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Understanding Complex Social Dynamics: a Plea for Cellular Automata Based Modelling
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EngineeringComplex Social DynamicsNetwork AnalysisCommunicationPromising Modelling ApproachSocial SciencesComputational Social ScienceSocial DynamicAutomaton NetworkSocial Network AnalysisComputational SociologyComplex Biological SystemCellular AutomatonComplex Dynamic SystemPattern FormationNetwork ScienceCellular AutomataSocial BehaviorSocial ComputingSociologyHuman Dynamic
The article argues that using cellular automata (CA) is a promising modelling approach to understand social dynamics. The first section introduces and illustrates the concept of CA. Section 2 gives a short history of CA in the social sciences. Section 3 describes and analyses a more complicated model of evolving support networks. The final section summarises the advantages of the CA approach.