Overview
- Expanded new edition enhanced with exercises and problems (with solutions)
- Introduces the key concepts in computational social science, providing formal definitions and a glossary
- Describes the scope of each sub-field, covering topics on information extraction, social networks, complexity theory and social simulations
- Discusses such methodological tools as extracting entities from text, computing social network indices and building an agent-based model
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Texts in Computer Science (TCS)
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“This book is organized in a rigorous manner: each chapter includes an introductory abstract, a short chronology of the main achievements related to the chapter’s topic, well-balanced formalized-intuitive knowledge content, a significant number of questions … and finally a list of future readings. … I think Claudio Cioffi-Revilla’s work hits its assumed target: to be an affordable textbook for students and, at the same time, a useful support manual for instructors interested in learning or teaching computational social science.” (Valentin V. Inceu, Computing Reviews, February, 2019)
“This well-organized book provides a timely and comprehensive systematic introduction to CSS. The chapters are relatively independent. Therefore, readers may quickly grasp related information by reading chapters selectively. … this book is intended as a CSS textbook for graduate students … .” (Chenyi Hu, Computing Reviews, August 11, 2014)
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Book Title: Introduction to Computational Social Science
Book Subtitle: Principles and Applications
Authors: Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
Series Title: Texts in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50131-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50130-7Published: 10 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84324-7Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50131-4Published: 29 June 2017
Series ISSN: 1868-0941
Series E-ISSN: 1868-095X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 607
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Graph Theory, Simulation and Modeling