Making computational social science effective: Epistemology, methodology, and technology

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 377-388

  Bankes, Steven ^a   Lempert, Robert ^a   Popper, Steven ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Agent Based Modeling; Computational epistemology; Computational science; Computer Assisted Reasoning system (CARs); Exploratory modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036433572     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089443902237317     Document Type: Article

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