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Grounded Simulation

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Advances in Social Simulation

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 229))

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This paper investigates the contribution of evidence based modelling to Grounded Theory. It is argued that evidence based modelling provides additional sources to truly arrive at a theory in the inductive process of a Grounded Theory approach. This is shown at two examples. One example concerns the development of an ontology of extortion racket systems. The other example is a model of escalation of ethno-nationalist conflicts. The first example concerns early to medium stages of the research process. The development of an ontology provides a tool for the process of theoretical coding in a Grounded Theory approach. The second example shows stylised facts resulting from a simulation. Stylised facts are broad patterns which are characteristic for certain domain fields. Thus they generalise over a particular case. This provides credibility for the claim to inductively generate a theory, i.e. to overcome a purely descriptive level.

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    Bogumił Kamiński

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    Grzegorz Koloch

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Neumann, M. (2014). Grounded Simulation. In: Kamiński, B., Koloch, G. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39829-2_31

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