Social simulations: Improving interdisciplinary understanding of scientific positioning and validity

JASSS

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Rossiter, Stuart ^a   Noble, Jason ^a   Bell, Keith R W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Epistemology; Ideology; Methodology; Social simulation; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349114075     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.1590     Document Type: Article

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