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ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Perspectives and challenges of agent-based simulation as a tool for economics and other social sciences
This paper argues that the agent-based simulation approach is just the one appropriate to the social sciences (including economics). Although there were many predecessor approache...
Klaus G. Troitzsch
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Social Networks in Peer-to-Peer Systems
The Gnutella protocol requires peers to broadcast messages to their neighbours when they search files. The message passing generates a lot of traffic in the network, which degrade...
Yamini Upadrashta, Julita Vassileva, Winfried K. G...
INTERACT
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Cultural Mobilities: Diversity and Agency in Urban Computing
The rise of wireless networks and portable computing devices has been accompanied by an increasing interest in technology and mobility, and in the urban environment as a site of in...
Paul Dourish, Ken Anderson, Dawn Nafus
GROUP
1999
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Oxymoron, a non-distance knowledge sharing tool for social science students and researchers
Oxymoron is a World Wide Web based knowledge capitalization and sharing tool that was conceived and developed by a multidisciplinary team, comprised of adult education and distrib...
Camille Bierens de Haan, Gilles Chabré, Fra...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Are you sleeping?: sharing portrayed sleeping status within a social network
Within a group of peers, it is often useful or interesting to know whether someone in the group has gone to bed or whether they have awakened in the morning. This information, nat...
Sunyoung Kim, Julie A. Kientz, Shwetak N. Patel, G...