What can computer simulation contribute to the social sciences? Which of the many approaches to simulation would be best for my social science project? How do I design, carry out and analyse the results from a computer simulation? Interest in social simulation has been growing rapidly worldwide as a[...]

Using data taken from a major European Union funded project on speech understanding, the SunDial project, this book considers current perspectives on human computer interaction and argues for the value of an approach taken from sociology which is based on conversation analysis.[...]

Designed to help take the fear out of the use of numbers in social research, this textbook introduces students to statistics as a powerful means of revealing patterns in human behaviour. This second edition covers everything typically included in an introductory course on social statistics for stude[...]

Christopher Watts and Nigel Gilbert explore the generation, diffusion and impact of innovations that can now be studied using computer simulation models. Agent-based models, in particular, offer explanations for the phenomena of innovation that emerge from interactions among complex, adaptive and di[...]