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Computational Social
Science is the interdisciplinary science of complex social systems and
their investigation through computational models and related tools. The
field is at the intersection of social science and computer science and
spans anthropology, economics, political science, sociology, and social
psychology—the classical social sciences—as well as allied
disciplines such as geography, history, organization theory, regional
science, communication, and linguistics. Computational approaches
include agent-based social simulation models (multi-agent systems),
social network analysis, mathematical analysis based on complexity
theory, social geospatial modeling methods, and automated information
and content analysis methods.
