen as shaping individual and collective behaviour. As shown by eight contributions to this special section, it is relevant for social simulation modelling to dive deeper into embedding values in models in order to explore behavioural change on different levels and across contexts. Our goal with this special section is to stimulate interest in developing various approaches that study and operationalise values in agent-based models to investigate the complex problems raised in social, socio-technical and socio-ecological systems. We conclude with a call for future research to be explicit in their modelling assumptions, thus fostering a vigorous foundation for scientific discourse.

Keywords: Values; Value Change; Socio-Technical Systems; Socio-Ecological Systems; Agent-Based Modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-01-31
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