TY - GEN
T1 - How should agent-based modelling engage with historical processes?
AU - Chattoe-Brown, Edmund
AU - Gabbriellini, Simone
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This chapter consists of two main parts. After an introduction, the first part briefly considers the way that historical processes have been represented in ABM to date. This makes it possible to draw more general conclusions about the limitations of ABM in dealing with distinctively historical (as opposed to merely dynamic) processes. The second part of the chapter presents a very simple ABM in which three such distinctively historical processes are analysed. These are the possible significance of unique individuals-the so-called Great Men, the invention and spread of social innovations from specific points in time and the creation of persistent social structures (also from specific points in time). The object of the chapter is to advance the potential applicability of ABM to historical events as understood by historians (rather than anthropologists or practitioners of ABM.).
AB - This chapter consists of two main parts. After an introduction, the first part briefly considers the way that historical processes have been represented in ABM to date. This makes it possible to draw more general conclusions about the limitations of ABM in dealing with distinctively historical (as opposed to merely dynamic) processes. The second part of the chapter presents a very simple ABM in which three such distinctively historical processes are analysed. These are the possible significance of unique individuals-the so-called Great Men, the invention and spread of social innovations from specific points in time and the creation of persistent social structures (also from specific points in time). The object of the chapter is to advance the potential applicability of ABM to historical events as understood by historians (rather than anthropologists or practitioners of ABM.).
KW - Agent-based modeling
KW - Book trade
KW - Historical explanation
KW - Innovation
KW - Trade networks
KW - Methodology
KW - Social change
KW - Social networks
KW - Institutional evolution
KW - Agent-based modeling
KW - Book trade
KW - Historical explanation
KW - Innovation
KW - Trade networks
KW - Methodology
KW - Social change
KW - Social networks
KW - Institutional evolution
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/299822
UR - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-47253-9
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-47253-9_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-47253-9_5
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783319472522
VL - 528
T3 - ADVANCES IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND COMPUTING
SP - 53
EP - 66
BT - Advances in Social Simulation 2015
T2 - Social Simulation Conference
Y2 - 14 September 2015 through 18 September 2015
ER -