A software architecture for mechanism-based social systems modelling in agent-based simulation models.

Autor:	Vu TM; School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield., Probst C; Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health., Nielsen A; Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute., Bai H; Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield., Buckley C; Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield., Meier PS; School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield., Strong M; School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield., Brennan A; School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield., Purshouse RC; Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Journal of artificial societies and social simulation : JASSS [J Artif Soc Soc Simul] 2020 Jun 30; Vol. 23 (3).
DOI:	10.18564/jasss.4282
Abstrakt:	This paper introduces the MBSSM (Mechanism-Based Social Systems Modelling) software architecture that is designed for expressing mechanisms of social theories with individual behaviour components in a unified way and implementing these mechanisms in an agent-based simulation model. The MBSSM architecture is based on a middle-range theory approach most recently expounded by analytical sociology and is designed in the object-oriented programming paradigm with Unified Modelling Language diagrams. This paper presents two worked examples of using the architecture for modelling individual behaviour mechanisms that give rise to the dynamics of population-level alcohol use: a single-theory model of norm theory and a multi-theory model that combines norm theory with role theory. The MBSSM architecture provides a computational environment within which theories based on social mechanisms can be represented, compared, and integrated. The architecture plays a fundamental enabling role within a wider simulation model-based framework of abductive reasoning in which families of theories are tested for their ability to explain concrete social phenomena.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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