Mechanistic Models in Computational Social Science

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Mechanistic Models in Computational Social Science

Petter Holme and Fredrik Liljeros - Personal Name;

Quantitative social science is not only about regression analysis or, in general, data in- ference. Computer simulations of social mechanisms have an over 60 years long his- tory. They have been used for many different purposes—to test scenarios, to test the consistency of descriptive theories (proof-of-concept models), to explore emergent phe- nomena, for forecasting, etc. In this essay, we sketch these historical developments, the role of mechanistic models in the social sciences and the influences from the natural and formal sciences. We argue that mechanistic computational models form a natural common ground for social and natural sciences, and look forward to possible future information flow across the social-natural divide.

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