Aim:
Social
sciences are moving in a direction in which their various
constituent
parts are
sharing a common set of foundations, languages and platforms,
which
makes the
social sciences be unprecedentedly behavioral, algorithmic and
computational.
At the turn of the 21st century, a group of computer scientists
and
social
scientists worked together to initiate new series of conferences
and to
establish new academic organizations to give momentum to this
emerging
integration now known as computational social sciences.
Among the largest of such conferences, WCSS is
sponsored by the three regional scientific associations on social
simulations:
ESSA (the European Social Simulation Association), PAAA (Pacific
Asian
Association for Agent-based Approach in Social Systems Sciences)
and
CSSSA
(Computational Social Science Society of America). It aims at
bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse
fields on
social
simulations, whether theoretical, experimental, practical, or
technical, to present
the latest results of various researches and to discuss emergent
phenomena and
modeling issues of a variety of research subjects related to
social
simulations,
which will provide further understanding on social complex
problems.