Understanding Society

In an earlier post I mentioned that agent-based models provide a substantially different way of approaching the problem of pandemic mod...

One thing that is clear from the pandemic crisis that is shaking the world is the crucial need we have for models that allow us to est...

Images: Andrew Hopkins titles Images: Other safety sources One of the genuinely interesting aspects of the work of A...

Charles Perrow takes a particularly negative view of the possibility of safe management of high-risk technologies in Normal Accidents: ...

One of the most interesting authorities on social models and simulations is Scott Page. This month he published a major book on this top...

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan hosted an intensive day-long training on some of the basics of...

Cities provide a good illustration of the ontology of the theory of assemblage ( link ). Many forms of association, production, logist...

One of the more intriguing currents of social science research today is the field of complexity theory. Scientists like John Holland ( C...

A short recent article in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation by Venturini, Jensen, and Latour lays out a critique...