Advances in Social Simulation 2015

From Field Data to Attitude Formation.- A Simple-to-use BDI architecture for Agent-based Modeling and Simulation.- Food Incident Interactive Training Tool: a serious game for food incident management.- A Cybernetic Model of Macroeconomic Disequilibrium.- How Should Agent-Based Modelling Engage With Historical Processes?.- Evolutionary Cooperation in a Multi-Agent Society.- Design of an empirical agent-based model to explore rural household food security within a developing country context.- Comparing Income Replacement Rate by Prefecture in Japanese Pension System.- Hybrid simulation approach for technological innovation policy making in developing countries.- Modelling Contextual Decision Making in Dilemma Games.- Preliminary results from an agent-based model of the daily commute in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, UK.- Agent-Based Modelling of Military Communications on the Roman Frontier.- The Leviathan model without gossips and vanity: the richness of influence based on perceived hierarchy.- A calibration to properly design a model integrating residential mobility and migration in a rural area.- Modeling Contagion of Behavior in Friendship Networks as Coordination Games.- A Model of Social and Economic Capital in Social Networks.- The Impact of Macro-Scale Determinants on Individual Residential Mobility Behaviour.- Modelling the energy transition: Application of Agent Based Modelling to Integrated Assessment Modelling.- A spatially explicit agent-based model of the diffusion of green electricity: Model setup and retrodictive validation.- A Network Analytic Approach to Investigating a Land-Use Change Agent-Based Model.- Network Influence Effects in Agent-Based Modelling of Civil Violence.- Modeling the evolution of ideological landscapes through opinion dynamics.- Changing Habits using Contextualized Decision Making.- SocialSIM - Real-life social simulation

The editors are collaborators at the Groningen Center for Social Complexity Studies (GCSCS) and organised the Social Simulation Conference 2015 in Groningen, The Netherlands. The GCSCS serves as a platform connecting researchers at or affiliated with the University of Groningen working in the field of social complexity. The aim of the GCSCS is to provide high quality research and education, interacting actively with business, government and the public, and in particular to address the goal of stimulating cross-border research and education.