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Authors: Nuno David 1 and Helder Coelho 2

Affiliations: 1 Instituto de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, ISCTE/DCTI, Portugal ; 2 Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), Portugal

Keyword(s): Agent-based social simulation, epistemological perspectives, program verification, intentional verification.

Abstract: The difficulties in constructing and analyzing simulations of social theory and phenomena, even the most simplified, have been underlined in the literature. The experimental reference of simulation remains ambiguous, insofar as the logic of its method turns computer programs into something more than a tool in the social sciences, defining them as the experimental subject itself. The goal of this paper is to construct a methodological perspective that is able to conciliate the formal and empirical logic of program verification in computer science, with the interpretative and multiparadigmatic logic of the social sciences. This is a condensed and revised version of David et al. (2006). We demonstrate that the method of simulation implies at least two distinct types of program verifications, which we call empirical and intentional verification. Furthermore, we clarify the experimental reference of simulation by demonstrating that the process of intentional verification is contingent upo n both the behaviors of the programs and the observed social phenomena. (More)

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David, N. and Coelho, H. (2006). AROUND THE EMPIRICAL AND INTENTIONAL REFERENCES OF AGENT-BASED SIMULATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS; ISBN 978-972-8865-42-9; ISSN 2184-4992, SciTePress, pages 31-38. DOI: 10.5220/0002463800310038

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title={AROUND THE EMPIRICAL AND INTENTIONAL REFERENCES OF AGENT-BASED SIMULATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS},
year={2006},
pages={31-38},
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doi={10.5220/0002463800310038},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS
TI - AROUND THE EMPIRICAL AND INTENTIONAL REFERENCES OF AGENT-BASED SIMULATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
SN - 978-972-8865-42-9
IS - 2184-4992
AU - David, N.
AU - Coelho, H.
PY - 2006
SP - 31
EP - 38
DO - 10.5220/0002463800310038
PB - SciTePress

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