%0 Book %A Janez Povh %D 2015 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 9783653058215 %T Applied modelling and computing in social science %R 10.3726/978-3-653-05821-5 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049400 %X In social science outstanding results are yielded by advanced simulation methods, based on state of the art software technologies and an appropriate combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. This book presents examples of successful applications of modelling and computing in social science: business and logistic process simulation and optimization, deeper knowledge extractions from big data, better understanding and predicting of social behaviour and modelling health and environment changes. %K state of the art software technologies, big data, sentiment analysis, decision support systems %G English