At the Crossroads: Lessons and Challenges in Computational Social Science

• Main Author: Javier Borge-Holthoefer (auth)
• Other Authors: Taha Yasseri (auth), Yamir Moreno (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: simulation; Social Data Science; mathematical modeling; Agent-based modeling; Data Mining; big data; computational social science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The interest of physicists in economic and social questions is not new: for over four decades, we have witnessed the emergence of what is called nowadays "sociophysics" and "econophysics", vigorous and challenging areas within the wider "Interdisciplinary Physics". With...