• Computational Models That Matter During a Global Pandemic Outbreak: A Call to Action 

      Squazzoni, Flaminio; Polhill, J. Gareth; Edmonds, Bruce; Ahrweiler, Petra; Antosz, Patrycja; Scholz, Geeske; Chappin, Émile; Borit, Melania; Verhagen, Harko; Giardini, Francesca; Gilbert, Nigel (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-31)
      The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a dramatic loss of lives worldwide, challenging the sustainability of our health care systems, threatening economic meltdown, and putting pressure on the mental health of individuals (due to social distancing and lock-down measures). The pandemic is also posing severe challenges to the scientific community, with scholars under pressure to respond to policymakers’ ...
    • GAM on! Six ways to explore social complexity by combining games and agent-based models 

      Szczepanska, Timo; Antosz, Patrycja; Berndt, Jan Ole; Borit, Melania; Chattoe-Brown, Edmund; Mehryar, Sara; Meyer, Ruth; Onngo, Stephan; Verhagen, Harko (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-27)
      GAM, combining games and agent-based models, shows potential for investigating complex social phenomena. Games offer engaging environments generating insights into social dynamics, perceptions, and behaviours, while agent-based models support the analysis of complexity. Games and agent-based models share the important ability both to input and output qualitative and quantitative data. Currently, ...
    • Sensemaking of causality in agent-based models 

      Antosz, Patrycja; Szczepanska, Timo; Bouman, Loes; J. Gareth, Polhill; Jager, Wander (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-25)
      Even though agent-based modelling is seen as committing to a mechanistic, generative type of causation, the methodology allows for representing many other types of causal explanations. Agent-based models are capable of integrating diverse causal relationships into coherent causal mechanisms. They mirror the crucial, multi-level component of emergent phenomena and recognize the important role of ...