Computational social science

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 259-271

  Cioffi Revilla, Claudio ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED INFORMATION; COMPLEXITY MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE; CONSILIENCE; DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; GALILEO; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEVELS OF ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL UNIVERSE; SEE-BEYOND; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SCIENTISTS; SOCIAL SIMULATIONS; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 78651515118     PISSN: 19395108     EISSN: 19390068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wics.95     Document Type: Review

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