Talk:Social simulation

message: Most of the external links in this article should be removed per WP:SPAM, WP:EL, and WP:NOT#LINK --Ronz 15:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The tools seem to be gone now but I would want them back. In fact one of the key points in SS is having tools usable by anyone interested. I don't see why someone should "be making money" on them (all the ones used in the community are open source stuff) MarioPaolucci (talk) 12:36, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Linkfarm

message: Current research should display a variety of recent and important projects.  Macy's review gives a good range of work in agent based modeling. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Htw3  (talk • contribs) 03:08, 25 October 2007 
:I would start by focusing on that.  --132.235.210.196 18:00, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This section needs independent sources or risk being removed.  It's becoming a section used to promote non-notable research and research centers. --Ronz 18:52, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The current research is lacking

message: Need section on this, will want to include how best simulation research can mitigate these shortcomings/criticisms.   --132.235.210.196 18:00, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticisms of social simulation 

message: Will want to check the links to make sure they are current are valuable.    --132.235.210.196 18:00, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:   Links current, relevant? 

message: Make sure that you include references to sources of ideas whenever a section draws especially on a particular source.  The article on Max Weber demonstrates a good way of citing references.
Make sure to properly format all of the references and resources.  --132.235.210.196 18:00, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's very important to get the references/notes into an inline format.  Otherwise we can't tell how well sourced different sections of the article are, which opens them up for removal. --Ronz 19:00, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:   References 

message: * How Societies Remember by Paul Connerton, Cambridge University Press, 1989
This book link has been spammed here.  While the link itself fails WP:EL, WP:SPAM, and WP:NOT#LINK, is the book useful as a reference maybe? --Ronz (talk) 01:09, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: How Societies Remember

message: This article is about "computer simulations of a society."
I just thought I should mention that there is another sense of "social simulation," used in the social sciences, to refer to:  lots of people who think that the world works a certain way, and then make that way of thinking about the world real, by (unconsciously) enacting it into reality.
"Baseball" is a soft example, deeper examples include whatever "reality" indigenous cultures, or even fans of a particular genre of psychology, find themselves to "be in," and slot reality into.
See also:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Construction_of_Reality
* http://www.transparencynow.com/overview/confuse.htm
* http://www.transparencynow.com/decon.htm
LionKimbro (talk)
:The term is widely used in a specific scientific fields (see introduction). Overloading it seems counterproductive to me. But if you want to do so, why not opening another page and disambiguate? MarioPaolucci (talk) 12:36, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Social Simulation:  Another Meaning 

message: Third paragraph: The conse which in the interesting cases interact to form a complex system, with scale and speed inaccessible to humans. "conse"? What's that? Also, the sentence is grammatically incorrect. – Sasoriza (talk) 04:52, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "conse"? 

message: what the heck is the difference between agent-based simulation and agent-based modeling??? I read the descriptions several times over, and both seem to say the same thing. I even clicked on the wiki links under those concepts, and again, it didn't seem to clarify the difference. If no better explanation is given, perhaps it shouldn't be split into two categories.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.89.207.36 (talk) 10:09, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, I read those several times too and can't tell what the difference is exactly. I'm considering removing that section, if the content can be fit in a less awkward way. flammifertalk 17:38, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: yes, i will put a merge message. Fitmoos (talk) 06:02, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  ABSS vs ABM 

message: I propose that Artificial society be merged into Social simulation. I think that the content in the Artificial society article can easily be explained in the context of Social simulation, and most of the content of Artificial society is already contained in the Social simulation article so the merging of Artificial society will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. 131.211.228.179 (talk) 10:28, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal