You may be interested in this PhD thesis/defence
Timo Szczepanska’s Thesis defense 4th December 2023:
Click on the links below to download the pdfs of the papers presented at the special session on Qual2Rule at the Social Simulation conference in Glasgow.
New book describes using qualitative interviews to inform the design of simulations in criminology – mostly Martin Neumann and Ulf Lotzman’s work.
Publisher’s page for the book: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003393207/interpretive-account-agent-based-social-simulation-martin-neumann
Using the investigation of criminal culture as an example application, this edited volume presents a novel approach to agent-based simulation: interpretive agent-based social simulation as a methodological and transdisciplinary approach to examining the potential of qualitative data and methods for agent-based modelling (ABM).
Featuring updated articles as well as original chapters which provide a cohesive and novel approach to the digital humanities, the book challenges the common conviction that hermeneutics and simulation are two mutually exclusive ways to understand and explain human behaviour and social change. Exploring how methodology benefits from taking cultural complexities into account and bringing these methods together in an innovative combination of qualitative-hermeneutic and digital techniques, the book unites experts in the field to connect ABM to narrative theories, thereby providing a novel tool for cultural studies.
An innovative methodological contribution to narrative theory, this volume will be of primary benefit to researchers, scholars, and academics in the fields of ABM, hermeneutics, and criminology. The book will also appeal to those working in policing, security, and forensic consultation.
An interpretive account of an agent-based social simulation
By Martin Neumann
By Petra Ahrweiler, Martin Neumann
From the field to the model
By Vanessa Dirksen, Martin Neumann, Ulf Lotzmann
Growing criminal culture
By Martin Neumann, Ulf Lotzmann
Criminal collapse
By Martin Neumann, Ulf Lotzmann
By Ulf Lotzmann, Martin Neumann
On the interpretation of digitally generated narratives
By Sascha Dickel, Martin Neumann
Science in context
By Martin Neumann, Cornelis van Putten
By Martin Neumann, Vanessa Dirksen, Sascha Dickel
By Martin Neumann, Bruce Edmonds
We are very pleased to announce the papers for the Qual2Rule special session of Social Simulation 2023 in Glasgow, currently scheduled for Tuesday 5th Sept: 11-13:00.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
| If you are working with qualitative data and agent-based modelling, please consider submitting your research (poster, extended abstract, short paper, long paper) to the special track “Using qualitative data to inform behavioural rules in agent-based models”, which is described below the signature and is to be organized during the Social Simulation Conference 2023, 4-8 September, Glasgow, UK. Important dates: * Submission Deadline: * Notification of Acceptance: 16 June 2023 * Final Version Submission: 09 July 2023 * Conference: 4-8th September 2023, Glasgow Description: Many academics consider qualitative evidence (e.g. texts gained from transcribing oral data or observations of people) and quantitative evidence to be incommensurable. However, agent-based simulations are a possible vehicle for bridging this gap. Narrative textual evidence often gives clues as to the in-context behavior of individuals and is thus a natural source for behaviors to inform the specification of corresponding agent behavior within simulations. The texts will not give a complete picture, but will provide some of “menu” of behaviors people use. During this session we hope to further the understanding of how to improve this. We are particularly interested in accounts of the procedures or structures people used to bridge between qualitative and formal realms based in reported modelling experiences. Thus, those interested to present their work in this session have to make sure that their submission explicitly addresses the use of qualitative data in their modelling endeavour. The session is open to all approaches that seek to move from qualitative evidence towards a simulation in a systematic way. These include, but are not limited to: * Approaches based in Grounded Theory. * Tools for facilitating such a process. * Participatory processes that result in a simulation. * Frameworks for aiding the analysis of text into rules. * Elicitation techniques that would aid the capture of information in an appropriate structure. * Models and ideas from psychology to aid in the above process. * Insights and tools from Natural Language Processing that may help this process. * Agent architectures that will facilitate the programming of agents from such analyses. * Philosophical or Sociological critiques, pointing out assumptions and dangers. * Examples of where this approach has been tried. |
Talking about different paradigms and qualitative validation of social simulation models. At https://rofasss.org/2023/04/18/the-challenge-of-validation/
Work by Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink and Bruce Edmonds originating from the Lorentz workshop on Integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence using Social Simulation.
Dornschneider-Elkink, S., & Edmonds, B. (2022). Does Non-violent Repression Have Stronger Dampening Effects than State Violence? Insight from an Emotion-Based Model of Non-violent Dissent. Government and Opposition, 1-23. doi:http://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2022.37
See http://cfpm.org/discussionpapers/286 for more details
Papers presented at the Qual2Rule session organised during the Social Simulation Conference 2022:
Trustworthiness of simulation: A qualitative account
Martin Neumann (JGU Mainz, Germany)
The innovation network in the Rhenish Lignite area – A participatory ABM approach to partner selection and knowledge diffusion
Christian Stehr & Miriam Athmer (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
Integrating agent-based modelling and behavioural data analytics: A case study of cli- mate change farmers’ perception in Italy
Sandra Ricart, Paolo Gazzotti, Claudio Gandolfi & Andrea Castelletti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Challenging the establishment: A computational grounded theory of the emergence of sustainable food companies in Colombia
Cesar Garcia-Diaz, Mónica Ramos-Mejía, Sebastian Duenas-Ocampo & Isabella Gomati de la Vega (Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
Edited by Patrycja Antosz, Sukaina Bharwani, Melania Borit & Bruce Edmonds
At https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tsrm20/25/4
The papers in the special issue are:
An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’ by Patrycja Antosz, Sukaina Bharwani, Melania Borit & Bruce Edmonds
RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling by Sebastian Achter, Melania Borit, Edmund Chattoe-Brown & Peer-Olaf Siebers
GAM on! Six ways to explore social complexity by combining games and agent-based models by Timo Szczepanska, Patrycja Antosz, Jan Ole Berndt, Melania Borit, Edmund Chattoe-Brown, Sara Mehryar, Ruth Meyer, Stephan Onggo & Harko Verhagen
Sensemaking of causality in agent-based models by Patrycja Antosz, Timo Szczepanska, Loes Bouman, J. Gareth Polhill & Wander Jager
Combining approaches: Looking behind the scenes of integrating multiple types of evidence from controlled behavioural experiments through agent-based modelling by Nanda Wijermans, Caroline Schill, Therese Lindahl & Maja Schlüter
By Peer-Olaf Siebers, in collaboration with Kwabena Amponsah, James Hey, Edmund Chattoe-Brown and Melania Borit
See the article at: https://rofasss.org/2022/05/16/qq-data-in-abm/