Bruce Edmonds

Bruce Edmonds is Director of the Centre for Policy Modelling at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and a Senior Research Fellow there. He gained his first degree in Mathematics and his Ph.D. in philosophy on Measures of complexity. His field is the intersection of sociology and computer science: both applying social mechanisms to the organisation of distributed computer science and the use of computational techniques to model aspects of society. For more information about him, see his Web site at http://bruce.edmonds.name

Publications

Open Modelling for Simulators
Open Modelling for Simulators
Bruce Edmonds, Gary Polhill. © 2015. 18 pages.
This chapter motivates and discusses the process of making a simulation model available for others to freely inspect and use. Firstly, it outlines the three reasons why this is...
Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries
Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries
Bruce Edmonds, Klaus G. Troitzsch, Cesáreo Hernández Iglesias. © 2008. 402 pages.
The simulation of social behavior in a variety of domains is an increasingly important technological tool. A reference survey of social simulation work, Social Simulation...
Artificial Science: A Simulation to Study the Social Processes of Science
Artificial Science: A Simulation to Study the Social Processes of Science
Bruce Edmonds. © 2008. 7 pages.
Science is important, not only in the knowledge it gives us, but also as an example of effective distributed problem solving that results in complex and compound solutions. This...
Implementing Free Will
Implementing Free Will
Bruce Edmonds. © 2005. 17 pages.
Free will is described in terms of the useful properties that it could confer, explaining why it might have been selected for over the course of evolution. These properties are...