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Review of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation

@RofASSS

The Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (RofASSS.org), is a site for comments, discussion etc. on social simulation issues.
RofASSS.org Joined May 2018
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Review of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation @RofASSS
New contribution requesting with requests for answers: Carlos Paes on "The crowd and the star: a small scapegoat model, eight pile-ons, and a request for suggestions" rofasss.org/2026/11/04/the… #networks #memetics #pileons #scapegoating #socialscience #abm #simulation #netlogo
rofasss.org The crowd and the star: a small scapegoat model, eight pile-ons, and a request for suggestions By Carlos Paes What this note is for This note presents a small agent-based model of the scapegoat mechanism and asks for comments on one claim in particular: that the model is ready to move from t…
Review of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation @RofASSS
New contribution: "Theory is Two-Faced and this can be a problem for modellers" by Bruce Edmonds. #abm #theory #inference #modelling #socialsimulation #simulation #RofASSS @bruceedmonds rofasss.org/2026/10/21/the…
rofasss.org Theory is Two-Faced and this can be a problem for modellers By Bruce Edmonds Why is theory so confusing and difficult to pin down?  Why are there so many arguments about the relationship between theory and simulation? One reason is that theory has (at …
Review of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation @RofASSS
New contribution: “Theorywashing” – the practice of misattributing theory to impart academic credibility by Nanda Wijermans and Bruce Edmonds rofasss.org/2026/08/11/the… #socialscience #simulation #abm #theory #justification #science
rofasss.org “Theorywashing” – the practice of misattributing theory to impart academic credibility By Nanda Wijermans and Bruce Edmonds “Greenwashing” is when claims are made by organisations (usually companies) to mislead “the public to believe that a company or other entity is doing more to pr…
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New RofASSS contribution: "Reciprocity Is Not Governance: a short comment on the social-contract metaphor in peer review" by Hugo Roger Paz #peerreview #norms #governance #contract #journals rofasss.org/2026/07/07/rec…
rofasss.org Reciprocity Is Not Governance: a short comment on the social-contract metaphor in peer review A Comment on: Squazzoni, F. (2025) Editorial Note: We need to recognise that peer review is central to the ‘social contract’ of academic citizenship. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simu…
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New Contribution: A Reminder – computability limits on “vibe coding” ABMs by Bruce Edmonds. rofasss.org/2026/02/12/vibe #rofasss #ABM #agentbased #programming #LLMs #AI #vibecoding #computability
rofasss.org A Reminder – computability limits on “vibe coding” ABMs (using LLMS to do the programming for us) By Bruce Edmonds Introduction Machine-learning systems, including Large Language Models (LLMs), are algorithms trained on large datasets rather than something categorically different. Consequently,…