Klaus G. Troitzsch

Klaus G. Troitzsch has been a full professor of computer applications in the social sciences at the University of Koblenz-Landau since 1986. He took his PhD in political science from the University of Hamburg. From 1974 to 1978 he was a member of the Liberal Party Group in the Parliament of Hamburg. In 1979 he returned to academia as a senior researcher in an election research project. His main interests in teaching and research are social science methodology and, particularly, the simulation of social processes. He was among the founders of the Research Committee on Modelling and Simulation of the German Sociological Association (1988), of the SimSoc Consortium, which publishes the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS, now in its tenth year), and of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA). Most of his research projects were devoted to developing simulation tools for micro, multilevel, and agent-based simulation or to implement simulation courses for social scientists, part of which have been offered in annual summer and spring courses for nearly ten years. He is author, co-author, and co-editor of a number of books and articles on simulation, and he organized several national and international conferences in social simulation.

Publications

Analysing Simulation Results Statistically: Does Significance Matter?
Analysing Simulation Results Statistically: Does Significance Matter?
Klaus G. Troitzsch. © 2014. 18 pages.
Many papers on simulation in the social sciences come up with significance tests in which the authors describe the effect of a parameter on some simulation outcome as significant...
Simulating Normative Agents
Simulating Normative Agents
Ulf Lotzmann, Michael Möhring, Klaus G. Troitzsch. © 2010. 19 pages.
The article discusses the sociological background and the general features of a new simulation toolbox, which was explicitly designed to describe, design and simulate multi-agent...
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...