A challenge to many social and economic policies is to tackle the interactive processes between actors and institutions involved, bound to a geographical, economic, and cultural context over which the...

Welcome to the Social Simulation Conference 2025 .

Welcome to the Social Simulation Conference 2025 .

How have various actors engaged with the COVID-19 pandemic in different media and genres? An exploration of new narratives and their contribution to knowledge production.

By Nick Roxburgh1, Rocco Paolillo2, Tatiana Filatova3, Clémentine Cottineau3, Mario Paolucci2 and Gary Polhill1 1 The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, United Kingdom {nick.roxburgh,gary.polhill}@hutton.ac.uk 2 Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, Rome, Italy {rocco.paolillo,mario.paolucci}@cnr.it 3 Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands {c.cottineau,t.filatova}@tudelft.nl Abstract. We propose a wish list of features that would greatly enhance population synthesis methods from the perspective of agent-based modelling.