This paper describes results of the simulation of social objects, the dependenceof schoolchildren's professional abilities on their personal characteristics. Thesimulation tool is the articial neural network (ANN) technology. Results of acomparison of the time expense for training the ANN and...

The semantics of rich multimedia presentations in the websuch as SMIL, SVG and Flash cannot or only to a verylimited extend be understood by search engines today. Thishampers the retrieval of such presentations and makes theirarchival and management a difficult task. Existing metadatamodels and...

Social simulation is often described as a multidisciplinary and fast-moving field. This can make it difficult to obtain an overview of the field both for contributing researchers and for outsiders who are interested in social simulation. The Journal for Artificial Societies and Social Simulation...

This short comment on Epstein's (2008) paper and on the response by Thompson and Derr argues that the symmetry between explanation and prediction cannot satisfactorily be discussed without making clear what prediction means - depending on which connotations the authors have with 'prediction'...

This special section includes papers originally presented at a workshop on \'Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation\' in July 2004 at the University of Koblenz, in which some thirty colleagues participated. It had been our impression that there was (and still is) a small, but growing number...