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Is Society reducible to a computer program ? Nobody would make such a claim, but the chapters of this book illustrate how computer simulations can help us to understand social phenomena. The applications described here concern all aspects of Social Sciences and include topics often studied within the disciplines of Economics, Political Sciences or Geography. Simulations give us new insights into fundamental problems which are often omitted from current research topics because they are indeed hard to analyze with standard methods. Such is the case for emergent phenomena such as Institutions which arise from social interactions. Social Simulation methods are not only used because of their contribution to fundamental science, but also as predictors of social evolution, and as testbeds for new policies under consideration by public institutions or for new production and distribution methods within firms. They offer a new approach which takes into account human constraints in Management Science.

The editors. Gerard Ballot, Professor of Economics, Université de Paris II, and director of ERMES, a research Institute associated to CNRS, works on Evolutionary Economics and Multi-Agent Models. Gerard Weisbuch, Senior Research Associate with the CNRS, external faculty at Santa Fe Institute, works in the Laboratoire de Physique de Statistique de l'ENS on Complex Systems Dynamics and its applications, especially in Economics and Social Sciences.