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An Interpretive Account to Agent-based Social Simulation: Using Criminology to Explore Cultural Possibilities
Using the investigation of criminal culture as an example application, this edited volume presents a novel approach to agent-based simulation: interpretive agent-based social simulation as a methodological and transdisciplinary approach to examining the potential of qualitative data and methods for agent-based modelling (ABM).
| Author(s) | Edited by Martin Neumann (JGU Mainz Institute for Sociology, Germany). |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 210 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 11 Sept 2023 |
| Availability | POD |
Using the investigation of criminal culture as an example application, this edited volume presents a novel approach to agent-based simulation: interpretive agent-based social simulation as a methodological and transdisciplinary approach to examining the potential of qualitative data and methods for agent-based modelling (ABM).
1. Introduction. An Interpretive Account of an Agent-Based Social Simulation 2. Epistemological foundations 3. The use of ethnographic social simulation for crime research: From the field to the model 4. A framework for simulation in interpretive research
Martin Neumann is Research Associate at the Department of Language, Culture, History and Communication of the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
