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This chapter gives an overview of early attempts at modelling social processes in computer simulations. It discusses the early attempts, its successes and its shortcomings and tries to identify some of them as forerunners of modern simulation approaches.
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Troitzsch, K.G. (2017). Historical Introduction. In: Edmonds, B., Meyer, R. (eds) Simulating Social Complexity. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66948-9_2
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