{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/an-argumentative-agent-based-model-of","title":"An argumentative agent-based model of scientific inquiry","arxiv_id":"1612.04432","date":"2016-12-13","proceeding":null,"authors":["AnneMarie Borg","Daniel Frey","Dunja Šešelja","Christian Straßer"],"abstract":"In this paper we present an agent-based model (ABM) of scientific inquiry\naimed at investigating how different social networks impact the efficiency of\nscientists in acquiring knowledge. As such, the ABM is a computational tool for\ntackling issues in the domain of scientific methodology and science policy. In\ncontrast to existing ABMs of science, our model aims to represent the\nargumentative dynamics that underlies scientific practice. To this end we\nemploy abstract argumentation theory as the core design feature of the model.\nThis helps to avoid a number of problematic idealizations which are present in\nother ABMs of science and which impede their relevance for actual scientific\npractice.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04432v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.04432v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"an-argumentative-agent-based-model-of","repo_url":"https://github.com/g4v4g4i/ArgABM","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"abstract-argumentation","task_name":"Abstract Argumentation"},{"task_slug":"model","task_name":"model"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}