人工社会--基于Agent的社会学仿真

介绍一个方兴未艾的热门领域——人工社会。这是一个采用复杂系统中的自下而上的建模方法，结合人工智能、Agent技术、计算机仿真、社会科学等多门学科的综合交叉学科。在简单的回顾了基于Agent社会学仿真的方法发展历史之后，较详细地介绍一个人工社会模型实例——糖域(Sugarscape)。然后就人工社会建模方法、步骤、特点以及与传统社会科学研究方法的对比进行评论。目前，虽然人工社会还没有形成一个完善的理论体系，然而它已经深深的渗透到了经济学、社会学、组织理论、环境科学、语言学、文化学等社会科学领域，并成为社会科学研究的一种重要方法。

Artificial Societies - Agent Based Social Simulation

A new field named Artificial societies - which is a bottom up complexity scientific approach and an (interdisciplinary) field of artificial intelligence, agent technology, computer simulation, social science and so on - has (become) the focus. After a brief review of the agent based social simulation, this paper uses an instance: Sugarscape to (introduce) the artificial societies approach. The method, steps and some characters of artificial societies modeling compared (with) the traditional approaches in social science are illustrated. Currently, although the artificial societies hasn't form a (complete) theoretical system, the method has obtained widely using in economic, society science, organization theory, (environment) science, language and culture and so forth. It has become an important approach toward social research.