Chapter 1 EPOS-Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation: An Introduction

Chapter 2 The Epistemologies of Social Simulation Research

Chapter 3 From Simulation to Theory (and Backward)

Chapter 4 Talking about ABSS: Functional Descriptions of Models

Chapter 5 What Does Emergence in Computer Simulations? Simulation between Epistemological and Ontological Emergence

Chapter 6 Emergence as an Explanatory Principle in Artificial Societies. Reflection on the Bottom-Up Approach to Social Theory

Chapter 7 Reconstruction Failures: Questioning Level Design

Chapter 8 Narrative Scenarios, Mediating Formalisms, and the Agent-Based Simulation of Land Use Change

Chapter 9 Validation and Verification in Social Simulation: Patterns and Clarification of Terminology

Chapter 10 Validation and Verification of Agent-Based Models in the Social Sciences

Chapter 12 Algorithmic Analysis of Production Systems Used as Agent-Based Social Simulation Models

Chapter 13 The Nature of Noise