Simulating social complexity a handbook understanding complex systems ebook edmonds bruce meyer ruth amazonca kindle store. Simulating social complexity examines all aspects of using agent or individual based simulation this approach represents systems as individual elements having each their own set of differing states and internal processes the interactions between elements in the simulation represent interactions in the target systems. The interactions between elements in the simulation represent interactions in the target systems what makes this social is that it can represent an observed society social systems include all those systems where the components have individual agency but also interact with each other. Simulating social complexity a handbook understanding complex systems view larger image by bruce edmonds and ruth meyer. Simulating social complexity a handbook understanding complex systems edmonds bruce and meyer ruth eds springer verlag berlin 2013 isbn 9783540938125 hb order this book reviewed by michael mas eth zurich in the past decades the social sciences experienced an explosion of simulation modelling however modellers apply very