Growing qawms: A case-based declarative model of Afghan power structures

Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, ESSA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 113-124

  Geller, Armando ^a   Moss, Scott ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Anomie; Critical realism; Declarative modelling; Evidence based social simulation; Neo patrimonialism; Power structures

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION;

AFGHANISTAN; ANOMIE; CRITICAL REALISMS; DECLARATIVE MODELLING; NEO-PATRIMONIALISM; POWER STRUCTURES; SOCIAL SIMULATIONS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84899204441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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