Simulating Violators

Simulating Violators
Chanoch Jacobsen, Richard Bronson

This book meets a variety of needs by providing readable and intuitive explanations of normative social dynamics. It also presents dynamo simulation language and covers its features and usage for non-technical readers while covering workload characterization for the application. The construction of probability distributions from historical data and its modifications by social theory provides a real insight into the substantive details for modelers, the “how-to” for users, and the “nuts and bolts” for modeling for social application readers. This book will stimulate research in the prediction of social effects, provide social scientists with an example of methods available for verifying theory, and publicize the usefulness of higher level modeling languages to operations researchers who are locked into assumption heavy stochastic and deterministic techniques.