Ruth Meyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3898363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Meyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyer |
| SIGNATURE | MEYER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3936-2565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
GAM on! Six ways to explore social complexity by combining games and agent-based models
GAM, combining games and agent-based models, shows potential for investigating complex social phenomena. Games offer engaging environments generating insights into social dynamics, perceptions, and behaviours, while agent-based models support the analysis of complexity. Games and agent-based models share the important ability both to input and output qualitative and quantitative data. Currently, there is no overview of GAM approaches. In a system…
Different Modelling Purposes
How one builds, checks, validates and interprets a model depends on its 'purpose'. This is true even if the same model code is used for di erent purposes. This means that a model built for one purpose but then used for another needs to be re-justified for the new purpose and this will probably mean it also has to be rechecked, re-validated and maybe even re-built in a di erent way. Here we review some of the di erent purposes for a simulation mod…
Immigration, Social Networks, and the Emergence of Ethnic Segmentation in a Low-Skill Labor Market
Postwar migration to “western” countries has gone hand in hand with the development of ethnically segmented labor markets, particularly in low-skill roles where entry requirements are minimal. While numerous theories have been forwarded as to why such situations occur, it has remained difficult to empirically test the relative impact of the many interacting processes that produce segmentation in the labor market. In this article, we investigate t…
Simulating Social Complexity
Social systems are among the most complex known. This poses particular problems for those who wish to understand them. The complexity often makes analytic approaches infeasible and natural language approaches inadequate for relating intricate cause and effect. However, individual- and agent-based computational approaches hold out the possibility of new and deeper understanding of such systems. Simulating Social Complexity examines all aspects of …
"Modelling Contextualized Reasoning in Complex Societies with "Endorsements
In many computational social simulation models only cursory reference to the foundations of the agent cognition used is made and computational expenses let many modellers chose simplistic agent cognition architectures. Both choices run counter to expectations framed by scholars active in the domain of rich cognitive modelling that see agent reasoning as socially inherently contextualized. The Manchester school of social simulation proposed a part…
Cambio de valores en la población suiza
Se analizan en profundidad datos sobre educación, política y militarismo en un estudio representativo de los valores entre la población suiza, estableciéndose comparaciones con otros países altamente industrializados. Los análisis conducen a las siguientes conclusiones: (1) Los valores universalistas y pro-sociales están adquiriendo de manera significativa una mayor importancia en los patrones valorativos, en detrimento de los valores cercanos a …
Aspects of the Relationship between Military and Society in Switzerland
Immigration, Social Networks, and the Emergence of Ethnic Segmentation in a Low-Skill Labor Market
Postwar migration to “western” countries has gone hand in hand with the development of ethnically segmented labor markets, particularly in low-skill roles where entry requirements are minimal. While numerous theories have been forwarded as to why such situations occur, it has remained difficult to empirically test the relative impact of the many interacting processes that produce segmentation in the labor market. In this article, we investigate t…
"Modelling Contextualized Reasoning in Complex Societies with "Endorsements
In many computational social simulation models only cursory reference to the foundations of the agent cognition used is made and computational expenses let many modellers chose simplistic agent cognition architectures. Both choices run counter to expectations framed by scholars active in the domain of rich cognitive modelling that see agent reasoning as socially inherently contextualized. The Manchester school of social simulation proposed a part…
GAM on! Six ways to explore social complexity by combining games and agent-based models
GAM, combining games and agent-based models, shows potential for investigating complex social phenomena. Games offer engaging environments generating insights into social dynamics, perceptions, and behaviours, while agent-based models support the analysis of complexity. Games and agent-based models share the important ability both to input and output qualitative and quantitative data. Currently, there is no overview of GAM approaches. In a system…
Aspects of the Relationship between Military and Society in Switzerland
Cambio de valores en la población suiza
Se analizan en profundidad datos sobre educación, política y militarismo en un estudio representativo de los valores entre la población suiza, estableciéndose comparaciones con otros países altamente industrializados. Los análisis conducen a las siguientes conclusiones: (1) Los valores universalistas y pro-sociales están adquiriendo de manera significativa una mayor importancia en los patrones valorativos, en detrimento de los valores cercanos a …
Aspects of the Relationship between Military and Society in Switzerland
"Modelling Contextualized Reasoning in Complex Societies with "Endorsements
In many computational social simulation models only cursory reference to the foundations of the agent cognition used is made and computational expenses let many modellers chose simplistic agent cognition architectures. Both choices run counter to expectations framed by scholars active in the domain of rich cognitive modelling that see agent reasoning as socially inherently contextualized. The Manchester school of social simulation proposed a part…
Simulating Social Complexity
Social systems are among the most complex known. This poses particular problems for those who wish to understand them. The complexity often makes analytic approaches infeasible and natural language approaches inadequate for relating intricate cause and effect. However, individual- and agent-based computational approaches hold out the possibility of new and deeper understanding of such systems. Simulating Social Complexity examines all aspects of …
Immigration, Social Networks, and the Emergence of Ethnic Segmentation in a Low-Skill Labor Market
Postwar migration to “western” countries has gone hand in hand with the development of ethnically segmented labor markets, particularly in low-skill roles where entry requirements are minimal. While numerous theories have been forwarded as to why such situations occur, it has remained difficult to empirically test the relative impact of the many interacting processes that produce segmentation in the labor market. In this article, we investigate t…
Different Modelling Purposes
How one builds, checks, validates and interprets a model depends on its 'purpose'. This is true even if the same model code is used for di erent purposes. This means that a model built for one purpose but then used for another needs to be re-justified for the new purpose and this will probably mean it also has to be rechecked, re-validated and maybe even re-built in a di erent way. Here we review some of the di erent purposes for a simulation mod…
GAM on! Six ways to explore social complexity by combining games and agent-based models
GAM, combining games and agent-based models, shows potential for investigating complex social phenomena. Games offer engaging environments generating insights into social dynamics, perceptions, and behaviours, while agent-based models support the analysis of complexity. Games and agent-based models share the important ability both to input and output qualitative and quantitative data. Currently, there is no overview of GAM approaches. In a system…
Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Management science (3 works) · Data science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (2 works) · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)