Feeding the Beast: Can Computational Demographic Models Free Us from the Tyranny of Data?

ECAL 2011: The 11th European Conference on Artificial Life

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Silverman, Eric ^a   Bijak, Jakub ^a   Noble, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

DEMOGRAPHIC MODELLING; HUMAN POPULATION; INTER-DISCIPLINARY STUDIES; LOGICAL EMPIRICISM; MICRO LEVEL; MODEL FREE; MODEL-DRIVEN; POPULATION PROCESS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

DEMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85153089268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-29714-1-ch113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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