The Promise and Perils of Simulation in the Social Sciences

Investigators at HLRS and the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have launched a new collaboration to identify opportunities and limitations of computer simulation in social research.

Although computer simulation has provided tools for the social sciences for more than 50 years, it remains a method awaiting its breakthrough discovery. In part this is because—in contrast with physical systems that are well characterized, clearly defined, and suited to numerical analysis—it is extremely difficult to comprehensively represent phenomena like human behavior, social interactions, and historical change in computer models.

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25. Apr. 2018