Paper Info
Title
Exploration of purpose for multi-method simulation in the context of social phenomena representation.
Abstract
Difficulty of social phenomena representation can be related to limitations of used modeling techniques. More flexibility and creativity to represent social phenomena (an adequate mix of model scope, resolution, and fidelity) is desirable. The representation of social phenomena with a combination of different methods seems intuitively appealing, but the usefulness of this approach is questionable. Current view on the justification of multi-method has limitations in social science context, because it lacks a human dimension. This paper explores the literature that pertains to mixing methods, and displays current reasoning behind the use of the multi-method approach. The perspective on mixing methods from empirical social science projected onto M&S domain exposes high-level purposes related to representation of social phenomena with mixed method approaches. Based on the reviewed literature and qualitative analysis, the general view of ingredients for inferring purposefulness of the multi-method approach in the context of social phenomena representation is proposed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.5555/2675983.2676190
WSC '13: Winter Simulation Conference Washington D.C. December, 2013
Keywords
Field
DocType
social sciences
Fidelity,Computer science,Simulation,Creativity,Human Dimension,Management science
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0891-7736
978-1-4799-2077-8
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
19
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mariusz Balaban130.41
Patrick T. Hester24011.16