Review of Artificial Societies & Social Simulation

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…

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

New Contribution: "Why Object-Oriented Programming is not the best method to implement Agent-Based models" by Martin Hinsch. rofasss.org/2026/02/03/oop #oop #abm #objectoriented #agent-based #agentbased #rofasss #simulation #modelling

Post by Thorid Wagenblast, Nick Roxburgh and Alessandro Taberna on "Modelling Deep Structural Change in ABSS" #abm #socialsimulation #rofasss rofasss.org/2025/08/08/str…

New contribution by Peter Steiglechner and Marijn Keijzer: "Make some noise! Why agent-based modelers should embrace the power of randomness" #RofASSS #ABM #noise #randomness #robustness #socialsimulation #taxonomy #simulation #science #method #agentbased rofasss.org/2025/05/31/noi…

About the first winner of ESSA's Rosaria Conte Outstanding Contribution Award for Social Simulation: Nigel Gilbert. #sociology #socialsimulation #abm #jasss #simsoc #essa rofasss.org/2025/03/04/nig…

A summary of the work and influence of Rosaria Conte (1952-2016) by Mario Paolucci. #abm #socialsimulation #psychology #immergence #agentbasedmodelling rofasss.org/2025/02/11/ros…

@yl_oswald This makes sense. It is easier to check that code and math is correct than a complex summary of a topic or similar. (Also of course code and math nerds are more likely to understand the tool, of course)

New @rofasss Comment on recent @JASSSJournal editorial on peer review by Paolo Galimberti: "Short comment on ‘‘Editorial Note: We need to recognise that peer review is central to the ‘social contract’ of academic citizenship” rofasss.org/2025/02/03/jas…

New article: "Quantum computing in the social sciences" by Emile Chappin and Gary Polihill. rofasss.org/2024/09/24/qua… #RofASSS #quantumcomputing #socialscience #abm #simulation #roadmap

New RofASSS piece: Delusional Generality – how models can give a false impression of their applicability even when they lack any empirical foundation by Edmonds et al.

New RofASSS piece: Delusional Generality – how models can give a false impression of their applicability even when they lack any empirical foundation by Bruce Edmonds, Dino Carpentras, Nick Roxburgh, Edmund Chattoe-Brown and Gary Polhill. #generality #abm #social #science

New article: How Agent-based Models Offer Insights on Strategies to Mitigate Soil Degradation in North Korea: A Conversation with Dr. Yoosoon An, by Hyesop Shin and Yoosoon An. rofasss.org/2023/10/25/Int…

New paper: "Exascale computing and ‘next generation’ agent-based modelling" by By Gary Polhill, Alison Heppenstall, Michael Batty, Doug Salt, Ricardo Colasanti, Richard Milton and Matt Hare rofasss.org/2023/09/29/exa… #exascale #abm #socialsimulation

A review of the special issue of IJSRM on "Agent-based Modelling as a Method for Prediction for Complex Social Systems" by Oswaldo Terán. #rofasss #prediction #abm #modelling #complexsystems @CElsenbroich @GaryPolhill rofasss.org/2023/09/28/rev…

New article: "Policy modelling requires a multi-scale, multi-criteria and diverse-framing" approach by Gary Polhill and Juliette Rouchier. #RofASSS, #policy #modelling #simulation #covid rofasss.org/2023/07/31/pol…

Last of the series on modelling for crises: "An Institute for Crisis Modelling (ICM) – Towards a resilience center for sustained crisis modeling capability" by Lorig, de Bruin, Borit, Dignum, Edmonds, Madden, Paolucci, Payette and Vanhée #crises #modelling rofasss.org/2023/05/22/icm/

3rd in Crisis Modelling series: A Tale of Three Pandemic Models: Lessons Learned for Engagement with Policy Makers Before, During, and After a Crisis - Johansson, Nespeca, Sirenko, van den Hurk, Thompson, Narasimhan, Belfrage, Francesca Giardini, Melchior rofasss.org/2023/05/15/thr…

"Making Models FAIR: An educational initiative to build good ABM practices" by Janssen, Claborn, Edmonds, Shahbaznezhadfard and Vanegas-Ferro to coincide with the tobefair.org site. #abm #simulation #fair #tobefair #goodpractice rofasss.org/2023/05/11/fai…