Social Simulations: from Agent-Based Modeling to Digital Twins
This book chapter covers the evolution of social simulation from classical agent-based models, in which agents interact according to explicitly defined behavioral rules, to AI-enhanced simulations based on Large Language Models and, ultimately, Social Digital Twins: high-fidelity, data-driven representations of real-world socio-technical systems. Along this trajectory, we discuss the main methodological foundations, applications, advantages, and limitations of each paradigm, highlighting the progressive shift from abstract models designed to investigate general social mechanisms toward increasingly realistic computational representations of specific social systems.
| Authors | Erica Cau, Andrea Failla, Valentina Pansanella et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.MA |
| Published | 15 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 July 2026 |
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