Relational Methodologies and Epistemology in the Social and Natural Sciences

Biggiero, Angelini, Bassevi, Carbonara, Mastrogiorgio, Pessa, Sevi, and Valente present readers with an examination of the four main network-based methodologies and their applications within the social and natural sciences. Over the books fourteen chapters the authors cover Boolean network simulation modeling, agent-based simulation modeling, network analysis, and artificial neural network simulation modeling. Lucio Biggiero, Enrico Sevi, and Marco Valente are faculty members of the Universita dell’ Aquila, Italy. Pier Paolo Angelini and Antonio Mastrogiorgio are faculty members of the Interuniversity Research Centre for Sustainable Development (CIRPS), Italy. Mario Bassevi is a faculty member of the Italian National Institute of Statistics. Nuzia Carbonara is a faculty member of Politecnico di Bari, Italy. Eliano Pessa is a faculty member of the University of Pavia, Italy. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)